Why is Hong Kong the Perfect Setting for Cyberpunk? 

The living standard inequalities irl HK is as bad as any fictional cyber punk settings. Id know, cus i live there.

As a Hong Konger, I agree on a lot of this. I’ll make Tokyo the second cyberpunk setting. Also, your channel is underrated, it deserves more views!

Spot on video, Hong Kong sends you deep into the past and far into the future, such an invigorating and inspiring place.

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

Am I the only one who likes cyberpunk-ish city than europe's historical structures?

why do you only have 183 views? you deserve at least 100 thousand views, well I liked and shared. good job and good luck dude.

You guys should take a look at chongqing, an amazing city in china unkown to most people, i personally think that it is even more cyberpunk than HK itself, really recommend to take a look at the city skyline and its lifestyle. Good video man.

I've said many times that the classic photo of the HK skyline at night *looks just like Neo-Tokyo in Akira*

I came here from an HK forum. I find that you described our situation quite accurately and I appreciate that. The video quality, from bgm to editing is also quite good. Keep up the good work.

As William Gibson once said, Tokyo is pure Cyberpunk >_-

This a great breakdown, for some reason I started dreaming of the areas I'd lived in around the globe as these super exaggerated cyberpunk metropolises and city scapes. I'm definitely going to have to make Hong Kong one of my top spots to visit before I die.

Wow, from movies to history and politics, everything is on point. Great content mate!

I agree with ziad, this is a fantastic video. Really deserves more attention.

I recommending this to everyone I know. This was so well put together

Excellent work! I thoroughly enjoyed this! Well researched! Good analysis!

bruv this is a spot on video. you deserve way more views and subscribers!

I don’t care about the cyberpunk city, I just want a lightsaber umbrella.

This was such an in depth video on an intriguing topic, thank you!

You should do a 2022 update. It would be cool to talk about the similarities between what cyberpunk authors thought the future would look like and how the world looks like now and beyond.

This video is amazing! I lived in HK so long but i never thought of that!!!!

Nice video, wish to see you making a documentary about the situation in Hong Kong now

Thank you very much for that thorough explanation! I was deciding between Hong Kong and Tokyo as inspiration for my new Cities: Skylines series. I think I’ll just use both cities as inspiration!

Subbed. Very eloquent. Well done.

This is so well articulated

Finally visited HK last week! Had to rewatch this vid 👍

really insightful analysis! thank you

Have no bloody clue why I love the setting of an Asian Cyberpunk city (Just like HK)

Really well-made video. You deserve a lot more views. Shared. Cheers

As a Hongkong citizen, I agree with this video very much! Also you are very under rated 🥺

Beautiful video, I loved it.

You know more about my city than me and most people here do lol. Great video.

this is amazing 💕😭 thank you

Well made video, good job!

Excellent video. Hong Kong is fascinating, as is cyberpunk.

A brilliant video that really goes to the core of the connection between that cyberpunk (both the genre and the aesthetic) and that great city. One thing I find particularly interesting is how the cyberpunk aesthetic has evolved and become codified. There are undoubtedly cultural markers in cinema that have helped solidify what cyberpunk looks like - themselves influenced by HK - but I think there have also been influences from other fields. In particular, I feel but cannot prove that some of the visual tropes we associated with the genre have their roots in mid-90s computer graphics. The black/cyan/magenta colour palette that we see so often in synthwave cover art is an obvious example. As well, certain graphics programming tricks like palette cycling have probably contributed to the modern cyberpunk aesthetic. More recently, even Unicode technology probably played a role. Once again, this was a brilliant video. Please keep making more!

You did a really great job with this video.

Excellent analysis

Great Video!

Very well made video

But honestly great video, I didn't realize I live in a cyberpunk city before watching this.

This is very interesting in more ways than one.

HongKong is just perfect for cyperpunk, the beauty from the outside and the ugliness in the inside, rude people, dirty streets, cramped houses, night markets, street racing at night, night clubs, illegal gambling, sky high rated violence, riot police on the streets sometimes with helmets you see in movies, a police state city in a totalitarianism country, and yea tall bright buildings, yes trust me I am a Hong Konger too. Hope more people in the world know about this small small city.

I think that another large aspect of cyberpunk is the combining of metropolitan areas into one large city, or a megalopolis. This in mind, I think the over 120 kilometer urban sprawl of Tokyo would also make a good case for cyberpunk, not to mention the way the city looks when you are in it as well, it isn't quite the level of crazy that HK is, because it is kept cleaner, however I think that only applies to the streets, as I have seen some gnarly mishmashes of signage in commercial and mixed use areas.

Lovely jubbly, considered me subscribed!

Increasingly it is also a cultural crossroads. West and East meeting and creating a future that is constantly in tension with itself. That is very inherent to Cyberpunk.

Yo, this is dope.

This is one of the most underrated videos I’ve ever seen. Great work

I live in hong kong breathtaking

Sooo im in cyberpunk......... I live in hong kong

My most favourite city, ever. Ga Yau 🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰

Cyberpunk it’s not fiction it’s the near future and Hong Kong its already there Edit : mega cities are being built everywhere, conscious AI and robots are on the way . Augmentations as well . Totalitarian governments and mega corporations checked . Mutations from radiation of an atom bomb ? Hiroshima Nagasaki? 🤔

My favorite city ever to visit when I lived in Shenzhen.

i feel so good cause i love cyberpunk and i live here in the land of the 852 (hk)

At 0:34 it's not HK but Seoul most probably. The writing is Hangul not Hanzi. Just to let you know

Proud to be a HKer

even my parent watch hong kong family drama, detective, crime. Yet I am half hong konger who only dedicate want the sweet sugar cane juice and roast pork.

Well done

Batman beyond should be filmed in Hong Kong it's perfect!

I'm the 600th like. Nice even number

PhD level of analysis and communication

have to say though some things u see here would also fit for China town in Thailand (gives up the same vibes etc esp. at night) & maybe smaller areas in bangkok too. although HK is still better then any other asian city for cyberpunk.

Yeah that's cool n all but are there blokes that are climbing and jumping off buildings to buildings?

I gotta visit Hong Kong, wow.

0:33 is korean site not s slum LOL

And now we have water pipe house stacked together under the bridge for people... cyberpunk to the max yo

Although I agree for the most part, a lot of the "old" in your video simply doesn't exist anymore in this day and age, the fishing villages are in the country side so obviously won't be as "modern", there are barely any rickshaws in HK the only ones left are for tourists because it's a thing of the past, but these are minor details

4:56 - Lawmoner man!

man you need to see shanghai. its the mostest cyberpunk city in the world imo

you need these two environment 1) always night time 2) always raining

I suggest you guys go to Central, Wanchai and Sham Shui Po.

I want to visit hk so bad luckily its only a 4 hr flight from where im from

Hongkong is awesome

Too bad you didn't mention Kowloon walled city. It has been inspiration for many authors of dystopia fiction and it has that aesthetic feeling when it comes to cyberpunk setting.

From HongKong w/Love

YES

The city seems so horribly overwhelming; like, I could easily imagine myself having a legit panic attack just trying to get a fresh breath in the middle of that sprawl - and panic attax aren't something I regularly have. Still, I'd love to visit Hong Kong, find a dark & seedy little alley nook, insert a shiny mini-disc into my laptop and do a little hacking. With lasers too .

Picture from 0:32 is Seoul!

China is the Arasaka of HK

Its October the 5th 2019 as I write this. I'd say cyberpunk has gone out the window and it is full blown AKIRA

True

Sure

The slide you showed for a dark slum style was Korea, not Hong Kong.

TRUE

if it weren't for the language barrier, i would like to live in hong kong or at least visit.

Tokyo?

shanghai too

Watch New york in heavy rain binaural videos, and you see that this is the city closest to real Cyberpunk.

I would like a follow up of this! Especially with the HK protest recently!

0:32 that's korea

Love that Bruce Lee statue

so are u from Hong kong?

does anyone know what's the animation at 0:50?

0:33 idk if you did this on purpose but this is korea not hong kong 😅

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Personally id like to see Dubai

In my opinion, Rio de Janeiro is the most cyberpunk City ever

How come it shows you have 999 subscribers

from Hong Kong

I love Hong Kong

Fools who have fallen from prosperity - destroying their city will also be in this game?