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

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.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I watched the first 2 episodes and thought it was pretty good. The tone reminds me of Avatar the Last Airbender: it’s sometimes dark but not grim, and like AtLA has decent writing. As far as I can tell the series was “created by” Dai Sato who wrote several episodes of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: SAC, and “written by” Isao Murayama, who’s written a bunch of stuff I don’t recognize, looks like kid’s anime? I don’t think it’ll be a classic, but I’ll probably watch through to the end.

    Hold up, I was reading about the co-director Yuske Fukada, and apparently:

    His latest project, TOKYO OVERRIDE, is a sci-fi animated TV series… Using an innovative development methodology called Worldbuilding, led by U.S.-based world designer Laura Cechanowicz … He also collaborated with world-leading designers from Yamaha and Honda to create realistic future mobility designs …

    https://www.capeusa.org/beyond-japan/yuske-fukada

    That “worldbuilding” stuff sounds like the kind of thing Spielberg did for Minority Report: get a bunch of scholars and artists together and think through a lot of the details. Cechanowicz joined the faculty at ASU a couple years ago and did her PhD at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts where she was affiliated with something called the World Building Media Lab that studies that kind of thing.

    I was a little skeptical of the corporate collaborations, but Yamaha has a page on the project that includes a video with the industrial designers involved, where they talk about how they incorporated future techology and considered the needs of the script.