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“Just Landed in Japan”: AI Photo Trend Edit for Your Character Needs

If you’re looking for a trend that is easy to tap into, yet has a dramatic tone to it, this AI photo trend is the right answer.

11 September 2026 0 Views

“Just Landed in Japan”: AI Photo Trend Edit for Your Character Needs

TL;DR

Trends
The “Just Landed in Japan” AI photo edit trend
Views
4.5M+ in 1 month for the highest-performing video, 12.6M+ views combined from 5 videos listed.
Format
single picture with an AI edit of an anime-inspired or ridiculous figure shadow in an airport
Why It Works
Simple format and low barrier to entry, making people curious about the creator’s imagination and how to make one.
Use It When
Simple trend format that uses lots of imagination. Also can be used for product spoilers or editing tutorial content.

What is this trend about

AI edits are just at their peak right now because people can do whatever edit they want with an AI prompt, no need any expert editing skills. People are also starting to search for the AI anime filter so that they can experience the “edits” by themselves.

This “Landed in Japan” AI photo trend is one of them.

Views 472.6K Shares 10.2K Likes 49.0K

With an AI-generated image, you can make your favorite anime character or your original character come to life, just like they’ve landed in an airport full of people in Japan like what this creator choose.

“Just Landed in Japan”: AI Photo Trend Edit for Your Character Needs
Welcome to Japan!

Not only is generated AI anime-inspired content becoming a trend, but people are also looking forward to the tutorial on how to do the AI trend on TikTok. This is a chance for AI, tech, and editing niche creators to rise.

Views 214.1K Shares 812 Likes 3.1K

This content format gathers more than 12.6M+ in a span of a month, while the highest-performing video got 4.5M+ in the same span of time.

The formula

These are the baseline elements of the AI-generated image in this trend that you can improvise as you wish:

  • a shadow of your character choice, can be an anime character or your original fictional character
  • an airport setting where people are depicted as shocked and pointing at the character outside the frame
  • (plus) a cut-to-cut tutorial video if you want to make a tutorial out of it.

The key of this trend is to make a diverse character, so every time people see this trend, there’s another new character that makes them curious about who’s behind the shadow and how to create it as well.

How to use

This trend is perfect for creators that has a niche in media and culture, specifically in Japanese media and culture.

  • You can easily tap into the trend with your wide range of character references like anime, etc.
  • Creators with AI tech and editing as their niche can also benefit from this trend because you can make tutorial videos for it as well.

For brands, you can tap into the trend by inserting your brand or product mascot as the character reference.

Naturally, it would spark curiosity among viewers because it is different from the anime characters they saw before. Perfect for spoiler content.

Would you like to try to recreate this trend?

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Arigato gozaimasu means "Thank you" in Japanese btw.