Saturday, March 21, 2009

Neo-Tokyo

The recent big reading spree got me to thinking about and identifying my major influences. For example, AKIRA's a bigger visual cue for me than Blade Runner is, at least in terms of what future metropoli are supposed to look like.

AKIRA
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akira
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girls at school
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The major point on which the Blade Runner city is better than Neo-Tokyo is the ethnic/cultural melting pot imagery of the Blade Runner city. Neo-Tokyo's pretty much all ethnic Japanese.

Kaneda
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bikes
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Kaneda
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Tetsuo in the hospital
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Recently I've been purchasing piecemeal and reading the original manga. Its unbelieveably good, and its funny how the movie, which is no slouch, is, at best, some crib notes for the books.

But dang, I've got 1-3, but these things are expensive!


-d.d.

1 comment:

Fat Contradiction said...

Canada had the Whole Thing, and one Thanksgiving he up and gave the magilla to Abe, who hasn't the slightest interest in it. It fills most of a shelf by itself, that's for sure.