[TheJaz]

Quick PSA there's a fake Gotchard logo that just started going around [see attached], it is, extremely not real, and i just wanted to get ahead of this before more people see it

i already explained this on twitter but the trademark submission AND approval dates are identical to the name trademark dates, which they really shouldn't be if this was real, if this was applied for and approved on the same dates as the name trademark we would have seen it at the same time

it's clearly a shop of the initial name trademark, all the text is identical, and it doesn't look like previous logo trademarks at all, which have usually just been the logo itself... this also hasn't appeared on the trademark bot even tho the text implies it was approved in MAY, so it's utter nonsense

And for some bonus over-the-top debunking, while it's sort of hard to explain, the logo is also written wrong, some of the characters used in Gotchard are easily confused with other characters that are basically just a different size

This logo would be read ガツチヤード (Gutschiyard)
While they meant to write ガッチャード (Gotchard)

it's smth people not familiar with kata probably would never notice (so this is likely a shop from a western fan), but this is like a huge mistake, gives me the same vibe as writing "poodle" as "qoobie"