Just Googled Outlaw Star. Assuming it's the manga one, then no, from what I can see, he didn't rip it off. The setting and genre are similar, but not so much the plot.
And I could wax eloquent all day about the similarities between Dark Angel (TV show) and the Max Ride (book) series. At the end of the day, they're very different stories and both were good.
Waxing eloquent time!!! The main character in both is named Max and she's a genetically engineered being. She has super human fighting skills and has a "family" of other genetically engineered beings. There's a smart love interest who uses a computer quite often. They both take place in America and either take place after the apocalypse or leading up to it. Need I go on?
Similarities happen. Both are great stories and both deserve a chance to be heard.
Both Outlaw Star and Firefly have a girl who was in found in a box and have unusual abilities that are programmed in by the military government in their universe. That's one of a few things that just seem too coincidental.
But you also couldn't get better and have that feeling of waking up one morning and being all "Yup. Much better. Imma run around the house now." and then running around the house because you feel so much better.
HAH! FOR I AM NOT A PROGRAMMER! AND I DIDN'T BLAME MY COMPUTER, I BLAMED THE INTERNET! Although, it could be my computer. The left click sticks sometimes.
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