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It seemed like we couldn’t have nice things. A few weeks ago, the streets of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, had been adorned with authentic works of street art: giant…

Kenjiro Tsuda—the man behind Kento Nanami in Jujutsu Kaisen—took TikTok to court. The reason? The platform allowed users to clone his voice using artificial intelligence without his consent. If you’ve…

We’ve all done it. Dumped years of work, personal correspondence, irreplaceable files into a cloud folder, trusting it’s safer there than in a drawer at home. It feels like a…

Some stories in the Japanese entertainment industry feel less like headlines and more like cautionary folklore. Ai Takabe’s is one of those—a script where the real twist wasn’t the fall,…

Imagine a baker being asked to retroactively re-piece every croissant ever sold. That is the scale of futility thousands of independent artists on Fantia, the popular Japanese crowdfunding platform, have…

Evaluating a Cult Work Based Solely on Character Design Is Complete Nonsense The otaku community is extremely outraged after the viralization of a video fragment in which several content creators…