Cybergoth vs Cyberpunk
サイバーゴス / サイバーパンク
Cybergoth comes from Subculture Style and Cyberpunk from Visions of the Future. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Cybergoth
Cybergoth starts with the black of goth and industrial dress, then adds rave neon, reflective surfaces, synthetic plastics, goggles and tubular hair pieces, completing its silhouette under ultraviolet and strobe light.
Cyberpunk
Advanced technology and ruined daily life share the same frame, so the future arrives as promise and as threat.
| Cybergoth | Cyberpunk | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | late 1990s–2000s | 1980s– |
| Family | Subculture Style | Visions of the Future |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | One neon color driven hard against black clothing / Long Cyberlox built from synthetic hair, foam and tubing / Goggles or respirator-like pieces at the head / Industrial surfaces in reflective tape, PVC, mesh and platform boots | Rainy nights / Multilingual neon / Dense cabling / Dark cities |
| Best used for | Building a figure for clubs, live performance and shoots around darkness and ultraviolet light · Joining goth darkness and rave saturation through industrial material | Speaking of technology's light and shadow together · Thick world-building for games and film |
| Type | Use one angular extended sans or machine-display face and repeat it at the same weight as the neon accents. | Angular sans, monospace, multiple scripts |
| Composition | Make Cyberlox the largest mass above, close the torso in black, and carry neon vertically to the platform shoes. | Stack information densely on dark planes |
| Material | Add one neon to black PVC, mesh, synthetic hair, foam and reflective tape, checking the result under UV. | Black, teal, red neon, raindrops |
| Caution | Black clothes with neon are not enough. Carry the inherited goth, industrial and rave elements through hair, material and club lighting. | Don't use Asian cities as a symbol of otherness. Make the fictional social order concrete. |