Is it a Rip off of its a wonderful life

Kyon_Kun_Denwa said:
Disappearance has virtually nothing to do with It's a Wonderful Life in any way whatsoever. There are about as many similarities are there can be to a million other pieces of media created centuries before and decades after It's a Wonderful Life. Even the themes are entirely different. It makes about as much sense comparing them as it does saying It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol are any similar just because they occur in Christmas and have something to do with time, e.g. it's absurd beyond measure and anyone arguing that is either blind or butthurt for some reason. (Because I have seen people get mad that one of their favorite live-action films had any amount of minute similarities whatsoever to an anime film.)

kandi_gloss said:
And you seem pretty mad that someone has suggested that one of their favorite anime films had any amount of minute similarities whatsoever to a live action film. Your post reads like an angry rant rather than a rational argument.

Kyon_Kun_Denwa said:


Can't say I intended it to come off that way, it was just an absurd comparison and I can't see how anybody could ever call Disappearance a rip-off or similar to It's a Wonderful Life. There're a lot of comments these days about people calling titles "rip-offs" or "clones" just because they share one or two elements with another, even when they also share it with a thousand other titles and so does the supposed "original" work.

NonAtmospheric said:
While we're on the topic, I must call out the plagiarism of Back to the Future II because of that scene where Kyon sees himself from afar.