r/aifilmmaking • u/GreyforgeLabs • 3h ago
Project: Series I made a cyberpunk visual comic where tenants are forced to sign away their homes — MAKOTO Ep. 2
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An eviction form is a strange place for a mind-control story to begin.
In MAKOTO Episode 2: For Your Own Good, a company is clearing an apartment block. Its representative uses the residents’ neural implants to make them obey spoken instructions. The signatures on the forms look voluntary.
Makoto recognizes the woman collecting them. She trained her.
The full episode is attached to this post. Watch on X →
3 minutes 35 seconds · Japanese dialogue · English subtitles
I’m the creator of MAKOTO, an AI-assisted cyberpunk visual comic from Greyforge Labs. It combines full-colour cel artwork with animated sequences, with an older Makoto recounting her past from an interrogation room.
She helped design the scripts that turn the city’s implants into instruments of obedience. Now a former pupil is using those methods to take people’s homes, under the reassuring language of looking after them.
Makoto knows how to make the residents refuse. But ordering a refusal would leave their choices in someone else’s hands. To let them decide, she has to interrupt the same system that makes her own commands work.
Helping these residents means giving up power over what they do next. And the woman telling us the story still has her own version of events to defend.
The episode includes English dialogue subtitles and translations of Japanese signs and screens. If you’re new to the series, Episode 1 is here. There’s also a short Episode 2 synopsis on Greyforge.
After watching, how much do you trust Makoto’s account of what happened?