Anime & Donghua

Witch Hat Atelier is proof that politics can make a story better. Let’s talk about it.

Yuri, cyberpunk, and gorgeous PC-98 artwork, all in one single retro VN - it's 1994's Possessioner, by Queen Soft! Nothing could go wrong, right?

It's great how a generic status quo forever story with tropey characters can turn interesting when instead of school shenanigans, it's two wage workers living largely lives of everyday misery. Or maybe I'm just aged out of finding the former relatable, and aged in to the grind of wage labor.

Adding smoking into it and the... 20 year age gap sure was a decision. But I suppose the smoking part is something that happens every day. And smokers probably have it easier to actually talk to strangers?

Still, despite its flaws, it's neat.

Reuven, you're a good man

What did you think of this week's chapter?

One Piece will be on break next week

The most heartbreaking part of Wolf Children isn’t what happens to the characters on screen... but the painful reality hidden behind it.

Director Mamoru Hosoda revealed that the perfect mother, Hana, was based on his own mother—or more accurately, "the mother he wished she could have been". It's a statement that sounds cold, but buried across a decade of obscure interviews lies a heavy, deeply personal confession. This video dives into the grief, regret, and hidden real-world parallels that transform this fantasy masterpiece about parenthood and love into something much more.

If you’ve found your way here, thank you. Watching the videos already means a lot. And if you’d like to support the channel a little further, it would genuinely help me keep making these essays with the time and care they need.

Recently I saw a video on youtube talking about the controversies in the vocaloid community about popular songs that used AI in some way to help create the music videos or the music itself

A popular example is the song ''Brainrot'' by Tokyo Manaka. the controversy there was that Teto was dancing on backgrounds that the creator commissioned from an AI artist... of course this generated a bunch of drama (probably on reddit, twitter and youtube but i didn't catch all of it myself)

Another example is ''Liar Macaron'' by Gluttonous P (暴飲暴食P), that popular song of teto saying ''I love you'' in different languages. users found out that the author most likely used AI programs to make the actual instruments for the track... this lead to a huge controversy on bilibili and twitter. people even accused the artist of plagiarism because the instrumental sounds way too similar to a song called ''rabbit / 初音ミク'' by john / TOOBOE

Of course there was also the controversy with the miku art for her newest voice bank where people suspected it was AI, but I don't want to make this post bigger than it already is

By https://x.com/lenin_in_OCT/status/2064643132139127099

from here