Here, Notice the posters at the back? those are 100% ai now look at Susan faces, Will faces that suddenly has red lips for the first and only time and that teacher, they all look a lot like the faces on those posters. I dont know how much he uses but its clear he at least use some. all those faces have some of the default ai girl face vibe.
I got curious and decided to check for AI use in the game myself. And well, in a way, you're right. Some of the backgrounds are indeed AI-generated — specifically the ones you pointed out, along with a few others.
That said, about 90–95% of the backgrounds are hand-drawn. In fact, in the latest update (version 0.24), the new backgrounds are packed with tiny details that would be nearly impossible to achieve with AI.
More importantly, AI wasn’t used for the characters at all. Actually, your example about Will’s lips kind of proves the opposite. In the original cartoon, the witches' lips are always more prominent when they're in their magical forms (I’ll include reference images below).
As for Susan and the woman on the magazine cover — yeah, I noticed that too. Full lips seem to be a thing for MILF characters. You can see it with Anna and Joan Lin as well.
Still, you're right about the backgrounds you posted — they were made with AI. I dug through the Patreon page, since they often share WIP images, lineart, and stuff like that, and I noticed a pattern: the character scenes are usually drawn first, with no background at all.
My guess is that they draw the character art first and sometimes add an AI background later if they’re running short on time. They’ve always had issues meeting deadlines, and it seems like when they’re pressed, they fall back on AI for the backgrounds.
Does this game deserve an "AI CG" tag because of that? Hell no. 99% of the content is still hand-made. Throwing it into the same pile as AI trash just because a few backgrounds were rushed with AI would be incredibly unfair.
Yeah, a few backgrounds were AI-generated. And honestly, I think that’s a real tragedy... for the people who downloaded this game just to jerk off to high-quality backgrounds.