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While Japanese cyberpunk anime also explore the idea of cyber-transcendence, the clear distinction between immanence and transcendence often becomes blurred. Aesthetic concepts invoking transcendence can be linked to the awe-inspiring kami (deities) of Japanese Shinto, which are intertwined with the immanent sphere of reality rather than external to it. In Western cyberpunk, cyber-transcendence seems to provide the sense of depth that Paul Tillich labels the “dimension of religion”, in contrast to postmodernist meaninglessness. Cyberpunk anime provide an understanding of transcendence as a religious dimension that exists within reality.  \nKeywords  \nCyber Transcendence, Anime, Postmodernism, Dimension of Depth, Sublime, Japanese Shinto  \nBiography  \nMalte Frey works and lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. He started his ongoing dissertation on societal structures and therein proclaimed concepts of subjectivity as depicted in the technologically organized societies of postcyberpunk anime, in 2020 at the University of Fine Arts Münster, Germany. In 2018, he graduated from University of Münster in protestant religious education and in fine arts from the University of Fine Arts Münster, followed by working as an artist and exhibiting his paintings in numerous exhibitions.  \nSince then, he mainly focuses on his scholarly work, specializing in media-specific visual analysis in anime on the one hand and posthuman studies within the framework of (post-)cyberpunk fiction on the other. He is driven by a profound interest in the culture surrounding anime and manga as well as concepts of non-Western traditions, starting from a semester at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University in 2015/16 .  \n[www.jrfm.eu](www.jrfm.eu) 2023, 9/2, 41–66 Cyber-Transcendence and Immanence | 41  \nDOI: 10. 25364/05 .9:2023 .2.3  \nVisual fiction rooted within the cultural environment of Japan is rich with cyberpunk narratives, particularly in the medium of anime (Japanese animation) . The cyberpunk genre originally emerged within US-American literature and film with novels like William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) and movies like Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, USA 1982) . However, US-Cyberpunk hada significant impact on Japanese audiences due to its japanoid imaginary.1 Since then, but even before, a wide variety of visual cyberpunk narratives in the form of anime have been published in Japan.2  \nThis article argues that Japanese cyberpunk fictions incorporate religious elements and suggest the existence of a transcendent sphere invoked by technology, which I refer to as “cyber-transcendence”. This sphere appears to exist beyond the immanent realm of the physical world and offers the promise of escape or even salvation from the often-dystopian settings depicted in cyberpunk fiction. In a book published in 2012, media scholar Jiré Emine Gözen, through an extensive study of Western cyberpunk literature, finds that a majority of US-cyberpunk fiction implies the presence of this type of transcendence:  \nSometimes more, sometimes less strongly, the last pages often seem to suggest that the final frontier of human death will be overcome and life of the soul or the spirit beyond death is possible. This is often made possible by technological means in the form of digitizing of the consciousness, but other scenarios are proposed, portraying transcendence as the next step in humanity’s evolution.3  \nThe phenomenon of cyber-transcendence can be regarded as a religious element that provides meaning in the otherwise meaningless postmodern societies of cyberpunk. Transcendence, religion and postmodernism are concepts rooted within the Western cultural en","cbCaidGP7DIc3rCJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidGP7DIc3rCJ","pdf",1210333,26,"English","# Abstract\n# Biography\n# Introduction: Cyber-Transcendence and Immanence\n## Cyberpunk’s religious elements and the idea of transcendence\n## Western versus Japanese cyberpunk contexts\n# Western and Japanese Cyberpunk\n## Genre origins and characteristics\n# Argument structure and anime focus\n## Motives in the Western postmodern context\n## Religious references and visual concepts in selected anime","[{\"question\":\"What does “cyber-transcendence” mean in the article’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"Cyber-transcendence refers to a technologically invoked realm that suggests escape or salvation from dystopian cyberpunk settings. It is described as existing beyond the physical world’s immanent realm.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article distinguish immanence and transcendence in Japanese cyberpunk anime?\",\"answer\":\"The distinction is often blurred in Japanese cyberpunk anime. Transcendence is understood as remaining connected to and entangled within the immanent sphere of reality.\"},{\"question\":\"Which religious tradition does the article connect to visual concepts of transcendence in anime?\",\"answer\":\"The article links aesthetic ideas invoking transcendence to awe-inspiring kami of Japanese Shinto. These are presented as intertwined with the immanent world rather than external deities.\"}]","Cyber-Transcendence and Immanence as a Religio-Spiritual Phenomenon in Cyberpunk Anime | PDF",66]