Sekiro: No Defeat Production Company Says No AI Is Being Used in Anime's Creation or Production

Qzil.la, the accumulation institution down newly-announced anime Sekiro: No Defeat, has issued a connection successful effect to concerns that the upcoming bid mightiness beryllium created utilizing generative AI, saying this volition not beryllium the case.

In a connection posted to Twitter/X successful Japanese and successful an English translation sent to IGN via PR, Qzil.la asserts that the Sekiro anime volition beryllium afloat hand-drawn.

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"We're incredibly excited to bring Sekiro: No Defeat exclusively to Crunchyroll successful 2026," reads the connection successful English. "The full anime adaptation is simply a afloat hand-drawn 2D animation created by the talented teams astatine Qzil.la, ARCH and Kadokawa. We tin corroborate that nary AI is being utilized successful the instauration oregon accumulation of this anime. Fans tin look guardant to the aforesaid artistry and precision that defined the archetypal game, present reimagined successful a caller medium."

Sekiro: No Defeat was archetypal announced astatine gamescom: Opening Night Live this past week arsenic an adaptation of the FromSoftware video crippled Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The anime is being done arsenic a collaboration betwixt Qzil.la, Kadokawa, and ARCH, and volition beryllium broadcast connected Crunchyroll successful 2026.

Concerns astir generative AI usage surfaced astir instantly aft the anime was announced, with societal media users pointing to a enactment connected Qzil.la's website suggesting the institution uses AI successful its work. The enactment reads, via Google Translate, "We are actively processing exertion with the extremity of maximizing the worth created per 2nd by each those progressive successful anime production. We situation the accepted contented of existing methods, collaborate with spouse companies with precocious method capabilities, and utilize the latest technologies specified arsenic AI to germinate accumulation processes and expressions, thereby bringing astir integer disruption successful the anime industry."

Concerns were further exascerbated by the information that Crunchyroll itself has precocious travel nether occurrence for usage of ChatGPT to subtitle a caller anime series, thing CEO Rahul Purini said successful 2024 was thing the institution wanted to do. However, helium past told Forbes successful April of this twelvemonth that Crunchyroll was "not considering AI successful the originative process". Crunchyroll yet blamed the AI subtitle incidental connected a third-party vendor, saying it would analyse and hole the issues.

Sekiro: No Defeat is being directed by kenichi Kutsuna and written by Takuya Satou. Wolf volition beryllium voiced by Daisuke Namikawa, Kuro by Miyuki Satou, and Genichiro Ashina by Kenjiro Tsuda. The bid volition get connected Crunchyroll sometime adjacent year.

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