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  • Shadows are weird in a human way. It’s not ai and don’t blindly accuse or ask if it is without evidence, it’s rude to human artists.

    Reasons why it doesn’t look ai:

    -Can see strokes from line work, including mistaken double lines, and “hooks” from quickly laying down parallel lines

    -Shadows that are “wrong” do have a source from the direction of the light, they’re just slightly too big or misshapen

    -There are no “organic” artifacts. AI generates images by removing everything that isn’t the image from pure noise over the course of several noise removal and addition steps. That leaves behind artifacts in the form of organic looking blobs that were parts of the image during a previous noise removal, but were abandoned in the final one

    -None of the unimportant or background details look wrong
















  • Shangri-la, killer opening, healthy depiction of Otaku and gamers in general. Well written, it treats the audience like they know things about games instead of explaining things at a beginner level (like every other gaming/isekai anime). The fights are beautifully animated/choreographed, and the concept is pretty unique. Instead of some rando being incredibly OP due to some niche expertise, Sunraku/Hizutome is just really freaking good at games. Also, based on NPC dialog, there’s a deeper mystery to the game and the show takes the proper time to let that unfold instead of info-dumping at the earliest opportunity.