I can only hope that little Draco here can fly into my enemies techno-lair, sneak up to an unguarded terminal, and remote connect me and my nefarious hack, which should disable all other outer defenses of the site. Or at least play fetch. That might be fine as well.

Not an entire work, but I thought the character in the book Mona Lisa Overdrive who had misc brain/nerve damage and created strange robotic sculptures in the rural warehouse he was squatting at, with robot names like ‘the judge’ and ‘the witch’, was super punk. especially the climax of his plot line (no spoilers). It was very analogous to punk musicians creating aggressive anti-authority music in a trashed out garage.

3 1/2 hours seems like a good length for a comprehensive overview of a genre. I personally don’t feel tempted to watch the whole thing right now, but for people who don’t know much about cyberpunk and are just getting into it, it’s probably a fun time.

It might be easy to take the film for granted now, but it’s role in introducing tons of newcomers to anime (including me as a young person) and it’s general raising of the bar for production quality and scope is as significant as the article states. It’s was a major stepping stone, laying the groundwork for the success of Ghost in the Shell in the following decade.

And it probably helped sell a LOT of cool Japanese motorcycles, and bolstered the trend of futuristic motorcycle designs in the years to follow.