Oh yes, but there was nine years between it and the first film.
I would simply posit that when it comes to impacting the sci-fi/cyberpunk genre, the first film stood alone for long enough to leave a mark all on its own, before the franchise really became, well, a franchise.
The SAC anime and Arise are also big favourites of mine, I just don’t credit them with being seminal sci-fi works, the way the initial manga and movie are.
Oh yes, but there was nine years between it and the first film.
I would simply posit that when it comes to impacting the sci-fi/cyberpunk genre, the first film stood alone for long enough to leave a mark all on its own, before the franchise really became, well, a franchise.
The SAC anime and Arise are also big favourites of mine, I just don’t credit them with being seminal sci-fi works, the way the initial manga and movie are.