CATDOLL: The Idolmaster "plagiarism" incident escalates! Professional chess player's photo was spoofed

There is another follow-up to the incident of a large number of cards in the mobile game "The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls" being similar to real-life photos. Following the American card game "Magic: The Gathering", baseball player Takahiro Arai and novelist Natsuhiko Kyogoku. Sharp-eyed netizens have discovered that the cards of "The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls" are also similar to photos of many professional chess players. Now let's take a look at the comparison pictures.

The original work of "The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls" is a mobile game launched by Bandai Namco. It tells the story of the long-established entertainment company "346 Production" launching a new "Cinderella Project" to carefully select new idol trainees and strive to create a brand new idol group. The first season of the TV animation version produced by A-1 Pictures was broadcast in January 2015, and the second season is currently on the air.