So I've been hosting movie nights for the 20somethings at work...which created a question.

[sir pball]

3. Respectfully disagree!

Make no mistake, Akira is an S-tier film…artistically it's almost incomparable, as a pure anime it's hands down the best.

But as a cyberpunk film, IMO it falls a little short; the plot is definitely cyberpunk-adjacent but goes a little light on the tech as well as going into supernatural/inexplicable phenomena, body horror, and lot of other things that diverge from CP. It does all that excellently, I'm not looking down on it, but it's more than CP is a part of the film, rather than it being a CP film.

GitS, on the other hand…hoo boy, it. may be more cyberpunk than Blade Runner. It straight gives Neuromancer a run for the money in my book. And the animation, while not Akira-level, isn't exactly bush league either.