Persona Fans Defend Anime Style Against Photorealistic AI Trend
AI images reimagine beloved anime-style characters in eerie realistic form, sparking witty defenses.
TLDR
A post showed AI-generated photorealistic versions of Persona characters. One reply called the images an insult to art direction and human passion. Another noted that Makoto Yuki did not turn into a door for this to exist. A different comment compared the results to analog horror. Additional replies suggested trying the style on pixel art visual novels or questioned the appeal of replacing anime graphics. The original post presented the images as an improvement in graphics. Visible replies on the thread focus on defending the original art direction.
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Cody Black@Cody72877886@hatty__ First Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance and Now Persona 5 Royal!? Nope Kill it, Kill it now, KILL THIS ABOMINATION NOW!!
CE Cetitan@Ceetitan@hatty__ I’m sorry bro I have to block you Seeing all these makes me want to kill myself
? َ@berdoXglenn@sexopolla999 king spotted
IH (INSERT USERNAME HERE)@FreshSquid427@auzziejlee These are the absolute stuff of nightmares
SO somyi@somyidang@hatty__ persona graphics in 2014 😍😍