{"id":2226,"date":"2013-05-17T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2019-10-27T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:36:30","slug":"natsumi-and-aimi-cyberfem-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Natsumi and Aimi: Cyberfem Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not the world&#8217;s biggest Anime fan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FUCK-ANIME.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FUCK-ANIME-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"FUCK ANIME\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FUCK-ANIME-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FUCK-ANIME-687x1024.jpg 687w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FUCK-ANIME.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not going to sit here and tell you that the art form is devoid of good things.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t like all the squeaky voices and crying girls.\u00a0 The many, many, many crying girls.<\/p>\n<p>But before I turn this into a &#8220;WTF, Japan?&#8221; rant, allow me to share a very short &#8220;Anime&#8221; animation that I have just mashed together on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/goanimate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Go!Animate<\/a>.\u00a0 All this was done entirely for free, and I made the story up as I went along.\u00a0\u00a0 I used only a small fraction of the functionality available for making animations too, so if I had wanted to spend more than a couple of hours learning and making these animations, they would have turned out a lot more polished.<\/p>\n<p>There are more characters and sets available for free and way more options available if you pay.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really intrigued by the possibilities of this right now, and I can&#8217;t say enough good things about the website&#8217;s interface.\u00a0 It&#8217;s extremely well-designed and easy to learn and use.\u00a0 And of course, I&#8217;m digging the female robot voices.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UPDATE (October 27, 2019)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>GoAnimate got bought by some other company or something, and they took all their old hosted content down.\u00a0 Well, I have my stuff saved, so here is &#8220;Natsumi and Aimi: Cyberfem Agents&#8221; in all its clunky, goofy glory!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1440px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2226-1\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Natsumi-and-Aimi-Parts-1-2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Natsumi-and-Aimi-Parts-1-2.mp4\">http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Natsumi-and-Aimi-Parts-1-2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not the world&#8217;s biggest Anime fan. But I&#8217;m not going to sit here and tell you that the art form is devoid of good things.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t like all the squeaky voices and crying girls.\u00a0 The many, many, many crying girls. 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