The documentary received widespread attention when Kawakami Nobuo, former president of
Kadokawa Corporation, showed a brief demonstration of a
procedural animation,
generated by artificial intelligence (AI), of a humanoid model moving with its head. Nobuo proposed that such a system could be applied in
zombie videogames. He also expressed a desire to create an AI model which could
generate images. In response, Miyazaki strongly criticised the proposal for its insensitivity towards
disabled people, describing it as "an insult to life itself". In the 2020s, when AI-generated content became more widely accessible, this clip sparked discussion about the "spirit" and
ethics of using AI in media. The clip once again went viral during March 2025 when images generated in the style of Ghibli films were created using
GPT-4o's text-to-image tool. == Notes ==