Harada's work?!

[arbalest-bolt.livejournal.com]

Hey all, long time lurker, first time poster.  :3

Anyway, I'd like to speak to you all about a site called Tinier Me!  It caught my attention because its cute and it reminds me of Harada's artwork!  But lo and behold, look at the banner on this page!  http://www.tinierme.com/tinierme/html/campaign_event/2010/06/20100616_anime_expoEV.html

THAT looks like Harada's work.  So much so that I'm suspecting it is!  Does Harada do that sort of sidework, or am I just crazy?

Thanks everyone!  ~<3

Comments

[shinhawk.livejournal.com]

That image closely resembles two images: the Disgaea 3 DLC wallpaper which features every DLC character and the Disgaea 2 chibi art which was also used for the phone charms.

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3673/cl123332756850tb6.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9312/walkp.jpg

Though the artwork in that link closely resembles the style Harada used in the artwork I posted, there's no evidence that tinierme plagiarized Harada. Not one of NIS' or Harada's characters are shown there and you can't really claim plagiarism when only the style or layout of the artwork matches another. I've seen SNK and Capcom do it to each other and nothing happened.