EUGENE
Previous guest-blogger Eugene Ahn aka Adam WarRock (http://adamwarrock.com) is an indie geek rapper whose new EP, Neo-Tokyo, is an homage to the anime film, Akira. The 7-track record is available for $5 at http://adamwarrock.com/neotokyo, and the the music video is posted below. Why Akira? Let him explain…

Akira was the first time I ever thought about the world ending.
The 1988 seminal anime film, based on the sprawling manga-opus by Katsuhiro Otomo, is regarded by almost everyone as the “first anime,” or more specifically, the first anime to really matter in the US. It came at the tail end of a cold war, where nuclear armageddon was only an abstract notion to most of the pre-teen children who were raised in the shadow of a faceless enemy, baptized in an esoteric notion of nationalism. By the time that most of us saw it, probably rented from a Blockbuster or seen at a friend’s place, it created this weird dissonance inside of you as your brain tried to comprehend this medium, heretofore a “kid’s thing,” now showing you a melange of politics, sci-fi, horror, and mind-twisting psychology, all very much “adult” notions.
















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