Kid Named Five Albums

toskarin.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:58

not really a shounen watcher specific kind of rot obviously but it's so bizarre that someone can be a self-professed fan of cyberpunk (genre) and averse to downer endings when that's like. half of the genre's foundational stories, rounded generously down

Kid Named Five Albums

toskarin.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:58

new season of the cyberpunk show is exposing me to the utterly incomprehensible to me (but apparently extant) demographic of people who preemptively get mad at a show for having a sad ending before it releases

Kid Named Five Albums

toskarin.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:58

like yeah, it's not going to be a germano-japanese merger name these days, it's going to be some tolkien without the diacritics in no small part because some guy with an evil sorcerer name got steelmanned by a theoretical snake cult into relevance

Kid Named Five Albums

toskarin.bsky.social

19 October 2026 00:58

that being said, it really is a funny hauntological wrinkle that cyberpunk stories so often involving the near-eldritch adversary of the japanese megacompany started reading to most people as an arbitrary aesthetic choice because of what happened in the decade immediately after the genre solidified