AI Doga Saizensen Magazine to Launch in October 2026
The publisher plans to turn the magazine into a periodical, a sign that AI video production has grown enough in Japan to support its own trade press.
Reporting from 1 source: GameBusiness.jp.
Asuka Publishing will release AI Doga Saizensen, a magazine dedicated to AI video creation, at bookstores nationwide on October 6. Supervised by AICU Japan representative Akihiko Shirai, the 96-page issue carries interviews with 12 figures and companies, including KLab, director Kumiko Endo, and Nippon Columbia Group. It covers production methods, tools, and copyright guidance from lawyer Kengo Yabuki. The publisher plans to grow it into a periodical.
The 1,760 yen issue runs 96 pages in full color. A legal section has Takachiyo Law Office lawyer Kengo Yabuki explaining where generative AI video crosses copyright lines. Interviews cover KLab's announced AI anime film The Celebrity Secret, Kumiko Endo's all-AI feature Matilda: Devil's Gene, and the COLOTEK contest run by Nippon Columbia Group. Popular creators Rai Raito, Keigo Matsumaru, Marika Hirata, Kakuni Hoshimaru, and Imoto appear, as do AI video CM studio Blue R and KM AI Anime Studio. Writer and game creator Hiroji Watanabe contributes a piece on AI interactive drama. The publisher calls it the first AI video creator specialty magazine in Japan, based on its own research as of September 1.
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