Vol.26
Forest of Thought
AI Is Already Over｜The Unmanned Society Beyond the Substitution of Intelligence
The moment it accomplished the "substitution of intelligence," AI was already over. While people have had their judgment taken by debates about AI and live in daily fear, the next era has begun to appear at a furious pace. That era is the unmanned society, in which autonomous robots have all at once begun to rise.
Kunitsukami Project
Oyamazumi Shrine on Omishima｜Were the Mountain God and the Sea God Not Separate?
Oyamazumi Shrine on Omishima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea, is the head shrine of the Oyamazumi and Mishima shrines enshrined across the country. Why is a god of mountains enshrined on an island? In ancient times, before the Seto Inland Sea existed, Omishima was a mountain. Were the mountain god and the sea god not separate?
KINEMA 2400
Sayurists and the Shochiku Sanbagarasu｜The Oshi Culture That Began in Japanese Cinema
People who made Sayuri Yoshinaga their oshi were called Sayurists. The strategy of pushing a trio together had already arisen as a convention from Shochiku's Sanbagarasu before the war. The history of oshi is deeply tied to Japanese cinema. To dive into film, find your own oshi.