Daisuke: "It's alright for you to kill someone?" Akira: "As long as they have tags. According to the rules, if there's three people present, it's an official battle. I'm not sure how you're supposed to start it, though." Keisuke: "So killing people is just a game, huh?" Akira: "It's the only way to survive.

— Suguro Chayamachi

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massif post-human organic circuitry. Cyperpunk is my mother tongue. My love is a man-machine interface gun.

— Yann Rousselot

Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Video Colima, or as he's known in my crib, God.

— Thomas Pynchon