The Cyberpunk Anime Hurt Me.

Cyberpunk 2077 Edgerunners is a prequel anime to Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt Red. We've been told it's the Ultimate Anime for our channel, but is it really?
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[@BonsaiPop]

Hi everyone! Just wanted to reiterate that this is just an opinion video, but thank you for watching!

[@jellyfishjan3498]

It took me awhile to come to terms with the ending of Edgerunners- I like to think the series is a cautionary tale about living for other's dreams and damning yourself through good intentions. David ends the show having made every choice that lead him there and fulfilling the words of every dream everyone else had for him, but not the spirit. His mom wanted him safe, Lucy wanted to leave everything behind and start over with him- he just never valued himself enough to realize what they meant.

[@JAY_X1]

I feel Edgerunners could've used a couple more episodes inbetween to flesh out more things in the story. I think it wouldve been cool to see David rise up to Maine's position and see how he overcame that grief.

[@krumpits]

"bitter sweet" is the happiest you can ever get in the cyberpunk world and this anime did it so perfectly

[@TonyFed]

Welcome to the “I just want to stay at your house” pain cave.

[@SerfsUp1848]

You completely missed the whole message about trauma. As a fellow former street punk this all hit very home. I've watched drugs and fast living consume friends but I also know the pain that brings you into such a spiteful life. And there really is no hope in this capitalist hellscape, unless we come together. The bad guys have fuckin won. We're already scraping by in a lame cyberpunk dystopia.

[@hedgehog6041]

Just wanna say, in the game cyberpsycosis is heavily implied to just be regular people in a bad situation who didn't have the resources they needed to get help. They just happened to have the power to do great harm when they lose their shit.

[@TaanStari]

"not enough time to build up this romance" - were you ever a teenager? This stuff happens immediately. Two young persons falling for each other, having nobody else, seriously this felt like the most believeable part of the whole series.

[@pagingdoctorsideburns]

While I think your response is a perfectly reasonable way to look at it, for me I find it actually cathartic to see art accurately reflect how hopeless the modern world can feel.

[@hansdieter8801]

It's funny that for how punk it looks and feels, everyone just kind of accepts the system and tries to make the best in it. Which goes, at least for me, against the spirit of punk

[@Lyander25]

One thing I love the anime for is how much more graphic it made the cyberware installation come across. In the game it was just an upgrade path like any other, but because it was a first-person PoV where you almost never get to see your character outside of menu screens and buying/installing new gear happens in the snap of a finger, it was hard to really catch on to what you were actually doing to your body then.

[@kartoffelofdoom2461]

Just for Context there is a way to Cure Cyberpsychosis.

[@evansketches]

Welcome to the Edgerunner feels club. We got endless sadness, huge amount of Rebecca fanart, and non-stop playing of 'I really want to stay at your house.'

[@TheNutzak]

When the Cyberpunk genre was conceptualized in the 80's, the world was a very different place. It was made to contrast the hopeful and idealistic version of future that most other authors were creating. That's sort of why it got popular among the youth of the time. But I understand your point. It's eerie how much this just reminds one of today's world and boy, isn't that depressing.

[@breadthgaming]

In my opinion, the saddest thing about the ending (sadder than all the deaths) is the fact that Lucy is alone and probably feels guilty as hell. She was trying so hard to save David that she ironically ended up being the the biggest factor in arasaka being able to lure him out. She distanced herself, got captured, got David wrapped up in a whole mess without ever being able to talk to him and clear her name. Imagine having to live with that guilt. I really felt for her in that ending scene on the moon, where she realizes that David is no longer there. You can tell she blames herself for everything. In the end, David failed to realize that her dream wasn't the moon anymore, it was a life of peace with him. Be it on the moon, or wherever. She just wanted him to be there. Imagine how she felt when falco said "if I turn around now David will have died for nothing" and when falco told her David apologized for not being able to go to the moon with her. Her entire being probably broke in that moment and the guilt probably started to kick in as she was fully taking in what was being said to her. I feel like if she communicated with David, and talked to him sooner, she could've gotten him off the cyberware that ultimately ended up giving him cyberpsychosis and they could've laid low, got enough money and potentially left. Truly one of the most tragic stories.

[@WolfofBende]

I saw Cyberpunk Edgerunners late last year and it hit me different. The first thing I took of it was just how pessimistic and bleak it was. Being someone who is dark and occasionally pessimistic myself, it felt a lot like reality.

[@heavymochagamer4624]

Does it make me a bad person that I will intentionally not hype this anime up to friends just tell em it was in my top 30 so they inevitably watch it and I get to see their pure unfiltered emotions at any of the soul snatching moments when they tell me I'm a bastard for not warning them?

[@GREENACEx009]

I thought that David not having a dream, was because he had his mom’s, Maine’s AND Lucy’s dreams to carry. He was taking those jobs to make money to get her to the moon, run the crew like Maine, and be successful for his mom.

[@H0NSE]

The hopelessness of Edgerunners is the highlight for me; One series that actually comitted to it.

[@liambaillargeon3136]

Its worth mentioning that in the Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson, the series of books that basically created the Cyberpunk genre, some of the main characters do get happy endings - because they walk the fuck away from the kind of life people like David and Maine lived