When I played with AI, everyone in the Demon King's Castle started working in four-panel comics.
At first, I was just playing Oogiri (a comedy prompt game) with AI in the Demon King's Castle.
"What are the characteristics of an outrageous Demon King's Castle?"
I answered such prompts in the form of job postings, internal memos, and defeat reports.
That was supposed to be the extent of the game.
However, as I continued the Oogiri, the documents and work in the Demon King's Castle increased, and I began to see the people working there.
And then, I wanted to see what kind of faces those people made while they were working.
First, please take a look at one.
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Episode 1 | Uses for the Holy Sword
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When I saw Alto moving in the picture, I couldn't help but laugh.
Such small daily occurrences fit the four-panel format very well.
Moments that cannot be captured in a long story
Various things happen in the Demon King's Castle.
The hero approaches.
The Four Heavenly Kings are defeated.
Someone falls through the cracks of the system.
These can be turned into long stories.
However, what I wanted to see a little closer were smaller events.
The moment someone sighs between tasks.
The split second they look at their neighbor without saying a word.
The few seconds when the hero puts his full effort into a retort against the common sense of the Demon King's Castle.
If you have four small frames, you can capture just a few seconds of a day.
It doesn't have to be an incident.
The fate of the world doesn't have to change.
The hero makes a retort once, and the monsters go back to work as usual.
That level of event was just right.
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The protagonist is the hero Alto
He is the hero who was just made to shred documents with the Holy Sword.
He is strong enough to fight the Demon King head-on, and is serious and polite.
However, as the only person with common sense in this Demon King's Castle, he is making retorts alone again today.
For example, even the morning assembly was a little different for him.
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Episode 2 | Temperature Difference at the Morning Assembly
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By reducing the words, the characters began to look a little closer.
I made it while re-selecting with AI
It wasn't completed with a single instruction.
The AI returned ideas, and I kept the ones where I thought, "I want to see this character again."
If I thought it was wrong, I would revert it, and if it was interesting, I would think about what happens next.
I only made it into a four-panel comic when I could laugh at it myself.
When I could see their expressions, I also began to see sides of them that I hadn't noticed with just text.
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Episode 3 | Just from being called by name
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Everyone in the Demon King's Castle is working again today in the four-panel comics.
Alto's day probably won't go as planned tomorrow either.
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