unhaunting:

goblinsociety:

So I just remembered that at one point, long ago, Shadowrun tried to call its internet-wizards ‘Otaku’, which is pretty hilariously naive in retrospect.

But it also makes me think of how incredible/dumb it would be to have actual hard-bitten otaku mercenaries in the dark cyberpunk future, stealing hyperanime from Japanese corporate servers locked down with murderous IC.

“Listen, chummer, you weren’t there for the waifu wars of 2036, so don’t you even dare tell me Honoka isn’t the best girl!” The servos in his arm whine as he clutches the weathered body pillow tighter.

Somewhere in there, beyond the neon expanse of the Tokyo matrix hub, beyond the towering megaliths of corporate datastructures, beyond walls of shimmering ice and swarms of hunter-killer subroutines, there she was. Hatsune Miku. The rogue AI. They said she owned the World Bank, now.