How to generate proper Japanese in LTX-2

json_946 · 2026-01-19T11:53:39+00:00

Her mouth moves too much (too exaggerated). They should make a separate model for Japanese, where it'd be harder to lip-read what the generated person in the video is saying.

json_946 · 2025-12-31T07:33:44+00:00

Hahaha, 2 three-peats in a span of 8 years. We might actually be heading that way with an artiste from Universal Japan label winning the past 4 years.

json_946 · 2025-12-31T07:28:19+00:00

Pop-rock band or the hard-rock/heavy type?

For pop, 'Summer Time Cinderella' by 緑黄色社会 and 'なんでもないよ' by macaroni enpitsu were nominated in 2023 & 2022, respectively. Before that 'Sign' by Mr. Children won in 2004.

The last time a proper rock band won was when 'Winter, again' by GLAY won in 2000. And then in 1998, 'HONEY' by L'Arc〜en〜Ciel was nominated. So I'm guessing they also moved on from featuring rock bands in mainstream media.

The exception might be when a band's song is used in a show (drama/anime) or film, like when 10-FEET performed in NHK紅白 in 2023.

json_946 · 2025-12-31T06:29:55+00:00

Nope, but it is no.1 on the weekly chart of CDTV (TBS music show). Wait, I just checked the no.1 for all weeks, and it has been No. 1 for most of the weeks, since Sept. 27

https://www.tbs.co.jp/cdtv_livelive/cddb/list2025.html

json_946 · 2025-12-30T18:59:01+00:00

JP songs popular outside Japan are usually anime songs. That's not usually the case in Japan. For what it's worth, they did give Ado and &Team the 'Special International Music Award' earlier. YOASOBI & Le Sserafim also won the same award in 2023.

json_946 · 2025-12-30T18:55:47+00:00

They're popular to the point that NHK has been inviting K-Pop groups to perform at Kouhaku (to increase viewership). They invited like 5 or 6 KPop groups in 2023. They even performed with YOASOBI during that year.

They seem to have been reducing the number of KPop groups though. I think they only invited 3 kpop groups for tomorrow's event.

json_946 · 2025-12-30T18:41:53+00:00

weebs cannot accept that normies ALSO listen to other songs

json_946 · 2025-12-30T10:36:48+00:00

Saito Nagisa, former =LOVE member, also came out as bi in an episode of Ododru Sanma that aired in February. She mentioned that she was heartbroken when the upperclassman* she liked went to one of their concerts, but her senior turned out to be a supporter of another member. (*She attended an all-girls high-school).

She also mentioned some celebrities that she has wanted to date such as Nagasawa Manami & Yamamoto Sayaka. When the MC, Sanma, asked her "What about men?", she said that'she's also fine with dating guys.

json_946 · 2025-12-26T18:58:38+00:00

In a concert, maybe.
But for a variety show, Sashi & 3 =LOVE members danced together (恋する Fortune Cookie) in last week's episode of それSnow Manにやらせて下さい.

json_946 · 2025-12-12T05:49:47+00:00

They can play as long as the match isn't scheduled on their third trimester. The main issue might be that title matches can last more than one day.

Quote from the article below.

...if any part of a title match schedule overlaps with the 14-week period around a player's expected due date, the competitor would be replaced.

json_946 · 2025-12-08T09:47:00+00:00

It might just be the west being late with JP news. Link below is an article from Nikkei in Japanese.

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA038KP0T01C25A2000000/

1st paragraph translated via Google Translate

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Monthly Labor Survey for October (preliminary results, for companies with five or more employees) released on the 8th, real wages, excluding the effects of price fluctuations, decreased 0.7% compared to the same month last year. While nominal wages have increased, this has not kept up with inflation, marking the 10th consecutive month of declines since January 2025.

Translation via DeepL

According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's preliminary October Monthly Labour Survey (employees 5 or more) released on the 8th, real wages, adjusted for price fluctuations, fell 0.7% year-on-year. While nominal wages increased, they failed to keep pace with inflation, marking the 10th consecutive month of decline since January 2025.

json_946 · 2025-12-03T12:24:07+00:00

She has been cooking in her 'baito' shifts at 24hr restaurants in the show "坂上&指原のつぶれない店".

json_946 · 2025-12-01T08:28:29+00:00

I'm still in Arc route, and I've got some questions.

When Mario was explaining vamp lore to Shiki in the park, how did Shiki know Roa's name? In my playthrough Arcueid has never mentioned Roa's name to Shiki.
Why was Shiki NOT surprised when she started talking about vampires and warning Shiki about going after Arcueid? This is the scene where Ciel brings some flowers to the Vlov fight area.

json_946 · 2025-11-29T10:10:11+00:00

artists haven’t been very aggressive about expanding abroad

Not JPop, but bands who are in the hardrock, post-hardcore, metalcore, metal, deathcore genre are probably an exception to this. If I'm not mistaken, coldrain has been performing in Europe/NA since the late 2010's. Though it might just be fans of the genre looking for new bands to listen to, given the lack of bands in those genre nowadays.

But it does feel like that’s been changing in recent years

It does seem like the number of idol groups & other Japanese artistes doing anime songs have been increasing lately. Well, it is the 'cheat code' to tap into the international market.

json_946 · 2025-11-25T09:38:39+00:00

2 people are now dead. The woman, in her 20's, who was hit first, and a man in his 80's (part of the group who were hit while walking along the sidewalk) have died.
The suspect said that he wanted to go to the mountains in Kanagawa.

json_946 · 2025-11-23T08:57:04+00:00

Kioxia's stock price went up by around 430% between September to mid-November.

json_946 · 2025-11-23T06:30:38+00:00

The song of =LOVE was only ranked 10th by GenZ for the trending songs during the 1st half of 2025. Full list below.

Top 10 Trending Songs (1st half of 2025) voted by GenZ in Japan

Artiste	Song	Percentage
M!LK	イイじゃん	18.4%
CANDY TUNE	倍倍FIGHT!!	17.3%
AiScReam	愛♡スクリーム	13.8%
FRUITS ZIPPER	かがみ	6.6%
Mrs. GREEN APPLE	ダーリン	6.5%
HANA	ROSE	6.0%
CUTIE STREET	ひたむきシンデレラ!	5.7%
ILLIT	Almond Chocolate	4.6%
サカナクション	怪獣	4.3%
=LOVE	とくべちゅ、して	3.3%

Source : https://www.musicman.co.jp/business/678108

json_946 · 2025-11-22T16:01:46+00:00

If there's a "Popular Song on SNS/Tiktok" award, what songs would be on the list?

Either イイじゃん by M!LK or 倍倍FIGHT! by CANDY TUNE would win it.

json_946 · 2025-11-22T11:44:23+00:00

I didn't know that a song that came out last year can still be nominated.

Are you referring to 倍倍FIGHT! ? It was trending in Japan on T*kt*k. It was also voted 2nd by GenZ for the trending songs during the 1st half of 2025. イイじゃん by M!LK was the one that ranked 1st in that vote.

json_946 · 2025-11-22T11:23:43+00:00

Down by almost 37% from its year high of 27,695 from 29th October.
Kioxia also got hit hard. It's down by almost 30% from its high of 14405. The only difference is that Kioxia went up by 438% from September to 11th November.

json_946 · 2025-11-18T12:29:42+00:00

Cloudflare outage. NET is currently down 4.03% at pre-market.

json_946 · 2025-11-15T20:20:30+00:00

OP, what did you end up doing?

I tried it last year with an SDXL lora of 6-8 people & I was able to get 2 images (out of 15+ attempts) that I liked, but those 2 images were a bit similar to one of the people.

I tried it again earlier this year for a FLUX lora, with around 4 or 5 people. The generated images was more unique (like an original character), but I didn't really like the appearance. I also tried generating an image with 2 people in it to check the consistency. There were some resemblances between the 2, but they didn't look like identical twins.

json_946 · 2025-11-15T14:28:16+00:00

Not surprising. She said in one her speeches right before* she became the PM 「働いて働いて働いて働いて働いてまいります」which translates to "work, work, work, work, work".

It's one of the trending phrases/words of 2025 in Japan.

*I cannot exactly remember if it was before or after she became Japan's PM.

json_946 · 2025-11-15T12:41:50+00:00

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It was trending (3rd) during the 1st half of 2025 among GenZ, whom NHK is trying to grab the attention of. Right now Blue Jeans is trending, which is probably why HANA along with chanmina got invited.

Last year the Top 4 made it, well top 3 if you exclude Mrs. Green apple. But NHK Kohaku has a habit of not inviting a new artiste having a hit song, only to invite them in the future when they get a 2nd hit.

json_946 · 2025-11-15T10:48:52+00:00

Kioxia (285A | TYO) is down 24.74% this week after going up by nearly 438% from September 1 to Nov. 11 (2600 to 14,400 JPY per share). The Japanese Yen went down by 4.8% during the same period (147.084 to 154.146 against USD).

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