>The manga in question, Mikuni no Hane Hanezamsama, won three prizes at Young Jump’s Rookie Awardshttps://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/anime-and-manga/award-winning-manga-accused-of-being-ai-generated/
This AI manga also used picture from JMSDF which you must state "Source: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force website."https://x.com/gutidiffusion9/status/1993976650493825095
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>>284140242>Many people online, however, believe the manga was created using AI. They listed various details they found suspicious. This included inconsistent character designs, body proportion errors, overly glossy lines, and backgrounds that appeared to be pasted together. The story was also heavily criticized. >“Before even considering whether it’s AI-generated, I’m just amazed that you could pick something as awful and utterly incomprehensible as this,” posted one X user. “Calling it a ‘story’ is a stretch. I tried reading it, but I had no clue what it was even about: The flow of the story, the dialogue, not even the intent of what it was trying to convey. It was all so disjointed and incoherent that I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. A first-grader’s diary would be more readable.”And there will be still people who eat it up.
Another panel
>>284140242Why does she have a beard?
>>284140292Even if it's old-school tracing, it's still so low effort and easy to find out. >>284140369Being born with no palms and only one foot must be a bitch.
https://tonarinoyj.jp/episode/2551460909505785119https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsswczi4YZQ
>>284140379Maybe he just has breasts.
>>284140442>generate slop>win 1 million yenIt's that easy?
It begins.Scammers and hacks are trying to get fast easy money and fame.
>>284140442>ancient revenge kami with average body revived in modern times as big titty kami to play house with a little kid>used to kill and fight samurais and soldiers>now has some power suit to take down air planes with laser beamsIt's god awful but I'm pretty sure the average ret/a/rd would soon call it "their favorite new manga" in 2 more chapters.
>>284140242Absolute state of manga industry lmao
Jump deserves to be defrauded.
Fuck ai fuck jump and fuck one piece
>>284140902>and fuck one pieceThis came out of nowhere.
>>284140931One piece is the main reason jump is alive, nothing personal
Mangakas already use photobashing and terrible 3d, modern generative models are vastly more preferable as long as they inpaint the artifacting.
>Mangakas already use photobashing and terrible 3d, modern generative models are vastly more preferable as long as they inpaint the artifacting.
>>284141051>One piece is the main reason jump is alive>there are people who believe this
>>284140679>BeginsNigga this has been going on for a while now. They've been clogging up writing contests, peer reviewed papers hell anything that has open additions to the public with AI slop for years
>>284140693All this dogshit needs is a violent rape scene with the promise of more and you'll have those shiteaters coming out the wood work to spam shill threads for a few weeks before disappearing
>>284141198How could the famed Japanese manga industry not identify AI?
>>284141244My guess? Nobody actually "read" it, probably because they had to go through a mountain of way worse more dogshit entries, it looked good enough on the surface and scratched some sort of "this'll sell" itch for the reviewers.
>>284140693Shit like Ruri Dragon is popular. I don't doubt anything.
>Ruri Dragon>shitKys
>>284141244It's trend slop. Edgy dragon elf god in coombait clothing turns gamergurl. Jump is desperate.
>>284140242It seems like the author is still "green"
it makes me feel that young jump's trying to "entice" editors or authors to use AI generation to improve deliverablesbecause i dont believe judges saw the manga and said "yeah this is legit and not AI"
>>284141518Yes. The end goal is always about making maximum possible profits after all. They want to make it acceptable.
Why did she do it?
>>284140679And they're succeeding. Says a lot about the state of the industry.
>>284141198I heard of that someone who passed nonsense he made up in a libtard paper..before AI. Jump has fallen...
>>284140242The monkey behind this didn't put any effort at all in hiding the AI use, how the fuck did those retards not notice? The story is absolute dogshit too so whoever voted for this should definitely be investigated
>>284142981The ones deciding the winner are also monkeys
>>284142682You wanna write that in an actual human language
Jump days are numbered.
>>284144390no? fuck you for reading my posts.
>>284140242Basedand it gets better every year.
>>284144503Yeah fuck you too buddy
>>284141395It most definitely is shitProbably why this board loves it so much
>>284144339I love late stage capitalism.
>>284140292That's just tracing, AI isn't even needed for that.
>>284146241Look at the engines.
>>284140242>award winning>not even in mangaupdates database
>>284146286It's a rookie award, not a published manga. Basically, fledgling manga artists compete in this for a chance of serialization.
>>284140242So you're saying that anyone with a good story can now make his own manga using AI? What's the problem here as long as it doesn't plagiarize other people and the audience doesn't care about the AI art?
>>284140242With all the anti AI sentiment in the publishing industry as of late, I hope Shueisha blacklist this hack and take away his prize money, but then that may set a precedent for their own published authors.No way they have the balls to do that.
>>284146396Cope. The Japanese are vocal
>>284140329>works their mangakas to an early grave>nyoooo you can't use tools that lessen their workloadDying early like Miura and Tori to preserve the "dignity" of a sellout publisher firm? No thanks. Mangakas need AI assists to literally survive
>>284146396>anyone with a good storysloppagobblers keep saying shit like this, but refuse to face the fact that storytelling is a skill, and you actually unironically need good taste and intuition to make something interesting that will grab people at least for a few volumes
>>284146603What does any of this have to do with Jump manga
>>284140379Xie is a heckin valid transfag
>>284146439I hope they don't stop there and ban all background photo tracers and then ban the 3D tracers too. They're absolutely shameless about it as well, as if it's normal to trace shit
>>284140242We're winning, clankbros!
>>284141153My brother in Christ, if Oda dies, WSJ dies with him. And if One Piece ended next week, they would also die in the same way because there's nothing left to replace it.
>>284148551>if Oda dies, WSJ dies with himSo dramatic for no reason.
>>284149157He's not wrong, there is nothing that could replace One Piece, or even become a not-Bleach or Naruto in terms of popularity and sales
>>284149195Still doesn't mean that the magazine would close. There are plenty of shounen mags being published in Japan despite them being much less popular than WSJ, with manga that don't get long-running anime adaptations.
well this will take about an hour but I'm gonna dump the raws
>>284149318Look at the thought bubble
>>284146241Even if it was just tracing, there's many that would say that's still enough to X the guyEven GOATs like Inoue who did Slam Dunk got in some shit decades ago when people accused him of tracing NBA photographsBy then though, he was popular enough that he argued he drew from memory of looking at photos and it was coincidence, so nothing really came of it aside from some complaining. tldr: While I don't care much, I can see how even tracing can ruin a new authors career before it starts
>>284149291>>284149393The judges were thinking with their dicks weren't they
>>284146601Miura would have preferred to die rather than use AI, pajeet
>>284149574what species even is that? dragon-elf-oni?
>>284149260Thanks!
>>284149664>>284149537Why the fuck does she sit like that?
>>284140242>>284149809Japs started seething at Older demon woman x shota. Sad! Many such cases!
>>284140242there was no rules saying it couldn't be AI generated, it's their own fault
>gaijing are racist for saying all asians look the same!>asians can't even notice how the characters completely changes in every panel
Do we even need new stuff? I feel lile we have enough manga out as is to last a lifetime.
>>284141448He merely began to "scale" the "mountain"....
>>284146396>anyone with a good story can now make his own manga using AI? AI was never needed. If the story is good people don't care about the art.
>>284146396why not write a novel then?
>>284149507Who sits on the couch like this? Is this form of sitting why it won the competition?
>>284150192The authors thinly disguised fetish...
>>284149868That's not meant to be a girl??
>>284149318Kek the art style is all over the place
It kind of feels like I’m looking at a Chinese bootleg version of Demon Slayer
>>284150235Goddamn, this page is bad, the characters have different looks in every panel.
It's all here. Photos, 3D and AI. This is how manga WILL look soon. The shortcuts are too immense to be ignored. It's just a matter of time, now the author gets shit on but in 10 years or less it will be accepted as normal. Once artists get a hang of it, how to correct mistakes and set things up to look natural enough, you will barely notice. After all photo manipulation and 3D shit are already widely used.I wouldn't be able to draw like that because it's as if you hate drawing itself and want to do as little of it as possible but in the end it's what the consumers consume, not what consitutes art.
>>284150289I'd vastly prefer well edited prompts to 3d elements
>>284149574>different bra design in every panel
Would've been pure kino if the last page was a crudely drawn guy in front of a PC typing in prompts
>>284146601There is a difference in using AI to create something of a base to create and paint images over to speed up manga creation and downright generating whole pages with zero effort.
>>284150341stop noticing saar
Why is there AI in everything now?
>>284150335Well edited 3D looks good too, but it takes skill which most amateurs going for 3D and AI tools don't (yet) have.
>>284150404Saves time and/or money.
>>284150434You have to pay to use AI though
>>284150449Chinese models are free and open source.
>>284150404It's a shiny new toy. Do you really need to ask?
>>284150449There's an enormous library of open source models. Just a few days back we had Z-image, one of the most impressive local models
>>284140242"Looks" like "it" has "spread"
>>284150520>undragoned Guess it was too difficult for the prompts.
>>284150546>>284150520What the fuck just happened?
>>284150404The plebs can churn out conceptual rancid garbage disguised with a beautiful veneer
>award winning mangaaccording to who?a panel of 40 old japanese guys that got greased up by LLM companies?
>>284150587paying news outlets to say it's successful so they can invest more money
>>284150212>>284150235That black hair girl's eyes look like different artstyles it's janky.
>sexy fantasy dragon oni waifu mecha power suitThis seems like the most stereotypical AI manga someone could make.
>>284150658>girl
>>284140355Manga are always chosen for art, this has been a complaint about young jump winners for ages.
>>284149506>Even GOATs like Inoue who did Slam Dunk got in some shit decades ago when people accused him of tracing NBA photographsWich is false since what he did is just take the image as a reference, is not traced in any way.
>>284150792This is supposed to be a boy? He looks like he cums from getting his ass plundered while locked in chastity.
Done.
>>284140292>>284146241>>284149506Ok but why is it ok when Togashi does it?
Is AI "Too Strong" to "Win"?
>>284150930How big is her forehead here
>>284151078Her skull sometimes enlongates, please understand: >>284150315
>>284150792AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHASloppy.
>>284149291Bearded and manly hands, but has boobs.>>284149507A random beauty mark appears under her eye and it doesn't show up again. The background of that room looks ridiculous, without any proper perspective. >>284149603The sofa has 4 thin seat cushions in the aerial view but it's a thick single piece in the bottom panel. Here (>>284149870) it has 2 seat cushions and a random gaming chair shows up where the fireplace should be. The TV should be in front of the sofa but I counted like 3 different screens across all pages so idk.>>284149993The wall mounted shelf doesn't make too much sense.>>284150151The bystander on the left has tits (coud be tanned Westerner lady I guess). One of the chicks running away is wearing a knee-high sock on only one leg.>>2841502354 chubby fingers on her right hand, probably the most damnable of offences.>>284150401Why is that portable shrine shifting places?>>284150930Female mob chara's wrist looks broken or missing a hand.I counted only a single instance of wrong finger count (without considering the mangled low detailed panels). The panels where they're holding phones could be excusable (index finger holding the back), but they look pretty unnatural. Maybe the character designs are hard to keep consistent when you're drawing (it's AI though), but the inconsistent screen toning is terrible. Anyone with PS knowledge should be able to not mess up this much.
Current manga readers would lose their minds if they see the inconsistencies of Hunter x Hunter.
Feels like the "artist" has a lot of focus on hands to give them impression of "see, look HANDS no way this is AI, look at the HANDS!"
>>284151008Cause he made Kuwabara, so he’s cool
>>284150991god damn that was awful. Even putting the AI generation aside, the writing, paneling, and pacing are all terrible. I could Some of these pages, like this one >>284149291 and this one >>284149343 and this one >>284149372 and this one >>284149393 were just physically uncomfortable to look at
>>284151289>some pages>posts 4 out first 6
>>284150930Look at this dude. The fuck is this hair lmao
>>284151664It's a dude? It has the face of a woman.
You can find the reviews from the judge and the editorial department here: https://youngjump.jp/comic_award/result/2025/07/
>>284151887The author is >森永侮瑠戊ン（24）from>福島県
>>284151887>I was impressed by the professional-level drawing skills, action scenes, and character design. The amount of detail in each panel, as well as the poses and angles, show the attention to detail. In particular, the scene on page 10, depicting the heroine playing a game while squatting with a relaxed expression, is a truly captivating frame, combining the heroine's role as both god and older sister with a surreal, entertaining quality. Also impressive were the action scenes on pages 44 and 54, where she wields a giant gun in mid-air, and the poses that emphasize her core and power. However, the character interactions remain an area for improvement. In this work, there are many scenes in which the protagonist and heroine express their feelings one-sidedly, which sometimes felt like a disconnect in the dialogue. I hope the protagonist continues to create works that combine contrast and commonality, allowing the hero to bring out the heroine's hidden charms, and creating two-way dialogue
>>284151887Comments by Professor Kazuyuki Tanaka >The artwork is very talented and the author has a spirit of service, and the action is sexy and the effort to keep the reader engaged is palpable. However, there is a lot of room for improvement in the character settings, story, and composition, and I felt it was a shame that the situation was too complicated and the explanations were unclear, making it difficult to read.
>>284152091>In particular, the scene on page 10, depicting the heroine playing a game while squatting with a relaxed expression, is a truly captivating frame, combining the heroine's role as both god and older sister with a surreal, entertaining quality.It really was the fucking squat wasn't it.
>>284151887>>284152091>>284152119people are so fucking retarded
>>284146241>That's just tracing, AI isn't even needed for that.But that can be said for AI images in general. Most of them could just as well be achieved through tracing instead.
>>284142981They voted for it precisely because it was ai. They're trying to normalize it so they can get away with churning out slop.
>>284150192maybe her butt hurts
>>284141228This is manga is a pile of fucking garbage. Author of Jujika should go hang and fuck himself.
Glad to see there's still people still fighting against slop taking over all entertainment mediums. Sadly we won't win the fight, but we can delay it
>>284150775The person who prompted this has been denied entry to the shota guild. I am unsure of his or her status with the loli guild, so I cannot confidently state whether that character is or is not a girl. But it isn't a boy.
>>284151251Hands haven't been an issue for modern AI models for quite a while now, that meme only persists among people who haven't been following AI. The real giveaways are things an amateur wouldn't notice and as such not bother fixing, like the gigantically elongated skull she has here >>284150930and at various other points while wearing the mech suit. The AI model just continues her hairline as if the headgear isn't there since it doesn't actually "know" how long the headgear is, it just knows that the hair part continues after it since that's how it is in the training data. Frankly it's embarrassing that the guy who made this didn't notice such obvious flaws.
So why did she turn from dragon girl into mecha musume?
>>284154116Except there are still hand fuck ups in this despite the prompter clearly making a special effort to try and conceal them in particular >>284151160That's the reality of "hands aren't a problem for ai anymore". It's slopmongers knowing people look for that so they take extra care to touch them up or keep shoveling slop until they get something with useable hands.
>>284154116The fact hands have gotten better is not widely known. The artist very likely focused panels with hands because people still think AI can't handle hands. Him putting hands in so much focus makes sense in that context.
Anyone remember the Bakuman arc with the artist who was scamming the company by getting a bunch of strangers to do the work for him? This reminds me of that, but with AI instead of using other people.
What's even the point of doing this? Like you can only make it so far before the gig is up. One day you're gonna be asked to do a live drawing or something and just fuck it all up.
>>284150726>SU-34 looking planes getting easily destroyed by a silly dragon mechaonly realistic thing in this shitfest
>>284154537He won the award and got the money
>>284154586Was the plan just to get the money? I thought usually the people who do these are trying to become published though I guess it makes sense if this is genuinely just a scam attempt.
>>284150374Yeah this is the issue. There's nothing wrong with using AI to shorten your workload, but if you can't do shit without AI then you're incompetent and deserve to be called out on it
>>284154632Aye chap.
>>284154537He got free money. It's not like someone like this was ever going to have a career as a mangaka anyway.This is what all aitrannies are all about. They're all just hoping they can sneak something by people long enough to get a payout. Even the ones who are not physically indian are still spiritually jeets.
>>284154610It's probably collusion between the editors and this guy because Shueisha has not said anything about this. They haven't even admitted to it being AI.It's to normalize AI in manga.
>>284152091>>284152119It really did win just because the judges were horny lmao
>>284154725>They haven't even admitted to it being AI.That shit irritates the hell out of me. With stuff like this it's always "accused" "may have" "possibly used". No. Anyone with eyes can see this is ai.
Looks like the ai slop on sad panda
>>284140693there's yuribait too, it's kinoslopshould focus more on the kinobut yeah it's 100000% ai generated. it doesn't look bad per say, it's just that ai doesn't understand manga, and thus doesn't understand composition and panel layout, and the author doesn't understand either so can't guide the ai properly either and just accepted slop. Though unironically the best panels where the yuribait ones.i think ai manga should be reserved for hentai, but at the same time, i don't see why would one bother with the delayed gratification of some porn plot over just generating smut illustrations. Are there AI generated porn manga out there so I can at least for some opinion on the subject? i dont think dlsite have a "ai manga" category like they have for game, gonna check later.
>>284149507why does she sits like that?>>284152871from what?
>>284140442aiiiiiieeeeee
>>284153134There's only 1 or 2 chapters left, thankfully.
>>284149318Sudden cut off on the second panel
>>284155810The reason she sits like that is because it's much easier to edit her onto the couch in a posture that doesn't take into account the shape of the couch. So in other words, it's just another time saver for enabling the AI slop.
>>284152119this is a working mangakaI don't recognize any of his shit as anything anyone TLs though
>salty fags who lost the competition cry about the winner cheatingTale as old as time.
Reminder that Young Jump mangaka are also calling out on this shit.
>>284140242I'm glad I've given up on my dream to publish manga in Japan.It won't surprise me that by 2030, AI generated manga will be as normative as 3D vehicles/mecha in anime and average tiktok generation just couldn't careless because they have more contents to consume.Truly we're heading into the age of "You will own nothing and be happy."
>>284156206Safe to assume he either has used or will use slop himself.
maybe it's better to be hit with the whole slop where the design changes every panel and they make a million little creative decisions to keep the AI from falling on its ass instead of having decent artists using AI invisibly
>>284149507I guess it's supposed to be the controller but it looks more like her pussy is making those sounds.
>>284150570LMAO WHERE IS BLUD GOING AND CAME FROM?????
>>284150019Seriously why does she sit like that?
>>284156953crashing into the pentagon of course
After checking the pages, it looks like the mangaka used AI for some panels and aparently for some part the script. This work does not seem made entirely with AI but it should not recieve an award if those tools were sued even for some parts.If you let this manga get an award you create a extremely harmfull prescedent for the industry and for art in general.
>>284149506That's not tracing, that's just using a reference. Also artists have been tracing shit since traditional painting existed back in the middle ages and movie posters.
>>284157190just sack the whole bunch who allowed this to enter the competition and eventually awarded it
>>284156900Magical controlleres that switch from white to black >>284149507
>>284150991Thanks for the dump, bro
>>284149343the way those legs are drawn look very unnatural
how many fingers ?
I get that traditional/non-generated art also has inconsistencies and odd mistakes, but just looking over it there are way too many instances where it really feels like a image that wasn't meant for the context of the panel. That's not even getting into how the specific issues (slightly altering core things like how the eyes look and the orientation of a space) is stuff that ai struggles with when used over a lot of time. I'm agreeing with the Japs on this that it feels like it probably was AI in some way
>>284149507>Leg in bottom right
>>284156303I think that's the sad part about this. The story in this is on the same level as any isekai but judges ignored it and just focused on it having marketable style. That's why all stories are now so fucking generic samey. Also artitts shouldn't be asked to draw all this garbage like rooms, architecture, backgrounds. People make fun of tite kubo for not making backgrounds bu he managed just fine to make one of the biggest manga franchises.
>>284157687Yeah that's right dont care about styles or visual art in a visual medium
>>284157190It looks like 100% AI generated to me. Even the scales on the girl are fucked up in some pages like >>284150257. Bras and hairstyles keep changing.
>>284150792is alway the hand sthat give away the AI slop
>>284157572There's no probably about it. The aircraft that are apparently controversial because they're supposed to be credited are also melting.
>>284157710correct. i wont read your slop if the story is shit.
>>284142481Publishers want artists to output work consistently with less resources, assistants and under shrinking deadlines under the expectation you work like a robot they are going to get the "robot". Whether it's actual AI, people putting out low quality/rushed/cliche work to meet it, or hiring sweatshop animation firms for aniamtion.
>>284157978The problem is that they also think people will want to pay for it. The thing this thread is about is so bad as to be unpleasant to read without even considering the ai stuff. Where is the money in producing shit so bad that reading nothing is more enjoyable?
>>284158170>The problem is that they also think people will want to pay for it.not individual people, but companies will pay for itunfortunately
>>284158170Companies and shareholder-sama don't give a fuck about long term profits. They only thing about short-term profit. Even if "short term" is just a second and the profit is non-existant.
