This is serious and I need to address this now

[00:02] real, right? Like, no way the creator of Punpun is putting like his new series on hiatus over this. Like, give me a second to just cross-check and confirm if this is real or not. It's

[00:16] Oh. Okay. It's real. Let's just get right into this then. I'm just I want to talk about my initial thoughts cuz I just discovered this. So,

[00:30] this is breaking news. This literally just came out today. Like for instance, the people in the West, myself included, are starting to find out about this. on the 16th of, you know, this month. So, just like a day and a half ago. And

[00:45] apparently, the creator of Punpun, like for instance, the actual manga author of Oyasumi Punpun or good goodnight Punpun and Dead Dead Demons, you have Solanin, you know, Hikari no Machi. This is the stuff that the individual worked on,

[01:00] okay? He's He's worked on some very high-profile popular works over the years. I mean, he has been an industry veteran for a very long time. I mean, if his start dates and all that, like when

[01:13] working on stuff back in early 2000s, okay? He is a very seasoned manga author that has been working on stuff for over two decades plus. So, the fact that this

[01:25] is a legitimate announcement that he is putting his newest manga, which from my understanding here, I'm not currently reading it, but let me let me show it here. He's putting Mujina into the deep, which

[01:37] started in 2023. He's putting this series on hiatus because he is upset with how the industry is handling AI research and development. So, to give some context here, more or less, this is a very

[01:52] famous manga author that has made beautiful beautiful illustrations, beautiful chapters, beautiful artwork for decades. And he's saying that he feels like the industry should allow AI. And I think this is a very important

[02:08] little detail that a lot of people should actually take notice of. First off, this is a manga author that is basically saying that using AI would is because for those that are unaware, I talked about this a lot, but there might

[02:22] authors are probably one of the most overworked like uh you know, employees, like workers in Japan. Like they are very overworked. They they have no time

[02:34] for themselves. They barely get to rest or sleep. They are living dead by a deadline by deadline when it comes to writing chapters, especially weekly Shonen Jump authors. When they have to work on, you know, a chapter every

[02:46] single week, they barely have time for themselves. They are pretty much in living hell. Like you'll see many manga authors like in Shonen Jump, they will or they'll talk about it interviews and stuff. They talked about how it's

[02:59] deadline hell and that the weekly release schedule really does a toll on their body. We have seen a lot of manga authors that have had their body outright just destroyed over time. I mean, Yoshihiro Togashi, you know, the

[03:11] author of Hunter Hunter. I mean, he harmed his back through years of making manga. Um you know, we have Horikoshi, the creator of My Hero Academia. We know his health kind of deteriorated thanks to My Hero Academia. I mean, uh we have

[03:24] the whole thing with uh Tite Kubo with Bleach as well. We know his health deteriorated a bit. Uh we have the stuff with uh Tabata as well with Black Clover. I I I think I'm getting the point across that manga authors of

[03:36] Weekly Shonen Jump, they experience a lot of health problems. And most in prioritizing their own health and their own well-being because they're so focused on their work. They're so focused on getting the next chapter out

[03:50] that they do not have enough time for R&R, me time, or anything like that. And so, basically, when you have a massive offer that has probably one of the most influential and well-recognized manga works basically saying that they're

[04:04] pro-AI and they want to use AI to be able to uplift the industry and help out with the production and, you know, be able to use it as a tool to actually make it easier to be a manga author, I think we should listen. And let me

[04:19] explain, okay? I know there is a lot of people that are very anti-AI, okay? And, you know, I'm not going to get into the whole anti-AI not going to get into all the little

[04:33] environmental and everything. I'm not getting into that. However, what I will say, and this is my personal perspective on it, I think that there is a clear, obvious like usage of AI that there is a lot of companies and a lot of

[04:46] artists and different people that are using AI that are just not being transparent about it. I feel like there is a lot of companies and a lot of game creators, artists, and stuff, and different people that use AI in some way

[04:59] to be able to create something. And they're just not telling people because, obviously, there is a stigma around AI. If you say you use it, people instantly kind of come after you and try to cancel you,

[05:12] you know, do anything. And, honestly, the entire situation with the whole AI topic reminds me exactly like how cancel culture is. Like, for instance, we've kind of shifted away from that, especially in the 2010s and 2020s now.

[05:25] everybody knows, was everywhere. You say the wrong thing, you're just you're done. But, obviously, nowadays, you can't be buzzworded off a platform anymore. People just don't care anymore. They don't. But, I feel like AI is one

[05:39] topic that is still so stigmatized and has such a chilling effect that it's still one of those very few areas that are remnants of the cancel culture era. And look, I'm just going to be blunt here. My personal perspective on if you

[05:53] want to know my thoughts on AI is that regardless if I like it or dislike it, AI is here to stay, okay? You you can try to fight it, you can try to say that, you know, you hate it, but it's going to be around. It is. It It's like

[06:08] Here's a very good example that I like to use for this conversation. 100 years ago plus when like before cars were really mainstream, everybody had a car, obviously people used horse. They used a horse to get around, wagons and

[06:22] people that always used horses and stuff and wagons to get around. When the car was invented, I want to bet you obviously well we can't personally confirm this cuz we were not there, but if there was internet access and

[06:35] that time period around the world, I want to bet you the conversation around the car would have been the exact same as conversation around AI because obviously the car phased out horses, it phased out wagons, and there'd be a lot

[06:49] of people that think like the whole situation with a car would just damage environment, it would damage everything, it would destroy jobs, all sorts of arguments. You'd probably have people say you're not a real driver, you're not

[07:01] you drive a car. All these different type of things. There would There'd you could also apply this probably with the industrial revolution when it comes to basically machinery when in factories being able to basically help with the

[07:15] You got to imagine in the past when people were let's say blacksmiths and they were making swords, making armor, making anything they can and all that with their bare hands. When the industrial revolution came around and

[07:28] goods, there was definitely a lot of people that probably are very upset about that and basically did not like that change. But in fact, it did benefit society and obviously society wouldn't be like it is today if it wasn't for

[07:41] that revolution of technology. So, what I'm getting at here is we're coming full circle with AI. AI is, regardless of your respective, if you hate it or you love it or whatever, it is a technological next step. It is. And

[07:55] obviously companies potentially could use it better, obviously. But, it is a tool. And I feel like when you have someone that is as high profile as the Goodnight Punpun author saying that they want to use AI to be able to

[08:10] help the process, to give manga authors more free time to where they basically are not going to die from lack of sleep and health issues, I think this is a there's a lot of people that are probably upset with this and might feel

[08:25] betrayed that someone has such godly artwork as the artist of good Goodnight Punpun would say something like this. But, I think in turn it showcases a shift also within the cultural shift of how AI is being used, but also how it

[08:38] can benefit and uplift the quality of life for people. It can uplift the to be able to continue writing our stories that we love and enjoy on a weekly or monthly basis at a longer period of time without basically having

[08:52] a complete burnout or breaking down and because of their body. So, yeah. I mean, I I feel like if AI was around like in the '90s and 2000s, I would have bet you a lot of authors that are very popular today like

[09:05] may he rest in peace, but I feel like he might have used it to some degree. I feel like Yoshihiro Togashi, the the author of Hunter x Hunter, he definitely mean, just all things considered, I just there's a lot of authors I believe would

[09:19] probably use this technology if it was around at that time period, but who reality that we'll never know. I just I want to talk about this. This is very fascinating. I cannot believe a manga author like that is this high profile

[09:33] kind of crazy to me. Um but, th- this is also apparently a statement as well. Asano builds over 90% of Mujina before writing the story, which he says takes a lot of time. So, basically, he

[09:48] wants to use AI to speed up the time, which I think is not a problem. Also, that's not you guys, okay? I've been trying to ignore it, but it's getting loud. I think a storm's coming. Anyways, be safe, stay healthy. I love you guys.

[10:01] be safe, stay healthy. I love you guys. Chibi out.