Anime Recommendations with Cyberpunk Themes

If there were no more delays, next month Cyberpunk 2077 should be released and playable. This game itself has experienced several delays, and maybe some people can’t wait.

So, to overcome this impatience, here are some anime with cyberpunk themes that you might be able to watch while waiting for the game’s release day.

Here are some classic anime with cyberpunk themes that you can watch.

Serial Experiments Other

Another Experiment Series is an anime series directed by Ryutaro nakamura, original character by Yoshitoshi Abe, screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka, and produced by Yasuki Ueda for Triangle Staff. Broadcast on tokyo TV from July – September 1998. A PS game of the same title was released in November 1998 by Pioneer LDC.

Another is an anime that is influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. This series focuses on Lain Iwakura, a teenage girl living in Japan, and her introduction to Wired, a global communications network similar to the internet. Others live in a middle-class family, which consists of an expressionless older sister, Mika. Her cold mom, and computer-obsessed dad. The first turmoil that arises on Other’s lonely life is when he learns that a girl from his school received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who committed suicide. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa informs him that he is not dead, only that he has left his body and found God in Wired. From there, Lain is connected by a path whereby he will delve deeper into that network as well as his own thoughts.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production IG and based on the Masamune Shirow manga Ghost in the Shell. The series was written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama, with original character designs by Hajime Shimomura and a soundtrack by Yoko Kanno.

Akira

Akira is a 1988 anime whose script and direction were handled by Katsuhiro Otomo. Based on the popular manga of the same name which was also written by Katsuhiro Otomo.

The film is set in 2021 in the futuristic city of Neo Tokyo. It is said that in 1988 there was a nuclear war that ravaged Tokyo. 31 years later the city became a wild city with a high crime rate. In such conditions, a young man named Shotaro Kaneda spent his days as the leader of a motorized gang called The Capsules, a member of The Capsules motorcycle gang was Kaneda’s best friend as a child named Tetsuo Shima. One day the Capsules gang was involved in a fight with another motorcycle gang called The Clown. During the chase, Tetsuo coincidentally collides with Takashi who is one of the Esper. Espers themselves are humans who have superhuman strength and their physique is in the form of small children but with wrinkled stature that they are implicitly very old but have a body like a child. When Kaneda tried to save Tetsuo, the military appeared and took Tetsuo and Takashi.

Well, the anime above is an old school anime which may be very far from a graphic perspective compared to today’s anime. But for those of you who enjoy the story or plot more than the graphics, the anime above is very exciting to follow!

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