• Why our cyberpunk future stayed frozen in 1980s style Akira Japan: genre inertia + a safe, marketable form of techno-Orientalism.
• Why Neo-Shanghai is missing: China market incentives (censorship), reality outpacing fiction (surveillance as infrastructure), and creators avoiding a fresh round of Orientalism.
• The new Jews aka the old Chinese.
Alternatively, Cyberpunk as an aesthetic is a Boomer/Gen X thing.
Don't get me wrong - I love Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Akira, but it is a very 1980s-90s coded aesthetic.
Bar said, those of us who are younger are leaning more towards a Korean aesthetic which itself borrows heavily from American (and especially 2000s-10s LA cholo style) streetware and aesthetic.
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[ 0.69 ms ] story [ 10.6 ms ] threadDon't get me wrong - I love Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Akira, but it is a very 1980s-90s coded aesthetic.
Bar said, those of us who are younger are leaning more towards a Korean aesthetic which itself borrows heavily from American (and especially 2000s-10s LA cholo style) streetware and aesthetic.