Okay, there will be no great manga from Barrier Free Japan quite yet, but we couldn’t resist trying out the ‘Monet‘ app which apparently utilizes ‘Sora AI’.
I asked it to produce images with this prompt: “foreign man with limp with walking stick who has disability walking in Tokyo like anime movie”.
A business in the city’s Nakagyo Ward has created a supportive environment for people with disabilities, mental illnesses and adjustment disorders to work in the animation industry.
Although these conditions can make it difficult to succeed in traditional work environments, the Shake Hands Sanjo-Karasuma animation studio is a “type-B” workplace–designed to offer continuous employment support for people with disabilities.
“NHK has been making a series of animation or ‘anime’ videos to highlight the Paralympics. This one, first put online in June 2019, is about a vision impaired young woman who goes renews her love of Judo.”
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