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Anime is eating the world
New tech & business models are accelerating anime to even greater heights.
It originated in the early 1900s with visual strips, but really started becoming more popular in the 60s and 70s with shows like Astro Boy, Lupin III, Akira, Mobile Suit Gundam, and of course, Hayao Miyazaki’s works at Studio Ghibli. There’s still a way to go to improve model accuracy, speed, and cost, but it’s clear that as these tools evolve they will empower more creators that might previously have lacked technical or artistic skills to bring their anime ideas to life. VTuber stands for “Virtual YouTuber” and refers to a content creator who overlays an anime facial / body rig that tracks their real time motion and projects a digital avatar onto the stream (e.g. Kizuna AI).
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