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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:43:13 -0700 (PDT), darkstar7646@gmail.com   
   wrote:   
      
   >Oh yes, this is a big deal...   
   >   
   >Not really a manga fan, but happened across this blurb on ANN the last   
   >couple of days.   
   >   
   >Youka Nitta, formerly of Libre (or at least it should be "formerly"),   
   >acknowledged plagiarising (tracing) an advertising photo (you can see   
   >it and one of the ANN articles on this incident at   
   >http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-12/embracing-love-   
   itta-acknowledges-tracing-photo),   
   >and has quit manga work.   
   >   
   >Good.  And, given her (former) position as one of the "Big Three" of   
   >Yaoi/Boys' Love (or at least, that's what I'm gathering from some of   
   >the discussion), it, in my mind, places significant question as to not   
   >only the work of the other two of the "Big Three", but on the entire   
   >genre.   
      
   Why?   
      
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