Super Twins Director Denies Sailormoon Ripoff
Dominic Zapata, director of GMA’s Sailormoon ripoff Super Twins, deserves a medal from me. People like him accelerate the fall of Philippine TV, much to my delight as a Filipino YouTuber.
Prior to the start of series, many have been pointing out that Super Twins is a rip-off of anime series such as Sailor Moon and Amazing Twins. The show’s director, Dominic Zapata, cleared things out by saying, “If you find similarities, it is outright coincidental. Hindi po ako nakakapanood ng Sailor Moon and Amazing Twins.”
He sure “cleared things out”, alright — like a hot stinking fart clears out a room. Oh, and Amazing Twins is a live-action Mandarin series, not a Japanese anime.
“Sabi ng lawyer, you shouldn’t have access to these things. It’s not something na nagawa na dati-[it has] a new story, nice drama and solid characters.”
So a Philippine TV director needs a lawyer to assure him he “shouldn’t have access” to Sailormoon, one of the most popular anime in Philippine TV history? I don’t know who’s dumber: the director or the lawyer.
I hope these Philippine TV dinosaurs never learn that they can’t lie to a connected population. That way, their constant bumbling will provide us hours of amusement before the growth of the Philippine Internet crushes them.
(Via Jepoy Bengero.)
He deserves to be fired for this.
Of course, I’d rather he wasn’t. I’d rather GMA continue to bumble to its inevitable fall.
Its not just a Sailor Moon costume rip-off but its also a Willy Wonka costume rip-off. The main antagonist looks like a scorched-Willy Wonka-in-an-iron-mask. The custome designer of this program s*cks big time!
This isn’t the only GMA show with a costume rip-off. You guys should see Asian Treasures where the two protagonists look like Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.
sailormoon na probinsyano LOL
A few years ago, I remembered seeing so much bruhaha over the launching of a supposed to be magnificent TV series (SUGO?). It just happned that the TV in our office was on that channel were it was shown. Que Horror!!! A few seconds into the show and I immediately recognized a ripoff of David Caradine’s “KUNG-FU”– Sus Maryosep!!!