“Meatball Machine makes the early aggressive cyberpunk endeavors of directors Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) and Sogo Ishii (Burst City) look like models of restraint and tranquility.”

• Kumiko Sato, How Information Technology Has (Not) Changed Feminism and Japanism: Cyberpunk in the Japanese Context, Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 41, Nr. 3/2004, pp. 335-355.

• Karen Collins, Dead Channel Surfing: the commonalities between cyberpunk literature and industrial music, in Popular Music (2005) Vol. 24/2, pp. 165–178.