Will we ever get a good cyberpunk anime again? seems like after ghost in the shell and akira the genre died out.
Will we ever get a good cyberpunk anime again? seems like after ghost in the shell and akira the genre died out
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Alexander Reed
As much as I'm looking forward to Edgerunners, it's definitely not going to look or feel like cyberpunk. A shame.
Elijah Lee
whats that supposed to mean
Ryder Clark
Coming 2022!
Asher Sanchez
it died out because people realized hi tech isn't as cool as they thought and they felt betrayed once they realized it's mostly used for surveillance so it kinda killed their inspiration. also zukerbook.
Wyatt Brooks
Source?
Cooper Powell
But Psycho-Pass is better than both of those.
Connor Russell
the idea is that cyberpunk is wishful thinking of how new technologies could evolve in a cool and interesting way. Reality though already evolved into that dystopian future that protagonists in cyberpunks usually fight against. So bottom line is that bad guys already won so there's no point in imaging cool new possibilities because they'll never going to happen.
source is much time spent lurking.
Jordan Anderson
Cyberpunk and Original Anime is making a strong comeback.
Oliver Price
Take a look at the key visual and the game it'll be based on, you really think this is going to be able to compare to GiTS and Akira? It's most likely just going to be 10 episodes of over the top action in a futuristic city. I hope I'm wrong though.
Adrian Hernandez
Really hope it'll be good. I won't get my hopes up for a brilliant nuanced story because of it's ties, but I pray they go all out in the cyberpunk aesthetic and just showcase as much cool shit of the world as they can
Landon Murphy
If it's anything like Animatrix I'll be satisfied.
Gabriel Reyes
The game is shaping up to be one of the best in the last 10 years. My hopes are above orbit for both the game and the anime.
Jordan Hill
Psycho-Pass was full of QUALITY though.
Isaac Thompson
>trigger
>and netflix
Nicholas Foster
Any breakthroughs in science or technology will reinvigorate cyberpunk all over again, not just in anime but movies too.
Let's just hope Elon successfully commercialize space travel to consumers within our lifetime and bring inspiration again to writers to create sci-fi stories.
James Perry
Watch more anime then. And read more manga. Those two aren't the only good ones.
Carter Martinez
That design looks like Urbance.
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Robert Rivera
Modern anime studios don't like to hand animate anything remotely mechanical looking, so 90%, if not 100% of a cyberpunk anime nowadays would just be 3D CG.
Julian Young
I think Trigger is probably the best anime studio to handle it. The core of cyberpunk is the teenage rebel fighting against The Man; that's the Punk in Cyberpunk, and Trigger has proven their ability to do that really well with Ryuko from Kill la Kill. If the protagonist of Edgerunner is basically "a male Ryuko who wears actual clothes", that'd basically be the ideal Cyberpunk protagonist.
Nathaniel Clark
>netflix
yeah no
Jason Reyes
No. It's too obvious we're gonna get all the squalor of cyberpunk except it will be an ironclad surveillance state world with zero anonymity, crushingly effective media controls, and perpetual anarcho-tyranny.
Zachary Edwards
You know some years ago I finally watched Akira.
I really didn't get the hype. Like I get it was well animated, and it did a lot to improve the image of animation, and anime.
But I could not for the life of me tell you what that movie was about. I had no real idea what was going on beyond there was a dude with a motorcycle, and a guy with massive god powers he couldn't control.
Jose Baker
Blade Runner Blackout was better than the 2049 movie.
Psycho pass was pretty terrible in season 1 and offensively bad as of season 2.
Elijah Martin
This. Cyberpunk and superpowers don't really go together. Either tell us a story about corrupt government or SCIENCE, choose.
Luke Baker
I really wish they'd look back at the RPG's influences and make it full 80s with fluffy hair and everything.
Tyler Collins
KEK, pleb.
Well, punk died out so maybe that´s why. The whole point of punk was to resist the system so giving in to a world of consumarism full of sequels, remakes and the sort does go against the porpouse. Oshii´s GITS was already post cyberpunk back in the mid 90´s.
Most Cyberpunk products these days are just that, systhem products that shallowly copy a visual aesthetic like "high tech, low life" (if anything) disregarding the core themes, philosophy and questions that make cyberpunk meaningful at all in the first place. As for the few productions that could be regarded as actually third wave cyberpunk, those are not going to "bring back" that 80´s/90´s feel because the point would be to build over what was already built and make new questions. (Unless they are intertextually answering other pieces of work).
Honestly i think current audiences don´t even care about the core philosophical aspects of cyberpunk, they just don´t have the patience nor the attention span for it.
Bentley Butler
>core philosophical aspects of cyberpunk
genuinely curious, how would you summarize this?
Luis Richardson
Modern cyberpunk is cyberpunk too.
>Imaishi
It should be good. Netflix concerns me, and the fact that the franchise aspect seems to be involving the Poles rather than Pondsmith. But the worst it can be is entertaining. If it's shallow, oh well, it'll still be better than if it wasn't made.
Brandon Gonzalez
This.
Hunter Phillips
There’s that blade runner anime made by watanabe, and people in this mentioned edgerunners. I think we just have to wait and see