This was posted a few months back, was it not? I seem to remember the discusion about this not being copying. Instead these are textbook Jeet-Kune-Do moves.

haha so are the camera changes and the reactions of the person getting hit part of the text book jeet kune do moves? haha what a load of bs, animation companies rehash stuff all the time. just watch gundam seed.

Just to make sure this wasn't another "Evangelion vs. Nadesico" fake, I checked out that ep of Naruto (its 61 FYI). This isn't fake, just one flip to match left/right up. But I'd rather not think negative and say that its copying.

I say either Naruto is doing a Cowboy Bebop tribute, or more likely, these are both taken from the same Bruce Lee film. Most likely from "Return/Reveng/Way of the Dragon". Don't know what is the correct title, I see all of them at imdb.

woah.

Copy and paste. As simple as that. Crazy .

What a bunch of lazy animators. Even if they want to steal something, at least adjust it to the fact that neji isnt even supposed to punch people when the style he uses is completely different.

Does it matter? Copypasta still tastes like pasta.

Wait which came out first? Bebop movie came out in 2k1, which means it was being worked on in the late 90's. Didn't Naruto come out at the same time? Nah...Bebop probably came first. Well if you're going to copy might as well copy from something that's pure awesomeness

That's just...wow...

As for Jeet Kun Do, a very simple thing in it is that no two will draw the same thing from the teachings of the style.

This is either a copy or a tribute.

this is just a tribute, and its kinda funny they both are good at hand to hand combat and both have special eye conditions spike has a prosthetic and neji has a blood trait .

1-Spike is the man 2-Naruto is not. Over.

OMG Plagiarism!!!

This kind of copypasta indigest me...

this is most likely both series using the same source footage to give their animators something to work with.

i saw this a while back and im like pfft xDD;

They were both taken from a scene in a Bruce Lee movie, they're both plagiarizing/doing tribute.

Somebody needs to shoop this so spike is punching naruto.

Actually, they're both a tribute to Bruce Lee. It's shot for a shot a scene from one of his movies.

Aspel said:
Actually, they're both a tribute to Bruce Lee. It's shot for a shot a scene from one of his movies.

So what you're saying is, someone needs to make a new gif incorporating all three scenes? I think that's what you're saying.

Danzaiver said:
So what you're saying is, someone needs to make a new gif incorporating all three scenes? I think that's what you're saying.

I'd want to see that.

giantweevil said:
Somebody needs to shoop this so spike is punching naruto.

That would be epic.

arent both scenes a tribute to that one bruce lee movie

VanillaGUI said:
That would be epic.

indeed