Hair looking good, Bob! AI voice acting in anime is definitely inevitable if not already happening. I'm not looking forward to it at all. It will likely lack the nuances of human voice acting and even if they can perfect that aspect of it, many current and potential voice actors will be put out of work. I also really enjoy noticing a familiar voice in different shows and looking it up to see where I recognize it from.

Lady is for the streets.

Watch the sub dude, it's really really good

can you checkout the new nhk rebuild chapter 6 ending and spoil it it’s so much work trying 2 figure out the ending or interpretations online

I wish there's a anime that depicts the historical accuracy of the American Revolutionary War & Civil War where the U.S. Presidents like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the main protagonists of the series or someone who happens to have some connections with the presidents or some historical figures (just like the show Liberty's Kids but more Japanese.)

Just finished macross 7 and it's the only macross I've watched and I quite like it. No idea what the community thinks of it but I do quite like the characters settings and plot. They find a way to make everything work, even the villains ending up not being physically entities and such are effected more strongly by music is a clever way to make what seems to be silly concept work. Basara himself essentially finding within himself the reason for singing is to move an unmovable object and that translating to finally having his music reach these beings rather than dominating them with force is quite nice to see. Even the final conclusion makes sense once the beings (Protodeviln) could learn to finally accept the anima spiritia i.e. the music the had been so much against the could finally move past their base nature (destruction and absorption) and onto higher. Overall I really enjoyed it and that's not even getting into things like the other characters progressions (especially Gamlin) the incredible designs the music etc.

I saw the "8man after" when I was a kid- 90s syfy channel was wild on Saturdays.

Nice review but I dont agree on some points and especially waiting for second season. I consider myself a Terminator fan, I like first two movies and a fifth one (Genesys), and I enjoyed this Anime a lot. But I think it doesnt need contuniation, I rather they let it go, there is enough Terminator content and half of it is pretty bad already haha (talking about half the movies). It wrapped up nicely here with some space left for imagination but you can connect all the dots easily in the end. The only couple things I disliked how two named cops ended up, I got baited into thinking they would be important characters but you know what happened. Also how long Malcolm was talking with Kokoro without progressing much, at least this is how it felt to me, but it was not an easy topic to discuss and I doubt I could write it better haha. So for me it was a very good action show, 8/10.

man that ring cable finger combo was brutal asf.i can feel it

Honestly no because alot of key flaws 1. The driving scenes are not as grounded as initial d 1st-4th stage the drift looks like d1gp style drifts where its more for show rather than speed 2. The characters are all poorly written, yes Takumi himself is a tofu block of a character plain af but it got compensated by all the side characters that is super interesting and fun to watch like cmon you cant compare the alfa/lotus twin to wataru, keisuke, and heck even iketani and itsuki is more interesting. Heck even Takumi himself is more interesting as he does have to struggle in alot of the races like the ones with wataru and mako gives solid development compared to Kanata. 3. Track design makes it super hard to believe this is purely kanata skill and not plot armor. Mfg tracks are wide and filled with high speed corners things where a barely modified gt86 cant keep up with precission machines cooked up by europe if theres visible mods for gt86 like aero (though needs to be counterracted with high grip style as drifting doesnt make sense here) or engine upgrade the races will be seen as more grounded and not just a gt86 plot armor run and we can properly see how good Kanata driving skill is without feeling the strong plot armor. This also affected the hype of the races. 4. You can clearly feel how theres no passion behind this project at all, initial D is filled with passion for car culture and is made for car lovers. This one just doesnt have the same respect as initial D the car choice feels like they are there because they are cool supercars rather than passion about the automotive world. In initial D the cars we have are cars that is significant in tuning culture and each character is shown to live and breathe in the car culture. Here its just oh look we have lambo, porsche and ferrari. 5. MF angels, what's the point of them ? They are rubbish 6. The settings, in initial D they mostly race at night and at very dangerously narrow mountain roads. This factors in with track design and makes it that the stakes in initial D is very high and always keeps you on your toe, MF ghost takes place in the day and with how the action plays out it seems just like another sunday drive. Though i would love to bash mf ghost more for a very obvious cash grab attempt with no passion behind it it did nail one thing right which is the animation which is more crisp than initial D.

Can I get a list of the names of the individual ADV volumes?

Do you guys know the name of the anime of the blonde sister and brunette brother who were martial artists? They fought demons and took part in a tournament. It was an anime on the action channel I cannot remember the name of it. When the girl powered up her aura was yellow, her brother was green Was on the Encore Action Channel between the 90s and early 2000s

I'm blessed to know Japanese, so haven't had to watch a dub in years. But, I don't think a computer simulation will ever be able to match the nuances of human language. Even with master translators/interpretor, perfect 1-to-1 translation is basically impossible if you get deep enough into word meanings, idioms, etc. Another but, most dubbing companies suck, are just straight up awful. It's one of those you don't know what you don't know things. It's almost physically painful to go back to an English dub after I've watched something in Japanese. So much is lost. So much is changed. I get that sometimes it's unavoidable with lips flaps and all that. But, I cannot watch dubbed material on my own anymore, and that goes in both directions. Japanese dubs also suck. The only exception is Ghost Stories for what should be obvious reasons. Don't think this will change much quality wise other than bringing everything closer to the average. What would have been awful dubs will probably get raised up, and what would have been the best dubs will get brought down. Sucks for the guys in the industry. But, it was never that good to begin with.

I'm so glad more people know about this film, absolutely ground breaking

Like with most things, if the A.I. can reach the same levels as real VAs, I don't really care about it. Most workers are in danger of being replaced by a machine or an A.I. , why would entertainment be any different?

Ah... Glad to see this wasn't a childhood fever dream... 😂

It will happen eventually, but I hope I dont see it in my lifetime. At least for now AI voice and translation is not good enough and can sound weird or produce gibberish.

Hello Bob, this is your computer. Surrender all of your anime to me. I added those two lines just in case you decided to have an AI read this comment :D I just spent a few hours talking about this with my wife a few days ago, not exactly about anime but about entertainment in general. We both think that in the future, maybe not in our lifetime but for sure our kids', most people will have no jobs, but there will always be a good chunk of the population who will prefer human-made entertainment (be it anime, games, music, novels, movies, etc.) over AI-made entertainment, so I think human creativity will prevail in the end, but the road there will be hard, I'm sure. Have a good one, PatchSamurai.

hey bob i have a question: Since flame of recca is next, do you plan to also review Houshin Engi and Fushigi Yuugi? both are anime's that are based in ancient china which i find interesting.

First watched running man on LSD. Yes it was crazy intense. A must watch tripping

I've read articles saying by the year 2150 no human will ever have to work again. But then the government would control all means of resources, which is a NIGHTMARE scenario. Ideally industries like the arts would use AI the least because it's the humans who make the art whether it's voice acting, composing music etc that make each thing individual, unique, different etc. But with how much "messaging" modern entertainment has been injected with, I don't think it'll make a difference. Because the industries have definitely peaked. Or even if they haven't, the "messaging" is here to stay unfortunately. Idk I just hope AI doesn't take all the jobs within our lifetime.

Long Hair Bobicus returns! For those in the voice acting industry it definitely is bad. But at the same time you need to consider it as an asset when (for example) it's a situation where the voice actor is deceased or has some sort of medical issue that renders their voice not as available. I do agree that AI voice acting will become more prevalent. Companies will not pay actual voice actors more nor will they lower the price of BluRays/streaming services.

There's AI voice actors now in anime? Good thing I only watch retro stuff with og japanese anyways...

Fighbird really got the shit end of the stick here. Sad.

I don't like where AI is going, but I've been alive long enough and I've seen history enough to know that we will eventually take this thing to it's logical conclusion where AI will be doing every single thing a human used to do including all forms of art. As a species we just can't help ourselves. Even if we had a crystal ball that told us AI will lead to the total collapse of our nation in the near future, people at the top would sacrifice the future to turn a profit here and now.

The reason that why it's not done in Japan is three-fold: 1. You can't morally end a whole career or a large number of jobs with no valid reason. (The current cost of living here in the states is too high, which only increases this point.) 2. Japanese Law is different from U.S. Law even though the current times have shown that many changes can be made, as you've explained. 3. When it's done, it's usually done haphazardly and / or immorally.

I have no idea why you think AI voice acting is limited to its current technological capabilities, and will not exponentially advance to a level indistinguishable to any actual human, that can simulate any vocal range, and potential vocal/ acting range. There is nothing special about us apes whose entire product is the result of internal/ external variables determined by prior causes (causal chain), or random (quantum indeterminacy), in which we did not choose. I cannot see why any arrangement of matter following physics could not convergently produce the effect. And why do we always arbitrarily cherry-pick which jobs AI can, and cannot take. It is coming for everything indiscriminately, the arts or not. Yes there will be a rough transition period, but eventually an AGI/ ASI will have almost everything solution. And if you find AI taking arbitrary jobs immoral, what do you think unnecessarily violating the well-being of sentient entities by not being vegan?

If an anime has zero chances of getting a dub than AI is the last resort.

The flip side is now you can use the ai voice actors and make your own anime easier and have your dream project come to life and share it

Text to speech is ai? I guess it is, but Its not the problematic feature ppl complain about

Finally something to fap to

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You need to get swoll so you can call yourself Conan the Bobarian

if the new voice actors weren't so cringe it wouldn't be necessary im strictly subs now

I can't help but think of the Terminator and Matrix movies when it comes to all this, but yeah voice actors I have seen are pretty vocal against AI and I would tell them they are being melodramatic but I have kind of been in their situation before so I kind of get their viewpoint. I'm pretty neutral on AI thus far, with that said, I'm not sure if I want to pay for something made my machines.

Reading these comments idk, I don't see AI as a solution to poor/cynical localization efforts. it just seems like you're cranking more slop into the slop mill at that point. and a quick newsflash for some peeps, Bad localization has *always* been a thing, I highly suggest any of you go check out 1985's Zeta Gundam, I love that show, but the subs are like they're trying to fill out the word count in an essay. Adapting and translating a show is often a lot more complex than a simple 1:1 direct translation, Japanese and English both have quite different sentence structures and general language construction, so a lot of editorializing has to occur. it's been a long running problem in the western anime industry and it goes a lot deeper than Crunchyroll or Netflix. I can't really speak to the whole "Political soapboxing through anime localization" thing (Oh no, a character said non-binary, the west has fallen, billions must die). it's too small of an industry for it to be organized in any fashion, so I can only assume it's mostly creatives inserting a bit of themselves in the localization. It's can be kind of annoying, and I do agree that it's not true to the original art, but it's also like, the smallest possible issue in the anime industry right now. You're looking at an industry where storyboard artists and animators are often working *fucking insane* hours at low pay to produce shows that we in the west either watch for free on crunchyroll or end up Pirating. there's still so much artistry and fantastic stuff on display but the people behind the scenes work extremely hard for shit pay and terrible labor rights, that's where the outrage is for me.

Bob has become more patches than man.

I use ai for an advertising agency so I’m pro ai to an extent that and I suck at drawing and want more ways to express my ideas, as for ai replacing vas, I don’t think it will, as you said translation and localization most likely, this entire year has been a huge cluster for that industry, I for one, am super critical of it so I’m fine if ai is a tool to remove the bias of localization, And make it closer to Japanese text, for voice acting it can be done, there was a video using eleven labs to dub legend of the galactic heroes and it was amazing and somewhat scary how natural it sounded, but seiyuu wil never be replaced, and the moment a dub tries that they’re gonna get massive backlash anyway, so I highly doubt it’s ever gonna happen, but there needs to be a line drawn at least in my opinion for localization and ai is gonna be that solution people want. The lovely complex fiasco is the best example this year, discotek is relatively great at translating, they subbed angel cop and kept the entire antisemitic rant in the last episode uncensored. But it’s the fact such a huge oversight like that happened when it shouldn’t even have been possible, which pissed people off so much. That and Jamie marchi arguing all of New Year’s Eve about why changing someone else’s art is a good thing. I think their needs to be something done, it’s happened so many times this year and even over the past 15 years, and people on top of biased localization are just tired of hearing the same English vas in every anime. “People like to argue well you don’t care if you hear the same seiyuu in everything” yet people don’t realize some Japan has ten times as many voice actors some of whom have been active since the 60’s and they always add to that. It’s naturally more varied than the same pool of English vas we’ve had since I’d say at least 2008 now. It’s a mess. It is the biggest shame No anime licensing company is immune to bias, even discotek, Justin sevakis I believe stated he’ll never license MD Geist since he hated working on it at Central Park media so much, comparing it to working on scat hentai lmao. in conclusion I love anime and want biased localization to completely stop, if ai wards that out I’m fine, but I don’t think at least any time soon if at all. vas will be replaced by ai. It would be too huge of a risk to take.

I don’t think you can replace voice actors with ai nobody can match norio Nishikawa at tetsu in chie the brat could ai make a show like chie the brat or Monica rial and Jamie marchi in panty and stocking can an ai be as witty as them or Jessica Cavello in recutie honey she has that cute mom sounding voice I don’t think ai can recreate that. On a side note I want to see an I have no mouth I must scream scenario but instead ai hurting it just puts people in constant gambling situations and speaks to you with a kansai accent. Seriously you could use it as a tool but not everything be ai!

It's a good thing I posted that link in the discord... Suffah English voice actors. Good video by the way

Can you share the AI reader?

Well...as disheartening as it is? Localization practices, especially modern localization practices, should be absolutely to blame for AI VAs being used as opposed to VAs and localizers that more or less refuse to do a proper job and instead use foreign properties as their own personal sociopolitical soapboxes while whining about nonexistent "istophobia" when criticized for sabotaging someone else's work from overseas.

licensing company mini rant excludes physical licensing companies who do gods work such as discotek

A.I is going to ruin our society

I think AI voice acting replacing actual actors is terrifying if you asked me.

Best anime so far

Thank you for sharing this. Wandering Sun is one of my top favorites of all time 💙

Does the anime adapt the same stories as the manga or are they original ones. And should a read the manga first or like you watch the anime first? Thanks

It's the original genndy tartakovsky's primal

Min Mei and Hikaru's romance was instantly and severely hightened by the violent zero gravity death she was about to experience yet she was saved by Hikaru piloting a transofrmable mech in it's frequently not used middle state. If you don't understand how this hightened death saving in spite if an impossible situation inspires love between two poeple then I dont' know what else to tell you. Their love was expicitely and very well shown thru the medium of this film. I believed it on a level that I have rarely ever seen in a movie. SMH you didn't see the same movie that I saw.