If you ever dreamed of talking directly to your favorite waifu and going on adventures with her, technology will finally make your dream come true. Developer SpiralAI has opened pre-registration for RyzaChat: AI Ryza Creates Your Own Midsummer Dream Story, an unusual video game RPG based on the successful Atelier Ryza (Ryza no Atelier) franchise that will arrive on mobile devices this coming August. This installment promises to revolutionize immersion by letting us explore Kueken Island accompanied by Reisalin Stout using only text conversations.

Unlike traditional titles, this gem discards movement buttons and classic action commands. All story progress is dictated by writing normal dialogues or adding small theatrical notes to guide the girl’s actions. The first goal is to help Ryza build a boat to leave the island; once completed, the map opens for gathering materials, alchemy, and battles. During preliminary tests, the protagonist demonstrated responding in character to wild ideas: from hesitating before accepting to hold your hand or let you ride on her shoulders, to being surprised and applauding if you attack a Puni monster by applying a wrestling move.

Ethics, hand-drawn art, and official voices

Knowing that the use of artificial intelligence often generates much distrust in the community, the developers ensured to do things right to keep everything within the canon. Absolutely all the art in the application, from expression changes to bold swimsuits or loose T-shirts, was hand-drawn under the strict supervision of Toridamono, the original designer of the series, making it clear they didn’t use generative image tools. Additionally, the language model was trained exclusively with the official scripts and lore of the franchise, ensuring an ethical business model where profits are legally distributed via direct royalties to artists, voice actors, and rights holders.

Voice Cast

• Yuri Noguchi as Reisalin “Ryza” Stout (dialogues generated via a synthesis system based on special and official recordings for the app).

Given that the creators managed to implement artificial intelligence ethically by paying original illustrators and voice actresses for the materials used, do you think this type of conversational games will become the new standard for interacting with our favorite anime characters in the future?