Cyberpunk is an important part of anime history, with the best cyberpunk anime using the medium's strengths to enhance the genre's themes.
Cyberpunk has been a part of anime since its inception, with the best cyberpunk anime helping make the medium a global force. Even live-action works like the ever-influential Blade Runner had a heavy Japanese influence, and Akira quickly became a cinematic classic once the cyberpunk aesthetic was brought over to animation. Many cyberpunk anime series have followed in the years since, helping to shape the genre further and evolve it to keep up with the times.
9 Blade Runner: Black Lotus The Black Lotus series spawned from projects related to the Blade Runner 2049 film. It uses a CGI animation style that's rather appropriate for the cyberpunk genre, and happens to be set in one of the most influential cyberpunk universes of all time. With Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe at the helm, fans were primed for something truly remarkable.
6 Ergo Proxy Set in a distant post-apocalyptic future where humans and androids live alongside one another, Ergo Proxy explores what happens when a computer virus triggers those androids to develop self-awareness--and with that, the ability to commit crimes. It has the classic setup of the human detective with the android partner, investigating murders committed by androids.
It's almost more of a psychological horror series, which touches on bizarre and esoteric subjects like UFO conspiracies. Serial Experiments Lain was intended to be difficult to understand, with its creator hoping it would be interpreted differently in Japan and abroad. The end result is a series full of fascinating ideas and a compelling mystery that can be rather opaque at times, but it's absolutely worth the effort.
2 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners The newest anime on this list, based on the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners explores the world of Night City through the eyes of David, a high schooler whose life immediately goes down the tubes in the first episode. Left with a powerful cybernetic implant, David has it implanted into his body for revenge and finds himself taking on the job of Edgerunner, a type of criminal mercenary.
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