An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki(animationobsessive.substack.com)
51 points by vinhnx | 6 comments
An Animation Obsessive newsletter article about an unmade film project that influenced Hayao Miyazaki's career, plus animation news bits.
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10 stories tagged anime, newest first.
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles(daiz.moe)
331 points by Daiz | 109 comments
Blog post arguing that Crunchyroll has degraded the quality of its on-screen text subtitle translations since the Fall 2025 anime season.
Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)
387 points by zdw | 276 comments
Substack article from Anime By The Numbers examining a change in how Crunchyroll releases new anime that has degraded subtitle quality after layoffs.
AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model(komiko.app)
330 points by PaulineGar | 193 comments
Komiko web tool page for AniSora, Bilibili's open-source anime video generation model, letting users upload an image and prompt to generate animations.
Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof(scientificamerican.com)
475 points by classichasclass | 220 comments
Scientific American article on how an anime fan's question about watching episodes in every order led to a proof on superpermutation lengths.
Akira Toriyama has died(noisypixel.net)
881 points by gaoryrt | 167 comments
Noisy Pixel news article reporting that Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, has passed away (March 7, 2024).
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"(arstechnica.com)
470 points by nickthegreek | 243 comments
Ars Technica article on Sony shutting down Funimation and erasing digital copies bundled with DVDs that were promised to be available forever, as it merges into Crunchyroll.
Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV(japantimes.co.jp)
505 points by sohkamyung | 198 comments
News brief reporting that Nippon Television is acquiring Studio Ghibli, which will become a subsidiary of the broadcaster.
Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion(arstechnica.com)
516 points by samizdis | 76 comments
Ars Technica article about a Redditor using Stable Diffusion to generate anime-style images that still scan as working QR codes.
Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)(futureblues.com)
459 points by tm2t | 174 comments
Emily S.'s long-running Cowboy Bebop fan site from 1999, with sections on the story, characters, music, episodes, goods, and a guestbook.