Apologies for the /a/ drawing I made, it's the closest thing I got atm i.e. Maruko and Jadoo.
Does anyone else know of any other examples of this happening with "ripoffs" where they eventually become distinct or developed its own identity? I'm talking stuff like Block 13 initially being a South Park clone for sand kids before becoming a regular cartoon with the same characters (
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/13thstreet.webp/270px-13thstreet.webp.png), or that one Lucky Pie cartoon that's ostensibly based off early Adventure Time, or how Antz is very different compared to A Bug's Life on the basis of being CG movies about bugs, or how some mockbusters are so different from adapting a source that something else popular already did, that the only thing in common that they have is the source they adapted from (i.e. Disney's Alice, compared to Funky Fables' Alice).
Basically I'm looking for "bootlegs" or mockbusters that might be good on its own or has something redeeming
