Danika, AKA Comic Book Girl 19, has had a dream to do a documentary on the anime film, Akia. It seems that dream may be coming true.
Akira is a 1988 Japanese, cyberpunk film set in the far-distant, dystopian future of 2019.
This is the trailer for the upcoming film AKIRA: The Documentary
đź“… Coming not soon. Like late 2025? Pray for us.
This is only interesting because it is another example of how that stuff you "purchased" you do not own. In this case we are going to talk about anime content you "purchased" digital copies of on Funimation.
Funimation and Crunchyroll are two Anime sites on the internet. Crunchyroll is streaming only. Funimation also allowed people to purchase things, or hosted digital codes that were included when people purchased DVDs or Blu-rays that included a digital code. Those are all going away. Why? Because the two companies are merging.
From the Frequently Asked Questions about the merger.
What is going to happen to my digital copies?
We understand that you may have concerns about your digital copies from Funimation. These Digital copies available on Funimation were a digital access to the content available on the DVDs or Blu-rays purchased.
Please note that Crunchyroll does not currently support Funimation Digital copies, which means that access to previously available digital copies will not be supported. However, we are continuously working to enhance our content offerings and provide you with an exceptional anime streaming experience. We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to explore the extensive anime library available on Crunchyroll.
Translation: That stuff you thought you purchased, you don't own, and it is going away. You can explore what we have on Crunchyroll, but what you "purchased" is gone forever. Sorry that you didn't read the fine print.
Refunds? Don't be ridiculous!
But then they needed to be replaced by something, if not AI, human translators that were not so woke. English Localizers Unhappy After ‘The Ancient Magus’ Bride’ Announces AI-Human Hybrid Simulpubs: “Such Disrespect For The Substance Of The Original Text Is Saddening”
The people who translate Manga and/or Anime from Japanese to English for the American audience are known as Localizers. You would think that would be a fairly straightforward job. Take the Japanese and translate it to English. Of course they can't do that. They feel it is their responsibility to update the material to put to their Leftist messages into the work. They have been warned for years about F-ing Around (with the translations) because when you F around, eventually you will get to the Find Out phase. This seems to be where we have arrived.
In seemingly realizing that they no longer have free reign to butcher original works in service of memes or tired sociopolitical screeds, a number of English-language localizers are unhappy with Japanese publisher Bushiroad Works’ recent turn to using a combination of AI technology and human editors to produce their own English-language simulpubs for Kore Yamazaki’s The Ancient Magus’ Bride.
The localizers would brag about changing things. This is not something that they were asked to do by the authors or the publishers, and it wasn't something that made the customers in America happy. But they did it anyway. There was some question as to why the worst of them were not blacklisted by the publishers, but they seem to have gotten there in the end.
In relation to a controversy that erupted in early 2023, Leonoudakis, one of the most despised localizers, bragged about not doing accurate translations, saying her translation was explicitly NOT for fans who wanted accuracy. And now that same person, who bragged about changing the source material and not being accurate in her translations, is one of the people complaining about how disrespectful it is to the language to be using AI.
Even people who are sympathetic to the "AI is stealing our jobs" position, are laughing at the Localizers. They spent years F-ing around, and now... (Hat tip to Vara Dark: Infamous Localizer FURIOUS Studios Are Using AI To Translate Instead Of Activists WHO BUTCHER Work.)
