So was listening to my Coworkers amazing 80’s/cyberpunk spotify playlist (9 hours of amazing music, he used to work at a record store and has thousands of 80’s records) and I stumbled across this song.
(this song would be the opening credits scene. With the protagonist, a female…pseudo-machine, floating outside of a space station listening to human made music, specifically this song)
And being that music kind of zones out my create mind, an idea took shape in my mind, for an anime.
Setting: 3,500-sh years from now.
Humanity was eradicated by sentient machines of their own making some time in the 22nd century. Those machines, whose sentience was based on that of humanity, soon began to disagree on whether or not completely wiping out all of mankind was the right thing to do, and a short time after began a civil war between themselves. One faction based entirely on cold logic, and one that wanted to create something new, something neither machine nor man entirely.
The faction that regretted killing all of mankind wins, and creates something new. Something mechanical, but also organic in nature. Something that had what they did not, a “soul” as best they could describe and design.
Based in part on the human form as a sort of homage and apology for what they view as a crime against nature. These machines would live longer, think faster and more complexly than man, but would still contain morality and emotion. Their form is similar to that of man even down to males and females, and a process of procreation and giving birth. Their blueprints carried in something similar to DNA, TNA (Technological Nucleic Architecture).
Soon after these new…beings, were created, the original generation that destroyed mankind, destroyed themselves in what they would see as an act of self punishment. “Paying for their sins” or some such.
cut to 3,500-ish years in the future
The 2nd generation has been fruitful and successful in creating their own society. For a time they lived on earth, but following in the foot steps of their creators, they chose to abandon the planet for living in space stations in and about the solar system, leaving earth to the wildlife as a sort of monument. Some still visit for scholarly purposes, but there are no permanent settlements.
Their culture is very similar to humanity. They communicate verbally, engage in fruitless activities for entertainment, but they have solved all of the problems of the old civilizations. There is no want for food, water, luxury, etc. They have literally achieved what, by material means, humanity would call utopia. They even refer to themselves and others as people.
This is where our story begins. I have some rough ideas worked out, but I don’t want to spoil anything.
Oh and the plot twist is that Humanity still exists. A single bunker built by a government, large enough to house a few thousand people, somehow survived. The humans in this bunker have been living a rather harsh existence with population control and rationed food and water. Eventually the fuel for their reactor runs out, and they must send small bands to the surface to look for nuclear materials, food, water, etc.
The story itself, is what takes place when these two groups come into contact.
The main character would be a “female” 2nd-generation (I’m still trying to think of an acronym or term here.). Approximately 26 years old (They live for 500 years before what serves as their brain breaks down and stops working. Something they have not attempted to solve, figuring that 500 years is more than enough time).
This character is something of an outsider amongst her own people. She has been…almost obsessed with humanity since birth. She listens to human music, she chose to become an archeologist, even restored a pair of Sennheiser brand headphones by hand, in an effort to better understand humanity. She’s something of a “hipster” in a weird way.
She questions the general wisdom that “while killing off humanity was a crime against nature, there was no other way as humans are extremely dangerous, unpredictable, and generally a threat, they would have destroyed each other eventually, etc”. She also has an extreme dislike of the stagnation that their society holds. While they do behave like humans, they also behave like machines (a duality). They don’t reproduce except to replace themselves, they are a utopia, but they are completely stagnating and she despises it internally. They do not search for deeper purpose, she does.
So she somehow encounters one of these parties sent out by the remaining survivors, tries to learn from them and gain their trust, does so, eventually she forgets to check in and security teams come out to find her, discover her with the humans, things happen, eventually there’s a resolution, etc.
Just a rough draft. Thank you for reading. Sorry for any spelling/grammar errors but when my creative juices are flowing I can’t stop lol.
Would greatly appreciate feedback. This would be either a series or a movie, HAND DRAWN. NO FUCKING CGI HORRIBLE LOOKING BULLSHIT.
Also TM motherfuckers.