Twins Hinahima

When I heard that this was made 95% with AI, I was curious—and honestly, I was expecting something worse. Current AI technology in 2025 still doesn’t feel good enough to produce a full anime. It struggles with animation, maintaining coherence in long conversations, and AI-generated voices still sound awkward (I recently watched the Super Cube AI-generated dubs, and they were pretty rough).
If you're reading this review ten years from now, this might no longer be the case, but as of today, AI still isn't ready for certain tasks.

That said, this episode really surprised me—it was actually very good. I haven't checked all the details of ... the production, but just by watching, it’s clear that only the animation (and maybe parts of the script) were AI-generated. The music and voice acting were definitely done by humans. Overall, the weakest part of the anime is some of the animation. And I'm not saying that because of the usual hate AI productions get; it’s just my honest opinion. Some scenes look a bit stiff, but even then, it's not terrible at all.

The story itself was really enjoyable: it follows a couple of girls trying to go viral on TikTok—until (SPOILERS) it's revealed they are part of a virtual reality, a memory recording of a real person who visited the place to reminisce about her youth and her sister (who I theorize is deceased in real life). It was quite endearing.

Just a final reflection: human society struggles with big changes, and AI is a huge one. Many jobs are disappearing, but at the same time, new roles are emerging that didn’t even exist a few years ago. I once read that "humans aren't built to seek happiness; they're built to seek predictability." People today grew up in a world without AI, so they have strong preconceptions about how art should be made.
This anime is a perfect example—people are hating on it just because part of it was made with AI.
If you're reading this in 2045 and you’re, say, 15 years old, you might find this way of thinking strange. But this is genuinely how people felt in 2025.

rarely does anyone get something right the first time and the ep was no exception, some scenes are strange and the characters' expressions lack fluidity, but this would be a beta test, and for a start it's actually interesting, as it evolves it will get better and better, the artists have a reason to fear the AI, about the story it's basically about 2 NPCs that were created and that ended up bugging everything in the end, a breaking of the fourth wall in a way but within the animation itself, I came to see more out of curiosity but it needs to improve

The story? The characters? I loved those quite a bit, yet I can't in good faith recommend this Anime on good faith, not without going into an important detail.

AI was involved in this, and not in a good way. It's not just a matter of the clipping issues and places where the AI fails to do what it is supposed to do. This isn't a project that is setting out to make AI a tool for animators to help speed up the process; instead, it is a tool for replacing animators because the company sees their artistic value in question. The only thing that matters, ... after all, is the higher positions of director, script writer, and producer, right? There is no artistic integrity to being an animator, right?

At the end of the day, the story? The characters? They were interesting, cute, but then you start thinking about how paired back they had even to make the story be to make it work. There are only two character models, and the story is concluded in this short because it's all about making the process as cheap as possible. Had they added more characters and a more complex story line, they would have needed more time and money with just the limited staff they had, which would also defeat the process, yet that same staff member didn't catch all of what they needed to. Was that intentional, to show what the AI was capable of doing? Probably not, given that they consider the animator to be a throwaway part of the art, that they're not integral even for cleaning up what the AI makes.

I mean, had it been, they'd have released two versions, one where the AI does it's thing, and another where the animator was allowed to go in and clean things up, thus showcasing the current capabilities while showing how an animator was still needed.

Because honestly, I do get giving Animators tools to speed up the process and make it so they're not working less, but AI by itself for any media is soulless. There are certain things that the human eye can read that the AI struggles with, that it may never overcome because reading things like line and shape as a human does is - even the best coding out there is unlikely to solve this problem, the only solution being true AI. And if one knows about AI theory here, one knows what I'm talking about, how true AI is at this point is highly unlikely and entirely in the realm of sci-fi at this point, or at the very least a long way off.

Note - To clarify, the episode director and animation producer has openly said that animators can now leave the animation process to the AI and thus open themselves to directing positions, but this is someone who has no other credits including no animation credits such as key animator to their name.