>>3745212I heard about pija tracing kiyorshiro's works only a while ago(I'm a fan of both). But this is clearly not tracing. It just looks like Pija got "inspired" by his senpai's work and copied a few successful poses. But the lines, the shapes and the faces are all different.
Pija is definitely trying to mimic Kiyoshiro(probably because he likes his style) but not through tracing. They have slightly similar themes(although Kiyoshiro's mangas can get a bit darker, while Pija follows a more vanilla approach), but that's it. I'm pretty sure people can find gazillions of examples of such "tracing" in other mangas by other artists.
Maybe I don't know something, but it feels like pija got "caught" precisely because he draws in a style similar to kiyoshiro's.
