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		archermarks 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 While I don't think you're wrong about the orientalist elements in Western cyberpunk, consider that Japan also produced two of the seminal and genre-defining works of cyberpunk (Akira and Ghost in the Shell).

bitwize 8 months ago [–]

Japanese artists in the nineties stanned so hard for Blade Runner. The influence on their media aesthetics is pretty pervasive.

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