kaws vs pipo

i lurve that immediately after Original-Fake launches an image of a possible "new" KAWS character, the web was quick to draw the similarity to that of the Tokyo Police mascot, PiPo (named after the sound of the police siren - *cute*) and after a quick online search yielded this result:"hack", "homage" or "creative adaptation"? *you decide*info: via/viaimage: via/via/viascary how the www works -