Moscow 2160 - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Mendax]

Waiting for more.

 

[Ironclad]

Not the best time to launch a commieboo series.

 

[HYBRID_BEING]

Page 9: "Ugolovniki" is plural, should be "ugolovnik".

Decipherable writings in Russian:
Page 3:
"ЭЛЕК(Т)...": Something to do with electricity.
"ЗВЕЗДА": "STAR"
"ПОКОРИТЕЛЯМ ЗАПОЛЯРЬЯ - СЛАВА": "GLORY TO THE CONQUERORS OF THE ARCTIC"

Page 4:
Sign on booth "ТЕЛЕФОН": "PHONE", duh.
Vertical sign on building "Госпожа МОСКВА": "Miss MOSCOW".
Horizontal sign on building "БОЛЬШОЙ ТЕАТР": "BOLSHOI THEATER". Below, in huge letters - "ЯН", no idea what the whole word is, though.

Page 5:
Graffiti "Xии": "Hii"? No idea.
Bar sign "Дорога": "The Road"

Page 6:
Poster "ЕБИ": Maybe supposed to be abbreviation, but reads as "fuck" in imperative mood.
Magazine "Nлья Муромеч": (correctly "Илья Муромец") Ilya Muromets.
Writing on power claws "Электрон... батар": not sure what "батар" supposed to mean, but first word is related to "electronics".

Page 7:
Text on TV "Электроника": "Electronics", a popular brand for all sort of electronics in USSR.

Page 12:
Sign on the fence "НЕТ ВХОДА": "NO ENTRY"

Page 13:
Sign "ПЕНИС": "PENIS"

 

[CyanHide]

Not the best time to launch a commieboo series.

You watch too much TV, you forget you can always "change the channel" or turn off the screen. Not like the main attraction here are dead Ukrainians.

 

[Yaniverg]

Not the best time to launch a commieboo series.

seething hard, "i support the current thing" npc.

 

[Xiie]

seething hard, "i support the current thing" npc.

If it wasn't for those pigs, we'd have 2nd season of Youjo Senki already.

 

[Haze123553]

I like the idea of alt history cyber noir Set in Russia. Japanese authors are usually very scared to draw anything outside of Japan itself (barring isekai that are usually embettered by Japanese hero inventing Japanese things to make said isekai better)

 

[IdidNineEleven]

I like the idea of alt history cyber noir Set in Russia. Japanese authors are usually very scared to draw anything outside of Japan itself (barring isekai that are usually embettered by Japanese hero inventing Japanese things to make said isekai better)

Yes, neverminding going beyond generic liberal ideology of state-conspiracy/bureaucracy themes for third-world & second-world countries, as if the cyberpunk genre didn't begin with Japan and the US. The company name in Alien is Japanese & American, whereas Chinese were only ever immigrants entirely without polity (nothing more than language) in Blade Runner, with China being centerpiece of American cyberpunk fiction only after the Great Reversal. But maybe the next chapter will turn this to utter shit? Why did Korea never become the setting for cyberpunk before China in taking Japan's place in the fiction despite its sooner economic development? My instinctual answer is that everyone watches American movies (the Japanese LOVE the sequel to Alien, even though it was garbage) and so American cyberpunk "trickled down" to Japan, but Korea just doesn't exist for the US so its consideration doesn't trickle down with it; Korea and China exist for the Japanese as colonies for capital export, but only China exists in the minds of Americans as both a place where all their computery is built and a rival in high-value added manufacturing (previously Japan). I don't know how to tie Nokia's defeat by Samsung into this, but it would probably be useful to consider that the Japanese were the quickest to adopt the fast-paced social technologies, from the early phones to 2channel and the smartphone. Consider that the "emoji" is strictly made up by the Japanese. With all the social media that exists, it's hard to imagine a Chinese NKVD. The global embarassment of the US over Uighur "concentration camps" and then Hong Kong should serve as a proof of this. Instead of China as the previous subject, the only place anymore that a good politics can serve cyberpunk has to be pulled from the grave of the late Soviet Union, surrounded by myth and legend. When an overarching plot is made with large, powerful figures, will the author be able to navigate these myths, or will everything be how it is for no reason and we just have to assume American ideology for a cheap explanation, as in Muv-Luv, or in Japan & Korea's involvement in the invasion of Iraq? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbP8HGxrgo8&t=35s

/unschizo But maybe it's all just because the mangaka considers himself progressive.