
In this way, I would like to create a story in which the unexpected becomes frightening before AI.There is a very good chance that even if you don't read a lot of manga you've probably heard of Junji Itō, and I will begin by suggesting that this very renown can serve to obscure the finer points of his work.Īs some of you will remember, Itō first captured a significant amount of North American attention in the early '00s through VIZ's publication of Uzumaki, a serial about people obsessed, transformed, and mostly destroyed by uncanny spiral shapes the concept was novel and the execution superb, but 15 years ago, the manga readership was not what it is now.

The swirl pattern that exists naturally and fear are connected, and the swirl pattern that was casually seen until then becomes scary. It's like something you didn't think you were afraid of before suddenly becomes scary. "On the other hand, I always have the desire to create something new and scary. "Fundamentally, I don't think people's fears have changed that much over time," Ito said. Ito explained that he would like to utilize his knowledge of fear to create a uniquely terrifying work - before AI can accomplish the same thing.

Although some readers criticized the work for being artistically derivative of Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul, the work has opened the floodgates for future AI manga titles. Back in March, Shinchosa released Cyberpunk: Peach John, the first-ever AI-produced manga. Ito's fears are not completely unfounded, as AI has already infiltrated the manga industry.

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