What's your favorite Cyberpunk visual media? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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Cyberpunk is my favorite genre of sci-fi, and I definitely found it via movies and TV, so I'm wondering what everyone's favorite pieces of media out there?

Some of my tops are of course the classics like Blade Runner, Akira, Robocop, and Dredd

I think one of the earliest reasons I fell in love with Cyberpunk was Batman Beyond. That theme song also totally deeply influenced my music taste.

What about yall?

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[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

If I had to pick one, I'd probably say Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex. Everything GitS is great, of course, but that first season of SAC is my fav of all the iterations.

Other Great Stuff:

Blade Runner's the OG, and I think the sequel's just as good. The anime series for it, Black Lotus, is more pulpy than cerebral but I enjoyed it as well.
I don't know if it counts, but I'll mention Patlabor here. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Use this watch order
Dredd 2012 is great, but again more pulpy. Haven't read the comics but I plan to get the "essential" TPBs
Again, I don't know for sure it counts, but Cowboy Bebop is what I would call a masterpiece. I think everyone should watch it before they die.
More subdued is A Scanner Darkly. I really enjoyed that movie as a teenager, but I haven't seen it in the last 15 or so years so not sure how it holds up.
Biggest mindfuck would be Serial Experiments Lain. I couldn't wrap my head around it when I first saw it around 13, then I rewatched in my 20s and think I got the gist. If you like weird stuff that you have to think about to understand, it's great.

[-] Sulecen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Cowboy Bebop is definitely Cyberpunk IMO, I haven't seen Serial Experiments or Patlabor before.

[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Patlabor is a near future mecha anime, where the Patlabors are like the model t of mechs. The tv series is really light-hearted, but the ova/movie series is more serious. It's light on the whole dystopia part of cyberpunk, it's more like the Japanese society of the 80s and 90s transplanted a bit into the future.

Serial Experiments Lain... is really hard to describe. It's kind of like a digital drug trip, but not a good one. A trip that's unsettling.

Edit: Not to imply that Lain is bad, it's great.

[-] Sulecen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Nice I'll have to look those up!

[-] archon@dataterm.digital 1 points 1 year ago

Great list, I second every one of these!

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