Yeah it was really well done! With the eyes shivering. And when you are going insane even more, the whole body shivering. But why exactly does the body shiver when you are going down the road of cyberpychosis? Was David's Sandevistan activating all while he was shivering? What do you guys think causes those eye shiverings? Also a common theme in cyberpychosis seems to be thinking about your past. For example, Maine fought about his past when he was a soilder and almost no cyberware. I think he walked to night city on foot and that is why we saw that road. And david also sees his past layed on top of the things actually going. The past with his mother.
Something that most people don't realize is that David completed all 3 dreams that were given to him, he made it to the top of Arasaka Tower, he made it big time, and he got Lucy to the moon.
Neither it was his mom's wish to get to top of arasaka tower as mecha cyber psycho. Nor it was Maine's dream to get whole Edgerunners group wiped. He completed every dream only seemingly.
He achieved those dreams in the most broken, ironic, self-defeating ways possible. He stood atop Arasaka Tower as a gangster on a suicide mission, which is not at all what his mother wanted. He lived up to Maine's legacy as another chromed out cyber psycho. He saved Lucy and sent her to the moon when he had finally become more important to her than any lunar vacation.
@@jonathankraig425 I was fully expecting everyone to die but the fact Lucy survived and was left all alone - once again - absolutely broke me. I think it was made even worse by only watching the outro on the last episode...the ending theme "Let you down" fucking hits home right after watching the show and after the final scene with Lucy.
@@AkinaGhost yeah i knew david was a goner for sure but they did such a great job of making you hope he’d survive. I just wanted them to be happy at the end
@@jonathankraig425 some one talk to me. i'm really sad now. the ending was heartbreaking. why even introduce a romantic aspect to a show just to break our hearts in the end. got too attached to the characters.
I was having such a great time listening to the song after watching episode 2 and now after finishing the show, it'll never be the same for me ever again. I tear up every time I hear it.
@@shadowfoxnz7894 I think it would he really dope to do like 2 more seasons but each with different characters and so on. And make it 13 episodes... my only problem with egde runners was it was 10 episodes instead of 13 heck even 12
I was sold when David’s mom started crying, talking about how she understood what her son was going through and how much love and effort she puts into raising her son as an only mother. My heart just sank, thinking about how much my own parents have sacrificed just so we didn’t have to live on the streets.
You know an anime was truly something magnificent when once it's over, tears run down your face knowing it's over and you're left with this sense of longing for each and every character. I'm sad to see it go but it burned bright as fuck when I got to experience it, I could feel the sun.
When David was like “I don’t know how to drive,” and started crashing into lampposts… I stood up and clapped. Never had my gaming experience been translated so authentically to another medium. Seriously the cars drove like absolute booty cheeks before installing mods.
Unlike with Arcane, I feel like having played the video game beforehand seriously elevated my immersion with the show, TRIGGER stayed incredibly faithful to the game's UI, weapons, characters, and city locations to the point where I don't even know if there was a single scene where you wouldn't be able to recognize the scenery in the background from the game. It honestly blew me away.
It gave me a super weird nostalgic feeling when I recognized specific streets from the game. It’s the only time I’ve ever watched an anime and thought “Holy shit I’ve BEEN there!”
While i prefer arcane to edgerunners overall, both are absolutely fantastic in their own right. They are two opposite on how to do an adaption of an established game and whats so neat is that both could not be better. They are both insane and i cant believe they came out within a year of each other.
The writing was the absolute best here. In such a short show, they achieved what most series can't do in 22-36 episodes. I actually cared and then they devastated me.
@@bigbabyh.a.m.6896 nah i would definetly say writing was one of them especiellz since they stuck to the landing unlike 90% of fictional media which screws up the ending.
5:44 Mother's Basement had an interview with the CDPR Producer. He confirmed that going into space was from Studio Trigger. In the original draft scripts, Lucy had some unspecified dream that David would try to help her accomplish. Trigger thought it would be going to the Moon, where the Mega Corps don't have as much power. Edit: Changed wording of last sentence.
I didn't tell that to anyone i talked about the show and knew about the game. I thought, no way they're hinting towards the games' bug/issues. That's because the show is basically marketing towards the game, so it would make no sense. But yeah, you're probably right lol.
I used to listen to “I really want to stay at your house” whilst driving around NC and even waiting outside the mission area on purpose for it to finish, just thinking “damn this would go hard if it was adapted in some way…” … Roughly one year later, this gem drops.
I call cap, no one has played this game enough to find a favorite song. It's so bad I went back and tried to play it after watching edge runners and immediately uninstalled again.
late to the party but just watched the show. holy crap. I LOVE the fact the romantic interests actually had meaningful progression although with a 10 ep limit it felt just a touch rushed. Going into it I did not expect the show to be as dark as it ended up being and I was NOT READY. Feels, lots and lots of feels from a show I thought would just be a throwaway action thriller.
@@arthurius_3022 Same. Finished the show 30 minutes ago and had to rewind the last bit. But on second thought I'm really glad they chose the ending they did instead of some "happy ever after" stuff
@@r0vul143 I finished yesterday and that's the thing, it's a really good ending but it's very tragic. That's why it stick with us so much. Man I feel so empty godamn
Having played the game before going into the show, theres not THAT much more you'll notice, but it's nice knowing that they kept a lot of the locations in the show while also staying really faithful to the style of cybernetics, guns, and aesthetic.
There are a few places you will recognize. A lot of scenes are just outright taken from places within teh game, and I don't mean the iconic ones. Trigger must have played the game looking for places to shoot, and wouldnt suprise me if they just "filmed" in game scenes to get the feeling of it.
"not that much you'll notice" wtf does this mean lol. if you are watching a show and paying attention you will notice many things. Do you mean notice anything incredibly new? I have not finished the game because I have a PS4 and its shite, but there were some things kinda fresh to me. what it looks like to deep dive, sandevistans, better text/call system because in game it seems like i get 20 texts in 10 seconds.
There isn't a single other show that made me this attached and emotional about a group of character, and that was in 10 episodes. It's become one of my favorites and I'm still in shock from finishing this amazing show.
I didnt know anything about cyberpunk before this show, all I knew were the t-poses. And even with that outlook o was completely invested in the show due to its stellar storytelling, characters, music, and overall style.
God I feel like I'm the only one who sees this as lazy writing to get sympathy for a character. School bullies, over worked mom, poor area, I mean jesus and now Gigguk praises this?
@@dericmederos1514 idk bro like I didn't really care much when the chars died , was even kinda happy to see Adam smasher kill em like, idk I usually care for chars n stuff but I just couldn't bring myself to give 2 fks abt the characters , I get they were trying to be realistic rather than overdramatic IG but yea
At the end, I felt completely devoid of emotion, but not because there was no emotion, but because the final episode completely spent my mental energy... I was just gob smacked, and didn't even know what to do with myself after. Everyone's felt it once or twice in life, that feeling that you have to speak to someone you love? I felt like that after Edge Runners ended.
You put it in words! I've talked to my friends about this show and the best thing I could quantify about it was "I finished the last episode, exhaled for about a minute, then went to bed without thinking about it at all." I told them not to watch it because it left me confused but the longer I've thought about it the more I want other people to watch it, at least so I can talk to people who know what we saw and unpack it.
It's not just Easter eggs, it's everything. I remember multiple times in the show where they show a location and I was like "hey i know this place" , where they show cars and i was like "hey i know this car", where they show weapons and i was like "hey i know this weapon" etc etc. The story is as cannon the game as it could be and ties perfectly into it.... And even with that condition, they managed to craft such a beautiful story
The little cameos of buildings or some characters really helped me get into the world too. Trigger did a perfect job of capturing Night City both in terms of style and its hostility
@@blakebridges8989 It takes place years beforehand, though by how much I'm not sure. But there's a few characters that are alive in the anime that aren't in the game, and you can pick up certain items from the anime later on in the game.
@@blakebridges8989 before, tho not too long before... There's a drink called "David Martinez " in the afterlive of the game, tho wakako, the one who sent out Julio still exists. So at max like 20 years before but more likely 5 - 10 years
@@blakebridges8989 according to the fandom wiki atleast the last episode takes place in 2076 so a year before the main game though I have no idea where they get that info from or how accurate it is.
One of the rules of a cyberpunk setting is that life is moving so fast that the characters can't ever seem to find a moment to catch their breath. There's intentionally no downtime in the story as that's part of the setting. In night city people live fast and die young. And yet... underneath that there's a beautiful concept. (spoilers) The anime is about two people, David and his mother stretching themselves to the absolute limit to give the person that they love most the moon. That impossible to reach place that only exists in dreams.
Fun Fact: The average life expectancy in the New United States is only 53 years old despite being a much more technologically advanced setting. The reason? Violence. Anyone past this point is either lucky or rich.
@@graphite7898 They're referring to the NEW United States. It's the current USA in the Cyberpunk Universe. No agenda pushing here brother, just facts about this baller fictional universe.
@@ethanrajczak3041 I'm fucking stupid, I apologize greatly. I assume everything negative about the US is a political statement because I see it all the time💀 Good message to tell me to play the game already, damn I feel dumb (also cool to see that the game has just that much lore in it, with life expectancy and all)
@@graphite7898 lol no prob choom, I fully understand that feeling. The video game is lore rich, but the setting is also info heavy cause of the tabletop. Some seriously good shit if you are into that or just like reading wikis.
It really impresses me how well the game's endings and the anime's ending mirror each other. Bittersweet is my dressing of choice, and a cyberpunk's end is nothing but that. They absolutely nailed it.
Totally Agree! I have even reinstalled the game just to be apart of this world again and to make sure I UTTERLY ANNIHILATE a certain enemy. This anime brought some life back to the game and anime as a whole IMO.
@@carn1fex_ because all the endings share the same themes of cyberpunks being remembered by how they die - that all of them have tragic to at best bitter-sweet endings. your taste is shit and your opinion is wrong, anime is banging. local man no joke complains that cyberpunk is colourful. the setting literally defined by bright fucking coloured neon lights
A lot of the reason it hit so hard for me is bc we rarely get well-made tragedy these days, esp in more mainstream media. The ending is sad, for sure, but it's cathartic. It's a safe sorrow the way that horror movies are a safe terror. Too often stories go for tragedy and end up in motiveless grimdark and it's exhausting. I once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you're supposed to empathize with and see yourself in, and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone's life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you 'this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don't succeed your attempts matter.' Grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters, well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much, your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending or if you lose it along the way. People have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not and in a reality that has no concept of 'fair' that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it's COMFORTING (
Well said. I like grimdark to a degree, depending on how you define it, but I think the word you were going for there is "nihilism". And you're absolutely right about Edgerunners--it's a tragedy, for sure, but it is a very well-told one, and it is not nihilistic. That's the thing I love about the world of Cyberpunk, the Cyberpunk 2077 game, and this anime--it is dark, and it shows darkness and depravity for what it is, but it celebrates characters who don't give in to all of that, even if they struggle terribly and don't very often succeed. There is beauty in that kind of portrayal of life.
Oh, you have wonderfully put into words what I could not! My father browses Netflix all day all night (retired old man), and of all the times I watched whatever show was on his TV... I always thought how meaningless the show felt, but I couldn't tell what made it meaningless. Then there's Edgerunners here, which I watched on my own in another TV simply because Studio Trigger. The protagonist and his crew died like the ones I saw on dad's TV, but Edgerunners was meaningful. Memorable. Brilliant.
I think Gigguk maybe missed that all the tracks played in the show are straight from the game itself. So when you have played the game and hear a track in the anime you feel everything, because you were there too. Cruising around Night City listening to these very songs while the world played out around you. Stunning.
@@zainali5917 Literally was able to run this on high settings on a used 300 dollar asus gaming laptop. Bounght a 500 dollar laptop replacement just to run it better at 120 FPS and Ultra settings :P
@@kuroshinko427 only it wasn´t really a bug, was it? They just didn´t have a better system in place. It felt like a placeholder system, they didn´t have the time to replace with an actual system before launch (same for the crowd system and traffic system).
@@MrGLUb If you liked Cyberpunk I think Fate/Stay Night and the movies are a way to go. Awesome animation and non-bullshit pacing. After the first fight scene you'll be convinced. It's more of a fantasy vs. reality thing though. I thought for a while but it's hard to find something similar to Cyberpunk honestly, it's that unique of a show.
@@MrGLUbStudio Trigger is the studio that animated this, starting with their other masterpieces would be a good start if you like their style. Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill are both great and just as fast paced.
The song “I really want to stay at your house” makes me extremely sad but helps me reminisce how much of a masterpiece this anime was. I’m glad I got to experience it
I'm glad I accidentally came across it in my youtube music shuffle and was like ayo this is hype & slaps. Then I watched the show and was like OH the songs from this show? Where is it? I'm 8 episodes in and I haven't heard it yet! Boom, then it hits me....
@@Jakepf its actually a radio song in the game lmao. all the songs in the anime were in the game and it shows. the production quality of the soundtrack was amazing.
I hate it because she's not even really a loli, she's just a woman that isn't traditionally busty or anything. If anything Becca is more like a gremlin trope, something Trigger uses in most of its series, than she is a loli lol. I hate that people see small chest and instantly think loli character also I'm very glad Becca got to stay. I love her.
@@Castardly I agree but in the interview and idk how close to actuality the wording they used was cdpr developer said “ lolis dont exist in cyberpunk” then she said trigger said “the loli stays” so it might be her interpretation/form of what was actually said. But also its bs cause when you got that weeb music on body heat radio. Ya theirs gonna be people that are gonna wanna make themselves like anime character or all cuties etc.
@@Castardly Loli: "young-looking girl" "small in frame" "age is ignored" Don't really see how that doesn't apply. I mean loli doesn't mean actually and literally a child so what's the problem here exactly?
I swear everytime I heard the song my heartstrings are pulled and the feeling floods back in. Crazy how much a good audio track can create such a strong emotional connection to a show.
Even crazier is the song was written for the game, probably a few years ago now, and TRIGGER was able to use an existing song from the game superbly in the anime.
Gigguk just knows how to take all the jumbled disheveled thoughts I have in my head about a series and put them into the most poetic and beautiful sentences.
I know right he really does amazing anime essay with the thoughts and emotions, and delves deep into the characters and setting. I really love his vids. Also gives great recommendations, finished Cyberpunk edge runners when it came out, nearly wanted to cry after finishing it. Too bad they cant contiue Davids story, I wanted more, but it was a good finish
@@Anim0sityy I mean the ending was bad becuz of the plot armor. Lucy knew what Arasaka (the bigass corp that enslaved her once) wanted to do with him and Lucy also stopped caring about the moon, her dream changed to him being with her, just a couple of words could have changed everyhting. Or just making chooms to earn $$$$ and then going to the moon. After all they already had an expensive flat and $$$, not to tell how dumb of him was to chrome up so much. Even David died thinking he fulfilled her dream when in reality he didn't. I can also talk about how dumb David's mom was for not breaking but meh.... let's leave it.
@@MrMadmaggot It sounds like you're just mad that everything didn't go exactly how you wanted it to for a happy ending, that's not the definition of plot armor, that's just a narrative. In a world where if you don't fit in with the Corpo bigwigs, your two alternatives are being a bum, or if you're lucky, poor, or doing illegal shit. If you weren't aware, doing illegal shit, especially in Cyberpunk's universe, is dangerous, so you'd want to get and upgrade shit tons of cyberware to ensure you don't die, and the line is too fine, most don't have the privilege of having a balance, they either aren't chromed enough and die and early death, or chrome up too much and go into cyberpsychosis. It's a cyberpunk tale through and through, you either go quietly with the flow of the corporations, or you fight back and get snuffed out, becoming something of a legend. David was always gonna die in that line of work.
It is crazy how something that I could just binge in one night got me so attached to the characters. I get goosebumps from seeing certain scenes. The ending left me with that empty pit in my stomach, but it was impactful.
Yeah that's kind of why imo it felt a bit rushed. Not necessarly that the story didn't come through well enough, but because I liked the characters so much that I wanted to spend more time with them. Basically they only showed us their missions where someone died or something really major happened, while I would like to have seen them just doing a couple normal-ish missions and see them build up their relationships with each other and all of that good stuff (just to be clear I didn't want them to do 2 or 3 more seasons or anything, but maybe 15-20 episodes instead of 10). That being said I still absolutely loved the anime
I think it's important to understand that the music for the entire anime was in the game to be begin with and was merely adapted for the story of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, That's how great the soundtrack in Cyberpunk 2077 is!
Rewatched in dub and wow. Becca's VA fits EXTREMELY well. She did outstanding in this. Some others as well like David and Lucy, too. But she really stood out
Edgerunners is great but Arcane is one level better simply because Edgerunners suffers from pacing issues. It did everything else right. While Arcane did everything right from the start imo.
David slowly losing his humanity by following Maines's footsteps, Lucy eventually making her dream come true. Let me tell you something: when great storytelling like this meets smooth and eye-pleasing visuals and animations a masterpiece is created. Amazing anime, probably the best anime of 2022 imo
" Lucy eventually making her dream come true" She didn't her dream was to be with David more than to go to the moon, it was even more painful to her to be there alone. She didn't just lose the one she loved the most: David, also all her friends from the gang. "Let me tell you something: when great storytelling l" I cannot agree with that either, the plot armor was there. Lucy not telling him her true dream and not telling him what she found on Tanaka's head, cause all that shit on the end. They both were ready to die for each other but they couldn't tell each other the truth?????? damn
@@MrMadmaggot yeah the ending ruined it so much for me. I know this genre isn't supposed to end well and most people are fine with that, but man I liked the characters and wanted them to be happy, lol. Endings like this make me rate a 10/10 show 7 at most. And the sad part is that the ending is the thing I remember the most (and the impression it left on me) and when that's not good in my eyes, I wouldn't recommend the show to anyone and probably forget it entirely.
@@tiltedbybox6118 You're entitled to your opinion of course, but in terms of story-telling, animation, cinematography, relatability, they truly hit the nail on this one. I take it you prefer a bit of a cliché happy ending instead of a human one, because that lack of communication on both Lucy and David is truly relatable in human behavior nowadays and is a perfectly placed example of how things could've gone totally different but didn't. I think saying you "wouldn't recommend the show to anyone and forget it entirely" is highly unfair to such a masterpiece since you said yourself you knew what you signed up for, "I know this genre isn't supposed to end well..". That was precisely their aim with the anime, to have us fully immerse in the Night City experience, hit us with so many different emotions and truly connect with the characters on a personal level. The fact that the ending hurt you, me, and all of its fans this much only proves how great a job they did. Props TRIGGER 👏
@@NahIdWinLobotomyKaisen I agree, although communication seems so "obvious" to us that's because we are the watchers and are aware it's the easiest answer. In today's society with all the social media that kind of stuff also doesn't happen. Communication is lacking even for the most mundane problems. Or at least that's my opinion on what I see from other people I know. Additionally Lucy was super scared of Arasaka. Just given her reaction shes was probably paranoid and wanted to handle it herself. That is a common human behavior, to handle things yourself so that the person you care about isn't burdened. To "shield" them from the danger you are aware of instead of asking for help. Is it the correct answer? No but it's a pitfall millions of people will fall into.
This anime drew me in, absolutely destroyed me mentally, and was gone just as sudden as it popped up. So now I sit drowned in depression as well as happiness from the characters stories and the tragic story they’re stuck in. And I’m finding it difficult to crawl out of this mental abyss because “I really wanna stay at your house”, And “let you down” have grown on my so much and my love for the songs keeps them on repeat. Meanwhile, they imprison me in this void. Longing for more of these characters.
Maines episode had probably the best visual storytelling i have ever seen in an anime, it was able to convey everything you needed to know about him and his past in a short few segments than what could be said in episodes.
It was great, but the best visual storytelling? Nah. Watch any ep of texhnolyze, paprika, serial experiments lain, sonny boy, angles egg, 2001 nights, belladone of sadness, ext
I felt like the production and how trigger handled it was absolutely phenomenal,l. But the story felt lacking. Like, even though there is this whole backstory element, it just exemplifies that his entire life revolves around edgerunning, with no real reason as to why. And this scene felt wrong to me just because I wasn’t that connected to the characters, as there isn’t really any time given to understand them in any way. Nor are many of them given any real intrigue except maine. Even the though the framing is just unparalleled, the substance of it just Isn’t there. Which is really a shame, because of how good everything looks and feels.
Yeah, my issue with current movies is that they spend too much time on exposition thus taking away from the movie itself. I wish more tv shows/movies would do something simple like you mentioned, it tells you about the character without taking away the flow of the show/movie.
It's in Cyberpunk universe so of course. But yeah I'm worried a bit because Netflix episode dumping might make it lose hype but I'm glad it wasn't the case with this anime
Binged this entire show in a day. Bought Cyberpunk 2077. Now I'm rewatching with my wife. Anytime I hear "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" while playing the game, I damn near start crying. Imaishi is the best modern anime director hands down. Every single one of his shows has been expertly crafted and written. There's no wonder 4 of my top 5 anime are from him.
@@KevinDevZ The storyline and city atmosphere is perfect. It is as good as the shoow, even all locations in the show are in game. I haven't really seen any bugs in my 90 hour gameplay (i'm playing on ps5, it runs in stable 60 fps). Characters are really well written, city is built with many details. There is also big DLC comming in this year that will make this game even more awesome. I definetly recommend it to you!
Same here binged it with my friend who havent seen any anime in his life and he loved it too, and bought cp77 week later and now u bought phantom liberty
"I may have missed a few easter eggs here and there" Everywhere. Literally jam packed. Everything in the show was an easter egg. Including the totally not over the top Arasaka convoy smashing through traffic and the music lol.
When I first heard Trauma Team sounds immediately after some of the characters fucked up their client I laughed and screamed “it’s the exact same time limit like in the game”
i love how in the english dub they say something along the lines of "dammit. ncpd just keeps on coming. it's like they are appearing out of thin air." One of the best references in the game.
It was this show that made me realize that the saddest ending I can ever experience from a show is watching a happy future disappear before it can happen. It’s not a tearful ending where I’m crying uncontrollably but an ending that hits hard. An ending that leaves me feeling bitter, an ending that bothers me and leaves me frustrated by just thinking about it. All in all, it’s a great show. I don’t regret watching it at all.
You described my feelings perfectly, had a complete sense of emptiness, i could almost feel Lucy's emotions looking at her empty eyes, up alone on the moon without David. They really did deserve a happy ending, that's what makes it so tragic. I also cried like a bitch, not after watching it but the day afterwards, thinking about Lucy and David and what could've been even in relation to things that have happened in my own life, my own sense of loneliness at times. I think it's the saddest I have ever been having watched any show.
@@XBullitt16X I just finished it , and you explained it perfectly . I just feel empty . Almost like the anime was a brain dance and the end was like taking off the headset to reality. We truly got to experience the feeling of how citizens feel in nightcity everyday. This show is amazing
What i really love is how in depth they went with the game everywhere in that anime is somewhere in the game not just a random place made up for story. Even the music track is from the game as well and it just really shows the love and dedication they put into the anime with how in depth they went into the game.
That’s the best part about it the producer and director of the anime both played the game in its entirety to get that exact experience of the game in The show
Night City is small so you get to remember lots of it compared to other games such as GTA. I enjoyed how most of the shots you can pretty much know what part of the city it is
I heard that its better to play the game first but I dont feel like spending £50 to watch an anime so I watched it first but now I wont to play the game.
This was the first show in years that I think about days after it ended, I didn't know what to expect but I got one of the best anime I've watched in the last 15 years
Yes I agree. Even though it’s 10 episodes it didn’t feel rushed but packed with quality. That being said I kind of feel Lucy’s and Davids relationship could have been paced more slowly
Just like Gigguk said. I didn’t think Trigger had it in them to tell a cyberpunk story. It’s actually quite outside their wheelhouse. So they definitely blew my expectations
@@Altmer353 The basic story outline likely was about it. The animes entire script, all the characters and their designs, and the direction was done by Trigger. I think CDPR had far less to do with the result than some people want to admit
@@fearedjames script was literaly writen by game writers, together with Pondsmith. Same with characters. You can even find old character design created by cdpr artists before they were recreated in anime style. Trigger did animation, added some changes to characters and directed action scenes.
Isn't that misinformation? I heard they didn't want to introduce Rebecca because she was a loli, but rather because they felt that there were enough characters and didn't want to add more later in production. Edit: apparently I misheard
The ending was like ninjas cutting onions and cheering at a football game for your favorite team at the same time. The yearning for more but knowing it ended gives you a rush of emotion like you are part of it, standing right there with the connection of real-life standing behind you.
Honestly, I'm happy that we got a story with a definitive start and end. There's no coming back for the gang. They didn't get hit with the Soulkiller, shit most of them don't even have living relatives. The Edgerunners ended with David and that really hits home.
SPOILERS I wished for a happy ending between David and Lucy because they care so much about each other but what I got was honestly a better representation how much they actually care about each other
I feel like the entire ending sequence is perfect as a cyberpunk story as well. With the game and the show it's all about the journey and how everything builds to get to the final gig but once your there everything is already in place and for better or worse it's all going down and it's going down right now. The "final gig" is almost like its own entire story with character introductions and deaths and story arcs
I've never been a big Trigger fan but Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a huge surprise, from the characters to the atmosphere & the bloody action all of em were great. Not to mention really good music & english dub.
Lol just stop with that acting like it’s anything different from usual as MOST to ALL English dubs are fantastic and phenomenal! People just need to place the respect onto that as MOST English dub anime has been great to amazing to fantastic for the last 20 years entirely so. People just need to clean their ears and actually PLACE respect where it’s there. Seriously.
@@Gadget-Walkmen I got your back bro. People act like we're still watching speed racer when they complain about dub. Erika Harlacher is my favorite actor, even including live action actors.
I wanted this show to never end, just to keep watching it for all eternity. The straight emptiness I felt after I finished watching it still tears me apart. All I have left is the soundtrack I added to my playlist, and what I keep on repeat to get me by. I didn't know I needed something until I lost it. 🙃
Yeah I have the same feeling. I had to force myself to watch the last two episodes even if I didn't want to. And now I feel empty. It's been three days since I finished watching and I can't get the ending out of my head
Do you have a shareable anime Playlist? I use tidal for my music streaming. Or if you have a TH-cam one I'd also accept that. I recently finished bleach and I love their OST especially Hajime No Ippo. Fucking amazing workout music. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽.
IF you did play the game, the level of appreciation is so much stronger. The way they implemented so many aspects from the game into the show is incredible. From the ringtones, to the minimap, the hacking and the general look and feel of the city and the badlands is just insane. Incredible show
@@ExodusCore I played on PC at launch on a powerful rig and had a good time. Fav game of all time? Nah. But the city, the story telling and the music, the graphical tech, all stellar. The game shoulda never come out on last gen consoles, that I can agree with. Typical internet guy “YOU LIKE SOMETHING THAT I DONT, IMPOSSIBLE!!” Btw, Cyberpunk 2077 has a higher concurrent play record than the Witcher 3… so leave your dumb opinions at the door.
@@mrpetebojangles21 I played on an Xbox One X at launch and sure I had some bugs and frame skips when riding a bike too fast but it ran surprisingly well compared to many other people's experiences, and it runs smooth as butter now with patch 1.6 so I gotta disagree, the game definitely deserves to exist on last gen consoles
I just want to say, because you talked about how CD Projekt RED creating the "cyberpunk 2077 universe," Mike Pondsmith really deserves a lot more credit than this review gives him. CD did a really good job of bringing visuals into this but Mike invented this universe with his tabletop games from way back in 1988. The 2077 game is just building on his existing universe
They just used characters you meet in certain canon gigs, like Johnny and Saboro and Adam Smasher. Took that storyline modified it and ran like hell with that ball. But all and all Mike Pondsmith did a phenomenal job with world building to make a truly dystopian world where all that matters is if you have the Eddie's to survive another day and if you have proper medical coverage. I found Cyberpunk RED. To be a bit more fun than the original for TTRPGS. But both are phenomenal. It was nice that CDPR gave anyone who bought a copy a code to get the original TTRPG as a free pdf from their site. I know a lot of people that actually got into the hobby because of that little freebie giveaway.
Such a breath of fresh air an anime that characters can curse, have sex and real intimacy. Also breasts with actual nipples. It feels much more natural and mature than the typical shonnen fan service. Also amazing plot with no beating around and beautiful animation.
@Robert Reynolds yes, I agree. But the style and plot requires naturally require "edgy" stuff , and it was all tastefully. And real intimacy is something that 99% of the animes lacking, be it either by age restriction or bad screenplay.
This show is the epitome of Johnny's word "For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people". There is no happy ending, no closure, just the bittersweet depressed feeling that the song "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" leaves you everytime you hear it.
I hate being that guy, but I think you meant to say "Epitome" not "Epiphany". Epitome means it's a perfect example of a certain quality or message. Epiphany is a sudden realisation of a great truth. I still 100% agree with what you said though, there are no happy endings here, just sweetness of memory to try and dull the bitter pill of loss. And the sickly feeling of pain and nostalgia when you remember everything that brought you to where you are. How far you feel, or what you had to sacrifice along your journey.
I feel people want Cyberpunk to be way more cynical than it actually is - and are somehow enjoying this implanted pessimism. But it's not really that bleak... [SPOILERS] Anime literally ends with Lucy embracing the light. Someone seeing that ending and thinking it's NOT deeply optimistic is a bit weird to me. Also... Despite the quote you shared, most of game's endings are also optimistic. One that is not comes with the game actually booing you for your decisions. Night City is often described as a prison, Lucy even calls it a 'prison of light'. Of course, it's not an actual prison of body, but one of soul. People can't escape it not because it's impossible to just get out of it, but because they are chasing something self-destructive inside of it. For some it's just about monetary reasons so essential to this hyper-capitalist dystopia. That's why every ending that presents characters being able to get out is highly symbolic - they are finally free. If that's not a great closure, what is... Cyberpunk is not very subtle. Everything it wants to say is fairly transparent, that's why I'm a bit baffled by this forced nihilism. P.S: Sorry, Bird Boi, this was not aimed specifically at you, but to many-many comments made in this vein I saw on the web. Cheers! ^^
I got so attached to the characters, and yet if you watched every episode back to back, that would've only made a 3 or 4 hours film, this says a lot about the overall quality of this anime
Edgerunners is reminiscent of Cowboy Bebop due to the extreme degree of romanticization of what is happening, which actually fits perfectly with the mood that the game's story set. Live in obscurity or die as a legend of Nightcity.
I think a Cyberpunk anime spin-off to edge runners in the episodic fashion of cowboy bepop would also work (if the production quality of edgerunners is maintained)
one thing I want to point out, David pretty early on in the show actually developed cyberpsychosis. On the official wiki for cyberpunk it states one of the first symptoms is feeling abnormal or like you're different or superior to others. David right after being able to use the sandevistan basically has this mindset, which means right from the get go he was developing symptoms.
I always had the theory that cyberpsychosis is inevitable once you get too chromed up in cyberpunk, but some rare peoples have a functional psychosis like Adam Smasher. He's a total nutjob and has all the symptoms of cyberpsychosis, it's just that it seems like he can "control" it.
Rule of cool and the thematic nature of the show gives it a pass but using immune suppressant medication to stop psychotic episodes is laughable. It would have made more sense for individuals with lots of cybernetics to take anti psychotic injections and medications like invega in addition to their immune suppressants that would have been a nice touch. Though it would mean the psychosis is treatable which takes away the terminal illness vibes the show was giving.
i wished my best bud did the same with me, cuz he played the game and liked it. i know he wont watch it but that fkt^rd doesnt even wanna talk to me about edgerunners fml
You nailed it when you mentioned that you felt invested in these characters even though we had such a short episode count. I've never watched such a short series before and came away this impressed. Really hope they make more stories in this universe.
Yes, they really nailed a sentiment everyone that watched the show also felt, what a truly unique viewpoint this TH-camr has on the show. Enlightening.
The moment you thought you got over the empty, bittersweet feeling that followed after the end, Gigguk comes, returns it and ensures that "I really wanna stay at your house" really stays in your head.
To see their relationship evolving so quickly, and yet so naturally, and the way it all comes down just as fast, lefts you with a feeling of emptiness. The feeling that we were supposed to feel. That scene on the moon was so magical.
Got chills at 11:07. That song always hit hard even in the game while driving around Night City, and it hit the feels even harder now. Btw there's no denying that the game had a terrible launch, but they have since fixed a lot of its issues and its a lot more polished now with patch 1.6 also adding DLCs from Edgerunners where you can find Rebecca's guns and contact Falco on a side mission where you can get David's jacket.
What hurts me so much is that lucy's dream isn’t about going to the moon. At first she wanted to leave from the night city, but after meeting David, ger goals changed to something like saving David From Arasaka(in episode 6, she found out that David is a test subject for the company or something like that) and leaving the night city with him.The moon is merely a symbol of her desire to leave where she is right now.So,in the end, nobody's dreams came true.
Absolutely. I think when I was younger, the ending may have irked me, but I've come to appreciate the more bittersweet and tragic endings in anime and other media. Happy endings are nice, but life isn't like that, sadly; and it's these kind of stories that stick with me more.
Yup. His review of Your name. had me weeping by the end. IIRC he also did the video for A Place Further than the Universe that made me weep, too. And when I say weep, I don't mean just crying, I mean snot, sobs, the whole nine yards. Though that said, that could very well just be because both of those anime made me weep when I watched them, but he does capture the feeling of these types of shows in his videos about them, for sure.
I suspect that CDPR only commissioned one season of this show not expecting it to resonate so well with Cyberpunk fans and non fans alike. The fact that it's very much canon with the game is also a sweetener. No, not just the setting and cameos but the game was patched to include references to certain characters and a quest line that basically unlocks David's cool jacket and Rebecca's shotgun if you look hard enough.
@@NotTsurugi It hasn't always been in the game, they added it in 1.5 and the Edgerunners update was 1.6. Still pretty cool of them to add it as foreshadowing of the anime to come
I genuinely believe this is one of, if not the best, more mature aimed anime in the last 10 years. The topics it touches are easily translated to modern equivalents to make it relatable and at the same time, a thrilling romance tragedy. I've also never seen anime handle casual nudity in such an adult way, practically ignored in most scenes that it's involved in. This and the genuine romance that grows throughout the show in a way no silly fan-service filled harem "romance" ever could. The industry needs to make a conscious shift to start churning out more content like this for the now adults that started watching as young teens in the 90s. TLDR: 10/10 masterpiece that the entire industry needs to take notes on. bravo to trigger, best work yet.
This kinda gave me the feels Arcane gave last year. They really did a great job of creating a vibe and atmosphere that you wont get anywhere else! I hope Netflix will follow this path for the next projects.
Is this a matter of Netflix aren't just CDPR and riot want to make a show and just use Netflix as a place to watch it idk if they invloved in any of these
@@marcinsadowski7230 yes, i meant to say that they are a big showcase for shows, so i hope they'll take more projects like this or like Arcane in the future, and not things like Record of Ragnarock
Everything about the series is incredible... even the audio, the original voice actors did their job wonderfully and the sounds of all the actions in the series are incredible
It speaks wonders about the quality of the product when the biggest complaint I have is that there isn’t enough of it,10 episodes is too little for how much I got attached to these characters. They still got me to care about them a lot but 2 or 3 more episodes to flesh them out and build Lucy and David’s relationship more would make this anime literally perfect.
@@raec5426 i was really shocked when i started the anime saturday morning and was done before dinner. I was shocked at how fast i finished the entire thing
At least it wasn’t a pacing mess like BNA. That one needs more episode than how much this anime needs more. Besides, I think the world-building was more prioritized on this anime than the characters, and it kinda feels enough for me.
@@snowhunter7536 it did felt like enough,I honestly feel satisfied with what we got,but I can’t deny that a little more would push this show from amazing to perfect. I’m not even asking for that much because I also believe that the fast pace is the charm of this show. I’ve seen people saying it should’ve ended in ep6 and a second part with the rest we got,that would feel way too slow and would kill that chaotic nature this show handles so well.
I knew it was coming and death flags were everywhere, but goddamn the ending hit me right in the feels and the song still tightens a knot in my chest even days after
There were some death spoilers in the game too, like the fact there was a '' David Martinez '' drink in the Afterlife, many people who played the game knew that David dies from episode 1
Just watched it and had to comeback here, great show 100% agree with the episode 6, and I really wish this was a one week one episode schedule. Because it is already fast and when I binged it, kinda short on time to see it slowly, it felt even worse. There are some flaws for me with the story, but It is undeniably an awesome anime with great dubs.
I’m a lot like gigguk, I’ve never played cyberpunk let alone seen much of it, but even then watching this show was incredible, I watch dark anime all the time with great stories but this is forever going to leave one of the biggest impacts on me, also if anyone ever says “I really wanna stay at your house” I’m gonna collapse on the ground and start crying I swear.
The game hits the same, multiple times. After a year and a half there are a few songs i still can't hear without feeling like all i should do is roll under a table and stare at the floor for a few minutes. That fucking song especially : th-cam.com/video/P4bKZT_Eg4A/w-d-xo.html
[if anyone ever says “I really wanna stay at your house” I’m gonna collapse on the ground and start crying I swear.] Don't worry, its never gonna happen
As for the music, they had literally hours and hours of music to choose from. The soundtrack for Cyberpunk 2077 is probably the most diverse and expansive video game soundtrack to have ever existed, spanning 11 thematic radio stations each playing between 15 and 30 unique songs composed and performed by real-life artists from around the world, plus the original game soundtrack. The fact they didn't win a single award for music is honestly criminal. I mean, the game could host its own international music awards ceremony!
The fact that it was all bland safe music was awful, Samurai is the best part of the soundtrack and they left it out because they scream. Samurai and the death metal station are the two best stations in the game with the rest being bland.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 episode 6 plays an entire black metal song during Maines cyberpsycho scene. It's the main song of pretty much the best episode, so definitely not all bland safe music choom
@@AsukaLangleyS02 samurai has only 2 good songs: black dog and ballad of buck ravers, the rest are kind bad. I think 4/10 songs with lyrics from edgerunners are very good and the rest are decent to meh, but all have their place in the show. For non-lyrical songs, I only recognized cyber wildlife park. I was hoping for the rebel path, but that song is reserved for V and Johnny crushing Arasaka
@@junkoe3808 Black dog and ballad of buck ravens are literally my least favorite from Samurai. I much more prefer Never fade away, Chippin in, A Like Supreme
The ending of this anime made me cry. I'm not a big anime watcher, but I think this hooked me and made me want to watch more anime like this. The series is so great and heck, it even managed to make me feel emotionally connected to the characters (especially Maine), such a beautiful piece of art.
I just love that they were really able to show the spirit of night city. As V I kinda wanted him/her to have an actual life in night city without dying. But watching edgerunners makes it very clear that night city is truly final boss that can never be beat
Yeah the whole setting including the tabletop is like this. There are no happy endings in Cyberpunk, the world has totally gone to shit and normal people scrabble and crawl in the dirt until someone squashes them underneath their boot.
Also for those who haven't played the game like Gigguk there are so many small details that are hype if you catch them. There are main quest NPCs from the game that you can find in the show. Everything that was shown in the show is playable in the real game. Guns, augments, even some of the exact same locations that are seen in the show can be visited in game. The music as well shows up in game (I'm specifically thinking about "I really want to stay at your house" where you can hear it on the radio on just on the street. Really has me on the verge of tears every time). The thing that shocked me most was the fact that at The Afterlife (a bar where mercs can find fixers) there's a drink called David Martinez (the main character in cyberpunk). The fact that this is significant is because many mercs live to make a name for themselves (like Lucy said "It's not about how you live it's about how you die" or the last line from the Ripperdoc about David going to make a name for himself), meaning the acts and reputation of David made him into a legend.
@@karuuuma When they trow his name for the first time, I thought it was just an Easter egg. But when they really showed him, I was like Fuck they are dying (even if he was a lame boss in the game).
And right know with a fixed game while small visual glitches still exist and the updates coming to the major features that where missing vehicle combat melee overhaul and police overhaul and the full on expansion Phantom liberty there is no better time to give this game a second chance then now
@@karuuuma even tough smasher is kind of an utter joke in the game because of you do most of the side content and missions you will have severely over leveled till the point that smasher is a cakewalk
This show really reflected that there are no winners in Night City and that no one is really special when it comes down to it. I've been having a hard time lately and I finished the show this morning, I needed to let those emotions out and this show helped immensely. it will always have a special place in my heart.
Man, I feel you. Everyday I get older I feel much more harden to the world. We need shows like this one every once in awhile to release those emotions.
Honestly episode 6 made me come to the realization on how cyberpsychosis in the game and in that world is also a commentary on mental illness considering in the game it's described to come from stress levels and in the show one in the main causes they know is that people get so much work done it overloads their own brain to the point of insanity
It sounds more like dementia to me. Getting violent and aggressive, not realizing friend from foe, hallucinations. My grams had almost all of that before she died. She drifted from being an average grandma to a comically slow, knife-wielding psycho who kept saying she'd kill us all for sleeping with her husband.
It's not just the metal being jammed into your body, it's the entire city and system around you that's breaking you down. It seems like an allegory for drug addiction, well also considering they have to be constantly on drugs to even run or else they just go insane. Someone who's down and desperate like David was at his lowest in the first episodes will usually turn to some form of substance to null the pain and get through everything. They then will want more and more as just a little stops working for them. You could even see cyberpsychosis as overdosing since you're practically dead at that point, you're just standing there to take as many people as you can with you, a thought some people at the end of their rope have. To go out with a bang and try and show the system is busted, that is reflected even in the line "It doesn't matter how you lived, it matters how you die." (forgot the exact quote). Just my idea of it, having dealt with addiction before this is pretty similar... except for the whole turning my arms into tank buster cannons.
Edgerunners felt so separated from humanity yet so connected. It gives you an empty feeling at the end which quickly turns into sadness, but you appreciate all the characters. They really nailed the description of Night City, nobody has a happy ending.
I loved the balance of how the show clearly was catered to Cyberpunk fans with all the in-game lingo/slang (choom, gonk, chipping, Cyberpsycho, etc) as well as the uses of sound effects from the game (Ringtone and the map in the last ep) but at the same time still has enough to draw in a new fan base who has never played the game. Great work as always Trigger!!
Arcane came out of nowhere to become arguably animation of the year last year. Cyberpunk came out from nowhere to become arguably animation of the year this year (so far). The future is looking bright for video game adaptations.
I went into this anime thinking it's just another R-rated, action adventure that you can just turn your brain off to, but man... I actually shed a tear in the last scene. Such a beautiful anime. The atmosphere, the music, the little details, and especially the character development. Everything was superb; just simply perfect. It kinda reminded me of Akame ga Kill with that bittersweet ending. Truly, only the lucky ones can dream in Night City.
It reminded me alot of Akame ga kill, like when they started killing off Maine and his "wife" (idk her name rn) i was like dont do the culling of the enire cast. And well...
Started a new save recently, when I was on my way to a NCPD gig, I heard 'I really want to stay at your house' playing in some random ass laundromat. I literally just stood there for 10 minutes and listened to the song on repeat while thinking about the show. I haven't had a series hit me so hard in a long time. For those who have not played the game yet, please give it a chance. It's fixed now and the writing in the game itself is real good as well with strong characters. I really would like a sequel, or another expansion or even just another anime would be great.
Gonna get it when there's a complete edition with all the patches at the end of its lifecycle. The sting of betrayal from that launch still hurts too much. I was hyped like I've never been for a game only to be massively disappointed by CDPR. The Witcher 3 is still my favourite game of all time. Thankfully I didn't preorder and I don't do anymore since CP2077.
Yeah I bought the game after the anime. One of my mates did too after I recommended the show to him lol. Great way to sell games I can tell you that much. And for real, play the game. I'm pretty picky with games and honestly CyberPunk slaps. The story and world ARE great. I'm still getting bugs, and the gameplay could be better, but just like The Witcher 3, it's not the gameplay that's particularly good. It's the story and world the game puts you in. And yeah. I sat outside of a mission listening to "I really want to stay at your house too". That shit hurts.
@@Shvabicu I'm the same, TW3 is the best game I ever played so I really don't want CDPR to fail, and they should continue to make AAA singleplayer games, because there is so few of them already (and now they're switching to Unreal Engine, so I think that would take take off the burden of developing the engine). They're great at worldbuilding, writing stories, characters and even at building hype (which backfired with Cyberpunk), but I will be waiting for the game after patches, expansion, some mods (current devkit is kinda weak, and given that they're changing engine, maybe that will create more options for modding). Also the game looks amazing at higher-end PC's so I would have to upgrade my rig. Edgerunners really tests my patience right now, though.
@@jankes433 gonna get it on PS5. I know the performance of the PS5 version is actually really good, but there are still lots of bugs in patch 1.6 footage and the game is still very incomplete. Better wait for the DLC and all the patches that come with and after it.
"I missed some Easter eggs here and there" No, you didn't miss Easter eggs. What you missed was the most seemless integration of video game art direction into an animated medium... Ever. Sound effects, weapon design, and ESPECIALLY locations; the animators went so far above and beyond making this anime true to the game it's... Well, it's just incredible. No other way to put it.
@@reinhardtxt1932 either or, honestly. They're both so well integrated into the universe that you can find enjoyment regardless of where you got your start. I like it to starting the Yakuza series with either Yakuza Kiwami or Zero, they both offer an incredible introduction that creates a lasting impression while not spoiling the content of the other.
Man after episode 6 I found it so hard to continue this series. The amount of tension build up that episode and the overall bleakness of knowing things aren't going to go well and pushing forward through it more and more was just so intimidating. I gunned the first 6 episodes but those last 4 took me a couple of days to finish.
@@Chadison shucks man I binged the 10 episodes and got super invested, don't know why it didn't click for you but this show feels unfair, i know why they made that choice and can't argue against it but I still can't accept it, you could've done that better choose that instead of this but you didnt and I can't argue against it and it's unfair.
@@Chadison yeah it felt like the warnings and the caution had just been disregarded from that point. Like it went from "I'm gonna be big and I ain't ever gonna end like that", to "I know what's gonna happen but I don't have a choice I'm doing this now" after over halfway through the series
I finally bought and downloaded the game after watching the show and its been incredibly enjoyable. just shows what anime can lead to from a marketing/sales perspective!
I swear whenever I hear Arcane or any video game anime adaptation being complimented. I always think of Castlevania's anime adaptation and how underrated it is. it really deserves to be more recognised.
I loved Seasons 1&2, but after that it was bland and boring generic heroes quipping while killing fodder monsters with a few neat visuals. Alucard's arc with the brother and sister was completely pointless and could have been skipped entirely. Isaac was kind of cool but not enough to carry all of it. The B-lister vampire lady squad arc along with Hector was bloated and boring as hell.
@@Squiddyize yea, season 1 might be the best 4 episode run of any show I’ve ever fucking seen. And season 2 matches that energy so fucking well. Then 3 & 4 hit you and damn is it disappointing
@@Wav03 3 & 4 have their moments, but I would say that Isaac stands so far above the rest of the last 2 seasons, perhaps with the exception of the final fight in 4. Alucard arc in 3 is wack, that there is no doubt, but I wouldn't say that the series as a whole is anywhere close to bad.
They way “cyberpychosis” was depicted was incredibly sad, frightening, and beautiful all at the same time. It was truly genius.
sad and frightening yes, but what's beautiful about it...
Yeah it was really well done! With the eyes shivering. And when you are going insane even more, the whole body shivering. But why exactly does the body shiver when you are going down the road of cyberpychosis? Was David's Sandevistan activating all while he was shivering? What do you guys think causes those eye shiverings?
Also a common theme in cyberpychosis seems to be thinking about your past. For example, Maine fought about his past when he was a soilder and almost no cyberware.
I think he walked to night city on foot and that is why we saw that road.
And david also sees his past layed on top of the things actually going. The past with his mother.
@Repeat after me: Pron ain't worth it yeah , that makes sense. man this show is so good....
Cyberphychosis is a genius idea
People trapped in their own memories, not being able to tell reality from their minds. Really reminds me of dementia.
Arcane and Cyberpunk Edgerunners should be compulsory study material for anyone who wants to do adaptations from videogames.
Hollywood: *Steals notes*
@@TheMaestroMizerous Then they proceed to completely misinterpret everything and make a live action
@@justinvlaun oh god that hit so hard....
And castlevania also ?
nice to see your here! Love what you do man
Something that most people don't realize is that David completed all 3 dreams that were given to him, he made it to the top of Arasaka Tower, he made it big time, and he got Lucy to the moon.
That wasn't Lucy's dream anymore tho she just wanted to see David live and ya know how that ended
Neither it was his mom's wish to get to top of arasaka tower as mecha cyber psycho. Nor it was Maine's dream to get whole Edgerunners group wiped. He completed every dream only seemingly.
Cyberpsychosis would lead someone to believe that...
He achieved those dreams in the most broken, ironic, self-defeating ways possible. He stood atop Arasaka Tower as a gangster on a suicide mission, which is not at all what his mother wanted. He lived up to Maine's legacy as another chromed out cyber psycho. He saved Lucy and sent her to the moon when he had finally become more important to her than any lunar vacation.
And yet he was shot in the head at the bottom of Arasaka Tower
The ending was heartbreaking but I really enjoyed this anime
Bro i just finished it watched this video and im still crying wtf is wrong nothing has his me this hard in a long time
@@jonathankraig425 yea it does the pulling your feet when your onthe rug great writing
@@jonathankraig425 I was fully expecting everyone to die but the fact Lucy survived and was left all alone - once again - absolutely broke me.
I think it was made even worse by only watching the outro on the last episode...the ending theme "Let you down" fucking hits home right after watching the show and after the final scene with Lucy.
@@AkinaGhost yeah i knew david was a goner for sure but they did such a great job of making you hope he’d survive. I just wanted them to be happy at the end
@@jonathankraig425 some one talk to me. i'm really sad now. the ending was heartbreaking. why even introduce a romantic aspect to a show just to break our hearts in the end. got too attached to the characters.
i like how “i really want to stay at your house” is the universal trigger for the trauma we all obtained from this show
I went back to the game bc of this anime, and the song makes me sad every time it comes on now lmao
@@ImUppish I usually drive around the city with that song on and it builds a strong atmosphere. Now it just makes me sad. :(
Hearing it come up at the end of this video had me preparing to breakdown again before Garnt switched to a joke to end it.
I really like the song but I refuse to listen to it for fear of being sad in the middle of the day
I was having such a great time listening to the song after watching episode 2 and now after finishing the show, it'll never be the same for me ever again. I tear up every time I hear it.
I felt empty after watching the final episode but loved every last minute of it
Same
Same here! I hope they make a new season about corpo or nomad story next
@@shadowfoxnz7894 I think it would he really dope to do like 2 more seasons but each with different characters and so on. And make it 13 episodes... my only problem with egde runners was it was 10 episodes instead of 13 heck even 12
in Night City life is cheap
as I was watching the last chapter I was so sad that it was ending and no one was getting a happy ending
I was sold when David’s mom started crying, talking about how she understood what her son was going through and how much love and effort she puts into raising her son as an only mother. My heart just sank, thinking about how much my own parents have sacrificed just so we didn’t have to live on the streets.
ratio?.... (joke man)
Nah because the relatability in that scene did me in
Same
It made me tear up. And so tragic we didn't see more of her.
It made me tear up as well
You know an anime was truly something magnificent when once it's over, tears run down your face knowing it's over and you're left with this sense of longing for each and every character. I'm sad to see it go but it burned bright as fuck when I got to experience it, I could feel the sun.
a like just for the reference at the end. my man..
Studio Trigger enjoyers already used to the empty feeling:
This is gonna hit hard when One Piece ends.
Same feeling as finishing witcher 3 for me amazing but horrible
I didn't cry but there definitely was longing for the characters. Makes me want to play Cyberpunk but I can't :(
When David was like “I don’t know how to drive,” and started crashing into lampposts… I stood up and clapped. Never had my gaming experience been translated so authentically to another medium. Seriously the cars drove like absolute booty cheeks before installing mods.
David's a kid who couldn't afford to drive. He was a good kid before he turned to crime so it's not like he boosted cars.
Today I started playing again and I crashed into a lamppost just two seconds after entering the car...
Genius! They've canonized the bugs.
😂💀
God damn my thoughts exactly
Unlike with Arcane, I feel like having played the video game beforehand seriously elevated my immersion with the show, TRIGGER stayed incredibly faithful to the game's UI, weapons, characters, and city locations to the point where I don't even know if there was a single scene where you wouldn't be able to recognize the scenery in the background from the game. It honestly blew me away.
Yeah there is a ton of fan services for people who played and liked the game.
It gave me a super weird nostalgic feeling when I recognized specific streets from the game. It’s the only time I’ve ever watched an anime and thought “Holy shit I’ve BEEN there!”
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While i prefer arcane to edgerunners overall, both are absolutely fantastic in their own right. They are two opposite on how to do an adaption of an established game and whats so neat is that both could not be better. They are both insane and i cant believe they came out within a year of each other.
i had 200 hours on the game before watching, every episode i was just like "hey i know where that is!"
The writing was the absolute best here. In such a short show, they achieved what most series can't do in 22-36 episodes. I actually cared and then they devastated me.
yup
Agreed. With the right pacing, several people would have needed a hug had this been a 25-30 ep series, with these 10 episodes to wrap it all up.
there was alot of good things in the show, the writing was ehh probably not one of them
Sandevastated
@@bigbabyh.a.m.6896 nah i would definetly say writing was one of them especiellz since they stuck to the landing unlike 90% of fictional media which screws up the ending.
5:44 Mother's Basement had an interview with the CDPR Producer. He confirmed that going into space was from Studio Trigger. In the original draft scripts, Lucy had some unspecified dream that David would try to help her accomplish. Trigger thought it would be going to the Moon, where the Mega Corps don't have as much power.
Edit: Changed wording of last sentence.
that's cool, Trigger also wanted Rebecca to stay as CDPR wanted to change her and now she's one of the top favorite characters
The fact that they made a joke about cops spawning out of nowhere just like they did in the game made this the best anime for me!!
Where was that one? I mightve missed it
@@OneNativeWolfe74 the chapter where maine becomes cyberpsycho, the 7 I think it was or the 6
@@yoroshikuonegaishimasu8649 thanks
I didn't tell that to anyone i talked about the show and knew about the game. I thought, no way they're hinting towards the games' bug/issues. That's because the show is basically marketing towards the game, so it would make no sense. But yeah, you're probably right lol.
I laughed so hard at that haha
This video helped me cope with the heartbreaking ending
Even I, a stone hearted man she'd a tear to the ending
i can feel you choom
What heartbreaking ending?
Didn't Josuke came in and fixed everything?
At least the ending wasn't as bleak as Devilman: Crybaby, but tragic and sad regardless.
@@blejac948 WE NEED JOSUKE AND SHINING DIAMOND
I used to listen to “I really want to stay at your house” whilst driving around NC and even waiting outside the mission area on purpose for it to finish, just thinking “damn this would go hard if it was adapted in some way…”
… Roughly one year later, this gem drops.
It got adapted into depression
@@Bamiyanbigasf 😂
Now you can listen to it and let it finish with depression
legend.
I call cap, no one has played this game enough to find a favorite song. It's so bad I went back and tried to play it after watching edge runners and immediately uninstalled again.
late to the party but just watched the show. holy crap. I LOVE the fact the romantic interests actually had meaningful progression although with a 10 ep limit it felt just a touch rushed. Going into it I did not expect the show to be as dark as it ended up being and I was NOT READY. Feels, lots and lots of feels from a show I thought would just be a throwaway action thriller.
I had exactly the same experience. I was not prepared
I'm fucking destroyed
@@arthurius_3022 Same. Finished the show 30 minutes ago and had to rewind the last bit. But on second thought I'm really glad they chose the ending they did instead of some "happy ever after" stuff
@@r0vul143 I finished yesterday and that's the thing, it's a really good ending but it's very tragic. That's why it stick with us so much. Man I feel so empty godamn
Yeah holy fuck. And that song
Having played the game before going into the show, theres not THAT much more you'll notice, but it's nice knowing that they kept a lot of the locations in the show while also staying really faithful to the style of cybernetics, guns, and aesthetic.
At least you knew that the moment they introduced Adam smasher they were all screwed.
There are a few places you will recognize. A lot of scenes are just outright taken from places within teh game, and I don't mean the iconic ones. Trigger must have played the game looking for places to shoot, and wouldnt suprise me if they just "filmed" in game scenes to get the feeling of it.
the gun sounds kinda sound the same but im not sure
After playing the game you view Adam Smasher so much different, it's not enough that he killed Johnny, now he killed David and best girl Becca too 😟
"not that much you'll notice" wtf does this mean lol. if you are watching a show and paying attention you will notice many things. Do you mean notice anything incredibly new? I have not finished the game because I have a PS4 and its shite, but there were some things kinda fresh to me. what it looks like to deep dive, sandevistans, better text/call system because in game it seems like i get 20 texts in 10 seconds.
There isn't a single other show that made me this attached and emotional about a group of character, and that was in 10 episodes. It's become one of my favorites and I'm still in shock from finishing this amazing show.
true fax.
I didnt know anything about cyberpunk before this show, all I knew were the t-poses. And even with that outlook o was completely invested in the show due to its stellar storytelling, characters, music, and overall style.
Crazy watch other anime
God I feel like I'm the only one who sees this as lazy writing to get sympathy for a character. School bullies, over worked mom, poor area, I mean jesus and now Gigguk praises this?
@@dericmederos1514 idk bro like I didn't really care much when the chars died , was even kinda happy to see Adam smasher kill em like, idk I usually care for chars n stuff but I just couldn't bring myself to give 2 fks abt the characters , I get they were trying to be realistic rather than overdramatic IG but yea
At the end, I felt completely devoid of emotion, but not because there was no emotion, but because the final episode completely spent my mental energy... I was just gob smacked, and didn't even know what to do with myself after. Everyone's felt it once or twice in life, that feeling that you have to speak to someone you love? I felt like that after Edge Runners ended.
I agree, I felt the same
You put it in words! I've talked to my friends about this show and the best thing I could quantify about it was "I finished the last episode, exhaled for about a minute, then went to bed without thinking about it at all." I told them not to watch it because it left me confused but the longer I've thought about it the more I want other people to watch it, at least so I can talk to people who know what we saw and unpack it.
It's alright, we were all 13 years old once.
@@hoon_sol Lol
@@profdouglas1392 Was a wild ride
It's not just Easter eggs, it's everything. I remember multiple times in the show where they show a location and I was like "hey i know this place" , where they show cars and i was like "hey i know this car", where they show weapons and i was like "hey i know this weapon" etc etc. The story is as cannon the game as it could be and ties perfectly into it....
And even with that condition, they managed to craft such a beautiful story
The little cameos of buildings or some characters really helped me get into the world too. Trigger did a perfect job of capturing Night City both in terms of style and its hostility
When does Edgerunners take place? Before or after the events of the game?
@@blakebridges8989 It takes place years beforehand, though by how much I'm not sure. But there's a few characters that are alive in the anime that aren't in the game, and you can pick up certain items from the anime later on in the game.
@@blakebridges8989 before, tho not too long before... There's a drink called "David Martinez " in the afterlive of the game, tho wakako, the one who sent out Julio still exists. So at max like 20 years before but more likely 5 - 10 years
@@blakebridges8989 according to the fandom wiki atleast the last episode takes place in 2076 so a year before the main game though I have no idea where they get that info from or how accurate it is.
One of the rules of a cyberpunk setting is that life is moving so fast that the characters can't ever seem to find a moment to catch their breath. There's intentionally no downtime in the story as that's part of the setting. In night city people live fast and die young. And yet... underneath that there's a beautiful concept. (spoilers) The anime is about two people, David and his mother stretching themselves to the absolute limit to give the person that they love most the moon. That impossible to reach place that only exists in dreams.
Fun Fact: The average life expectancy in the New United States is only 53 years old despite being a much more technologically advanced setting.
The reason? Violence. Anyone past this point is either lucky or rich.
@@shadowslasher11X Edit: This comment was me assuming he was talking about the actual US lack a moron, ignore this comment
@@graphite7898 They're referring to the NEW United States. It's the current USA in the Cyberpunk Universe. No agenda pushing here brother, just facts about this baller fictional universe.
@@ethanrajczak3041 I'm fucking stupid, I apologize greatly. I assume everything negative about the US is a political statement because I see it all the time💀
Good message to tell me to play the game already, damn I feel dumb (also cool to see that the game has just that much lore in it, with life expectancy and all)
@@graphite7898 lol no prob choom, I fully understand that feeling. The video game is lore rich, but the setting is also info heavy cause of the tabletop. Some seriously good shit if you are into that or just like reading wikis.
It really impresses me how well the game's endings and the anime's ending mirror each other. Bittersweet is my dressing of choice, and a cyberpunk's end is nothing but that. They absolutely nailed it.
Totally Agree! I have even reinstalled the game just to be apart of this world again and to make sure I UTTERLY ANNIHILATE a certain enemy. This anime brought some life back to the game and anime as a whole IMO.
Remember a year ago asking you in chat if you watched Gigguk. Hope the expansions and excursions for Cyberpunk continue at this level
How can they 'Mirror' when the game has like 3 or 4 endings? lol.
The anime looks disgusting. So colorfull like its made for 8 y/o.
@@Kytharion I LOVE ADAM SMASHER!!!!!!!
@@carn1fex_ because all the endings share the same themes of cyberpunks being remembered by how they die - that all of them have tragic to at best bitter-sweet endings.
your taste is shit and your opinion is wrong, anime is banging. local man no joke complains that cyberpunk is colourful. the setting literally defined by bright fucking coloured neon lights
A lot of the reason it hit so hard for me is bc we rarely get well-made tragedy these days, esp in more mainstream media. The ending is sad, for sure, but it's cathartic. It's a safe sorrow the way that horror movies are a safe terror. Too often stories go for tragedy and end up in motiveless grimdark and it's exhausting.
I once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you're supposed to empathize with and see yourself in, and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone's life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you 'this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don't succeed your attempts matter.' Grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters, well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much, your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending or if you lose it along the way. People have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not and in a reality that has no concept of 'fair' that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it's COMFORTING (
beautifully spoken.
Well said. I like grimdark to a degree, depending on how you define it, but I think the word you were going for there is "nihilism". And you're absolutely right about Edgerunners--it's a tragedy, for sure, but it is a very well-told one, and it is not nihilistic. That's the thing I love about the world of Cyberpunk, the Cyberpunk 2077 game, and this anime--it is dark, and it shows darkness and depravity for what it is, but it celebrates characters who don't give in to all of that, even if they struggle terribly and don't very often succeed. There is beauty in that kind of portrayal of life.
Oh, you have wonderfully put into words what I could not! My father browses Netflix all day all night (retired old man), and of all the times I watched whatever show was on his TV... I always thought how meaningless the show felt, but I couldn't tell what made it meaningless. Then there's Edgerunners here, which I watched on my own in another TV simply because Studio Trigger. The protagonist and his crew died like the ones I saw on dad's TV, but Edgerunners was meaningful. Memorable. Brilliant.
@@NaitomeIyayou have to show him better movies/series my bro
Loved the comment!
I think Gigguk maybe missed that all the tracks played in the show are straight from the game itself. So when you have played the game and hear a track in the anime you feel everything, because you were there too. Cruising around Night City listening to these very songs while the world played out around you. Stunning.
@doliio volay Absolutelly agree, it blew my mind when i saw the phone calls or lucy in the hacking sequences being exaclty like in the game
@doliio volay Yea, played the Game on launch and going back after watching the Anime, feels kinda like im playing through the Anime (Ringtone etc)
I wanna play this Game but i have a potato PC😭😭😭
@@zainali5917 Unironically this game is worth $1000. Build your own PC to play this game. It's worth it.
@@zainali5917 Literally was able to run this on high settings on a used 300 dollar asus gaming laptop.
Bounght a 500 dollar laptop replacement just to run it better at 120 FPS and Ultra settings :P
I really bursted out laughing when Rebecca said: "It’s like these pigs keep appearing out of nowhere!"
Didn’t catch that when I watched it, shame
A nice call out to the in-game bug where the cops literally out of nowhere.
Oh I remember it I think it was at episode 9 or 10 I think it might be actually 9 but I don't remember
@@kuroshinko427 only it wasn´t really a bug, was it? They just didn´t have a better system in place. It felt like a placeholder system, they didn´t have the time to replace with an actual system before launch (same for the crowd system and traffic system).
@@lanzelotz26 yeah, and they still do appear out of nowhere 😅
5:18 Inaccurate, not enough Royal Enfields and Scooters weaving through.
That's the REAL India Experience.
This was THE FIRST anime I've ever watched, and I almost cried at the end.
Same here! Kinda sad that I probably wont experience anything better for a long time now
Buckle up, there's lot of masterpieces out there that you can experience for the first time.
@@H1kari_1 any suggestions?
@@MrGLUb If you liked Cyberpunk I think Fate/Stay Night and the movies are a way to go. Awesome animation and non-bullshit pacing. After the first fight scene you'll be convinced. It's more of a fantasy vs. reality thing though.
I thought for a while but it's hard to find something similar to Cyberpunk honestly, it's that unique of a show.
@@MrGLUbStudio Trigger is the studio that animated this, starting with their other masterpieces would be a good start if you like their style. Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill are both great and just as fast paced.
The song “I really want to stay at your house” makes me extremely sad but helps me reminisce how much of a masterpiece this anime was. I’m glad I got to experience it
PTSD trigger
I'm glad I accidentally came across it in my youtube music shuffle and was like ayo this is hype & slaps. Then I watched the show and was like OH the songs from this show? Where is it? I'm 8 episodes in and I haven't heard it yet! Boom, then it hits me....
For real. I tear up during it, but somehow it's also already a happy nostalgia memory.
as a fan of the band and song from before the show came out its absolutely wild watching it blow up, so deserved
@@Jakepf its actually a radio song in the game lmao. all the songs in the anime were in the game and it shows. the production quality of the soundtrack was amazing.
My favorite thing is when trigger said “the loli stays” 😂, which ends up being one of the best characters in the show and a fan favorite
C H A D E N E R G Y
Because its only supposed to be a “loli” in the dictionary sense….. The freaks who wanted to cancel her probably thought different 🥶
I hate it because she's not even really a loli, she's just a woman that isn't traditionally busty or anything. If anything Becca is more like a gremlin trope, something Trigger uses in most of its series, than she is a loli lol. I hate that people see small chest and instantly think loli character also I'm very glad Becca got to stay. I love her.
@@Castardly I agree but in the interview and idk how close to actuality the wording they used was cdpr developer said “ lolis dont exist in cyberpunk” then she said trigger said “the loli stays” so it might be her interpretation/form of what was actually said. But also its bs cause when you got that weeb music on body heat radio. Ya theirs gonna be people that are gonna wanna make themselves like anime character or all cuties etc.
@@Castardly Loli: "young-looking girl" "small in frame" "age is ignored"
Don't really see how that doesn't apply. I mean loli doesn't mean actually and literally a child so what's the problem here exactly?
I swear everytime I heard the song my heartstrings are pulled and the feeling floods back in. Crazy how much a good audio track can create such a strong emotional connection to a show.
Even crazier is the song was written for the game, probably a few years ago now, and TRIGGER was able to use an existing song from the game superbly in the anime.
I know right??
This is the first anime in years to have my undivided attention from start to finish of every episode
Gigguk just knows how to take all the jumbled disheveled thoughts I have in my head about a series and put them into the most poetic and beautiful sentences.
I know right he really does amazing anime essay with the thoughts and emotions, and delves deep into the characters and setting.
I really love his vids. Also gives great recommendations, finished Cyberpunk edge runners when it came out, nearly wanted to cry after finishing it.
Too bad they cant contiue Davids story, I wanted more, but it was a good finish
@@blankderp2865 No way it was a good finish man. It was too depressive and kinda bad written cuz of plot armor
@@MrMadmaggot A depressing end is not objectively bad in the slightest, many series have benefitted from one. Also, where did you see any plot armor?
@@Anim0sityy I mean the ending was bad becuz of the plot armor.
Lucy knew what Arasaka (the bigass corp that enslaved her once) wanted to do with him and Lucy also stopped caring about the moon, her dream changed to him being with her, just a couple of words could have changed everyhting. Or just making chooms to earn $$$$ and then going to the moon. After all they already had an expensive flat and $$$, not to tell how dumb of him was to chrome up so much.
Even David died thinking he fulfilled her dream when in reality he didn't.
I can also talk about how dumb David's mom was for not breaking but meh.... let's leave it.
@@MrMadmaggot It sounds like you're just mad that everything didn't go exactly how you wanted it to for a happy ending, that's not the definition of plot armor, that's just a narrative. In a world where if you don't fit in with the Corpo bigwigs, your two alternatives are being a bum, or if you're lucky, poor, or doing illegal shit. If you weren't aware, doing illegal shit, especially in Cyberpunk's universe, is dangerous, so you'd want to get and upgrade shit tons of cyberware to ensure you don't die, and the line is too fine, most don't have the privilege of having a balance, they either aren't chromed enough and die and early death, or chrome up too much and go into cyberpsychosis. It's a cyberpunk tale through and through, you either go quietly with the flow of the corporations, or you fight back and get snuffed out, becoming something of a legend. David was always gonna die in that line of work.
It is crazy how something that I could just binge in one night got me so attached to the characters. I get goosebumps from seeing certain scenes. The ending left me with that empty pit in my stomach, but it was impactful.
BRO THATS FACTS I BINGED IT LAST NIGHT AND FELT SO MANY FEELINGS THAT KILLED ME.
I got the same feeling from Devilman: Crybaby. That hollow feeling when you finish an amazing show, is so bittersweet.
I finished it in one night ....it was sad but I expected it so I'm not as depressed.
Yeah that's kind of why imo it felt a bit rushed. Not necessarly that the story didn't come through well enough, but because I liked the characters so much that I wanted to spend more time with them. Basically they only showed us their missions where someone died or something really major happened, while I would like to have seen them just doing a couple normal-ish missions and see them build up their relationships with each other and all of that good stuff (just to be clear I didn't want them to do 2 or 3 more seasons or anything, but maybe 15-20 episodes instead of 10). That being said I still absolutely loved the anime
binged it in one night and have been thinking about it for the past 3 days i just feel empty
Its was only 10 episodes that took me a single day to finish..yet here i am watching gigguk video while tearing up..its so beautiful..
same
I cried at the end, no worries lol
I think it's important to understand that the music for the entire anime was in the game to be begin with and was merely adapted for the story of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, That's how great the soundtrack in Cyberpunk 2077 is!
I didn't know that. Thanks.
Rewatched in dub and wow. Becca's VA fits EXTREMELY well. She did outstanding in this. Some others as well like David and Lucy, too. But she really stood out
Giancarlo was fucking amazing
one of the few cases where dub is a lot better than sub imo
David VA gets hated on so much tho since he also dubs tanjiro from demon slayer. I love his VA
@@Ahgmimi In my opinion Esposito was even better
Bruh Becca was my fav character 😭😭😭
They packed so much into 10 episodes. Really well made anime, they delivered. This goes up there with Arcane for videogame adaptations.
@whaaa t Reported
Edgerunners is great but Arcane is one level better simply because Edgerunners suffers from pacing issues. It did everything else right. While Arcane did everything right from the start imo.
@@GuyLogen Agreed. I loved Edgerunners, but Arcane S1 is possibly my favorite season of a show ever, animated or live action. Nearly flawless imo
@@Merlincat007 yep, Arcane is just impossible to even slightly compare it with edgerunners. This show is just fine, Arcane is a masterpiece
@@witcherpie Edgerunners is really good imo!
David slowly losing his humanity by following Maines's footsteps, Lucy eventually making her dream come true. Let me tell you something: when great storytelling like this meets smooth and eye-pleasing visuals and animations a masterpiece is created. Amazing anime, probably the best anime of 2022 imo
we haven't seen chainsaw man yet. hold your horses lol
" Lucy eventually making her dream come true"
She didn't her dream was to be with David more than to go to the moon, it was even more painful to her to be there alone. She didn't just lose the one she loved the most: David, also all her friends from the gang.
"Let me tell you something: when great storytelling l"
I cannot agree with that either, the plot armor was there. Lucy not telling him her true dream and not telling him what she found on Tanaka's head, cause all that shit on the end. They both were ready to die for each other but they couldn't tell each other the truth?????? damn
@@MrMadmaggot yeah the ending ruined it so much for me. I know this genre isn't supposed to end well and most people are fine with that, but man I liked the characters and wanted them to be happy, lol. Endings like this make me rate a 10/10 show 7 at most. And the sad part is that the ending is the thing I remember the most (and the impression it left on me) and when that's not good in my eyes, I wouldn't recommend the show to anyone and probably forget it entirely.
@@tiltedbybox6118 You're entitled to your opinion of course, but in terms of story-telling, animation, cinematography, relatability, they truly hit the nail on this one. I take it you prefer a bit of a cliché happy ending instead of a human one, because that lack of communication on both Lucy and David is truly relatable in human behavior nowadays and is a perfectly placed example of how things could've gone totally different but didn't.
I think saying you "wouldn't recommend the show to anyone and forget it entirely" is highly unfair to such a masterpiece since you said yourself you knew what you signed up for, "I know this genre isn't supposed to end well..". That was precisely their aim with the anime, to have us fully immerse in the Night City experience, hit us with so many different emotions and truly connect with the characters on a personal level. The fact that the ending hurt you, me, and all of its fans this much only proves how great a job they did. Props TRIGGER 👏
@@NahIdWinLobotomyKaisen I agree, although communication seems so "obvious" to us that's because we are the watchers and are aware it's the easiest answer. In today's society with all the social media that kind of stuff also doesn't happen. Communication is lacking even for the most mundane problems. Or at least that's my opinion on what I see from other people I know.
Additionally Lucy was super scared of Arasaka. Just given her reaction shes was probably paranoid and wanted to handle it herself. That is a common human behavior, to handle things yourself so that the person you care about isn't burdened. To "shield" them from the danger you are aware of instead of asking for help. Is it the correct answer? No but it's a pitfall millions of people will fall into.
This anime drew me in, absolutely destroyed me mentally, and was gone just as sudden as it popped up.
So now I sit drowned in depression as well as happiness from the characters stories and the tragic story they’re stuck in.
And I’m finding it difficult to crawl out of this mental abyss because “I really wanna stay at your house”,
And “let you down” have grown on my so much and my love for the songs keeps them on repeat.
Meanwhile, they imprison me in this void. Longing for more of these characters.
and you will never get more
Literally the only thing to help is to play the game and enjoy the dlc as well
Maines episode had probably the best visual storytelling i have ever seen in an anime, it was able to convey everything you needed to know about him and his past in a short few segments than what could be said in episodes.
It was great, but the best visual storytelling? Nah. Watch any ep of texhnolyze, paprika, serial experiments lain, sonny boy, angles egg, 2001 nights, belladone of sadness, ext
@@scottgimple8107 tryna be different
@@zenkaiwlrd he is right tho
I felt like the production and how trigger handled it was absolutely phenomenal,l. But the story felt lacking. Like, even though there is this whole backstory element, it just exemplifies that his entire life revolves around edgerunning, with no real reason as to why.
And this scene felt wrong to me just because I wasn’t that connected to the characters, as there isn’t really any time given to understand them in any way. Nor are many of them given any real intrigue except maine. Even the though the framing is just unparalleled, the substance of it just Isn’t there. Which is really a shame, because of how good everything looks and feels.
Yeah, my issue with current movies is that they spend too much time on exposition thus taking away from the movie itself. I wish more tv shows/movies would do something simple like you mentioned, it tells you about the character without taking away the flow of the show/movie.
"i really wanna stay at your house" is already a trauma inducing song for me 💀
@Real time Entertainment sadness inducing
I'm so glad everyone is talking about this anime. It deserves it's spotlight.
Yo I recognize your pfp, female fulgrim of the emperor’s children right? Love that artist’s 40k works.
if only the game is completed , so many idea and concept but they must rush it
It's in Cyberpunk universe so of course. But yeah I'm worried a bit because Netflix episode dumping might make it lose hype but I'm glad it wasn't the case with this anime
I fucking love everything in this anime
Binged this entire show in a day. Bought Cyberpunk 2077. Now I'm rewatching with my wife. Anytime I hear "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" while playing the game, I damn near start crying. Imaishi is the best modern anime director hands down. Every single one of his shows has been expertly crafted and written. There's no wonder 4 of my top 5 anime are from him.
Make sure you have the Edgerunner DLC and see all the tie-in locations and items in the game.
should i buy cyberpunk and play it this summer? Im really thinking about it. Is the atmosphere as good as the show?
@@KevinDevZ The storyline and city atmosphere is perfect. It is as good as the shoow, even all locations in the show are in game. I haven't really seen any bugs in my 90 hour gameplay (i'm playing on ps5, it runs in stable 60 fps). Characters are really well written, city is built with many details. There is also big DLC comming in this year that will make this game even more awesome. I definetly recommend it to you!
@@KevinDevZ Look into the modding scene---they have gone above & beyond the call of duty in improving the game.
Same here binged it with my friend who havent seen any anime in his life and he loved it too, and bought cp77 week later and now u bought phantom liberty
"I may have missed a few easter eggs here and there"
Everywhere. Literally jam packed. Everything in the show was an easter egg.
Including the totally not over the top Arasaka convoy smashing through traffic and the music lol.
I actually died laughing at the convoy smashing through traffic
When I first heard Trauma Team sounds immediately after some of the characters fucked up their client I laughed and screamed “it’s the exact same time limit like in the game”
@@Xottapchenko It goes to show that they do really care about the details and old cyberpunk 2020 material. They were eaten by development hell.
i love how in the english dub they say something along the lines of "dammit. ncpd just keeps on coming. it's like they are appearing out of thin air." One of the best references in the game.
Yeah he mentioned the music but it’s all actually from the game. Plus all the sound effects and yeah. Everything. I love it.
It was this show that made me realize that the saddest ending I can ever experience from a show is watching a happy future disappear before it can happen. It’s not a tearful ending where I’m crying uncontrollably but an ending that hits hard. An ending that leaves me feeling bitter, an ending that bothers me and leaves me frustrated by just thinking about it. All in all, it’s a great show. I don’t regret watching it at all.
You described my feelings perfectly, had a complete sense of emptiness, i could almost feel Lucy's emotions looking at her empty eyes, up alone on the moon without David. They really did deserve a happy ending, that's what makes it so tragic. I also cried like a bitch, not after watching it but the day afterwards, thinking about Lucy and David and what could've been even in relation to things that have happened in my own life, my own sense of loneliness at times. I think it's the saddest I have ever been having watched any show.
This. It's like having a good dream but then you wake up.
@@XBullitt16X no one gets a happy ending in night City
@@XBullitt16X I just finished it , and you explained it perfectly . I just feel empty . Almost like the anime was a brain dance and the end was like taking off the headset to reality. We truly got to experience the feeling of how citizens feel in nightcity everyday. This show is amazing
This isn't even the top 10 saddest endings in Anime - Go watch Madoka Magica or something, then come back.
What i really love is how in depth they went with the game everywhere in that anime is somewhere in the game not just a random place made up for story. Even the music track is from the game as well and it just really shows the love and dedication they put into the anime with how in depth they went into the game.
it really hits hard when you go "holy shit I stood in this place in night city once" popping some goon's head and stuff.
That’s the best part about it the producer and director of the anime both played the game in its entirety to get that exact experience of the game in The show
Like, they literally got game assets to work with; this isn't as much a labor of love as just copying CDPR's homework.
Still good tho.
They even brought that puzzle mini-game as a part of hacking interface. XD
Night City is small so you get to remember lots of it compared to other games such as GTA. I enjoyed how most of the shots you can pretty much know what part of the city it is
the ending actually got me crying, this show is beautiful and its insane that they packed this much story in just 10 episodes
This anime was seriously a masterpiece. Very rarely does a piece get me so emotionally attached. I cried.
I cried*
*more than i want to admit to
I heard that its better to play the game first but I dont feel like spending £50 to watch an anime so I watched it first but now I wont to play the game.
I finished it two days ago. I'm still crying.
Even more rarely for me cause this wasn't enough to get me to cry sadly.
Who didn’t?
This was the first show in years that I think about days after it ended, I didn't know what to expect but I got one of the best anime I've watched in the last 15 years
That song haunted me for days in my mind. I still get teared up if I hear it
You haven't watched Made in Abyss, Golden Kamuy and many more.
@@animerman2017 Evangelion
@@animerman2017 I have watched both of these.
Watch Devilman Crybaby
Yes I agree. Even though it’s 10 episodes it didn’t feel rushed but packed with quality. That being said I kind of feel Lucy’s and Davids relationship could have been paced more slowly
That’s what I love about their relationship… it feels realistic and chaotic
If you want slow go to every other anime where they can’t even hold hands after 100 episodes 😂
We got just a taste of love and then it was absolutely shattered and obliterated
@@justinmorales9597 I want it to be like one piece I would watch every single episode
I disagree. It felt rushed as fuck. The only thing that made it not seem as rushed is the chemistry that the characters have together
The show made me feel melancholy. Super entertaining, funny, and sad as hell.
Who would’ve guessed hiring trigger to make your video game adaptation would result in something freaking epic.
🙋♂️
Just like Gigguk said. I didn’t think Trigger had it in them to tell a cyberpunk story. It’s actually quite outside their wheelhouse. So they definitely blew my expectations
@@WhatsUrName0o7 Thing is Trigger mainly done animation and direction. Anime story is written by CDPR writers, together with Mike Pondsmith.
@@Altmer353 The basic story outline likely was about it. The animes entire script, all the characters and their designs, and the direction was done by Trigger.
I think CDPR had far less to do with the result than some people want to admit
@@fearedjames script was literaly writen by game writers, together with Pondsmith. Same with characters. You can even find old character design created by cdpr artists before they were recreated in anime style. Trigger did animation, added some changes to characters and directed action scenes.
I love the part where David said "It's cyberpunking time."
That and the fact that trigger went full Chad mode and said " *The Loli stays* ".
Based trigger
People can be short and/or flat without being loli/prepubescent.
@@kenshin1368 But she is tho, they literally say it in the anime
Isn't that misinformation? I heard they didn't want to introduce Rebecca because she was a loli, but rather because they felt that there were enough characters and didn't want to add more later in production.
Edit: apparently I misheard
@@clementgoh9270 I mean, it's one of the best characters in the anime so i'm glad she stayed
The ending was like ninjas cutting onions and cheering at a football game for your favorite team at the same time. The yearning for more but knowing it ended gives you a rush of emotion like you are part of it, standing right there with the connection of real-life standing behind you.
Honestly, I'm happy that we got a story with a definitive start and end. There's no coming back for the gang. They didn't get hit with the Soulkiller, shit most of them don't even have living relatives. The Edgerunners ended with David and that really hits home.
SPOILERS
I wished for a happy ending between David and Lucy because they care so much about each other but what I got was honestly a better representation how much they actually care about each other
I feel like the entire ending sequence is perfect as a cyberpunk story as well. With the game and the show it's all about the journey and how everything builds to get to the final gig but once your there everything is already in place and for better or worse it's all going down and it's going down right now.
The "final gig" is almost like its own entire story with character introductions and deaths and story arcs
I've never been a big Trigger fan but Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a huge surprise, from the characters to the atmosphere & the bloody action all of em were great. Not to mention really good music & english dub.
Honestly it only really made sense in dub
Lol just stop with that acting like it’s anything different from usual as MOST to ALL English dubs are fantastic and phenomenal! People just need to place the respect onto that as MOST English dub anime has been great to amazing to fantastic for the last 20 years entirely so. People just need to clean their ears and actually PLACE respect where it’s there. Seriously.
@@chr0n0lect MOST anime make EQUALLY as much sense in the English dub JUST like in the original.
@@chr0n0lective watched in polish dub and I dont see any other option the original jap dub would not fit in there
@@Gadget-Walkmen I got your back bro. People act like we're still watching speed racer when they complain about dub. Erika Harlacher is my favorite actor, even including live action actors.
I wanted this show to never end, just to keep watching it for all eternity. The straight emptiness I felt after I finished watching it still tears me apart. All I have left is the soundtrack I added to my playlist, and what I keep on repeat to get me by. I didn't know I needed something until I lost it. 🙃
Also I started playing Cyberpunk again due to the fact I want to make a David build
PAIN is all I feel
Yeah I have the same feeling. I had to force myself to watch the last two episodes even if I didn't want to. And now I feel empty. It's been three days since I finished watching and I can't get the ending out of my head
@@zyadabaza438 and DESTROY Adam Smasher with it,utterly humiliate him with it
Do you have a shareable anime Playlist? I use tidal for my music streaming. Or if you have a TH-cam one I'd also accept that. I recently finished bleach and I love their OST especially Hajime No Ippo. Fucking amazing workout music. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽.
IF you did play the game, the level of appreciation is so much stronger. The way they implemented so many aspects from the game into the show is incredible. From the ringtones, to the minimap, the hacking and the general look and feel of the city and the badlands is just insane. Incredible show
Paid shill much? I mean, did anyone actually play the game other than for laughs at how broken it was?
@@ExodusCore i don't think you played it that's for sure, or you played for half an hour on a crappy ps4 and refunded
@@ExodusCore I played on PC at launch on a powerful rig and had a good time. Fav game of all time? Nah. But the city, the story telling and the music, the graphical tech, all stellar.
The game shoulda never come out on last gen consoles, that I can agree with.
Typical internet guy “YOU LIKE SOMETHING THAT I DONT, IMPOSSIBLE!!”
Btw, Cyberpunk 2077 has a higher concurrent play record than the Witcher 3… so leave your dumb opinions at the door.
You can even recognize the various weapons, like how MAXTac is rocking Tech Rifles.
@@mrpetebojangles21 I played on an Xbox One X at launch and sure I had some bugs and frame skips when riding a bike too fast but it ran surprisingly well compared to many other people's experiences, and it runs smooth as butter now with patch 1.6 so I gotta disagree, the game definitely deserves to exist on last gen consoles
I just want to say, because you talked about how CD Projekt RED creating the "cyberpunk 2077 universe," Mike Pondsmith really deserves a lot more credit than this review gives him. CD did a really good job of bringing visuals into this but Mike invented this universe with his tabletop games from way back in 1988. The 2077 game is just building on his existing universe
They just used characters you meet in certain canon gigs, like Johnny and Saboro and Adam Smasher. Took that storyline modified it and ran like hell with that ball. But all and all Mike Pondsmith did a phenomenal job with world building to make a truly dystopian world where all that matters is if you have the Eddie's to survive another day and if you have proper medical coverage. I found Cyberpunk RED. To be a bit more fun than the original for TTRPGS. But both are phenomenal. It was nice that CDPR gave anyone who bought a copy a code to get the original TTRPG as a free pdf from their site. I know a lot of people that actually got into the hobby because of that little freebie giveaway.
@@tombombc wait, I totally missed that about getting a pdf copy of the original game. Does that count if you bought it on console!?
It may have been only in physical copies though. Sorry not 100% sure
There's a reason his name is plastered in the biggest font they could find in the opening credits.
@@danylerasu4917 Someone at Trigger tried to make people know about TTRPGs.
Such a breath of fresh air an anime that characters can curse, have sex and real intimacy. Also breasts with actual nipples. It feels much more natural and mature than the typical shonnen fan service.
Also amazing plot with no beating around and beautiful animation.
Bruh
@Robert Reynolds well said
honestly real shit, i personally HATE fan service and it makes me not want to watch, but the way they did it here my god i loved every second
Those were some of the whackiest nipples i've seen.
@Robert Reynolds yes, I agree. But the style and plot requires naturally require "edgy" stuff , and it was all tastefully. And real intimacy is something that 99% of the animes lacking, be it either by age restriction or bad screenplay.
This show is the epitome of Johnny's word "For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people". There is no happy ending, no closure, just the bittersweet depressed feeling that the song "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" leaves you everytime you hear it.
Read this in his voice
I hate being that guy, but I think you meant to say "Epitome" not "Epiphany".
Epitome means it's a perfect example of a certain quality or message. Epiphany is a sudden realisation of a great truth.
I still 100% agree with what you said though, there are no happy endings here, just sweetness of memory to try and dull the bitter pill of loss. And the sickly feeling of pain and nostalgia when you remember everything that brought you to where you are. How far you feel, or what you had to sacrifice along your journey.
A thing of beauty - I know
Will never fade away
@@bigbangtheory0000 lmoa woops thanks for the heads up
I feel people want Cyberpunk to be way more cynical than it actually is - and are somehow enjoying this implanted pessimism. But it's not really that bleak... [SPOILERS] Anime literally ends with Lucy embracing the light. Someone seeing that ending and thinking it's NOT deeply optimistic is a bit weird to me.
Also... Despite the quote you shared, most of game's endings are also optimistic. One that is not comes with the game actually booing you for your decisions. Night City is often described as a prison, Lucy even calls it a 'prison of light'. Of course, it's not an actual prison of body, but one of soul. People can't escape it not because it's impossible to just get out of it, but because they are chasing something self-destructive inside of it. For some it's just about monetary reasons so essential to this hyper-capitalist dystopia. That's why every ending that presents characters being able to get out is highly symbolic - they are finally free. If that's not a great closure, what is...
Cyberpunk is not very subtle. Everything it wants to say is fairly transparent, that's why I'm a bit baffled by this forced nihilism.
P.S: Sorry, Bird Boi, this was not aimed specifically at you, but to many-many comments made in this vein I saw on the web. Cheers! ^^
I got so attached to the characters, and yet if you watched every episode back to back, that would've only made a 3 or 4 hours film, this says a lot about the overall quality of this anime
it'd be almost 4h even when skipping OP and ED
Character development and story plot points were 100% on point
Lucy was my favourite, what a tragic fat for her character.
Watched the entire series in the night in one sitting, it's kinda blurry.
Bro can’t do math 😭
Edgerunners is reminiscent of Cowboy Bebop due to the extreme degree of romanticization of what is happening, which actually fits perfectly with the mood that the game's story set. Live in obscurity or die as a legend of Nightcity.
Yup gave me the cowboy bebop vibes, not many anime like that out there
@@bladebk5537 cause it’s character driven. Characters are more important than the overarching story
Solarpunk is real-under-represented.
I think a Cyberpunk anime spin-off to edge runners in the episodic fashion of cowboy bepop would also work (if the production quality of edgerunners is maintained)
one thing I want to point out, David pretty early on in the show actually developed cyberpsychosis. On the official wiki for cyberpunk it states one of the first symptoms is feeling abnormal or like you're different or superior to others. David right after being able to use the sandevistan basically has this mindset, which means right from the get go he was developing symptoms.
Correct. Him not being able to sleep is a HUGE indicator of the development cyberpsychosis also. Gotta love those subtle details put into this show.
I always had the theory that cyberpsychosis is inevitable once you get too chromed up in cyberpunk, but some rare peoples have a functional psychosis like Adam Smasher. He's a total nutjob and has all the symptoms of cyberpsychosis, it's just that it seems like he can "control" it.
@@sebk7168 and V
A good ripperdoc could help avoid cyberpsychosis
Rule of cool and the thematic nature of the show gives it a pass but using immune suppressant medication to stop psychotic episodes is laughable. It would have made more sense for individuals with lots of cybernetics to take anti psychotic injections and medications like invega in addition to their immune suppressants that would have been a nice touch. Though it would mean the psychosis is treatable which takes away the terminal illness vibes the show was giving.
This show is legitimately amazing. I already liked Cyberpunk, but this made me love it. It's damn near perfect
I had a friend who did play through Cyberpunk 2077. And having them explain the worldview and Easter eggs made this even a better watch XD
it really makes it more special
I think playing the game makes you get attached to the character much faster, and the hard moments hit harder.
i wished my best bud did the same with me, cuz he played the game and liked it. i know he wont watch it but that fkt^rd doesnt even wanna talk to me about edgerunners fml
@@Mysteoa Also you know how the business in night city works so you know double-crossing someone isnt a big deal, its just business practice.
@@hagridflower2907 Absolutely, hell, even from the prologue in the game Evelyn wants you to double cross Dex so like that Kiwi advice really holds up.
You nailed it when you mentioned that you felt invested in these characters even though we had such a short episode count. I've never watched such a short series before and came away this impressed.
Really hope they make more stories in this universe.
it's awful cause now that it's over we get nothing else but feels
Yes, they really nailed a sentiment everyone that watched the show also felt, what a truly unique viewpoint this TH-camr has on the show. Enlightening.
4 hour show hits as hard or harder than 24-60hr game.
The moment you thought you got over the empty, bittersweet feeling that followed after the end, Gigguk comes, returns it and ensures that "I really wanna stay at your house" really stays in your head.
Ifkrrrrr😂
Playing that song is so illegal, it's "Secret Base" level of crying on command
Fucking right ? It's already been a week since I've seen it and now that bittersweet song is stuck in my head again.
To see their relationship evolving so quickly, and yet so naturally, and the way it all comes down just as fast, lefts you with a feeling of emptiness. The feeling that we were supposed to feel. That scene on the moon was so magical.
Got chills at 11:07. That song always hit hard even in the game while driving around Night City, and it hit the feels even harder now. Btw there's no denying that the game had a terrible launch, but they have since fixed a lot of its issues and its a lot more polished now with patch 1.6 also adding DLCs from Edgerunners where you can find Rebecca's guns and contact Falco on a side mission where you can get David's jacket.
What is the name of that song?
@@blakebridges8989 i really want to stay at your house! Great song
@@hoon8822 thanks, I’m now going to listen to it for next few days until I can cope with the ending
What hurts me so much is that lucy's dream isn’t about going to the moon. At first she wanted to leave from the night city, but after meeting David, ger goals changed to something like saving David From Arasaka(in episode 6, she found out that David is a test subject for the company or something like that) and leaving the night city with him.The moon is merely a symbol of her desire to leave where she is right now.So,in the end, nobody's dreams came true.
Absolutely.
I think when I was younger, the ending may have irked me, but I've come to appreciate the more bittersweet and tragic endings in anime and other media.
Happy endings are nice, but life isn't like that, sadly; and it's these kind of stories that stick with me more.
i thought she was going to take her helmet off at the end bc of this
@@RotartMedia Yeah, I had the same thought, but she wouldn't because David died so she could live, so she couldn't throw her life away.
oof
Lucy could have just told him the truth and everything would have been alright lol
I love how gigguk uses and time music. Only person who has been able to make me cry in a TH-cam video.
Yup. His review of Your name. had me weeping by the end. IIRC he also did the video for A Place Further than the Universe that made me weep, too. And when I say weep, I don't mean just crying, I mean snot, sobs, the whole nine yards.
Though that said, that could very well just be because both of those anime made me weep when I watched them, but he does capture the feeling of these types of shows in his videos about them, for sure.
when that devilman crybaby ost came in i was absolutely destroyed
I suspect that CDPR only commissioned one season of this show not expecting it to resonate so well with Cyberpunk fans and non fans alike. The fact that it's very much canon with the game is also a sweetener. No, not just the setting and cameos but the game was patched to include references to certain characters and a quest line that basically unlocks David's cool jacket and Rebecca's shotgun if you look hard enough.
David Martinez has been a drink in the game for a while, way before the update, too
@@perilousloki4712 its reasonable to say the drink was included during the production of the anime since it only was added a couple months ago
@@perilousloki4712 that is so cool! I always assumed they added it in the Edgerunners update, I didn't realize it has always been in.
@@NotTsurugi It hasn't always been in the game, they added it in 1.5 and the Edgerunners update was 1.6. Still pretty cool of them to add it as foreshadowing of the anime to come
@@VilasNil Oh my bad for misreading what you said
I genuinely believe this is one of, if not the best, more mature aimed anime in the last 10 years. The topics it touches are easily translated to modern equivalents to make it relatable and at the same time, a thrilling romance tragedy. I've also never seen anime handle casual nudity in such an adult way, practically ignored in most scenes that it's involved in. This and the genuine romance that grows throughout the show in a way no silly fan-service filled harem "romance" ever could. The industry needs to make a conscious shift to start churning out more content like this for the now adults that started watching as young teens in the 90s.
TLDR: 10/10 masterpiece that the entire industry needs to take notes on. bravo to trigger, best work yet.
What other ones do you suggest,
I’m hooked need more lol
@@randymarsh27 Devilman Crybaby is the only thing that feels remotely close to Edgerunners in both themes and executions that I can think of
@@Like_A_Dance
Sounds crazy lol
Al check it out
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It is not an anime, and your post looks like it is made by a paid shill/bot.
@@ExodusCore it's made by trigger so it's definitely an anime, that's not up for discussion. And no not a bot
This kinda gave me the feels Arcane gave last year. They really did a great job of creating a vibe and atmosphere that you wont get anywhere else!
I hope Netflix will follow this path for the next projects.
Arcane was actually good though, it had characters that we all know and love and not these boring bastards.
DUDE i had this exact same feeling, both shows are soo good im simply happy they existed
Netflix only hosts the show on their platform. They had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of it.
Is this a matter of Netflix aren't just CDPR and riot want to make a show and just use Netflix as a place to watch it idk if they invloved in any of these
@@marcinsadowski7230 yes, i meant to say that they are a big showcase for shows, so i hope they'll take more projects like this or like Arcane in the future, and not things like Record of Ragnarock
Quick reminder that David never went full cyberpsycho he was minutes away at most but he still died as himself
Everything about the series is incredible... even the audio, the original voice actors did their job wonderfully and the sounds of all the actions in the series are incredible
It speaks wonders about the quality of the product when the biggest complaint I have is that there isn’t enough of it,10 episodes is too little for how much I got attached to these characters. They still got me to care about them a lot but 2 or 3 more episodes to flesh them out and build Lucy and David’s relationship more would make this anime literally perfect.
This was my complaint too, I think 5 more episodes, and some drawn out character relationship development would have made everything hit even harder.
Yeah like *12 episodes* for the total I think would've been perfect to just get a bit more with the crew beforehand. lol
@@raec5426 i was really shocked when i started the anime saturday morning and was done before dinner. I was shocked at how fast i finished the entire thing
At least it wasn’t a pacing mess like BNA. That one needs more episode than how much this anime needs more.
Besides, I think the world-building was more prioritized on this anime than the characters, and it kinda feels enough for me.
@@snowhunter7536 it did felt like enough,I honestly feel satisfied with what we got,but I can’t deny that a little more would push this show from amazing to perfect. I’m not even asking for that much because I also believe that the fast pace is the charm of this show. I’ve seen people saying it should’ve ended in ep6 and a second part with the rest we got,that would feel way too slow and would kill that chaotic nature this show handles so well.
I knew it was coming and death flags were everywhere, but goddamn the ending hit me right in the feels and the song still tightens a knot in my chest even days after
After ep6 I was like: Yeap... they will start dropping like flies any minute now, arent they?
There were some death spoilers in the game too, like the fact there was a '' David Martinez '' drink in the Afterlife, many people who played the game knew that David dies from episode 1
This anime has been a bazooka to the heart
bro i feel that so hard, everytime i just hear the song i just feel so sad
@@Igor19485 "Who the fuck is David Martinez?" Now we know.
Just watched it and had to comeback here, great show 100% agree with the episode 6, and I really wish this was a one week one episode schedule. Because it is already fast and when I binged it, kinda short on time to see it slowly, it felt even worse.
There are some flaws for me with the story, but It is undeniably an awesome anime with great dubs.
Been awhile since an anime got me attached to every character and so brilliantly ripped my heart out
Kinda brings back memories of Akame Ga Kill
I’m a lot like gigguk, I’ve never played cyberpunk let alone seen much of it, but even then watching this show was incredible, I watch dark anime all the time with great stories but this is forever going to leave one of the biggest impacts on me, also if anyone ever says “I really wanna stay at your house” I’m gonna collapse on the ground and start crying I swear.
The game hits the same, multiple times. After a year and a half there are a few songs i still can't hear without feeling like all i should do is roll under a table and stare at the floor for a few minutes.
That fucking song especially : th-cam.com/video/P4bKZT_Eg4A/w-d-xo.html
Don't worry, your not alone too, I never played the game, nor seen much of it but I enjoyed this show alot
@Duke Vald I would recommend berserk(not the modern one) and chainsaw man, the anime isn't out it but the manga is indeed dark and gritty
[if anyone ever says “I really wanna stay at your house” I’m gonna collapse on the ground and start crying I swear.]
Don't worry, its never gonna happen
I really wanna stay at your house
As for the music, they had literally hours and hours of music to choose from. The soundtrack for Cyberpunk 2077 is probably the most diverse and expansive video game soundtrack to have ever existed, spanning 11 thematic radio stations each playing between 15 and 30 unique songs composed and performed by real-life artists from around the world, plus the original game soundtrack. The fact they didn't win a single award for music is honestly criminal. I mean, the game could host its own international music awards ceremony!
Body Heat Radio for vibing while I drive around the city, Radio Vexelstrom for head bangin murder music.
My two go-to’s 😂
The fact that it was all bland safe music was awful, Samurai is the best part of the soundtrack and they left it out because they scream. Samurai and the death metal station are the two best stations in the game with the rest being bland.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 episode 6 plays an entire black metal song during Maines cyberpsycho scene. It's the main song of pretty much the best episode, so definitely not all bland safe music choom
@@AsukaLangleyS02 samurai has only 2 good songs: black dog and ballad of buck ravers, the rest are kind bad.
I think 4/10 songs with lyrics from edgerunners are very good and the rest are decent to meh, but all have their place in the show.
For non-lyrical songs, I only recognized cyber wildlife park. I was hoping for the rebel path, but that song is reserved for V and Johnny crushing Arasaka
@@junkoe3808 Black dog and ballad of buck ravens are literally my least favorite from Samurai. I much more prefer Never fade away, Chippin in, A Like Supreme
The ending of this anime made me cry. I'm not a big anime watcher, but I think this hooked me and made me want to watch more anime like this. The series is so great and heck, it even managed to make me feel emotionally connected to the characters (especially Maine), such a beautiful piece of art.
Watch code geass
I just love that they were really able to show the spirit of night city. As V I kinda wanted him/her to have an actual life in night city without dying. But watching edgerunners makes it very clear that night city is truly final boss that can never be beat
you might be able to become a legend, but you probably won't survive long enough to see it
@@D4rtCt There's no living legend in night city.
@@drlee4305 watch as v gets a drink in the dlc and gets the cure
Yeah the whole setting including the tabletop is like this. There are no happy endings in Cyberpunk, the world has totally gone to shit and normal people scrabble and crawl in the dirt until someone squashes them underneath their boot.
@@drlee4305 Morgan Blackhand would like to have a word with you
Also for those who haven't played the game like Gigguk there are so many small details that are hype if you catch them. There are main quest NPCs from the game that you can find in the show. Everything that was shown in the show is playable in the real game. Guns, augments, even some of the exact same locations that are seen in the show can be visited in game. The music as well shows up in game (I'm specifically thinking about "I really want to stay at your house" where you can hear it on the radio on just on the street. Really has me on the verge of tears every time). The thing that shocked me most was the fact that at The Afterlife (a bar where mercs can find fixers) there's a drink called David Martinez (the main character in cyberpunk). The fact that this is significant is because many mercs live to make a name for themselves (like Lucy said "It's not about how you live it's about how you die" or the last line from the Ripperdoc about David going to make a name for himself), meaning the acts and reputation of David made him into a legend.
also makes some scenes hit so much harder, like the Adam smasher reveal, once I saw him I knew from the start david was not gonna make it out alive
@@karuuuma When they trow his name for the first time, I thought it was just an Easter egg. But when they really showed him, I was like Fuck they are dying (even if he was a lame boss in the game).
And right know with a fixed game while small visual glitches still exist and the updates coming to the major features that where missing vehicle combat melee overhaul and police overhaul and the full on expansion Phantom liberty there is no better time to give this game a second chance then now
The drink was there since the game release. People were wondering who he was.
@@karuuuma even tough smasher is kind of an utter joke in the game because of you do most of the side content and missions you will have severely over leveled till the point that smasher is a cakewalk
The line " This is just a standard driving experience in India " made me laugh harder than any other line .
Indian here....can confirm.
Especially cause it's true. Indian traffic is GTA Online in Night City.
Yep. I almost woke my roommate up lmao
It's standard driving experience in India, although it's tame compared to 6pm Friday traffic on the streets of Bangalore lulz!!
Indians use sandevistan mode when they drive in traffic and crash
11:07 (and in the background before) "I really want to stay at your house" just... hits different
This show really reflected that there are no winners in Night City and that no one is really special when it comes down to it. I've been having a hard time lately and I finished the show this morning, I needed to let those emotions out and this show helped immensely. it will always have a special place in my heart.
Aye, the ending was not the one i wanted, but the one i knew was coming, cause that's Night City baby
Man, I feel you. Everyday I get older I feel much more harden to the world. We need shows like this one every once in awhile to release those emotions.
No one is rlly special,
EXCEPT THIS RANDOM MFKER ADAM SMASHER
Honestly episode 6 made me come to the realization on how cyberpsychosis in the game and in that world is also a commentary on mental illness considering in the game it's described to come from stress levels and in the show one in the main causes they know is that people get so much work done it overloads their own brain to the point of insanity
So in conclusion, cyberpsychosis is stress related, most probably by computer data overloading your brain.
It sounds more like dementia to me. Getting violent and aggressive, not realizing friend from foe, hallucinations. My grams had almost all of that before she died. She drifted from being an average grandma to a comically slow, knife-wielding psycho who kept saying she'd kill us all for sleeping with her husband.
@@hitsugatatsuro9978 you know dementia is a type of mental illness because it affects your mental so that would still count
@@hitsugatatsuro9978 I'm sorry. It must've been a heartbreaking experience..
It's not just the metal being jammed into your body, it's the entire city and system around you that's breaking you down.
It seems like an allegory for drug addiction, well also considering they have to be constantly on drugs to even run or else they just go insane. Someone who's down and desperate like David was at his lowest in the first episodes will usually turn to some form of substance to null the pain and get through everything. They then will want more and more as just a little stops working for them.
You could even see cyberpsychosis as overdosing since you're practically dead at that point, you're just standing there to take as many people as you can with you, a thought some people at the end of their rope have. To go out with a bang and try and show the system is busted, that is reflected even in the line "It doesn't matter how you lived, it matters how you die." (forgot the exact quote).
Just my idea of it, having dealt with addiction before this is pretty similar... except for the whole turning my arms into tank buster cannons.
It's my favorite Trigger Anime to date. Hell, it's in my top 10 now. It's so damn good!
Yea
FR BRUH
I ain’t gonna lie, it almost replaced SSSS. Dynazenon as my favorite TRIGGER anime if it weren’t for my love for Tokusatsu.
Edgerunners felt so separated from humanity yet so connected. It gives you an empty feeling at the end which quickly turns into sadness, but you appreciate all the characters. They really nailed the description of Night City, nobody has a happy ending.
I loved the balance of how the show clearly was catered to Cyberpunk fans with all the in-game lingo/slang (choom, gonk, chipping, Cyberpsycho, etc) as well as the uses of sound effects from the game (Ringtone and the map in the last ep) but at the same time still has enough to draw in a new fan base who has never played the game. Great work as always Trigger!!
Arcane came out of nowhere to become arguably animation of the year last year.
Cyberpunk came out from nowhere to become arguably animation of the year this year (so far).
The future is looking bright for video game adaptations.
@beyond your imagination *animated ones
As long as they're animated... live action just doesnt seem to be the medium to capture the adaptation from games
Arcane, Pokemon, Sonic, Cyberpunk
Arcane I agree but Cyberpunk nah fam.
Genshin impact came out from nowhere to become *maybe* best animation of next year
I went into this anime thinking it's just another R-rated, action adventure that you can just turn your brain off to, but man... I actually shed a tear in the last scene. Such a beautiful anime. The atmosphere, the music, the little details, and especially the character development. Everything was superb; just simply perfect. It kinda reminded me of Akame ga Kill with that bittersweet ending. Truly, only the lucky ones can dream in Night City.
My mind dipped into cyberpsychosis when lucy opened her arms a little looking into the sun
Same here i couldnt help it but think it was just like akame ga kill in the way the crew was dying off
bitter? there are was only bitter in that ending. Should have atleast left becca alive bro :(
i knew i wasnt the only one crying
It reminded me alot of Akame ga kill, like when they started killing off Maine and his "wife" (idk her name rn) i was like dont do the culling of the enire cast. And well...
This is why Gigguk is the best anime review channel, he was able to give such a good review of the show without giving any spoilers. Good work man
Started a new save recently, when I was on my way to a NCPD gig, I heard 'I really want to stay at your house' playing in some random ass laundromat. I literally just stood there for 10 minutes and listened to the song on repeat while thinking about the show. I haven't had a series hit me so hard in a long time.
For those who have not played the game yet, please give it a chance. It's fixed now and the writing in the game itself is real good as well with strong characters. I really would like a sequel, or another expansion or even just another anime would be great.
Oh, I thought that was because I downloaded a radio mod
Gonna get it when there's a complete edition with all the patches at the end of its lifecycle. The sting of betrayal from that launch still hurts too much. I was hyped like I've never been for a game only to be massively disappointed by CDPR. The Witcher 3 is still my favourite game of all time. Thankfully I didn't preorder and I don't do anymore since CP2077.
Yeah I bought the game after the anime. One of my mates did too after I recommended the show to him lol. Great way to sell games I can tell you that much.
And for real, play the game. I'm pretty picky with games and honestly CyberPunk slaps. The story and world ARE great. I'm still getting bugs, and the gameplay could be better, but just like The Witcher 3, it's not the gameplay that's particularly good. It's the story and world the game puts you in.
And yeah. I sat outside of a mission listening to "I really want to stay at your house too". That shit hurts.
@@Shvabicu I'm the same, TW3 is the best game I ever played so I really don't want CDPR to fail, and they should continue to make AAA singleplayer games, because there is so few of them already (and now they're switching to Unreal Engine, so I think that would take take off the burden of developing the engine).
They're great at worldbuilding, writing stories, characters and even at building hype (which backfired with Cyberpunk), but I will be waiting for the game after patches, expansion, some mods (current devkit is kinda weak, and given that they're changing engine, maybe that will create more options for modding).
Also the game looks amazing at higher-end PC's so I would have to upgrade my rig. Edgerunners really tests my patience right now, though.
@@jankes433 gonna get it on PS5. I know the performance of the PS5 version is actually really good, but there are still lots of bugs in patch 1.6 footage and the game is still very incomplete. Better wait for the DLC and all the patches that come with and after it.
"I missed some Easter eggs here and there"
No, you didn't miss Easter eggs. What you missed was the most seemless integration of video game art direction into an animated medium... Ever. Sound effects, weapon design, and ESPECIALLY locations; the animators went so far above and beyond making this anime true to the game it's... Well, it's just incredible. No other way to put it.
I feel like EVERY location is a direct take from the game, it's amazing
Should I play the game first or watch the anime first?
@@reinhardtxt1932 either or, honestly. They're both so well integrated into the universe that you can find enjoyment regardless of where you got your start. I like it to starting the Yakuza series with either Yakuza Kiwami or Zero, they both offer an incredible introduction that creates a lasting impression while not spoiling the content of the other.
@@yourimpossibletoisgn pretty sure essentially every shot in the anime you can find the location in game........its fucking crazy
Not to mention music, every song is from the game.
Man after episode 6 I found it so hard to continue this series. The amount of tension build up that episode and the overall bleakness of knowing things aren't going to go well and pushing forward through it more and more was just so intimidating. I gunned the first 6 episodes but those last 4 took me a couple of days to finish.
i kinda lost interest after the time skip but i still finished it all even tho i wasnt really invested with the story
Exactly ! I knew the remaining 4 episodes would be filled with action and tragedy so it took me a while to gather the courage to watch them.
@@Chadison shucks man I binged the 10 episodes and got super invested, don't know why it didn't click for you but this show feels unfair, i know why they made that choice and can't argue against it but I still can't accept it, you could've done that better choose that instead of this but you didnt and I can't argue against it and it's unfair.
You took the words from me, watched the first 6 episodes in one day, and it's been 2 days since I've continued watching it
@@Chadison yeah it felt like the warnings and the caution had just been disregarded from that point. Like it went from "I'm gonna be big and I ain't ever gonna end like that", to "I know what's gonna happen but I don't have a choice I'm doing this now" after over halfway through the series
I finally bought and downloaded the game after watching the show and its been incredibly enjoyable. just shows what anime can lead to from a marketing/sales perspective!
I swear whenever I hear Arcane or any video game anime adaptation being complimented. I always think of Castlevania's anime adaptation and how underrated it is. it really deserves to be more recognised.
I loved Seasons 1&2, but after that it was bland and boring generic heroes quipping while killing fodder monsters with a few neat visuals. Alucard's arc with the brother and sister was completely pointless and could have been skipped entirely. Isaac was kind of cool but not enough to carry all of it. The B-lister vampire lady squad arc along with Hector was bloated and boring as hell.
@@Squiddyize yea, season 1 might be the best 4 episode run of any show I’ve ever fucking seen. And season 2 matches that energy so fucking well. Then 3 & 4 hit you and damn is it disappointing
@@Wav03 3 & 4 have their moments, but I would say that Isaac stands so far above the rest of the last 2 seasons, perhaps with the exception of the final fight in 4. Alucard arc in 3 is wack, that there is no doubt, but I wouldn't say that the series as a whole is anywhere close to bad.
How the fuck is castlevania underrated LMAO
@@thedogisaneldritchgod491 yea it’s not lmao. Rated af imo