Yeah Satoshi Kon was a frequent Otomo collaborator! (he was an assistant on the Akira manga, scripted the animation adaptation of Memories, drew the manga adaptation of World Apartment Horror and so on...) if you liked his meta-fictional work you could definitely watch "Millennium Actress" which tells the history of japanese cinema through the (un)reliable memories of a fictional old cinema star. All his movies (and his mini-series Paranoia Agent) and have been greatly (shamelessly) referenced (copied) by hollywood, an incredible talent gone too soon!
@@JohnGottschalk A loooong time ago. I have the new hardcover collection on pre-order and look forward to a real deep dive into it now that I am older and more able to follow Shirow's density.
It would have been more fun to end the book just by having a bio with a photo of Satoshi Kon, and some actors in the background, who are clearly supposed to be the characters from the book.
@@clubgrubbug and theres already been VRCHAT for a long time, which is a way more advanced version and already has a lot of the weird exploration you'd expect
Yeah Satoshi Kon was a frequent Otomo collaborator! (he was an assistant on the Akira manga, scripted the animation adaptation of Memories, drew the manga adaptation of World Apartment Horror and so on...) if you liked his meta-fictional work you could definitely watch "Millennium Actress" which tells the history of japanese cinema through the (un)reliable memories of a fictional old cinema star. All his movies (and his mini-series Paranoia Agent) and have been greatly (shamelessly) referenced (copied) by hollywood, an incredible talent gone too soon!
The swiping evident in Inception is astonishing.
@@clubgrubbug just like Ghost in the Shell to the Matrix. Plenty of anime movies getting straight up ripped for western audiences.
@@JohnGottschalk I always heard The Matrix was heavy based on Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.
@@clubgrubbug I haven't read that, so I don't know. Have you watched Ghost in the Shell?
@@JohnGottschalk A loooong time ago. I have the new hardcover collection on pre-order and look forward to a real deep dive into it now that I am older and more able to follow Shirow's density.
Happy Belated Birthday, Carson!
Thanks, John!
It would have been more fun to end the book just by having a bio with a photo of Satoshi Kon, and some actors in the background, who are clearly supposed to be the characters from the book.
Hahaha, that is a great idea!
the Metaverse is cringe bro
Haha. Indeed. My favorite part is that they are acting like we didn't already do this with Second Life back in 2004.
@@clubgrubbug and theres already been VRCHAT for a long time, which is a way more advanced version and already has a lot of the weird exploration you'd expect
@@JohnGottschalk It all weirds me out.