2/3/2024 0 Comments Neon drive reviewWith official police executors hot on their tail and forces running this Blade Runner-esque society not being exactly transparent about the state of the world (shocker there), stakes balloon quickly. These dealings in question see a group of Akudama forced into cooperating for a group heist that starts out as a high body count fun, but gets increasingly real and even borders on harrowing as it goes on. Previously not a violent criminal, one Swindler gets caught up in these Akudamas’ dealings through a twist of bad fate and has to keep up with appearances as otherwise she would probably be killed without a second thought. They all have convenient names like Brawler, Cutthroat, and Courier that both allow you to call these characters something and tell you what they’re about. Those particularly violent criminals… Akudama Drive stars a bunch of them, most of whom are pictured right above these words, and they are in fact what the Akudama are. It’s called Akudama Drive, but they’re on a train? The show is probably the result of the many not wonderful goings-on in the world leading Danganronpacreator Kazutaka Kodaka and his new studio Too Kyo games to team up with Studio Pierrot to make an original anime about a broken society under harsh authoritarian rule upheld by openly murderous law enforcement producing violent criminals, but through an honest attempt to address these themes, we got a pretty good show at least. I am pondering whether two half cyber, half punk pieces of narrative art produced in two different countries that came out at the same time are not doing us any good in properly understanding that there are reasons ‘The Zeitgeist’ keeps serving up dystopia. As I finished up Akudama Drive, a grittier than usual Japanese cartoon set in a not-so-utopian near future and conveniently backlit by all sorts of neon pinks, blues, and purples, it dawned on me that this anime came out at the same time as the Polish game Cyberpunk 2077.
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