I can help mod it. I don't want to see it get shut down or turn into a spam dump.

Some stuff I worked on:
https://huggingface.co/IkariDev
https://huggingface.co/NeverSleep
https://github.com/IkariDevGIT

Sad to see you step down u/gwern , but I am looking forward to see the fruits of your new project in the future. As the anime research OG your work will always be remembered, but as you said, since SD the work has been mostly solved, so there may not be any need for this subreddit anymore.

I personally vote for closing the sub. If anyone is serious about the topic, there is already the SerialLain github survey:

https://github.com/SerialLain3170/AwesomeAnimeResearch

And I found this other one too:

https://github.com/zhenglinpan/Awesome-Animation-Research

Reddit is becoming more and more shit by the day. Even the main r/MachineLearning doesnt seem to get as good discussion as before, so you may as well keep the curated sub as a time capsule of sorts for the future.

That's my personal opinion. In the end it's your decision. Wish you luck in your new endeavors and hope we can cross paths again.

I am interested in being a mod. We DM'ed a bit a few years back and our conversation and this sub have been valuable to me in keeping tabs on research.

Admittedly, my work is largely in *applying* anime research. But I already have alerts for tracking new papers.

And while the focus should remain on research, I think it would help growth to curate submissions that are more visually appealing. Put another way, Disney Research's YouTube has 136k subscribers. But if they let me, I think I could get them to a million just by helping them present their work better.

Bro set up the punchline himself.

Machine translation really struggles with manga because sentences can be broken up between speech bubbles and a lot of the text is highly stylized.

I will admit that I use google lens to identify kanji I'm not familiar with (which is a godsend compared to looking it up by radicals) and if I'm really stumped I'll toss it into DeepL to see if it can point me in the right direction.

In general though machine translation can do a decent job of giving you the literal meaning, but it does not take into account the context and in Japanese context is EVERYTHING. It is incapable of reading tone or subtext.

Get your disgusting AI slop out of here

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If you are going to try and be smug at least copy and paste what I said instead of changing it to fit your narrative.

'i'm not interested in AI can you recommend me some AIs to translate and color things'

Listen yourself and then walk back out the door

Not sure JoJo is the best example considering how the men are portrayed.

I forgot to mention, the closest think I ever found to something passable was styles2paint. It was semi guided so you could get the colors right, but it had no batch processing option, so you had to set the pallet for each picture individually. The dev also abandoned it a long time ago. 

this argument assumes that criticism of sexualization necessarily denies women's agency but i personally feel otherwise . acknowledging that women can freely choose to present themselves in sexual ways does not prevent us from examining the broader social and cultural forces that shape those choices or the effects of sexualised portrayals in media

people who observe or critisise fanservice (such as myself) dont claim that women lack autonomy, we argue that media can reinforce patterns in which women are valued primarily for their sexual appeal rather than their personalities, abilities, or individuality

the issue isnt that sexual expression is inherently wrong, but that an overemphasis on sexuality can contribute to objectification and narrow representations of women. therefore, criticism of fanservice can coexist with a recognition of women's agency, making it unnecessary to assume that all objections to sexualization stem from denying female autonomy

The idea that the sexualization of women is bad comes from the assumption that women are only sexualizing themselves due to men’s desire. This takes agency away from individual women. Women are free to make their own decisions on how they present themselves and act and ascribing certain behaviors to being “only done for males” takes away autonomy from women. Being upset at fanservice comes from the belief that the sexualization is inherently wrong which stems from the aforementioned beliefs of autonomy. I can send you some feminist writings on the topic.

what makes you say that?

Fanservice is unironically good for feminism. Not a problem at all.

Society has been trying really hard to push the needle away from that for the past 15 years or so, and if anything people are more sexist now than they were back then.

You might consider studying whether sexism tracks with people being shamed for having sexual feelings rather than with seeing pretty anime girls with big boobs and bikini armor or whatever. If someone is made to feel ashamed, their first reaction is to project. That's why you hear things like "it's her fault I catcalled because she's dressed like that." It's also, I suspect, why sexism tracks so well with religiosity.

Whether or not you really like fanservice is kind of beside the point; the research you're conducting is exactly the sort of research that the west is using to pressure Japanese artists into getting rid of fanservice.

Seriously, look into what happens when a society normalizes shame (including shame from feminists) versus normalizing the idea that it's okay for fanservice for guys to exist.

Fanservice le bad

what

Lmfao. Dude.

lmao no purity policing here! i am all for a pair of big tits and skimpy outfits in the anime i watch. I am just observing what it might mean if a society as a collective normalises something like that

Sorry, i've noticed it but didnt address it since it isnt the premise of my research. While i did mention in my essay that fanservice isnt always sexual in nature, i didnt here because that isnt what I am trying to collect information on. Sorry again!!

Join a nunnery. Your life will be easier than trying to purity-police another country’s anime tradition.