His anime murals on the streets of Kyrgyzstan were vandalized more than once. But wodyone_dhc He didn’t stop, he learned. his new work, a mural of Lucy of Cyberpunk: EdgerUnners, it is not in any outdoor wall: it is inside a computer club, protected by its owner and by the clients who take care of it as their own.
The artist that the global fandom discovered from its vandalized murals
wodyone_dhc He did not seek the fame of the conventional way. The urban artist of Kyrgyzstan became known in anime communities around the world when his street murals, including works dedicated to Frieren: Beyond Journeys end and to REZE of Chainsaw Man, appeared vandalized on more than one occasion.
The irony did not go unnoticed: murals that celebrated characters loved by millions of people, destroyed by those who probably did not know, or did not care, what they represented. The images of the damage circulated on anime social networks and generated a reaction of indignation and massive support for the artist from communities in Japan, Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia.
The solution that no one expected: take the mural out of the street
The response of wodyone_dhc It was changing the context, not art. His new work is a mural of Lucy, the protagonist of Cyberpunk: EdgerUnners, the anime of Netflix and Studio Trigger that revived the global interest in Cyberpunk 2077 And it became one of the most emotionally shocking titles of the last decade.
This time, the mural is inside a local computer club in Kyrgyzstan, in a private space where the people around it understand the value of what they see and take care of it as their own. The artist confirmed directly: this time he is sure that no one is going to ruin him.
Why Lucy and why now
Cyberpunk: EdgerUnners It has one of the most loyal fan communities of the recent anime. Lucy’s story remains one of the most heartfelt moments in anime in recent years. Painting it in a computer club also has a thematic coherence that the fandom appreciates: the series lives at the cross between technology and humanity, and that context is, in a certain sense, the most honest possible for a mural of its own.
The fandom as a protection system
The decision solves the problem of vandalism in the most elegant way possible: not through formal surveillance, but through community. The people who frequent that space share the same cultural universe that the mural represents, they will not damage it, they will take care of it.
