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 Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:33 pm |
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Which are the main Cyberpunk animes? I know of Ghost in the Shell (both movies and the series), Akira and Serial Experiments Lain, but there must be some old and new animes coming out that are slightly cyberpunk?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:36 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:04 am |
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Texhnolyze maybe?
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:33 am |
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According to OTAKU magazine , issue number 2 , all of it about Cyberpunk :
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Ergo Proxy
- Armitage : Dual Matrix
- Pale Cocoon
- Aeon Flux
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Metropolis
And btw , there's a nice list too , here on CPR : http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-animes/ ... XD
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:53 am |
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What i find "odd" is how except for GITS, and perhaps a couple of other anime, the view of cybernetics is one of corruption. See AD police and bubblegum crisis for instance. Powered armor is fine, cybernetics and robotics is inherently maddening. And this even more so in live action movies and such.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:22 am |
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| 750 wrote: | | What i find "odd" is how except for GITS, and perhaps a couple of other anime, the view of cybernetics is one of corruption. See AD police and bubblegum crisis for instance. Powered armor is fine, cybernetics and robotics is inherently maddening. And this even more so in live action movies and such. |
It's something that was used as a theme also in the CP2020 and Shadowrun RPGs.. Once you start getting a lot more machine than man in you, what makes you human? What have you got to hold on to when you're more machine than meat? With all this new gear, you have new or enhanced abilities that no other people have, and you start to see the world differently or spend so much time doing things no one else is able to that you lose what it's like to be human.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:37 am |
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86.5% is still human
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:14 am |
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| Screwhead wrote: | | 750 wrote: | | What i find "odd" is how except for GITS, and perhaps a couple of other anime, the view of cybernetics is one of corruption. See AD police and bubblegum crisis for instance. Powered armor is fine, cybernetics and robotics is inherently maddening. And this even more so in live action movies and such. |
It's something that was used as a theme also in the CP2020 and Shadowrun RPGs.. Once you start getting a lot more machine than man in you, what makes you human? What have you got to hold on to when you're more machine than meat? With all this new gear, you have new or enhanced abilities that no other people have, and you start to see the world differently or spend so much time doing things no one else is able to that you lose what it's like to be human. |
Funny thing is that the source material for the CP2020 game at least never touched on such a inhumanizing aspect of tech (hell, the least "human" in Neuromancer is not the most wired person). In either case those elements where introduced as a game balancing aspect, especially in Shadowrun where it balances the tech vs the magic (tho the magic in all editions win over the long run).
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:44 am |
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the Appleseed movies are very CP and are very awesome. Someone told me they exist in the same universe as GITS but i was never a huge GITS fan so I'm not sure if that's actually true.. though it'd be cool if it was.
I also liked that anime movie that came out while back where japan was cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by robots. I'm not sure what it was called but aparently most people on the board hate it :P
Heh Serial Experiments: Lain looking interesting.. A Ghost in the Machine warned it was talkative opposed to action but I love that. Hell my favourite anime is Witch Hunter Robin which is about as unactiony as you can get.. mostly just depressing and meloncoly.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:50 am |
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| G4sM4sk wrote: | the Appleseed movies are very CP and are very awesome. Someone told me they exist in the same universe as GITS but i was never a huge GITS fan so I'm not sure if that's actually true.. though it'd be cool if it was.
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Yes they are in the same universe, they are written by the same person and are set in the same universe. In the GITS manga you can see the characters from Appleseed in the backgroun
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I also liked that anime movie that came out while back where japan was cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by robots. I'm not sure what it was called but aparently most people on the board hate it 
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I want to see this, the trailers looked good. What was it called? (Actually I've asked this before and someone on here did reply to it, maybe I"lls earch for that)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:44 am |
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| PointZeroOne wrote: |
| G4sM4sk wrote: |
I also liked that anime movie that came out while back where japan was cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by robots. I'm not sure what it was called but aparently most people on the board hate it
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I want to see this, the trailers looked good. What was it called? (Actually I've asked this before and someone on here did reply to it, maybe I"lls earch for that) |
Vexille
Caught it on Netflix instant a week or so ago. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:45 am |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:40 am |
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I enjoyed Vexille, but I felt it was only good for a single viewing. There's one based on a video game called Baldr Force EXE which I ended up really liking. I believe it's available on Hulu, if that's your thing.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:59 am |
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| 750 wrote: | | Funny thing is that the source material for the CP2020 game at least never touched on such a inhumanizing aspect of tech (hell, the least "human" in Neuromancer is not the most wired person). In either case those elements where introduced as a game balancing aspect, especially in Shadowrun where it balances the tech vs the magic (tho the magic in all editions win over the long run). |
True, but without elaborating on it they managed to get it right.. In CP2020 cyber-psychosis happens when you've got too much machine and you lose touch with your humanity.. Being a game they don't go into the philosophy of it, but (at least to me) it's very implied. As opposed to Shadowrun's essence system, yeah it limits the amount of cybergear you can have, but it's not just a point-pool to sink; all cyberwear comes with a test, and if you fail it you become a little bit crazier as you lose your humanity.. If you REALLY get some shit luck, a total human getting his first data-jack will end up going totally insane from the intrusiveness of the cybergear.
In Shadowrun it's more of a "If this stat reaches zero you die, and the lower it gets the less powerful your magic is" kind of generic stat.. It's only something that becomes increasingly worse if you rely on magic, if you're just not all that concerned about magic it's essentially just a game mechanic..
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:19 am |
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| Screwhead wrote: |
In Shadowrun it's more of a "If this stat reaches zero you die, and the lower it gets the less powerful your magic is" kind of generic stat.. It's only something that becomes increasingly worse if you rely on magic, if you're just not all that concerned about magic it's essentially just a game mechanic.. |
I seem to recall something about a cyber psychosis in shadowrun if you used up all your essence with cyberware. With a mage you'd lose your magic. And yeah death was possible with 0 essence as well....
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