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7/25/2025, 6:33:33 AM
>>7661553
It'd be nice if artists were free to compete for prestige and enter competitions without having to worry about money and sales all the time... Where's the artistic merit in a random isekai litRPG slideshow of Kirito3490 being the strongest and coolest man on earth ever with also a million girlfriends that he can't bang because they're also the readers waifus and not all of them wanna be cucked? And if that intellectual fast food wasn't enough, there's AI entering the roster. If slop wasn't doing so well, I wouldn't be worried but it's doing pretty well for itself... I sometimes feel like giving up on art. Gonna get minimum wage at the mall, find a tiny place to live in, knock myself out with videya and eat my microplastics before my nightly 2nd videya session, brain all fried, no need to think critically about anything like a good little wage slave. But I have too many feels to be an actual robot. I'm not lonely, but there's that itch that only art can scratch. There's no way I'll stop drawing, even if AI does it all better than me...
Cool stuff is still being made. I've noticed more AI drowning out cool stuff, so many manga plots just feel like a remix of something else and webtoons are such slop I can barely tell them apart, but some are just genuinely so good...
>shallow content spreads far and wide wihle superior works are buried and forgotten
I wonder what kind of manga recommendations he'd give. I think he's exaggerating a bit, because there's always been a divide between what's generally popular and what's considered intellectually challenging. I've read ranma, dragon ball, doraemon... I wouldn't say that it's any more challenging than the popular shounen of today. Less toilet humor maybe, but that's a good thing. Well, it's shounen, not seinen but I like current seinen too.
I don't think the big 3 publishers are doing so badly, all things considered. Or maybe I just haven't personally seen the impact of AI on the japanese manga industry yet..
It'd be nice if artists were free to compete for prestige and enter competitions without having to worry about money and sales all the time... Where's the artistic merit in a random isekai litRPG slideshow of Kirito3490 being the strongest and coolest man on earth ever with also a million girlfriends that he can't bang because they're also the readers waifus and not all of them wanna be cucked? And if that intellectual fast food wasn't enough, there's AI entering the roster. If slop wasn't doing so well, I wouldn't be worried but it's doing pretty well for itself... I sometimes feel like giving up on art. Gonna get minimum wage at the mall, find a tiny place to live in, knock myself out with videya and eat my microplastics before my nightly 2nd videya session, brain all fried, no need to think critically about anything like a good little wage slave. But I have too many feels to be an actual robot. I'm not lonely, but there's that itch that only art can scratch. There's no way I'll stop drawing, even if AI does it all better than me...
Cool stuff is still being made. I've noticed more AI drowning out cool stuff, so many manga plots just feel like a remix of something else and webtoons are such slop I can barely tell them apart, but some are just genuinely so good...
>shallow content spreads far and wide wihle superior works are buried and forgotten
I wonder what kind of manga recommendations he'd give. I think he's exaggerating a bit, because there's always been a divide between what's generally popular and what's considered intellectually challenging. I've read ranma, dragon ball, doraemon... I wouldn't say that it's any more challenging than the popular shounen of today. Less toilet humor maybe, but that's a good thing. Well, it's shounen, not seinen but I like current seinen too.
I don't think the big 3 publishers are doing so badly, all things considered. Or maybe I just haven't personally seen the impact of AI on the japanese manga industry yet..
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