Inka-Subs and Orphan Fansubs finish their work on Anime no Tane 2025 with Trust. The other three shows were:Dive-In!, no dialogGalaxy Apartment Cosmo Hills, subtitled by Inka and OrphanSora and the Big Tree, subtitled by Inka and OrphanActually, this is the end of our work on all instances of the Young Animator's Training Project, whether called Project A, Anime Mirai, Anime Tamago, or Anime no Tane - because they're almost all done (mostly not by us). There are still four unsubbed OVAs in the series, mostly with terrible raws, but we'll leave them for other teams.Trust is not the best in the Young Animators' series, but it is thought provoking and dense. However, it's difficult to discuss without giving away the plot, so if you don't want to be spoiled, skip down a couple of paragraphs to the voice cast. [Spoilers ahead] As the story opens, the management AI of a MMORPG called "To World" has summoned a user who has tried to hack the game.The AI, known as Violet, intends to suspend the user, known as Mia, for violating the Terms of Service.Mia argues back desperately, claiming that the hack was an excuse to find Violet, because Violet is, in fact, the projection of her mother, who is imprisoned by criminals and used as an enforcer in the metaverse (shades of The Matrix). The AI pooh-poohs this idea and fends off Mia's increasingly desperate advances with a weapon that displays like a banana, because Mia is underage and can't be shown real weapons.Mia seizes on this. How could Violet know that Mia is underage? The AI must know from real life. Mia gradually wears Violet down and wins her trust. Eventually, Mia asks Violet to transfer admin rights to her, so that Mia can close Violet's account and free her. Wracked by conflict,Violet eventually agrees and transfers rights. Cut.To this point, Trust has played like a standard "escape from the virtual world" story, with a human entering the virtual world to rescue someone trapped there. All of the animation has been obvious computer graphics - planes and angles, triangles and pixels. Now, the camera pulls back to reveal three actual human beings, played by real actors, watching what has happened on a large screen. They are the CEO, CTO, and engineer of the MMORPG company. Their AI, Violet, has destroyed the game by transferring admin rights to an external entity, which in turn has given them to 70,000 users. The three humans are baffled. Violet is alone, talking to herself, thanking an invisible entity for returning her to reality. That is, Violet has hallucinated the whole thing - the intruder daughter, the discovery of her humanity, her return to reality.I find this interesting because AIs do in fact hallucinate: they produce results labeled as accurate that are completely made up, as lawyers and graduate students have found out to their cost. Further, AIs exhibit emergent behavior: they do things beyond what their creators intended or programmed in. Is it beyond possibility that an AI would hallucinate that it is human and act accordingly? It's an interesting twist on the AI-runs-amok-and-destroys-mankind trope. This AI has no malevolent intentions against humanity. It thinks it is human and wants to rejoin its fellows. [End spoilers]The animated segment is a two-hander, so the voice cast is small. Matsumoto Sara (Mia) has had featured roles in many recent anime, including Loretta in Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou, Honoka in Kamerabi God.app, Fatima Double Darts in Undead Murder Farce, and Rin in The Water Magician.Takako Honda (Violet) played Mami in Apocalypse Hotel, Kiwi in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, PANDY in Dead Leaves, Ii Onna in Norageki!, Gimmy in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Hone-Onna in the Hell Girl franchise, Sasaki in the Knights of Sidonia franchise, Junko in Saotome, Hibari in Speed Grapher, Izumi in Un-Go, and Touko in the Kara no Kyoukai movies.The live-action actors are real people (I think). Amusing, the Japanese cast is listed as "first name-last name", while the live Western cast is listed as "last name-first name", backward from practice in their home regions. The show was done by aptly-named CGI studio Polygon.For this show, Darkonius translated and timed. Perry Dimes translation checked. darkcart edited. I typeset and QCed. TougeWolf also QCed. The raw is from Gecko and is the only one available. This is a joint Inka-Orphan release. You can tell I didn't edit if you look closely enough or read the comments in the script.Trust is one of the better Young Animators' Training Project efforts. It makes effective and deliberate use of not-quite-right computer graphics to convey the virtual world's and Violet's gradual breakdown. The story is thought-provoking without falling back on the usual AI tropes. This is a good note on which to wrap up our Young Animators' work. You can get this show from the usual torrent site.
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