Then Japan took that Western mirror image of itself — and made it their own.
Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (manga 1982, film 1988) didn't just adopt cyberpunk. It rebuilt it from the inside. Neo-Tokyo wasn't a Western fantasy anymore. It was a Japanese trauma — post-war, post-bomb, post-everything. Every frame drawn by hand. A revolution in animation. 🏙️
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