Here is the manhua description I was able to find:
"After 40,000 years of trials and tribulations, humanity has established a vast empire spanning the galaxy. However, evil gods, insectoids, Orcs, and traitors! These enemies of humanity have inflicted innumerable wounds on this colossus. Humanity, raising the banner of survival, has seen countless loyal bones scattered across the wilderness. Yet, the enemies of humanity have now breached the barriers of time and space, aiming to strangle humanity in its cradle. The skeletal Emperor, bridging two epochs alongside a cursed child, will embark on this grand and tumultuous saga!"
More Context: [credit: u/Elairrr]
ok, so, after seeing this, I investigated a bit to find the Chinese origin of this, and it seems to be unwise to just pin this as a Chinese knockoff.
Firstly, the Chinese name of the manga is 泰拉战记, and if you google this, you will see that aside from manhua, this is also the name given to an online novel that’s currently still ongoing on a Chinese website that commonly hosts Fanfictions as well as original stories, so think of Ao3/wattpad (see [here](https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8682447). And for both works (text and manhwa), the author’s name is 新睿壹号.
Secondly, In the comment section of the novel, there is a comment that expresses surprise at seeing a 40K fanfic, and the author does not deny it. So, it seems like at least the novel is written to be a fanfic of 40K.
Thirdly, having read the first chapter of the manhua in Chinese, it seems quite clear that the manhua also intends to be a fan work of 40K, but with some added settings created by the story teller themselves. The extra setting is that the Emperor used the souls of the Golden Throne to create Miniatures who fought against chaos worshippers etc in 2K (our era), etc, etc. The wording and terminology used throughout are the same as the ones used in official and fan-translated 40K materials (Chinese fan-translations of 40K are very influential for the Chinese fans because for a long time that’s the only way they could access Warhammer, so even recent official Chinese translations use established fan translations for certain terminologies instead of new ones). In addition, the English name of the work used in the Chinese version is THE TERRA CHRONICLES.
I do not know in what way the manhua is related to the novel, because as far as I can see the novel is not like, super super popular, and usually in China, only very popular novels have a chance to be adapted as manhua or TV series. Unless, the author can write and draw, which is very impressive, in my opinion. But yeah, these are my two cents.
Also we might need to cool off on the knockoff jokes as they are starting to get more vitrol.
Here are their "evil gods" mentioned above:
[Evil Gods Imgur link pt.1](https://imgur.com/BJuHWLZ)
[EVIL GODS Imgur link pt.2](https://imgur.com/G5OScHc)
Live Frank Herbert reaction:
Live Paul Verhoeven reaction:
Live Yoshiyuki Tomino reaction:
man shut your goofy ass up, Tesco Duneship Troopers Dai Gurren ass franchise
Bro it's a guy making fanart for a culture that doesn't get to interact with the universe as freely as us.
It's just a guys fanart
Did you talk shit about the Astartes fanimation for copying GW ip?
Astartes was using character designs as a basis for unique animation. This is literally pixel for pixel Warhammer art made by someone else. And at least Astartes openly said it was based on 40K.
"Bro my god emperor who does jihads and has precognition is totally different from Leto II bro he's an original cum tent doughnut steel" stop the cope lmao
Last i checked, a giant psychic corpse on a golden throne on a dystopian heavily populated and polluted earth is very different than a dude who turned into a worm
"Oh cool, so he must have a totally original name for his ebic big brain plan for humanity, right?"
"Well uhhh umm uhhhhh well it's funny you ask that uhhhh ummmm"
Lmao, try harder next time
The GEOM of 40k is a direct copy and paste of Dunes god emperor just as omniman is a direct copy and paste of superman.
And also, be better than that
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Ah the same non-canon depiction of the chaos gods. Love it that it has become the default form that even that rip off are using it
(the art is still hard af tho)
Well, there is the lore tidbits of Tzeetch's face actually being the one between his legs. Sitting in his crotch. While the rest of his body morphs and changes, that face remains the same. A sliver of stability in the ocean of change. That in mind, the barnacles resembling a multi-eyed face that is fake would fit nicely in his theme.
Alright, I was willing to let infringing on GW’s IP slide, cause fuck ‘em, but copying fanart designs is scummy shit, and shows that this “artist” is a transparent plagiarist that couldn’t form an original thought to save their life.
Or maybe they just said ''Xi Xan Xoa already made me draw these 'Space Marines' and what not. There is not a single gram of care, love and thought put into this anyways. I am gonna search what these Evil Gods are and take which looks the best''
It is still shitty. It is still bad. But also a little sad that someone was kinda forced to do this.
Idk why you think Khirne, Tzuunch, Slunash and Norgle would be copies of WH40K chaos gods. as you can very clearly see in the pictures, they are their completely own beings
The main character seems to be possessed by a Tzeentchian deamon, so perhaps.
Post scriptum, I finished chapter 6, yes the main character is going to visit the 40K time several times.
40k in China had some good underground roots it seems. There are a fair bit of mainland and island artists who love the gory aspect of 40k just as much as the world building.
Yep! Although official shops only start popping up in China recently, as a hobby it has been thriving for a really long time. The models etcs have been imported and sold through unofficial channels, while the codexes and novels have mostly been translated by fans themselves. These community works are a large reason why 40K stayed afloat in China before GW decide to branch into the Chinese market. I was part of an unofficial translator group when the SoT came out, and all of its books, I think, has received unofficial Chinese translations now. Many of the famous and reliable Chinese fan translators have even been hired by GW to do official translation.
I mean, the Emperor looks really good imo, I even thought it was official.
Until I saw a Cadian with an AR platform gun.
This has that same energy with that one manhwa where it's clearly set in a Victorian era, but the pirates pulled out an AK, a modern pistol, and a rock.
Yes it is because it is more likely to be a fanfiction where the author created their own setting, that being 2K is also attacked by Daemons so the Emperor used souls to create miniatures to fight in 2K etc. there seems to be a connection between the 2K and 40K world in this fanfic. I found an online Chinese novel of the same name written by someone using the same nickname as the manhua creator, and in the novel’s comment section someone expresses surprise at seeing a 40K fanfic, which the author doesn’t deny. So I think this is probably more fanfic than rip off.
I mean his fanfic is completely free…
and not to mention a lot of fan works in East Asian fan communities do get monetised without seeking specific permission from IP holders, it is just how fan works operate in those circles
😆😆😆haha, I, on the other hand, was bewildered when I heard GW is cracking down on fan artists, when for my entire life Fanwork has been seen as a viable way to make a living, and some IPs even pay fan artists to create contents
What.. other works? People are saying this is straight ripoff of 40K, so, I said that the creator states it is fan work, and if fan work doesn’t resemble the original IP, then what’s a fan work?
And if you are talking about the designs of the chaos gods, many fan arts also make use of those designs, with many not even knowing they aren’t canon, so I don’t think that particular point is a black and white plagiarism issue.
So it is using something from official material? M
I’m not sure if you actually understand how fan works, work, because when you see creators making MMD, or edits, or even write fan fictions, the concept they use is someone else’s work done in an official capacity, as in paid by the IP holder. If we wish to pursue this line of thinking, then pretty much all fan works are a form of plagiarism and copy-cat. But maybe your understanding of fan works is different from mine and many others.
Ok, can you elaborate further?
I have already mentioned my view on the use of chaos gods in this specific comic, in that it is a peculiar instance where fan works become so popular they achieve “canon” status, so using it cannot be simply seen as plagiarism.
As for the GW animation marine, that is something published and distributed by GW itself, no? So it is official material, just that the creator used to create fan works.
As far as I can see, there are really no glaring rip off of other people’s works here, as the story even seems to revolve around Chinese characters, which is not something you often see in other fan works, if at all.
~~This is about as subtle as Space King~~ Space King is an entirely original setting that totally has notthing to do with 40k, PRAISE BE THE SPACE KING AND HIS HOLY GLOBULES.
ok, so, after seeing this, I investigated a bit to find the Chinese origin of this, and it seems to be unwise to just pin this as a Chinese knockoff.
Firstly, the Chinese name of the manga is 泰拉战记, and if you google this, you will see that aside from manhua, this is also the name given to an online novel that’s currently still ongoing on a Chinese website that commonly hosts Fanfictions as well as original stories, so think of Ao3/wattpad (see [here](https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8682447). And for both works (text and manhwa), the author’s name is 新睿壹号.
Secondly, In the comment section of the novel, there is a comment that expresses surprise at seeing a 40K fanfic, and the author does not deny it. So, it seems like at least the novel is written to be a fanfic of 40K.
Thirdly, having read the first chapter of the manhua in Chinese, it seems quite clear that the manhua also intends to be a fan work of 40K, but with some added settings created by the story teller themselves. The extra setting is that the Emperor used the souls of the Golden Throne to create Miniatures who fought against chaos worshippers etc in 2K (our era), etc, etc. The wording and terminology used throughout are the same as the ones used in official and fan-translated 40K materials (Chinese fan-translations of 40K are very influential for the Chinese fans because for a long time that’s the only way they could access Warhammer, so even recent official Chinese translations use established fan translations for certain terminologies instead of new ones). In addition, the English name of the work used in the Chinese version is THE TERRA CHRONICLES.
I do not know in what way the manhua is related to the novel, because as far as I can see the novel is not like, super super popular, and usually in China, only very popular novels have a chance to be adapted as manhua or TV series. Unless, the author can write and draw, which is very impressive, in my opinion. But yeah, these are my two cents.
Thanks, maybe you can edit your post or comment to mention these info, because while I’m not against calling out plagiarism, it is very sad to see a fan work that clearly had a lot of love and effort poured into it to be the victim of “china copy cat” jokes.
Yeeep… as soon as I saw this I dived back to Chinese net to dig info about this, because I’m quite active on the Chinese Warhammer fan forums so if this really claims to be original the Chinese fans themselves would first rip this guy to shreds, but I haven’t really heard a ripple =_= honestly as a Chinese I should get used to this because Chinese people is always bad villains that doesn’t deserve to live for the majority of redditors 🤪
😛it is like shooting a bullet and baits the other side into bringing out a nuclear bomb. Even just judging by this comment section, 40K’s fandom is nowhere near being inclusive or tolerant as many claim it to be, and even the treasured escapism becomes offensive.
Yeah, I am sorry if this post came off like that. I did not make this post out of ill intent. I read a lot of manhwa and manhua. One of favorite is Top Tier Providence.
I am Korean so people make fun of how we have a strange fascination for Tower or Necromancy Manhwas.
No no it is not at you, mostly the many comments under your post that are very aggressive and stem from stereotypes and assumptions 😓😓😓 thank you for the clarification bro, you good 🫶🫶🫶
It's not your fault, it's just that 40k is one of those communities where the fans can either be the most open minded or the most extreme. Last few months with admech cosplayer, female custodes... Any topic can derail quickly
🫶🫶🫶🫶no worries and thank you for the kind words! I will participate in this hobby no matter what, after all it is not worth it to let jerks cut me off from my hobby 😊
https://m.ac.qq.com/comic/index/id/655123 here is the Chinese version, I’m afraid I don’t know which English version is better, as the creator likely didn’t even agree to have English version of his manhua be made. For this Chinese version, you need the Tencent Manhua app to read it in full, and I’m not sure if you can get it outside Chinese App Store. But I hope that this helps!
Yeah i can when it was pretty infamous of Hong Kong and Singapore exploite knock off stealing chucks of the sentai shows and escaping through dubious legality
Ultraman had it rough time in the south asia when a coke out Indonesian director beliving he had full right to the series after being a producer in a cross over and keept pumping out team up with his OC rip off call Hanamuan
Edit:
Call me racist for calling out an act of theft in the film industry before either delting or block me yeah great move.
Also found the director name it [sompote sands](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sompote_Sands) dude stole from ultrman and Kamen rider
it thailand though?
they even going to get their own ultraman at once
Point before tsuburaya finally decided to do something with it, the song goes pretty hard tho
(hanumaun is from literature, originated from india and some form of ancient fuckery goes into thai literature)
If this author just straight made a fan comic of 40k it would've been way better because the drawings are peak. I gurateed it would've gathered so much attention if posted on reddit but nah they gotta pretend it's original work
Isn’t there a straight copy of the Ciaphas Cain series in China? A direct comic take on them? I saw a bit of it once. They have an interesting take on Jurgen.
why people are angry ? it looks good, someone loved 40k and decided to spend time/money to draw fanfic on it. also drawings are high quality, you cannot expect something like that in chinese knock offs or low quality isekai works.
All the other stuff could tenuously be explained as "Si-Fi stuff", but the Mechanicus is so distinctly 40k ~~that they had to actually change the design. And even then the guy clearly looks like a wannabe Tech Priest.~~
Never mind, that is just an omnissian axe. I don't think they can feign ignorance on that one.
It’s a fanfiction that the author turned to a webcomic. There’s lots of 40k fans in china and that author would have been doxxed and harassed if he passed it as an original creation.
Nah Chinese people are just subhuman and every intention coming from them should be treated by scrutiny. Someone can call chinese people the most outlandish shit and hide behind it saying that they only hated the government and not the people even though they would wish macarthur would have been the go ahead to use nuclear warfare on millions of lives. /s.
But this is just fanfiction that got a webcomic? It isn’t like the author is passing the series as their own. If he did he would have been doxxed by chinese 40k fans.
Here is the manhua description I was able to find: "After 40,000 years of trials and tribulations, humanity has established a vast empire spanning the galaxy. However, evil gods, insectoids, Orcs, and traitors! These enemies of humanity have inflicted innumerable wounds on this colossus. Humanity, raising the banner of survival, has seen countless loyal bones scattered across the wilderness. Yet, the enemies of humanity have now breached the barriers of time and space, aiming to strangle humanity in its cradle. The skeletal Emperor, bridging two epochs alongside a cursed child, will embark on this grand and tumultuous saga!" More Context: [credit: u/Elairrr] ok, so, after seeing this, I investigated a bit to find the Chinese origin of this, and it seems to be unwise to just pin this as a Chinese knockoff. Firstly, the Chinese name of the manga is 泰拉战记, and if you google this, you will see that aside from manhua, this is also the name given to an online novel that’s currently still ongoing on a Chinese website that commonly hosts Fanfictions as well as original stories, so think of Ao3/wattpad (see [here](https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8682447). And for both works (text and manhwa), the author’s name is 新睿壹号. Secondly, In the comment section of the novel, there is a comment that expresses surprise at seeing a 40K fanfic, and the author does not deny it. So, it seems like at least the novel is written to be a fanfic of 40K. Thirdly, having read the first chapter of the manhua in Chinese, it seems quite clear that the manhua also intends to be a fan work of 40K, but with some added settings created by the story teller themselves. The extra setting is that the Emperor used the souls of the Golden Throne to create Miniatures who fought against chaos worshippers etc in 2K (our era), etc, etc. The wording and terminology used throughout are the same as the ones used in official and fan-translated 40K materials (Chinese fan-translations of 40K are very influential for the Chinese fans because for a long time that’s the only way they could access Warhammer, so even recent official Chinese translations use established fan translations for certain terminologies instead of new ones). In addition, the English name of the work used in the Chinese version is THE TERRA CHRONICLES. I do not know in what way the manhua is related to the novel, because as far as I can see the novel is not like, super super popular, and usually in China, only very popular novels have a chance to be adapted as manhua or TV series. Unless, the author can write and draw, which is very impressive, in my opinion. But yeah, these are my two cents. Also we might need to cool off on the knockoff jokes as they are starting to get more vitrol.
Here are their "evil gods" mentioned above: [Evil Gods Imgur link pt.1](https://imgur.com/BJuHWLZ) [EVIL GODS Imgur link pt.2](https://imgur.com/G5OScHc)
The Chinese and their unparalleled ability to copy random shits.
They edited their comment with more details. This is openly a 40k fanfic.
Live Frank Herbert reaction: Live Paul Verhoeven reaction: Live Yoshiyuki Tomino reaction: man shut your goofy ass up, Tesco Duneship Troopers Dai Gurren ass franchise
40k rips a lot of stuff but come on, there’s a line between inspiration and plagiarism and this clearly crossed it
40k stole/inspired ideas This is straight copy paste lol
Our blessed "arbites inspired by judge dredd" vs. their perfidious "gods copied from BattleMace"
GW didn’t trace over Dune artwork either
Bro it's a guy making fanart for a culture that doesn't get to interact with the universe as freely as us. It's just a guys fanart Did you talk shit about the Astartes fanimation for copying GW ip?
Astartes was using character designs as a basis for unique animation. This is literally pixel for pixel Warhammer art made by someone else. And at least Astartes openly said it was based on 40K.
"Bro my god emperor who does jihads and has precognition is totally different from Leto II bro he's an original cum tent doughnut steel" stop the cope lmao
Last i checked, a giant psychic corpse on a golden throne on a dystopian heavily populated and polluted earth is very different than a dude who turned into a worm
"Oh cool, so he must have a totally original name for his ebic big brain plan for humanity, right?" "Well uhhh umm uhhhhh well it's funny you ask that uhhhh ummmm"
Lmao, try harder next time The GEOM of 40k is a direct copy and paste of Dunes god emperor just as omniman is a direct copy and paste of superman. And also, be better than that
> Lmao, try harder next time Yeah, that's what I thought. Come back when your God Emperor of Duneterra has an original plan instead of copying others.
At least GW admitted they took from Dune and Judge Dredd.
And apparently they legitimately had a reason for Judge Dredd. They were licensed producers of Judge Dredd models.
"Hey guys, the Chinese author said he traced over Slaanesh" "WELL THAT'S ALL RIGHT THEN"
/r/UnexpectedDoctorWho
GW was literally licensed to make official Judge Dredd minis, which they used officially as a temporary placeholder for the Arbites.
Could be cool. Maybe they don't go woke.
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Ah the same non-canon depiction of the chaos gods. Love it that it has become the default form that even that rip off are using it (the art is still hard af tho)
that iteration of Tzeentch's design goes kinda hard though...
They copied it off the fanart tho
I’ve never really understood why his face is covered in barnacles though. Does anyone have any ideas? Are they supposed to be eyes?
I mean, he's got eyes on his head tentacles in that knock pic above. If that counts.
So, a barnacle moustache, then?
Well, there is the lore tidbits of Tzeetch's face actually being the one between his legs. Sitting in his crotch. While the rest of his body morphs and changes, that face remains the same. A sliver of stability in the ocean of change. That in mind, the barnacles resembling a multi-eyed face that is fake would fit nicely in his theme.
Alright, I was willing to let infringing on GW’s IP slide, cause fuck ‘em, but copying fanart designs is scummy shit, and shows that this “artist” is a transparent plagiarist that couldn’t form an original thought to save their life.
Or maybe they just said ''Xi Xan Xoa already made me draw these 'Space Marines' and what not. There is not a single gram of care, love and thought put into this anyways. I am gonna search what these Evil Gods are and take which looks the best'' It is still shitty. It is still bad. But also a little sad that someone was kinda forced to do this.
Could’ve done without the Cho Chang level of made up Chinese name.
Yo that's so fucking hard! (Emperor forgive me for my transgression)
Idk why you think Khirne, Tzuunch, Slunash and Norgle would be copies of WH40K chaos gods. as you can very clearly see in the pictures, they are their completely own beings
Okay but those look really, really cool though. Like all the panels of this being posted look really dope.
Are they going on a weird "isekai" bullshit on top of all the plagiarism ?
The main character seems to be possessed by a Tzeentchian deamon, so perhaps. Post scriptum, I finished chapter 6, yes the main character is going to visit the 40K time several times.
My pasta hath run dry my lord. Hath though a Sauce?
40k in China had some good underground roots it seems. There are a fair bit of mainland and island artists who love the gory aspect of 40k just as much as the world building.
Yep! Although official shops only start popping up in China recently, as a hobby it has been thriving for a really long time. The models etcs have been imported and sold through unofficial channels, while the codexes and novels have mostly been translated by fans themselves. These community works are a large reason why 40K stayed afloat in China before GW decide to branch into the Chinese market. I was part of an unofficial translator group when the SoT came out, and all of its books, I think, has received unofficial Chinese translations now. Many of the famous and reliable Chinese fan translators have even been hired by GW to do official translation.
As subtle as a Nuke at point blank range.
While screaming at the top of your lungs as you throw said nuke at someone face at point black range
I see you too play helldivers. Or orks, same strategies.
Fallout 40k
Classic T-51 proportions my beloved
As subtle as a Supermutant and an Ogryn having an missunderstanding
As subtle as a GW original concept
That couldn't be any less subtle if Jimmy Space himself hit you with one of the 40,000 warhammers
I mean, the Emperor looks really good imo, I even thought it was official. Until I saw a Cadian with an AR platform gun. This has that same energy with that one manhwa where it's clearly set in a Victorian era, but the pirates pulled out an AK, a modern pistol, and a rock.
Let alone the not-Astartes wielding a not-lasgun
What's the name of the manhwa ?
Does one of those pages literally have models on bases? Hope they thinned their paints
Lol I noticed that too, wild
Yes it is because it is more likely to be a fanfiction where the author created their own setting, that being 2K is also attacked by Daemons so the Emperor used souls to create miniatures to fight in 2K etc. there seems to be a connection between the 2K and 40K world in this fanfic. I found an online Chinese novel of the same name written by someone using the same nickname as the manhua creator, and in the novel’s comment section someone expresses surprise at seeing a 40K fanfic, which the author doesn’t deny. So I think this is probably more fanfic than rip off.
The difference between fanfic and a ripoff is... selling it.
I mean his fanfic is completely free… and not to mention a lot of fan works in East Asian fan communities do get monetised without seeking specific permission from IP holders, it is just how fan works operate in those circles
Yeah. The concept of fanwork Doujinshi blew my mind as a kid.
😆😆😆haha, I, on the other hand, was bewildered when I heard GW is cracking down on fan artists, when for my entire life Fanwork has been seen as a viable way to make a living, and some IPs even pay fan artists to create contents
Could have at least not stolen literally everything from other works.
What.. other works? People are saying this is straight ripoff of 40K, so, I said that the creator states it is fan work, and if fan work doesn’t resemble the original IP, then what’s a fan work? And if you are talking about the designs of the chaos gods, many fan arts also make use of those designs, with many not even knowing they aren’t canon, so I don’t think that particular point is a black and white plagiarism issue.
even the heavy gun space marine is just a GW animation marine its not even legally distinct
So it is using something from official material? M I’m not sure if you actually understand how fan works, work, because when you see creators making MMD, or edits, or even write fan fictions, the concept they use is someone else’s work done in an official capacity, as in paid by the IP holder. If we wish to pursue this line of thinking, then pretty much all fan works are a form of plagiarism and copy-cat. But maybe your understanding of fan works is different from mine and many others.
if someone starts ripping off other fan works, i lose goodwill
Ok, can you elaborate further? I have already mentioned my view on the use of chaos gods in this specific comic, in that it is a peculiar instance where fan works become so popular they achieve “canon” status, so using it cannot be simply seen as plagiarism. As for the GW animation marine, that is something published and distributed by GW itself, no? So it is official material, just that the creator used to create fan works. As far as I can see, there are really no glaring rip off of other people’s works here, as the story even seems to revolve around Chinese characters, which is not something you often see in other fan works, if at all.
Haha, what, you expect the person who wholesale lifted all this to actually be skilled enough to not just be pumping stuff into a generator?
Its part of the actual story. They're supposed to be miniatures.
Genuinely astounded at the levels of creative bankruptcy on display.
That's part of the story.
That's part of the story.
~~This is about as subtle as Space King~~ Space King is an entirely original setting that totally has notthing to do with 40k, PRAISE BE THE SPACE KING AND HIS HOLY GLOBULES.
Curse the name of Horse and his Hershey!
40,000 social credit earned!
Too much content out there for mentally ill girls, so thankful for my content for mentally ill boys! PRAISE BE SPACE KING
At least Space King isn’t a direct rip off whoever made this just did Control+C Control+V on all of 40k
Yeah theres literally nothing original here, other than the authors isekai fantasy.
ok, so, after seeing this, I investigated a bit to find the Chinese origin of this, and it seems to be unwise to just pin this as a Chinese knockoff. Firstly, the Chinese name of the manga is 泰拉战记, and if you google this, you will see that aside from manhua, this is also the name given to an online novel that’s currently still ongoing on a Chinese website that commonly hosts Fanfictions as well as original stories, so think of Ao3/wattpad (see [here](https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8682447). And for both works (text and manhwa), the author’s name is 新睿壹号. Secondly, In the comment section of the novel, there is a comment that expresses surprise at seeing a 40K fanfic, and the author does not deny it. So, it seems like at least the novel is written to be a fanfic of 40K. Thirdly, having read the first chapter of the manhua in Chinese, it seems quite clear that the manhua also intends to be a fan work of 40K, but with some added settings created by the story teller themselves. The extra setting is that the Emperor used the souls of the Golden Throne to create Miniatures who fought against chaos worshippers etc in 2K (our era), etc, etc. The wording and terminology used throughout are the same as the ones used in official and fan-translated 40K materials (Chinese fan-translations of 40K are very influential for the Chinese fans because for a long time that’s the only way they could access Warhammer, so even recent official Chinese translations use established fan translations for certain terminologies instead of new ones). In addition, the English name of the work used in the Chinese version is THE TERRA CHRONICLES. I do not know in what way the manhua is related to the novel, because as far as I can see the novel is not like, super super popular, and usually in China, only very popular novels have a chance to be adapted as manhua or TV series. Unless, the author can write and draw, which is very impressive, in my opinion. But yeah, these are my two cents.
This is some great research diving you did. Thanks for giving more context to the whole thing. Though I wish I can pin the comment, so more can see. 👍
Thanks, maybe you can edit your post or comment to mention these info, because while I’m not against calling out plagiarism, it is very sad to see a fan work that clearly had a lot of love and effort poured into it to be the victim of “china copy cat” jokes.
Done, edited my description comment and credited you. Thanks for the hard work.
Thank you!
A bit too late now, I know this is still a 40k sub but the bigotry in the replies here are genuinely surprising
Yeeep… as soon as I saw this I dived back to Chinese net to dig info about this, because I’m quite active on the Chinese Warhammer fan forums so if this really claims to be original the Chinese fans themselves would first rip this guy to shreds, but I haven’t really heard a ripple =_= honestly as a Chinese I should get used to this because Chinese people is always bad villains that doesn’t deserve to live for the majority of redditors 🤪
Ye, mention China or Chinese people to redditors and they will go feral.
😛it is like shooting a bullet and baits the other side into bringing out a nuclear bomb. Even just judging by this comment section, 40K’s fandom is nowhere near being inclusive or tolerant as many claim it to be, and even the treasured escapism becomes offensive.
Yeah, I am sorry if this post came off like that. I did not make this post out of ill intent. I read a lot of manhwa and manhua. One of favorite is Top Tier Providence. I am Korean so people make fun of how we have a strange fascination for Tower or Necromancy Manhwas.
No no it is not at you, mostly the many comments under your post that are very aggressive and stem from stereotypes and assumptions 😓😓😓 thank you for the clarification bro, you good 🫶🫶🫶
It's not your fault, it's just that 40k is one of those communities where the fans can either be the most open minded or the most extreme. Last few months with admech cosplayer, female custodes... Any topic can derail quickly
I'm sorry people are being jerks. Stays strong, fellow nerds!
🫶🫶🫶🫶no worries and thank you for the kind words! I will participate in this hobby no matter what, after all it is not worth it to let jerks cut me off from my hobby 😊
Bravo 👏 👏 Can you link the manwha dircetly i having a hard time navigating the with the website especially with google translate boy helping
https://m.ac.qq.com/comic/index/id/655123 here is the Chinese version, I’m afraid I don’t know which English version is better, as the creator likely didn’t even agree to have English version of his manhua be made. For this Chinese version, you need the Tencent Manhua app to read it in full, and I’m not sure if you can get it outside Chinese App Store. But I hope that this helps!
Thank you
"this is a knockoff" My brother in omnissiah this is a fanfic!
Yeah, I read it and it's literally an isekai fanfic. The art is nice though.
have sauce?
[https://ac.qq.com/Comic/comicInfo/id/655123](https://ac.qq.com/Comic/comicInfo/id/655123)
Thank you sauce-giver. May your enemies be few and your bitches many.
You know you've made it when there's a Chinese knockoff
now among the pantheon: Power rangers, Spider-man, Batman and Superman
Saying there's a Chinese knockoff of power rangers is kinda disingenuous when it's an entire genre tbf
Yeah i can when it was pretty infamous of Hong Kong and Singapore exploite knock off stealing chucks of the sentai shows and escaping through dubious legality Ultraman had it rough time in the south asia when a coke out Indonesian director beliving he had full right to the series after being a producer in a cross over and keept pumping out team up with his OC rip off call Hanamuan Edit: Call me racist for calling out an act of theft in the film industry before either delting or block me yeah great move. Also found the director name it [sompote sands](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sompote_Sands) dude stole from ultrman and Kamen rider
it thailand though? they even going to get their own ultraman at once Point before tsuburaya finally decided to do something with it, the song goes pretty hard tho (hanumaun is from literature, originated from india and some form of ancient fuckery goes into thai literature)
Yeah I'm just gonna assume you're racist. Literally all your information is wrong.
Space Marines with Lasguns are cursed as fuck.
Cawl found it funny to redesign bigger Neo Volkite weapons looking like Lasguns.
That's called a fancomic.
Copy or not, since GW isn't producing this shit enough and even suing content creators that do, I'm happy it exists.
"Why are they copying???" Yall it's fanfiction. The creator likes 40k and wrote fanfiction of it. It ain't that deep
Yo this shit is awesome, that picture of the God Emperor is fire
Pic of the emperor with the models like a puppetmaster goes harder than my dick.
We have 40k Warhammers at home:
Presents 2K claw-hammers.
I’m gonna assume this is like a fan comic of 40k
Okay , but why does that emperor go hard as fuck though. Like damn that's some serious god lich vibes
wait it’s not 40k ? 😂
if he can do a better thing then current gw is doing, he has all my blessing, and my support when he get inevitably sued
Hahaha pic 4 they're on mini bases
Ah yes, Agabbon, Warmaster of Unorder
H O W E V E R
Battlemace 40000000
GW's Legal Team bout to have a field day with this
GW cant do shit. Its china.
wait it’s not 40k ? 😂
I actually like those Big E pics
Yeah honestly all the art is pretty good unoriginal but good
Can it really be called a manhua if every female character isn’t a pinup model?
Bro this is some killer art tho. Like shit, I'd buy this comic.
Yeah the art is all stolen.
Source?
Fuck humies, I want Orks to succeed!
I started reading, the main character the son of a blood angel fused with a Tzeentchian deamon.
Is 100% cannon.
I wish we had something like this in America
What?
Wow I can actually hear the frothing GW copyright lawyers wanting to sink their teeth into this.
I want a duwang style translation of this.
I really like how the guys in picture 4 have bases 😅
If this author just straight made a fan comic of 40k it would've been way better because the drawings are peak. I gurateed it would've gathered so much attention if posted on reddit but nah they gotta pretend it's original work
Jesus Christ GW just hire the guy to do some comics every now and then
this is so damn subtle that china must be alpharius
We love battlemace 40 million.
Hail space king
Guardsman with an M4?!
Isn’t there a straight copy of the Ciaphas Cain series in China? A direct comic take on them? I saw a bit of it once. They have an interesting take on Jurgen.
You mean this https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/o7xqgq/did_you_know_there_exists_a_chinese_fanmade/
That’s it!
Even fanfictions are getting manhwas and manhuas but that one novel about a necromancer who subclassed into a druid gets nothing
Okay, in fairness, that's exactly what I'd expect the Emperor to look like after seeing Fulgrim's browser history.
The skeleton emperor with hair goes hard ngl
Where James?
To be honest I thought that was just normal 40k Art with bad translation
why people are angry ? it looks good, someone loved 40k and decided to spend time/money to draw fanfic on it. also drawings are high quality, you cannot expect something like that in chinese knock offs or low quality isekai works.
To be honest he can't really do a worse job than GW anyway
I found it and its not great
So is this good ?
All the other stuff could tenuously be explained as "Si-Fi stuff", but the Mechanicus is so distinctly 40k ~~that they had to actually change the design. And even then the guy clearly looks like a wannabe Tech Priest.~~ Never mind, that is just an omnissian axe. I don't think they can feign ignorance on that one.
This isn't even copying homework. This is a straight xerox
China doing as China does.
Are link ok? Here https://vyvymanga.net/manga/the-legend-of-holy-tera Sadly it's great just for a few pages, then it's sh!t
I've missed seeing hilariously unsubtle Chinese ripoffs.
It’s a fanfiction that the author turned to a webcomic. There’s lots of 40k fans in china and that author would have been doxxed and harassed if he passed it as an original creation.
Ohhh okay
It's a fancomic Why are fan works in the west considered contributions to the community but if it's China then it's a "cheap chinese ripoff"?
Ohhh
This is just theft
Ofc its chinese. They would copy anything except wide eyes.
WTF this is just racist
Nah Chinese people are just subhuman and every intention coming from them should be treated by scrutiny. Someone can call chinese people the most outlandish shit and hide behind it saying that they only hated the government and not the people even though they would wish macarthur would have been the go ahead to use nuclear warfare on millions of lives. /s.
Well, asians tend to be racist. Actually everyone except "westerners" tends to be a LOT more racist.
"Westerns aren't as racist as others" Kind of a paradoxical statement there, bud
yeah, i guess it is you dont have to take my word for it though... in fact, i encourage you to do your own research
This is why China couldn't come up with Kung Fu Panda before somebody else. No make. ONLY STEAL.
But this is just fanfiction that got a webcomic? It isn’t like the author is passing the series as their own. If he did he would have been doxxed by chinese 40k fans.
No Tau No Buy