Not Every Artificial Intelligence is Out To Kill You: AI in Anime

DoctorKev
2 min readJan 22, 2023

After something of a delay (I submitted it 10 months ago!) here’s my latest article published on Anime News Network:

I love SF that deals with the implications of Strong Artificial Intelligence, and there are so many anime that take that theme and run with it in directions that might seem very strange to viewers steeped in Western media’s (mainly Hollywood’s) ideas about robots and advanced technology. Oftentimes in comparison, the Japanese outlook on technology is much less dystopian and more light-hearted, and in the case of anime, almost certainly more horny.

Linked below are a few reviews that I wrote of individual anime shows and movies that helped to inform this article, for your interest:

Most (but not all) of these are mentioned in the article. There were so many other shows I could have covered, but then I would have blown much further past the word limit than I already did…

I’ve submitted a few more articles to ANN, so keep an eye out for them in the future.

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DoctorKev
DoctorKev

Written by DoctorKev

Physician. Obsessed with anime, manga, comic-books. Husband and father. Christian. Fascinated by tensions between modern culture and traditional faith. Bit odd.

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