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zero-is-nebulous · 1 month

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Tee bee atech I might jig this design a bit but this is what I have so far, he's a Japanese dragon because uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh he's a big tall strong handsome man and allat

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batteryacidorgy69 · 5 months

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Screenshots of Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989) by Shinya Tsukamoto

#tetsuo the iron man #shinya tsukamoto #body horror #japanese cyberpunk #japanese film #cyberpunk

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alpaca-clouds · 5 months

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Growing up on Japanese Cyberpunk

Now, talking about Cyberpunk this week, I am going to tell you how I got into Cyberpunk originally. Because my entrypoint was quite different from that of most people. My entrypoint into Cyberpunk was... Digimon Tamers. People can now argue whether Digimon Tamers itself is Cyberpunk (I argue it is, as it deals a lot with the themes of Japanese Cyberpunk), but through Digimon Tamers I got into the general work that Chiaki Konaka has done, which also features quite a bit of Cyberpunk, like Texhnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain. And from there all the other stuff came in, too.

Japanese Cyberpunk is a bit of an interesting genre, because yes, Japanese Cyberpunk is in general considered a genre distinct from Western Cyberpunk.

And, yeah. This is very much obvious. Because yes, Western Cyberpunk very much is a genre driven by the fear of Japan and the East taking over. More than that it is driven by the fear of collectivism of any sorts. And it should be obvious that Japan, dealing with the idea of technology taking over, is a different story.

While Western Cyberpunk usually deals with this idea of the big companies running the world with the governments barely featuring, Japanese Cyberpunk tends to deal heavily with government corruption. Yes, they might get corrupted because of the big companies, but it is the government who tends to be the big bad guy within Japanese Cyberpunk. Often enough there is a theme of the military overstepping boundaries.

And funnily enough there is the theme that goes quite contrary to Western Cyberpunk. Because Japanese Cyberpunk, while often being dark and hopeless, is very much about finding power in community. Characters find ways to fight back - even if they do not succeed in it - through community. This is especially true for the anime side of Japanese Cyberpunk.

While Japanese Cyberpunk also uses a lot of similar aesthetics to Western Cyberpunk, the themes are usually very different.

Of course, this didn't stop me in my later teens to also get into western Cyberpunk because I loved the aesthetic. But in the end... Japanese Cyberpunk really is where my love for the genre lies. Not the often enough xenophobic drivel that Western Cyberpunk often is.

#cyberpunk #japanese cyberpunk #japanese culture #japan #anime #anime and manga #serial experiments lain #digimon tamers #media #scifi #science fiction

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elliot-amy · 5 months

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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) Shinya Tsukamoto

#tetsuo ii: body hammer #tetsuo ii body hammer #horroredit #horror #japanese cyberpunk #tetsuo the iron man #tetsuo: the iron man #Shinya Tsukamoto #myedit

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spectralmagpie · 7 months

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I’ve been having some gnarly art block for the past few months and my 2am brain was suddenly “sexy cat burglar cyberpunk robot man when??” And well now I must have a sexy cat burglar robot man 👀👀👀

#cyberpunk #robotics #robots #cyborg #robot #robot man #Japanese cyberpunk #just a little sketch #I desire him #sir might you steal me away??#futuristic

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spaceintruderdetector · 2 years

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