"Pokemon TCG" is in a plagiarism storm? Highly similar to domestic painters' works

　　The card game "Pokemon TCG Pocket" will be released tomorrow's new A4 series expansion pack "Guidelines for the Sky and the Sea", but one of the cards is infringement dispute.

　　Which domestic illustrator Zhou Shige (X account: lanjiujiu), pointed out that the 3-star real-life card "Phoenix King" in the expansion pack has obvious similarities with his work "Phoenix" created in 2021. After comparison, it was found that the two works were highly consistent in the phoenix's head-raising posture, unique wing curves, overall shape and detailed treatment, and were only adjusted in color use. To prove his point of view, the process of drawing line drafts by himself at the same time.

The allegation of infringement has caused heated discussion on social media. The relevant tweet received 1.79 million views in just three hours after it was published. Many netizens condemned this plagiarism.

Game media TheGamer has solicited opinions from Pokémon Company and developer DeNA on this matter, and no reply has been obtained as of press time.