@mattalt.bsky.social
Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
@mattalt.bsky.socialHaruki Murakami lost out on his latest chance for a Nobel Prize in Literature. But does it really matter? We're all living in Murakami's world now. blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/a-wild-pri...
@myturnaspace.bsky.socialReposted by @mattalt.bsky.social@mattalt.bsky.social in his Tokyoscope podcast made a point that Asia including Japan where he resides, are more open to use AI, & one reason is that the people are not being affected by data center constructions.
Less and less it looks like the problem is the technology but what & who's behind it.
@mattalt.bsky.socialWell, we never got the FM Towns so if it came out in your neck of the woods, I think you came out on top!
@mattalt.bsky.socialEvery. Single. Day. But I'm weird.
@mattalt.bsky.socialDefinitely not vaporware!
@mattalt.bsky.socialI hope you get to experience the joys of Todd's Adventures in Slime World some day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz6m...
@mattalt.bsky.socialSaw some kid’s all-black Switch sitting on a table and did a double take thinking it was a Lynx.
@mattalt.bsky.socialIndeed. And those Jump reader response cards are like an algorithm with a soul!
@mattalt.bsky.socialThis is a great memorial to a profoundly influential creator. But it leaves out perhaps the most important element in Takahashi's success: the Shonen Jump system, which pairs artists with editors and provides them with realtime reader feedback. This "paper algorithm" can and does shape megahits.
@mattalt.bsky.socialNo, those were early international co- productions. The OVA boom launched (in part) because studios were flush with cash from foreign productions, which allowed them to do some innovative new stuff for the domestic market.
@mattalt.bsky.socialOn the other hand, money from abroad is great. The direct to video anime boom of the Eighties, and major theatrical releases like Akira, were nourished by the huge sums American toy companies poured into Japanese studios to create Saturday morning cartoons.
@mattalt.bsky.socialLet the artists make their mistakes.
@mattalt.bsky.socialI've said it before and I'll say it again: if Japan's creators/publishers/studios don’t want to kill the golden goose, they’ll ignore the foreign markets altogether while they work, and let the suits worry about issues abroad. japantoday.com/category/ent...
@mattalt.bsky.socialI was stuck on the train with a dead phone and got a serious case of secondhand doomscroll syndrome
@mattalt.bsky.socialVery revealing dive into the government’s plan to make anime/manga/games a pillar of the economy. Japan already is a “story superpower.” If it wants to stay that way leaders need to tackle structural problems rather than pray for AI magic to fix them. annatachibana.substack.com/p/japan-want...
@mattalt.bsky.socialGlad to hear it! And where the book ends, I pick up at blog.pureinventionbook.com
@markgoodrich.bsky.socialReposted by @mattalt.bsky.socialOnly 3 chapters in but Pure Invention by @mattalt.bsky.social alread my feels like it will be my favourite non-fiction book I read this year. The cover is superb as well.
@mattalt.bsky.socialAnd the yen the next global currency!!!
@mattalt.bsky.socialIt was going to be the next corporate power, the next tech power, the next robot power. Funny how quickly all of that came to a dead stop. Really makes you think about AI hype today.
@mattalt.bsky.socialWe hereby award you this medal!
