Ghost in the Shell is not cyberpunk because all the protagonists are cops
Usually it gets called post-cyberpunk. It has a lot of the cyber- style, but none of the -punk belief in plucky individualism.
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What a weird journey this franchise has been. And Haoliners/Emon in general. I still remember multiple years of them trying to market Chinese-Japanese collab anime and all of them being disasters. Seems like they've really gotten their shit together lately. Although that's true of a lot of Chinese media industry stuff over the last 10-15 years of so.
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I like where MF Ghost is going, but it sure is pulling out all the stops on Shigeno's penchant for relationship drama interfering with the race itself.
Oh no, he injured his elbow saving her! And he won't tell anyone why! And she won't apologize for her fault in it! Drama!
Started watching Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
It's pretty good and... not what I expected, based on the advertising
Ep 3 spoilers
I had no idea this is meant to be more of an anthology series, so getting a straight up martyr suicide from the main character 3 eps in kinda shocked me.
Started watching Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
It's pretty good and... not what I expected, based on the advertising
Ep 3 spoilers
I had no idea this is meant to be more of an anthology series, so getting a straight up martyr suicide from the main character 3 eps in kinda shocked me.
I was very surprised as well.
Spoiler musings about the series in general 7 or so episodes in, nothing specific.
I still have a bunch of episodes left, but it really sells the themes of having ideals worth dying for. Just a lovely slow show about how much the Catholic church sucks and people being obsessed about space and truth.
But weirdly enough it really reminds me of Planetes, with the central theme of being willing to risk things for space. Except here it's all about musings on beauty, symmetry and truth instead of actually going into space.
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Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
In comic books, DC's Kingdom Come or The Boys deal with 'heroes' who treat the world like it's a playground.
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Someone mentioned something recently in either this thread or the one back in SE++ with this sort of setup, where the inhabitants of the isekai world would murder anyone who said the name of the game, referring to people as NPCs, or otherwise indicated they were isekaied there because they learned they would act as sociopaths otherwise
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Rise of Shield Hero I guess? Be careful what you wish for.
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Someone mentioned something recently in either this thread or the one back in SE++ with this sort of setup, where the inhabitants of the isekai world would murder anyone who said the name of the game, referring to people as NPCs, or otherwise indicated they were isekaied there because they learned they would act as sociopaths otherwise
Now THAT is Surviving the Game as a Barbarian (which is excellent and was probably me talking about it, actually )
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Someone mentioned something recently in either this thread or the one back in SE++ with this sort of setup, where the inhabitants of the isekai world would murder anyone who said the name of the game, referring to people as NPCs, or otherwise indicated they were isekaied there because they learned they would act as sociopaths otherwise
Yes yes I realized after I made the @ who was asking. My bad
No worries at all
E: But yeah, it shares a ton of dna with a lot of things, but i couldn't think of any specific series with that enders game twist down the line of the company/govt explicitly using the game as a means of invasion. Just occurred to me and i couldn't think of whether that had been done.
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
As revealed at the end of the first episode, that's pretty much the premise of
Deca-Dence.
Just, they're up in space, and robots, rather than another dimension.
Specifically VR game or MMO and being used as a known attack vector I don't have any that come to mind. The most similar one is VRMMO Slow Life, but that's with the premise of everybody actually is playing a game, it's just the NPCs are fully sentient and don't realize they're programs (except the princesses of each country, they're self aware AIs), so when players act like players they respond as real people would.
The point of the game also isn't to invade, it's to find out whether or not the AI people are ready to interact with the real world. Gamers being gamers is intentional, the people running the game who made the AIs are exposing their creations to a wide variety of humanity and seeing how they respond/grow
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Log Horizon early on, No Longer Allowed in Another World.
I really wish anime mysteries would understand that a weird piece of evidence or two does not a mystery make. Investigate, learn more about the crime, posit theories and have the situation become more complex and incomprehensible before uncovering the clear conclusion. It's like they all got as far as the obligatory parlor scene in every Holmes mystery where he deduces someone's lifestory from a bit of mud on their boot and decided This. This is the pinnacle of intelligence and what makes a great detective story. One little odd thing that seems out of place, and then 10 minutes of the supposedly genius detective having figured out the entire crime based on a single glance with a bunch of details that were unknown to the audience at any point, so the culprit, the sole suspect that even existed at all, can go into an incandescent murder rage at having their scheme confounded. If we're lucky, a stop over at the local Waffle House for like eight minutes, to pad out the time. Not that I'm grinding an axe against any new mystery show today that did this or anything, no siree.
Detective Conan is bizarrely one of the few that gets it right, but nothing seems to want to emulate that.
I love that they couldn't just have Conan be a genius kid who's good at solving crimes, there has to be a whole thing where mysterious baddies turned him from a teen into a little boy, because they were trying to kill him but couldn't just shoot him because reasons. It's just the most overthinking the premise anime nonsense.
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
Log Horizon early on, No Longer Allowed in Another World.
To elaborate: in Log Horizon, players of the popular MMORPG of the day who are logged in on the big patch day find themselves isekaied into the game world as their characters. This is surprising both for the players and the "People of the Land", that is to say, the former NPCs, who are just as surprised to discover that the always-a-bit-off "heroes" have deep internal lives as the heroes are looking the other way.
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Uh, Blade Runner? Even Bubblegum Crisis has a dispatcher.
Usually it gets called post-cyberpunk. It has a lot of the cyber- style, but none of the -punk belief in plucky individualism.
Mars Express is really dang good cyberpunky noir flick if you don't mind non-Japanese stuff (it's French)
It's also by the guy who made the pool music video, yeah that one
Steam ID - VeldrinD
What a weird journey this franchise has been. And Haoliners/Emon in general. I still remember multiple years of them trying to market Chinese-Japanese collab anime and all of them being disasters. Seems like they've really gotten their shit together lately. Although that's true of a lot of Chinese media industry stuff over the last 10-15 years of so.
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Still hyped for S3, however long that takes.
Now why was Saint-Germain watching a youtube video about basketball? And why would he be interested in a staff mixer??
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GREETINGS FROM THE TANUKI HOUSE, ANIME THREAD
It's pretty good and... not what I expected, based on the advertising
Ep 3 spoilers
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I was very surprised as well.
Spoiler musings about the series in general 7 or so episodes in, nothing specific.
But weirdly enough it really reminds me of Planetes, with the central theme of being willing to risk things for space. Except here it's all about musings on beauty, symmetry and truth instead of actually going into space.
based on this 2020 indie short film
Have we had a VR MMO game anime/manga that turned out to be an Enders Game isekai invasion of another dimension, where players end up being the villains by treating the world as a game (read: as sociopaths exploiting the world for resources)?
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In comic books, DC's Kingdom Come or The Boys deal with 'heroes' who treat the world like it's a playground.
I mean legitimately something where a VR game is launched as a method of "invasion" somehow.
Someone mentioned something recently in either this thread or the one back in SE++ with this sort of setup, where the inhabitants of the isekai world would murder anyone who said the name of the game, referring to people as NPCs, or otherwise indicated they were isekaied there because they learned they would act as sociopaths otherwise
Rise of Shield Hero I guess? Be careful what you wish for.
Now THAT is Surviving the Game as a Barbarian (which is excellent and was probably me talking about it, actually
Shit wait wrong thing
E: madican pinged me in the above post
Yes yes I realized after I made the @ who was asking. My bad
No worries at all
E: But yeah, it shares a ton of dna with a lot of things, but i couldn't think of any specific series with that enders game twist down the line of the company/govt explicitly using the game as a means of invasion. Just occurred to me and i couldn't think of whether that had been done.
As revealed at the end of the first episode, that's pretty much the premise of
Just, they're up in space, and robots, rather than another dimension.
The point of the game also isn't to invade, it's to find out whether or not the AI people are ready to interact with the real world. Gamers being gamers is intentional, the people running the game who made the AIs are exposing their creations to a wide variety of humanity and seeing how they respond/grow
Log Horizon early on, No Longer Allowed in Another World.
Detective Conan is bizarrely one of the few that gets it right, but nothing seems to want to emulate that.
To elaborate: in Log Horizon, players of the popular MMORPG of the day who are logged in on the big patch day find themselves isekaied into the game world as their characters. This is surprising both for the players and the "People of the Land", that is to say, the former NPCs, who are just as surprised to discover that the always-a-bit-off "heroes" have deep internal lives as the heroes are looking the other way.
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