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Sunny Recap: Black-Market Code


Underground robot fights? Contraband source codes? The yakuza? Baby, you’ve got a conspiracy going.

“Let’s hurry this along,” she orders the goons, who’re about to go to work on the subject of their interrogation with an electric drill like a couple of aspiring Brians De Palma, before returning to tell the younger woman, “You’re an artist, truly,” upon seeing the fake finger this young lady has fashioned for her. As soon as Suzie scans that hanko with her handheld device — it seems to be a translator that works for text as well as spoken language — a telescreen on the wall lights up with all-caps ads for all manner of gnarly shit: Homebot to Slavebot, reads one. The emcee introduces a combatant named Junko League, which triggers a memory for Suzie: She’s home in her bathrobe, playing ref as Masa and Zen, dressed in matching pajamas, prepare to wrestle in the living room.

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