I am of course, beyond excited for Katsuhiro Otomo\u2019s new projects.<\/p>\n
I was definitely disappointed with Steamboy. A new Akira project from Akira\u2019s father can only be amazing. I don\u2019t think cyberpunk gets any better than this masterpiece of a universe.<\/p>\n
Now what strikes me is again Japan\u2019s ability to set things up. Here\u2019s the official plot of his new movie called Orbital Era:<\/p>\n
The plot takes place in the near-future on a space colony under construction<\/strong>. It is an action-adventure story following the lives of some young boys surviving in this peculiar environment and society as they are tossed around by fate. \u201cThe reality found in mankind\u2019s future\u201d will be depicted through their perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n Japanese sci-fi loves near-future<\/strong> because it makes it so much more relatable. Without pictures or sound, we can immediately start up our imagination engines.<\/p>\n Space colony<\/strong> is simple, yet genius because it\u2019s not only relatable \u2013we have the ISS- but it makes sense that we create space colonies before going to Mars or further away. It\u2019s just de facto<\/em> much more coherent than sci-fi that starts somewhere with humans already doing whatever they want on a hostile planet or the very hostile empty space. A space colony setting creates a strong continuation of what we have in the world right now and makes it immediately, again, relatable. Or very interesting.<\/p>\n Under-construction<\/strong>. That is also kind of genius. That theme \u201cmodifier\u201d is obviously relatable because everything is under-construction, all the time, everywhere on earth. We constantly build or fix things. But also in the space colony context, it creates beautiful freedom in terms of plot, universe etc. <\/p>\n Are humans happy in those fake metal worlds that are never done? What do you see when you go to the edge of such a colony? What kind of society, what kind of values are driving people in a finite world with probably a lot of restrictions? There\u2019s a sense of care, fragility and nostalgia underlying this setting described in a few sentences. I fucking love this.<\/p>\n Most games and action movies plots are so phony compared to this, it\u2019s embarrassing. They all have the \u201csome bad aliens\/relics\/resource\u201d trope and think they\u2019re really cool.<\/p>\n This one can go in any direction \u2013drama, comedy, romantic, pure action- and be awesome.<\/p>\n It probably will. Can\u2019t wait. Hopefully not for ten years though, take your time, Katsuhiro Otomo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am of course, beyond excited for Katsuhiro Otomo\u2019s new projects. I was definitely disappointed with Steamboy. A new Akira project from Akira\u2019s father can only be amazing. I don\u2019t think cyberpunk gets any better than this masterpiece of a universe. Now what strikes me is again Japan\u2019s ability to set things up. Here\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}