> I wouldn't call The Matrix cyberpunk Why do you say that? Also, cyberpunk broke into the mainstream (Blade Runner, Neuromancer) at a time of fascination wit

> I wouldn't call The Matrix cyberpunk Why do you say that? Also, cyberpunk broke into the mainstream (Blade Runner, Neuromancer) at a time of fascination with Japan. I say fascination because there was a spectrum - from philic to phobic. That attention was, of course, a result of their (at the time) massively increased economic strength, relative to that of the USA. That same spectrum of attention exists in the body of cyberpunk, in toto. There is not an anti-Japanese xenophobia that exists in the corpus either pervasively, or inherently.