One Piece Director Slams Ghibli AI Art: "You've Tarnished Ghibli"

What started as a seemingly harmless social media trend has lately spiraled into a massive controversy as the influx of AI-generated Ghibli-style portraits continues to be rightly criticized by artists, animators, and anime directors. The recent use of AI to replicate Hayao Miyazaki’s sweat-forged art has understandably upset many in the anime industry who recognize the hard work that goes into the craft and the latest to join this ongoing Ghibli AI debate is none other than One Piece’s beloved director Megumi Ishitani, who has recently taken to X to share her thoughts on the situation.Videos by ComicBook.comIn a recent onslaught of posts on X, Megumi Ishitani, who is best known for directing One Piece Fan Letter and some of the series’ best episodes, weighed in on the Ghibli AI controversy, expressing strong distaste for the trend. One particular post by Ishitani that all but sums up her opinion on the matter reads, “You’ve tarnished Ghibli. I’ll never forgive you,” with a subsequent...