Cyberpunk

686 readers

5 users here now

What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

Prefixes for posts

[Art]
[AI Art]
[Game]
[Video]
[Movie]
[Book]

Icon created by @[email protected].
Banner generated via AI model.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Tokyo Override (new cyberpunk anime on Netflix, releases Thursday) (www.netflix.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As far as I can tell, there isn't a trailer for this anime on youtube but there is a trailer on its Netflix page so that's what I'm linking here.

The synopsis is:

When a lonely hacker gets entangled with a group of underground couriers, they uncover the dark truth lurking beneath Tokyo's seemingly perfect facade.

That sounds perfectly cyberpunk and I'm interested. But the trailer looks.... like a kids cartoon? Yet Netflix is calling it TV-MA? I really don't know what to think of this. I'll definitely watch it (I'm a sucker for anything cyberpunk) but I've got my expectations pretty low on this one.

It'll be available on Netflix on November 21.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Why is Netflix so bad about making trailers for their original shows? This tells me nothing about the world or story, it's just a scene from the show without any context that would inform a viewer about what they're looking at. All this trailer conveys is that some people ride motorcycles, and I guess some other people don't like that.

I'm sure it's a fine series, but damn is Netflix not doing it any favors with this trailer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Agreed. Netflix does a lot of dumb shit for inexplicable reasons. There's a similar issue with basic descriptions. They used to be known for their quirky content descriptions, but now, so many content descriptions are just a list of credits or acclaim quotes. How are you supposed to know of you're interested or not with zero information regarding what it is about?