How an AI Anime Is Created

Summary

The story is the most important part of an anime. Bad story-bad show that's it. Why We Do This Why not just hire real animators? Why skimp out on anything at all? The core reason: Entertainment is constrained financially, and that shapes creative decisions. When Hollywood underperforms, we see more layoffs and in our view more generic shows. Our bet is that if we can make anime financially feasible, we can do two things. One, fans here actually get to make anime in the US. Instead of needing to fly to Japan, speak Japanese, and preferably be Japanese to break into the industry. Two, pay the employees(artists) better. Look up the production committee system in Japan and how it treats artists if you want the details. But TLDR; anime studios are broke, the system isn't changing anytime soon, and it pushes independent contractors into working for dirt poor wages. We think a an AI studio fixes many problems in the industry. Smaller and faster means more financially feasible so we can give better wages for artists and enable a new industry to thrive in the US. 1. Story Writing & Adaptation When we choose a story, or write one ourselves, we always have to think about the consumer. That usually means writing for the standard anime watcher, typically Gen Z or Gen Alpha, around universal experiences like high school and exams. Most stories we write target a younger audience, male leaning(we're dudes) and follows similar problems and struggles we had when we were younger. If there's an existing story, like a Korean comic, we have to figure out how to adapt it into an anime. For us, it's quite a big of pre production work because there's just so much content and detail in a story, and we have to bring it down to a 20 minute episode. Otherwise the pacing gets too slow and we never get to the juicy scenes (the fight scenes, the first kiss,etc). Before anything gets prompted or we start thinking about shots, someone reads the whole source straight through, or at least what counts ...