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Naman Ramachandran
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Nippon TV When Nippon TV premiered “Tokyo Miko Ninja” in January, the Japanese broadcaster wasn’t testing the waters on AI-integrated drama production. It was, by its own account, making a declaration.
Set in a stylized version of present-day Tokyo where the sensibility of the Edo period lingers, the series follows Sumu Shiraishi, a trainee shrine maiden played by Riko, whose kindness becomes both her greatest asset and her greatest vulnerability as she navigates a conflict with the heir to a rival ninja clan. The show deploys generative AI for creature design, in-camera VFX and virtual production to render a world described as “cyber-Edo” — a fully synthetic, high-quality environment that doesn’t exist in any physical form.
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