Yadokashi (Color-ban) - Vol. 2 Ch. 3 - Yadokashi 2
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I don't know how to feel about obvious AI usage here. It is purposeful and obviously "enhancing" his sketches, acting the part of a team of illustrators. I just wish the soul of those sketches came through more.
AI has come a long way, but this here has decisively made the line for me. It's not "there" yet. So close, yet so obviously falling just before the threshold of good.
Edit: maybe it's a case of a person whose style was stolen by AI or I just hate his style. . .
AI has come a long way, but this here has decisively made the line for me. It's not "there" yet. So close, yet so obviously falling just before the threshold of good.
Edit: maybe it's a case of a person whose style was stolen by AI or I just hate his style. . .
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Welp, I was expecting a good ending.Old man just died like that.
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It looks like the author did an experimental composition a few years ago up and claymation, and this could be an evolution of that experiment. Interesting story at the very least, and well composed. Could have been a Twilight Zone episode with the way it turned out.
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Hmmm. Firstly, the AI usage is fairly atrocious, it makes sense and is can be followed from panel to panel, but it feels like low level inconsistent art, but polished to the extent that some might no realise its glaring faults. We've got re-used faces, pixar faces, AI artefacting, incoherent detailing, and the classic AI yellow piss filter all within this series.
On the writing, I like the core idea of the hermit crab homes, but the writing overall feels so... childish? It makes me wonder if AI was used for the writing as well too, but I loath thinking that something being amateur or bad = AI, so I'll assume it's just wonky writing. But there's something very children's cartoonish about the actions and direction of the stories, moreso the first story than the second, which oddly ended in death, which is some tonal whiplash.
What even really were these stories? The first story doesn't seem to have any moral lessons to teach, no character seems to really change -- even the greedy old man only accepts the situation, because the house won't accept him. The story is simply; child had nowhere to live... now lives somewhere.
The second story has a more obvious lesson of not isolating yourself, and that what we really leave behind in the world isn't any physical thing, but the memories within others... BUT, the story seemed to be leading to a much more different resolution, the sudden death, loss of his life work, and the only person who can remember him is the child who seems to be smiling over his death at the end! Bleak! BLEAK!!... guess the kid really took being yelled at personally.
It should be noted, I'm not against AI usage in creative work entirely, but the uses I've seen so far have been entirely boring, and I just hate where using it is likely to lead.
Only using it for 'help' on the art today... tomorrow it will entirely make the art for you with little input.
Use it to help guide the writing for today... tomorrow it writes the story for you.
I can only see this leading our arts and culture in a more bland, banal, and homogeneous direction, if this comic is any indication (even if we assume it was just the art that AI affected).
It's a shame that the most outspoken AI users seem to be big manga and anime fans, because I get the feeling they're going to devastate the mediums, and they'll be too blind to see it was they themselves that laid the grounds for that destruction.
Hopefully good work will keep being made during that time, and things bounce back quickly.
Anyway, thanks for the translations. Even if I didn't care much for it, it was interesting for a variety of reason, haha.
On the writing, I like the core idea of the hermit crab homes, but the writing overall feels so... childish? It makes me wonder if AI was used for the writing as well too, but I loath thinking that something being amateur or bad = AI, so I'll assume it's just wonky writing. But there's something very children's cartoonish about the actions and direction of the stories, moreso the first story than the second, which oddly ended in death, which is some tonal whiplash.
What even really were these stories? The first story doesn't seem to have any moral lessons to teach, no character seems to really change -- even the greedy old man only accepts the situation, because the house won't accept him. The story is simply; child had nowhere to live... now lives somewhere.
The second story has a more obvious lesson of not isolating yourself, and that what we really leave behind in the world isn't any physical thing, but the memories within others... BUT, the story seemed to be leading to a much more different resolution, the sudden death, loss of his life work, and the only person who can remember him is the child who seems to be smiling over his death at the end! Bleak! BLEAK!!... guess the kid really took being yelled at personally.
It should be noted, I'm not against AI usage in creative work entirely, but the uses I've seen so far have been entirely boring, and I just hate where using it is likely to lead.
Only using it for 'help' on the art today... tomorrow it will entirely make the art for you with little input.
Use it to help guide the writing for today... tomorrow it writes the story for you.
I can only see this leading our arts and culture in a more bland, banal, and homogeneous direction, if this comic is any indication (even if we assume it was just the art that AI affected).
It's a shame that the most outspoken AI users seem to be big manga and anime fans, because I get the feeling they're going to devastate the mediums, and they'll be too blind to see it was they themselves that laid the grounds for that destruction.
Hopefully good work will keep being made during that time, and things bounce back quickly.
Anyway, thanks for the translations. Even if I didn't care much for it, it was interesting for a variety of reason, haha.
