Next Club Meeting:September 20, 2025,at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Animatrix Network is an anime & manga fan club located in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. We usually meet on the third Saturday of each month (except when holidays or conventions coincide). The meetings are free and open to the public. Join us for a day filled with anime.
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This Veo 3-powered AI video brings your childhood icons into an epic side-scrolling fighting game parody: Princess Clash: Battle Royale — where Disney Princesses don’t just sing… they SLAY 💥🎮
From Elsa’s ice combos to Mulan’s martial arts takedowns, and Ariel’s aquatic special moves, it’s a nostalgic, hilarious, and action-packed tribute to classic games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
What if Terminator 2 was created by Studio Ghibli?
Thanks to AI technologies we can explore what Terminator 2 characters (T-800 by Arnold Schwarzenegger, T-1000 by Robert Patrick, John Connor, Sarah Connor, etc.) might have looked like if the story was set in Sudio Ghibli anime world.
This Might actually be made Illegal soon...
AI generated Studio Ghibli memes might actually get made illegal in Japan. Or maybe they won't. Then we talk about how artists all over the world are having an existential crisis because AI generated anime memes are often better than some people's hand drawn art.
(Source: Yahoo!News) Hayao Miyazaki is revered as a living legend, a figure whose influence rivals Walt Disney himself. Since Miyazaki cofounded Studio Ghibli nearly four decades ago, the animation house has released some of the most popular anime films ever made, including 2023’s Oscar-winning animated feature The Boy and the Heron.
The painstakingly crafted, hand-drawn Ghibli style is beloved by fans, and earlier this week, it was co-opted by the GPT-4o model in OpenAI's image generator. This resulted in a flood of Ghibli-inspired AI memes across social media, as well as pushback by anti-AI activists and ardent fans of Miyazaki and his studio.
Momo Ayase is a high school girl who believes in ghosts but not aliens, while her fellow highschooler, Ken Takakura, whom Momo nicknames "Okarun", believes in aliens but not ghosts. In a bet to determine who is correct, the two decide to separately visit locations associated with both the extraterrestrial and the occult—Momo visiting the former, and Okarun the latter. Momo is abducted by a group of aliens who accidentally unblock her chakras, enabling latent psychic abilities. Meanwhile, Okarun is possessed by a spirit who takes over his body. By using Momo's abilities and Okarun's possessed form, they defeat the aliens together.
The rest of the story follows the two, as they team up with fellow students, friends, family, and new acquaintances to fight spirits and aliens; the overarching plot themes include retrieval of Okarun's penis and testicles (kintama) and the development of romantic feelings between Momo and Okarun.
AI Generated Parody Music Video describing the death of Star Wars & Congratulating Kathleen Kennedy on her 2025 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award. We also find out where the main Star Wars characters /actors are now. This video describes the bizarre scenes we had to endure in mainly The Last Jedi (2017), The Rise of Skywalker (2019) and also Indiana Jones and The Dial Of Destiny (2023) in a funny manner. It also briefly describes a few scenes from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), the two Star Wars TV Shows: The Acolyte (2024) and The Mandalorian (2019-2023).
AI Parody Trailer in response to Disney's Snow White Trailer. Here we have the AI trailer for Snow Woke And The Extremely Ugly Evil Queen. Coming soon to a platform that insists this is exactly what you need right now.
The Palmer Land Expedition Explore a world teetering on the edge of chaos, where technology and survival collide.
Discover the hidden history of the 1931 Antarctic Expedition in this gripping alternate history documentary. Uncover the shocking discovery of dormant automatons buried beneath the ice, the unfolding conflict between man and machine, and the unprecedented decisions that shaped the fate of humanity. Through untold stories of survival, military strategy, and cutting-edge technology, explore how this fateful expedition impacted global politics and industry.
What if H.R. Giger had brought his signature dark surrealist style to 'Fantasia'? Discover the haunting transformation in this re-imagined version of 'The Neverending Story'!
Adobe makes software that has long empowered ordinary people to create graphics, video, audio, and documents, but their latest update to their Terms of Service agreement, an agreement everyone must agree to if they want access to Adobe's subscription-based software, has users SO ALARMED they are vowing to walk away from Adobe and switch to other software suites. What's all the upset about? If you're an Adobe user, you need to watch this video, and evaluate the risks for yourself!
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and humankind itself.