Comment on No Guns Life is a cyberpunk anime about a hard-boiled detective with a gun for a head

Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• identity_disc@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s fair, and I agree. But I still wonder what type of person subscribes to this Lemmy community. Are they deep cyberpunk nerds who are here for the philosophical explorations on humanity’s relationship with technology, or do they just like to see cyborg parts on scantily clad women? The r/cyberpunk community on reddit definitely preferred the latter but I suspect anyone who finds this cyberpunk on Lemmy is probably the former.

  Either way is fine, I’m not going to gatekeep our subscribers, but that’s why I wanted to clarify that this is more of a “what does it mean to be human” anime than a “check out these neon lights” anime.

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  • Cris_Color@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personally I think of cyberpunk as both a genre and an aesthetic. It has both aspects and its worthwhile to differentiate between the two when describing something that features one element or the other, but not necessarily both so that people follow what you’re describing.

    Thanks for sharing the anime rec! Seems like an interesting show :)

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But even as an aesthetic, I find it works best as dealing with the texture of technology.

      Technology gets sold as this shiny, smooth thing when it never was and never will be.

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  • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think that was a useful clarification and did no harm!

    Thanks for the recommendation!

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