Ye the story hit me pretty hard. I went in with no expectations.... thinking I was just going to watch yet another cash grab that only functions to promote the game title. but I was blown away by how much care and development was actually put into this... From the story, to the characters, to the soundtrack and animations everything blends together nicely to create a memorable emotional story. And I'll be damned if this doesn't get some kind of award.
Yeah same, but Becky's death hit me hardest like knife though the heart. She was kinda wild but had a good heart and loyal to a fault not to mention cute.
Fun fact the ost is almost entirely klepped from cyberpunk 2077, which leads to some very sad inducing moments, just walking around and hearing "I really wanna go to your house" fucking hurts now.
David never gave a damn about the moon. He just cared about Lucy. Was never his dream. His dream was to go out like a legend while saving his love and avenging the deaths of his mother and Maine.
@@xgskrillax No, David's dream was to fulfill other people's dreams. But he was busy fulfilling Maine's dream and completely forgot about Lucy. David never really gave what Lucy wanted except for some love and care.
The way David further mutilated his body and became nothing but a torso with a metal body just destroys me and when I Just Want to Stay at Your House started playing at the end; oh my god😭
Same, when you see him in that shit, even if everyone already explained that it will lead to its death, it was even more painfull to see him use it... Bruh it hitted me hard
Night City remembers people for how they died and not what they did before that. It's safe to say David easily goes down as one of the most legendary cyberpunks in Night City. He battled MilTech, Arasaka, and it took Adam Smasher to finally put him down. The best part? David died human.
I played the game first and knew that there wouldn't be a happy ending from the start. It still kinda messed me up and I'm still thinking about it. It affected me on the same level as Jackie to be honest. A lot of love was put into this show and you can tell.
I’ll never forgive CDPR for spoiling the shit out of what coulda been one of the hardest hitting character deaths in gaming. Jackie was a great character, but I knew he was gonna die from the start because of the trailers. He was my homie that was gonna die, but he coulda been my homie who died. This anime made up for that though.
@@radnorio3180 I was one of the few lucky ones that never watched the trailers aside from the original announcement trailer with the cyberpsycho YEARS before they released it. What CDPR did was dumb but one of the animators for Edgerunners also alluded to David's death on Twitter as well. Idk what it is with spoiling the audience but I'm glad they didn't just full on air it out like CDPR did.
Legit every ending in the game (SPOILERS AHEAD) is sad. I got the one where I stayed on the space station and yo it had me HURT. Jackie's death was pain, similar with Maine's death, both of them knew they had it coming in the end due to their lifestyles :(
@@TheVeryAngryShrimp there’s also a drink named after David in the afterlife which despite me noticing in my recent second play through didn’t click with until after the show was over
I honestly don't think there will be another show quite like Edgerunners. They weren't afraid to kill off important characters, and they showed the affects of cyberpsychosis in brutal and blunt fashion. The dynamic throughout the whole team is unparalleled, I wish I could watch this for the first time forever. Edit: kill la kill this, kill la kill that. No I haven't watched it and I don't need almost 50 people to say "oh bro hasn't watched akame ga kill" I get it, shut up.
@@lilbubblegumleaks8104 the ending is literally what gave everything meaning, the world will never hand you victory when faced with literal unbeatable odds, for a story about love the ending is sooooo perfect
Faraday getting humiliated and disowned by both Arasaka and Militech, then disrespected by David and Adam Smasher just felt so good Faraday is my most hated character in the series. Watching David go into cyberpyschosis over the last 3 episodes from shaky hands to losing it was painful
The worst part is cyberpsychosis actually has a cure. 99.99% of the people just too poor to pay for it. Adam smasher isn’t special, corporations just willing to spent a lot of money on him that’s all.
@@V4ultr3mTV do you know it’s giancarlo esposito? Not trying to change your mind - I only found out myself when I was watching the credits in the final episode
Maine was a amazing character. Like you said, he was basically David's father figure and was there for him. His final moment with David and how Maine wants him survive was really bitter sweet
I love how even though he is pissed David "stole" his implant as soon as he heard about his mom he instantly realize he had to step up and basically adopted him.
The show really brings home how harsh the Cyberpunk setting is. In the grand scale of corporate scheming, the characters, no matter how much destruction they cause, do little to affect the status quo. Even Johnny Silverhand and the other legends weren't able to change much at the end of the day, and, as with David, died for their cause and dreams.
The fact that no one casually talks about David & co literally a year after the events of the show further sums up how vapid life in Night City is despite everything that went down. Kinda like Johnny though he didn't quite fade away thanks to his band that still gets radio play and the memorial site at Arasaka Tower. But now, its all background noise. No different from our world I guess.
It’s a common theme. The characters often talk about how it’s better to go down in a blaze of glory then quietly and with out purpose, but when you look at Johnny’s and V’s deaths it’s apparent that there was no glory. Nothing has changed after their death. Arasaka is still a powerhouse , the world is dying, you can’t stop the relic from taking over your body. There is no glory, only the blaze that took you out.
@@asshat8892 Its only ever glorious to those who see it from the outside, those who didn't loose anything for the "legend", I think I've learned something really important from Cyberpunk and that is that sometimes the best way to make real change is not to play for power but to stop doing so, being at the top doesn't make anyone happy in the world of Cyberpunk because you had to sacrifice so much to get there that there is nothing left but a big empty seat waiting to be taken by the next fool who wants to make it to the top. If David had quit while he was ahead he would have been happy, he had friends, he had Lucy, he had money and would most likely not have to worry about making a living, he could have chromed down and lived a longer happier life with Lucy, which I am sure is what Lucy actually wanted once they got together she would have rather have David with her than going to the moon, because it is not a question of do I want to go to this place I've dreamed of going to or do I want the person I love to be with me for a long time? In my opinion it is a no brainer you would want the person you love by your side, that is why I don't see Lucy's smile at the end as anything but a sad smile trying to hold back the tears from flowing, she wanted to go to the moon for sure but she would rather have gone there with David instead, and in lieu of that she would have rather continued watching her Moon BD with him back on Earth.
To make the ending even more tragic, on episode 4 when David tells Lucy "I'll take you to the moon, I promise", Lucy's response was to kiss him and tell him "I just don't want you to die". David never understood she cared more about his well-being than going to the moon.
Unfortunately towards the end David was going to go psycho with his upgrades and Lucy's protectiveness about the Cyberskeleton secret ultimately cost him David because she couldn't convince him to downgrade while holding back secrets from him. Not to mention she was going to get caught regardless and if she had told him the secret, David would have sought the Cyberskeleton by himself to save her anyway. They were on a doomed trajectory, they just didn't know it yet. David's specialness ultimately became his biggest weakness, made him too stubborn to think he could fall to cyberpsychosis. Like an extraordinarily lucky gambler on a roll not knowing when to call it quits losing to only moderately lucky guy who knew when enough is enough.
@@Sombody123 at least David NEVER really went cyberpsycho, even in death he still has his mind clear and talkshit to Adam. Even if David did survive, he really was in the brink of cyberpsychosis in the fight with Smasher, dug himself too deep to actually think for himself, and thus only thought of others sake.
@@praisesui-tyan exactly. and they set it up pretty well too. On the 1st episode u can already see him struggling on how to feel about his situation. he nvr was really good at understanding wht he was feeling but he knws tht if he does nothing he'll probably hate himself evn more cus of wht happened so he definitely wasnt gonna do the same thing when it came to Lucy.
My boy David went out like a champ! Edgerunners was a very touching story that shows the lengths one would go to to save the ones that mean the world to them. Respect.
@@zerechan It has been in the game from launch or for the past few months. There is a video where someone saw it in February and goes "Who the fuck is David Martinez!?"
@@mallardofmodernia8092 It would be worse than if he just died, because he is never going to be slotted into a new body or be released, and he ever was it would be so far into the future that it would be a world without Lucy, so far into the future there would be no record of her ever existing or of where she ended up in her final days.
@@KXNGGREE pretty sure Johnny said he was sick of how the corpos run every and wants it to change you don't need a whole season about that it's all mentioned in the game Adam smasher was a living legend I'd rather see that or just something else
"Too much loss for my soul" that sentence is exactly what I feel after watching Edgerunners. I actually feel depressed, I absolutely loved the show but Idk if I can ever watch it again. It scares me.
Her smile at the end is so painful it's good, you can tell she isn't smiling for herself it's a smile that has accept whats happened truly speaks a thousand words
man, even knowing how it ended because of the spoilers and who died I finished watching it and the truth is I'm not ashamed to say that I cried when I saw the final sequence of Lucy on the moon, I'm not one to cry but I do break the entire journey of David's hero shown and seeing how in the end Lucy was able to fulfill her dream halfway, but her gaze showed that she no longer cared without David but she could not commit suicide or return since it would make David's sacrifice worth nothing
Mentioning the first paragraph. I feel you. I'm not one to get emotional over movies and TV shows but when I do...man...I cry like a little bitch. It's weird because I usually don't feel anything throughout the entire show up until the ending.
This show made me wanna get into a relationship lol. Such a good show! Lucy knew all along what would happen to David… die a legend? Even silverhand (while alive) lost to smasher
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I didn't know where else to write this tbh. but in Cyberpunk 2020 the gamemasters are literally encouraged to kill off player characters they feel are too overpowered with bigger overpowered characters so seeing how the story ended just gave me major nostalgia vibes to playing my own campaigns lmao
Love your review of Edgerunners. Its an amazing original adaptation from TRIGGER. tho its still sad that majority of the characters die off one by one, Becca was one of the most heart-breaking to see. Im glad Adam Smasher got his Ass Whooped by V in the game, tho i wish i would play the game to beat his ass myself but maybe one day.
@@LukeJukeDuke I hope he truly dies, not sure if Arasaka or what has technology to be able to keep him alive even after being shredded (maybe an engram). In Edgerunners I thought the scene where he ripped out the hacking connections Lucy did on him meant he was somewhere else mentally, so him dying physically won't effect him but who knows.
@@0zWiz lucy mentioned that the old network had more and better knowledge than the current one in night city, and that the current network isnt interconnected with other cites around the world due to some hacker destroying about 80% of the old network, maybe the old network has sort of resurrection technology that could help make a comeback for david.
This show asks the audience a question "Are you really alive?". If we look at all the antagonists they are stuffy corpo rats that don't see any value in life or people other than what they can get them in terms of money and status. The characters we love see value in the company we keep, our freedom to make our own choices, and our struggles to go as far as we can for ourselves and our loved ones. Does Smasher and Arasaka win? Yes and no. In their definition of the word yes. They got their test and they are still standing, still running the world. None of them are happy. Smasher is leading a completely unfulfilled life at the top of the foodchain completely devoid of joy. Nothing rivals him to push him to excel or fear to motivate him to do anything. Arasaka's employees are constantly looking over their shoulder for what is going to get them if someone else sees it as a way forward for them and they are always looking to do them same. Their lives are nothing but fear and treachery. David loses but in the end lived his life how he wanted and was with those he cared deeply for and got to show it to them, to be shown that his love was reciprocated. It doesn't matter if he died so young because he experienced something so few people in that world will ever know and exceeded his potential by miles. Did the city swallow him with what he would have to become to achieve his goals? It nearly did, but he rose above it to hang on to the one thing that still made him human. His need for love.
Good comment, just had to say I'm pretty sure Smasher is happy with himself, dude is a psychopath. Not a cyberpsycho (though probably some of that too), just a psycho. Man loves to kill and hates humanity, sees it as weak. I'd imagine he doesn't even concern himself with the idea of concepts like being happy or sad, he gets paid to be a mass murderer made out of metal and he fucking loves that shit
@@kohlwalushka I actually disagree about Smasher. If his goal was just to have fun murdering people then we wouldn't see him balk at the prospect of going downstairs to deal with David. He didn't think it was a worthy challenge and a waste of his time that he would have spent...Doing what else exactly? He doesn't do it just to kill. He kills to prove that he is better, that his way of life is superior. He's at the top so to him there was next to no reason to go downstairs and deal with those obviously lesser than him other than some pissant corpo was telling him to.
Ill not lie, I thank this is why Panam Palmer and the Aldecaldo's resonate with so many, myself included. Because there just such wonderful and nice people all wile living in a desert with nothing. All they have is eachother, Family. Wile everyone in NC lives for the day and is always looking over their shoulder. I love Judy but she too has that uptight, ready to be backstabbed NC demeanor. Living as thoe tomorrow will be her last. All she can rely on is the Mox who are nothing compaired to the Aldecaldo's.
Studio Trigger did a phenomenal job with Cyberpunk. From the colors, emotional moments, and music, just everything they did was amazing. I really liked David. He was super relatable. That conversation he had with his mom once he got expelled really hit hard same for that conversation that he had with Lucy about dreams in the second episode. David was the kind of person who only really lived for the dreams of others and not for himself. And I feel that hits home for a lot of us that watched the show.
The story and in particular the ending captured cyberpunk (The genre especially, but yes also the game) fairly well. There are few (if any) happy endings. In this case, Night City is a an entity that sucks out the life and joy of those within it. It was done well, it was devastatingly sad and it was a perfect ending.
@@kodymcbride6901 The way I see Night City is both as a bug light and a casino, it lures you in with its bright lights and excesses, and you keep playing the city and you might win or loose but even if you win at first, we all know that in a Casino the House ALWAYS wins and it will take everything from you. The reason no one gets a happy ending in Night City is because no one actually quits the city for real, no one ever quits when they are ahead, David had everything but his chase for more is what made him loose everything, He had a crew he could trust, he had a partner who loved him, he had money to live far above what he ever could when his mom was alive, he could have quit, not been a legend but rather a happy person who lived long. The only real happy ending for the game in my opinion is where as Male V you leave the City with the Aldecaldos and Panam, leave the City behind and leave with your new family, you may not have as long to live as you wanted to but you are not alone, and you have something everyone in Night is always hunting for, family and love.
It's been almost a week and I can't get this Fucking show out of my head. Exact same feeling as when I finished Cyberpunk 2077 so much pain yet so much joy so bitter sweet that you can't even comprehend what just happened.
Yeah i have to agree, Maine really surprised me how much i liked and appriciated him, a big brother to david and a mentor. rough, but fair. protective but expecting others to do their part and carry their own weight. helpful but at the same time willing to acknowledge that he does not have all the answers. I especially love how at the end he managed to control his cyberpsychosis for long enough to give david a fighting chance.
I honestly can’t even play cyberpunk anymore without remembering the show. The music. The Cyber psychosis, the moments, and what happens in the game. I can’t stop remembering it.
Yep, that's why I'll always have Rebecca's iconic Guts Shotgun and David's Jacket always equipped from now on, oh yeah and Body Heat Radio for the best tunes.
@@fezzy5591 You start a quest for the jacket outside of Mega building 10 in Santo Domingo. You'll see the quest on the map after completing the mission "The Heist". You'll see the Edgerunners logo written on the wall, with a BD to play.
Its depressive and tragic. Makes me wanna punch Trigger or give this less than a 7/10 even tho it was a good show, but had so much potential. It was rushed and the ending was depressive.
I don’t even like anime but I’m a fan of the cyberpunk ip and this peaked my interest ended up binging it in one day and damn near tearing up at the end
@@Артем-ь6е9л if this person liked this I would recommend bebop or ghost in the shell maybe flcl the only thing simple to guran Lagan is the animation studio with this lol
@@mookiestewart3776 Edgerunners structurally quotes it. The only difference is the setting and the time given for the plot to unfold. Edgerunners cheats in that regard. They don't need to explain the details of the world fully, as it is outside the scope of this particular anime. In turn, Gurren had more episodes. Gurren Lagann is a style icon. But if we consider something related to anime in the style of cyberpunk, then you are of course right.
Rebecca's struggle to keep David from losing himself, and her resignation when she realizes that he is lost and there's no going back just kills me. There are no happy endings in Night City, it just eats you up and spits you out, a mangled mess of unfulfilled dreams and what-could've-beens.
Bro if this shows was 3 episodes longer! I wouldn’t be able to handle it bro this shit hits hard I’m just now getting over it I cried like 4 times watching this shit
Lucy remembering David when she's on the moon is the scene that finally broke me, whenever I cry at a show or movie it's a slow build, but this is the first show that's simply had a snapping point. I want more of this show, but what we got was already so freaking amazing, I can't even think of what more I could want, I just want more.
the second lucy jumped on that stretcher and was driving it backwards I was in love with her character lol. If you've had a gorgeous crazy one then you know .....they'll drive you up the wall but they have your back and you get hooked like a drug. Her character brought back a lot of happy/sad memories for me
Show just reminded me of my own struggles and how I failed despite giving it my all. Lack of sleep, failing to attend cousins weddings, missing out on the fun stuff just so I can get something that was fair and was my dream, only for it to fail because of the system. The pain I felt, the struggle i endured, the things I missed out on was all for nothing just because they wanted to save name. Its unfair, its painful but it happens. You cant win em all, but it would be helluva better life if I could win more instead of losing more. I just stopped giving a fuck and decided to do what I felt was right kn smaller things. Its a start I guess. And the thing that hit me most is, after watching the show. Aside from games, gym and everything else that keeps me distracted. I truly am alone with no one to share the pain with. That and the show is sick, a good watch actually 10/10 would watch and be reminded that night city is the wrong place gathering the wrong people if you expect happy endings.
That’s life man you can give it your all even feel like you’re the one and others tell you and still not make it… glad you’re recovering. There’s someone out there for you, glad you go to the gym!! Just build a happy life for you
Hey man, I completely agree, this show was so damn emotional it got me tearing up in the end, and i rarely feel emotional about shows. Really sorry to hear that you’re going through rough times, lemme know if you want to talk, i’ll be glad to help any way i can :)
I think what hit me the hardest is that after his mother's death, he was just looking for a roundabout way to kill himself, he really just didn't care anymore, which was evident by how he immediately got the Sandy installed with no thought about the repercussions. And it was most sad to me that even Lucy wasn't enough motivation for him to stop with the augments. And the ending..... oh the ending....
I can't really see Lucy without David and that's how much I cared for them and all the characters in only 10 episodes. Imagine if they had more episodes to really flesh out the characters it would probably be sadder to see them end up like that
I really appreciate actually how many assets from the game were re-used for the show! Whether out of laziness or not, this means basically everything you see a character do is something you can do in game. My V character was basically fully specked into stealth. After watching David and Lucy, I bought a Militech Sandevistan , Legendary Monowires, and picked up Rebecca's shotgun.
@@fishfood8711 The soundtracks are basically all from the in-game "Body Heat Radio" station. I'm glad they highlighted how fucking scary MaxTac and Adam Smasher are to even most mercenaries.
I just finished watching it like 5 minutes ago and all i can say is wow it really hit me so hard i love this anime so much........ Rebecca best character
i went into it having completed the game, so i know how cruel night city is even with the expectations that it wasnt going to be a happy show i was still hit with sadness and left empty, even feeling anger the randomness with some of the deaths was incredibly well done every piece from music, soundtrack, characters good or bad, the story, i know there are a bunch of comments already saying this but everything was combined to make a fantastic story and to compliment/inhance cyberpunk 2077's story and world but man, that final moon scene, all the emotions i felt watching the show flooded in at once, i was left face in hands whispering "cmon man.. why" at 4am
I loved this show. Ending has me fucked up though I'm ngl. Having played cyberpunk I had a feeling that everything wasn't gonna go well, but I foolishly had hope mainly because of the dynamic between the mc and everyone. This anime really did surprise me though. Was interested because of the animation and having stuck it out with cyberpunk since a day 1 release on a ps4. I got way more invested in the story than I thought I was. Easily now in my top 10 anime I've seen.
The tragic overarching story with David and Lucy's struggle to save each other and achieve their dreams was painful. But Rebaecca's sub-plot was icing on the cake that made it really, _really_ hurt. That scene where Rebecca realizes David is too far gone, accepts it, and comforts him, just crushed me. While she might've had a screw loose and enjoyed violence a bit too much, she also simply wanted to be happy with everyone else in the gang. She was interested in David, but knew that the feeling would never be reciprocated. Her own brother got blasted in front of her out of nowhere. The only people she has left is the Maine gang, but everyone starts dying off one by one, she watches David slowly lose it to cyberpsychosis, and let's it all happen because they were doing what they wanted/needed for their own dreams. She saw everything fall apart around her, and then meets her untimely end supporting them. It's just so tragic to me.
Hey man just wanna let you know I 100% rock with your commentary. Love the subtle beat in the back. Your voice doesn't over power the clips from the show or the music as it just kind of blends. It made me able to watch the entire video which I don't do most often these days. Good stuff!
My boy Von helped me pick out the music to match each character better, thanks alot for the feedback. I usually do anime power scaling stuff but was nervous posting this since I dont have the audience for it. Very glad you enjoyed it!
I have never become so emotionally attached to a show, let alone as quickly as I did. I sobbed over Gloria's death for at least 10 minutes and still get emotional just thinking about it, and that was just the first episode. Such an amazing story that I had so little expectations going into and simply cannot get over it
My heart is still aching from this. Might be a while for me to recover. I love how in most of the show scenes are chaotic shooty shooty but at the end when only Lucy makes it out alive the pacing of the show slows down by a lot. I'm glad David and Lucy were able to make up before everything happened.... when sh!t got real both of them went away on a sour note but around the climax they both were confronting each other... which is why the glimpse of David and Lucy's confusion and momentary happiness getting taken away to shock and realization and her embracing the sun hurts my heart a lot. That's what Cyberpunk genre is... Night City is like a beautiful curse. Those who manage to get away do not come out of it unscathed, like Lucy, Alt Cunningham, and Rogue Amendiares. They lost everything. No matter how much I wish Lucy and David are together and happy it's Night City that wins in the end, megacorps getting away and continuing their wrath with future young aspiring dreamers becoming legends and repeating the process. Like how David's doc said after he gave him military grade healing thing to keep himself sane. The song will always give me the feelings I felt on the final scene, so will seeing the moon, space, and astronauts. They will always remind me of the deep scar Edgerunners episode 10 left. That ending sequence is too good and painfully heart wrenching, CDPR/Trigger literally rips your heart out and drops it in front of you. The kicker is the ending is a big open note, does she stay on the Moon at which has two known cities, but Arasaka and Militech have mining operations happening in 2077, or will she return to Earth where she might possibly be hunted. Also would like to add a few things just to get it out of my chest: Lucy not once ever said she believes in David like David said he believes in her when Maine messed up and knocked Kiwi out. But she did say she knows David will become a great edgerunner. I think this need for approval sort of drove him as well, she kept things sort of hidden from him and the fact that she was protecting him by killing netrunners who are actively trying to recover the corrupted files she intentionally corrupted to keep David safe. She probably never said she believes in him because she is afraid of losing him. Thinking about it their relationship is a little more deep than I thought, might have to do some self-brainstorming.
I love really in depth, deep and painfully beautiful anime like these. Darker than black, gunslinger girl, [C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control. But my heart, it just can't take it. I already struggle with depression enough as is. But I can't really bring myself to watch stuff that's not this particular type of gritty and realistic. I just... Wish they had just a *tiny* more happiness in their endings. Fuck.
Trigger is literally the BEST studio to write, compose and direct an anime of the series. Mad House, or Mappa for that matter, does not have such talented, creative, courageous, careful and unique visions towards a creation of theirs like this studio have. I'm so glad Trigger was chosen to do this and I'm glad to see Hiroyuki Imaishi directing an anime again that challenges him. So glad! So fucking glad. Best Trigger anime to me and one of the best animes I ever watched.
I have never cried so hard at a anime in my life and I've watched some sad anime. The character building was top tier and emotionally invested me every episode making me feel like I was in their shoes
Something hit me about the names as I was watching the later episodes. "Main" is the term used in video games for the character class and customization options a player prefers. But it's *also* a term often used for people's highest-level character in an MMO. Which is often the character from their first play-through. The themes of this story revolve *heavily* in places on the idea that David is yet another play-through of "the same game" as Main and the rest of the crew. Only in David's case, it's the *tabletop* version of Cyberpunk and not the video game. No respawns for Edgerunners here.
What i find ironic is how David's death is like Silverhands almost perfectly, Something tells me or false hope tells me this isn't over. P.s cried at the end of the video thats how hard hitting the anime is
@@idonttknowhowtoswithmyname2808 Never watched Castlevania? Do you mean there will be more seasons with different characters or something? No way they can revert the ending now and bring characters back..
@@idonttknowhowtoswithmyname2808 I'd love to see other seasons exploring people of different backgrounds and their stories in Night City. But they'd have to work their asses off to even equal the grandeur of this one.
It took just 10 episodes to rip our hearts apart. This was an awesome watch. The characters and their flaws were so beautifully crafted. Adam Smasher will pay.
Well, the game and this anime like to remind us that climbing the ladder to the top in the streets of Night City doesn't ever end well. No such thing as living legends.
After finishing the show, and being left in emotionally tatters. I've went through dozens of reviews, reactions and opinions about this wonderfully tragic masterpiece. This review is definitely one of my favorites. I really loved how the characters were emotionally described, and had their actions and consequences acknowledged. The heartfelt appreciation for the crew's complex personalities, and their bittersweet relationship with each other, gave me some much required closure. The beautiful editing of the scenes provided a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The best part has to be, when the OST started playing, and it showed Rebecca helplessly watching David go completely off the deep end, my heart shattered again, together with hers. Going through the comments, it was comforting to know, despite the problems we all are going through, living in this cruel, hateful, clown fiesta of a world, so many people still shared a genuine emotional connection through this series. Thank you so much for this wholesome and entertaining review. Keep up the good work!
Very glad you enjoyed my perspective and analysis. I wanted this video to evoke my emotions for each character perfectly, in fact, if you listen closely each song for the characters is different and is there to evoke the emotion I felt for them. This video was a passion project I expected to get maybe 100 views but I’m glad people like you ran into it and could enjoy it
This hit me in all the feels. I also came to the sad realization I may never experience being loved so much by someone like Lucy did for David, or be crushed on so hard and cared about like how Becca did for him as well.
Bro the ending was just extreamly sad like i was extramly sad because all the characters where so well made i felt like they were my friends and there deaths hit hard and when David died it was just depresion
It was a beautiful show. The scene where they kiss and the rocket is lifting off is amazing, and I want it as a poster or a painting. I cried during the last episode.
I think I'm now in the fifth stage of grief which is acceptance after watcjing this show. A very beautiful score indeed👍 But the song "I Really Want to Stay at your House," will give me heartaches every now and then😢
That ending is bittersweet, but to me the saddest moment is when Rebecca realizes David's past saving. I think that moment was done so well, and the way it played out was meant for the viewer as well. We all held out hope that David would have anime protagonist plot armor, but the second that vial didn't work, all hope was lost. My heart broke with Rebecca's
unpopular opinion - Lucy is a fool who got everyone killed because of her lack of trust in the one she loved. She tried to take the burden of the arasaka hunters herself instead of telling the truth. If she told David what she was doing, he most likely never would have died and she wouldn't have been caught so easily . In a way, she killed him.
You are correct, her actions LEGIT got Maine and Dorio killed although Maine himself likely would have died or killed others himself had he not died here. The issue is she KNEW if she got David involved, based on Arasakes plans, he would wind up in the exoskeleton suit. So its not really trust, she just knew david wouldnt resist the suit if it meant saving her and she was very much correct. I can argue though that if Dorio was alive maybe Rebecca wouldnt have died. Dorio wouldnt let Becca be so reckless.
@@zerechan losing Dorio and Maine is a massive hit to the crew, they were the supporting pillars, of the group, Maine is the Charismatic leader who knows how to call shots if he's not being crazy, and Dorio is the voice of reason that pulls Maine together, something that David cannot do alone, he needed Lucy to be his voice of reason, Becca is also his closest confidant but she's not Lucy, and well, we all know how that spirals out. If only Lucy went clean with David they could have tackled the problem together and maybe perhaps have gotten out of Night City somewhat intact.
An unpopular opinion I actually agree to huh Yeah I bet during the moon scene it's not just grief for David but for the others all for keeping it all to herself. That's gonna haunt her to the grave it's so fucking depressing and so cyberpunk.
@@KePzez I don't think it's an opinion, I'm pretty sure this was a deliberate point the show was trying to make. To add to what everyone else has mentioned via the crew falling apart and Lucy not telling David about Arasaka, her not joining back in the crew to help him keep it together really fucked him up long term. We see how just an embrace and kiss from her helps break him out of psychosis longer than even the meds managed. If she came forward with the truth, talked more, helped with the day to day more, it no doubt would've been easier to tackle the problems. Once she was kidnapped it was a wrap, Lucy brought him into the game, gave him his first drink, popped his cherry, etc. No way he was not going to go all out to save her at that point.
Nah. David would have still have died because even though he wouldn't have used the cyberskeleton, he would have still gone cyberpsycho from all the cyberware he put on his body plus the spine implant
Just to make the cyber-psychosis bit hit a little harder, emotionally speaking - that tolerance is based entirely on one's mental and emotional health. If someone has a lingering trauma, a regret, something haunting them that needs to be dealt with, the amount of chrome they can take on depends entirely on how powerful that 'baggage' is. David's was two-fold - seeing both his mother and Maine die in front of his eyes, powerless to do anything about either one. This is why individuals like Adam Smasher are perfectly fine - he was already an emotionally-detached psychopath, so chroming up to the max put no strain on him. V from CP2077 is a special case; because V has Johnny Silverhand as a 'buffer', V isn't vulnerable in the same way. V always has someone with whom to discuss whatever problems they face. Long story short - you only go "psycho" from chroming up if you've got unresolved problems.
This show was honestly great, starting with all the physical aspects of the show thanks to TRIGGER and the production team this was awesome. Now let's talk story. From the moment David's mom died you can see how different this universe is from ours. He couldn't mourn her death like us. He couldn't show feelings because how often this happens and how he had to go to cremate her mother himself. This is the story of the weak people left in the shadows by rich and live-how-i-want capitalists and corporations. The weak deserve to live and love too. And when they don't, they stray away from their path. This is how we don't want our future to be.
As Johnny himself said "Good ending?" "Wrong city. Wrong people." I'm glad they portrayed NC and cyberpunk as a whole without the rep the game has earned. I loved it and thought the game was criminally hated, this was a great breath of air only to put me back into the DEEP ABYSMAL VOID. FK THIS SHOW :(
Also amazing vid man 💙 I'm so happy the hype is this strong although it'll probably last a week The show really would be perfect if it was 12 episodes, needed just a little more huh
I just binged this yesterday and dunno dude. The tragedy didnt really leave a mark on me. I admit that seeing something like rebecca die made me hate Smasher with a passion. More than the game did. But overall I knew what i was getting into. I had hopes that they would defy the rules of the gerne. But I started playing cyberpunk 2077 again just before the anime released by coincidence and it hammered it into me that there are no happy endings in this world. I saw the ending coming from a mile away that david was gonna lose it to help Lucy with her dream. I mean the whole cyberpsychosis theme was set up in the first minutes. After watching Rebeccas brother (dont even remember the name right now lol) be offed just like that, pretty much confirmed it for me that I wont be seeing much of the main cast anymore once the show is over. But that Is cyberpunk for you: wont be remembered how they lived, but how they died. All in all, I loved the show. They really immersed you into the setting, constanly recognising parts of night city. Its a love letter to the game and not some cashgrab from the IP. The animation, exessive violence, Soundtrack and the freaky characters. I love it. They nailed what cyberpunk is about. I mean its more explicit with nudity than actual Hentai. I have to second Moistcr1tikal on this as in that this feels like watching Redline. The Show is entertaining just by being completly over the Top with everthing. I wish it was a couple of episodes longer tho. It would have done wonders for the story and characters. But I agree on the what you said about Lucy and David that there was no unnecessary drama and I praise them for that. Definetly hoping for more in this direction.
I was on major copium or just blind lol. I didnt watch the intro or trailers, legit went in purely blind thinking it would follow usual anime tropes where true love saves the day but nope. Think it was my own fault partially that this hit so hard but I still credit the writers and VA's for making everything feel so real.
@@zerechan Well I played the game and there's a literal line "Happy ending for us? Wrong people, wrong city" so I knew it wouldn't be a ridin off in the sunset together type of ending.
Idk, I think the tragedy was less about the things that were happening and more about why and to who they were happening. We're talking mothers, sons, brothers, long time friends all losing their lives and minds for no reason and how everything came to be just another news story for most people in that enormous rotten city. Not to say the game didn't drive the same points home already, but as a standalone work I really am glad it did it so well once again.
yeah there's never a good ending in a cyberpunk/dystopian world. bladerunners didn't have a good ending. none of t he cyberpunk endings were great either. it usually finishes with a harsh reality of death and impending death and despair with a small glint of hope.
I was 99% sure she was going to pull off her helmet at the end and die killing off an important character is one thing and Maines death felt right but killing almost everyone felt like too much
I'm pretty new to anime, with FMA brotherhood being my intro to the medium. Somethings stick, some haven't, but this show... wow. With no exposure to the Cyberpunk universe, this was a totally organic experience for me and I haven't stopped thinking about it since finishing it in one sitting. It was a beautiful piece of art. If anyone can make recommendations for me based on this, i would appreciate it! Great breakdown, love the video!
FMAB would require atleast 1 hour for me to discuss in a video. Although it isnt in my top 5 right now, I recognize it as the greatest anime of all time. However, Id say the things this show wanted to establish it thoroughly established more than alot of shows can in 2 seasons.
It felt a bit like Arcane. A adaption from video game to a tv-series by borrowing it’s world and lore but introducing new characters slowly building upon them through some breathtaking animated scenes.
It's really hard not to take the copium and hope that David got turned into a construct somehow, or cloned by arasaka due to his high cyberware tolerance or SOMETHING
Thing is smasher gave him a a choise But David like : like i give a fuck Smasher task was to stop david not to kill him since arasaka needed david There is 2 options i think 1. 100% smasher has a BD implant and it would be risky to him refuse an order from arasak so he did not kill David 2 . He killed David from empathy But there is a very interested thing Smasher got hit by an RPG what turned him literally mush and the arasak managed to "save him" David can be alive but its on the devs Same goes for V in the star ending he has 3 months left to live and Alt literally copied the original V on a different soul killer + Panam contact So basically V and hes/her friends has a big chance to save him from death but again its on the devs Extra: Phantom Liberty is the only DLC what CP2077 get because CDPR going to use Unreal engine since the Witcher 4 is gonna use UE5 if we lucky we can get prequel DLC Ps : the Loli must stay Rebecca the best
There are hints in the lore that cyber psychosis is apparently not a real condition, but one unset by the attempt to control the subject remotely. If this really turns out to be true, the nearly every cyberpsychos condition is induced with an insidious purpose behind it. Which means characters like Maine, David, every other person.. didn't have to go through what they did.
If I'm being honest I think I would hate this being true, as it would take cyberpsychosis from being a tragic Icarus moment to just more evil corpo stuff. One's just a lot more meaningful than the other.
I've been researching this a lot recently. Based on everything available we have to draw from, there's no actual definite cause of cyberpsychosis. Heck, even the definition of cyberpsychosis itself is up in arms.
Lucy’s dream came at a cost. What she loved the most, even more than the moon. In the end I believe she realized this, this is what makes that final scene so heartbreaking to me. I’d bet that she’d sacrifice everything just to have David back.
Ye the story hit me pretty hard. I went in with no expectations.... thinking I was just going to watch yet another cash grab that only functions to promote the game title. but I was blown away by how much care and development was actually put into this... From the story, to the characters, to the soundtrack and animations everything blends together nicely to create a memorable emotional story. And I'll be damned if this doesn't get some kind of award.
Yeah same, but Becky's death hit me hardest like knife though the heart.
She was kinda wild but had a good heart and loyal to a fault not to mention cute.
Yo I legit have bumped this to my top 5, right new to cowboy bebop and samurai champloo. I WISH it were 12 episodes or 24 like whyyyyy
Fun fact the ost is almost entirely klepped from cyberpunk 2077, which leads to some very sad inducing moments, just walking around and hearing "I really wanna go to your house" fucking hurts now.
Same here. Literally a second hand depression.
When David said, "I'm edge-running for the final time". hit me so hard.
The ending with Lucy alone on the moon without David breaks my heart 💔 😭
David never gave a damn about the moon. He just cared about Lucy. Was never his dream. His dream was to go out like a legend while saving his love and avenging the deaths of his mother and Maine.
@@xgskrillax I know. I meant it as he wanted to go with her. Because it's her dream. Like he'll follow her
@@xgskrillax No, David's dream was to fulfill other people's dreams. But he was busy fulfilling Maine's dream and completely forgot about Lucy. David never really gave what Lucy wanted except for some love and care.
V woulda saved lucy and had her on the moon.
@@lello2031 true but I wished he was there to save Rebecca and David. So Lucy and David and Rebecca would of had a happy ending
The way David further mutilated his body and became nothing but a torso with a metal body just destroys me and when I Just Want to Stay at Your House started playing at the end; oh my god😭
Same, when you see him in that shit, even if everyone already explained that it will lead to its death, it was even more painfull to see him use it...
Bruh it hitted me hard
@@dark-lord-itachi-gojoofthe6166 fr it WAS!!!
Night City remembers people for how they died and not what they did before that.
It's safe to say David easily goes down as one of the most legendary cyberpunks in Night City. He battled MilTech, Arasaka, and it took Adam Smasher to finally put him down.
The best part? David died human.
@@joeymini6556 "I made it to the top of araska tower, mom!"
@@scottmon23 bro that’s somethin else
I played the game first and knew that there wouldn't be a happy ending from the start. It still kinda messed me up and I'm still thinking about it. It affected me on the same level as Jackie to be honest. A lot of love was put into this show and you can tell.
I’ll never forgive CDPR for spoiling the shit out of what coulda been one of the hardest hitting character deaths in gaming. Jackie was a great character, but I knew he was gonna die from the start because of the trailers. He was my homie that was gonna die, but he coulda been my homie who died. This anime made up for that though.
@@radnorio3180 I was one of the few lucky ones that never watched the trailers aside from the original announcement trailer with the cyberpsycho YEARS before they released it. What CDPR did was dumb but one of the animators for Edgerunners also alluded to David's death on Twitter as well. Idk what it is with spoiling the audience but I'm glad they didn't just full on air it out like CDPR did.
Legit every ending in the game (SPOILERS AHEAD) is sad. I got the one where I stayed on the space station and yo it had me HURT. Jackie's death was pain, similar with Maine's death, both of them knew they had it coming in the end due to their lifestyles :(
@@TheVeryAngryShrimp there’s also a drink named after David in the afterlife which despite me noticing in my recent second play through didn’t click with until after the show was over
Btw op of the anime is literally showing us that David is going to die and the ominous figure that shoots him is Faraday
The animators captured in Lucy at the end just what deep sorrow and grief looks like. God, my heart broke for her at the end.
Her eyes tell it all.
Just seeing that scene over again in this video made me want to cry.
I honestly don't think there will be another show quite like Edgerunners. They weren't afraid to kill off important characters, and they showed the affects of cyberpsychosis in brutal and blunt fashion. The dynamic throughout the whole team is unparalleled, I wish I could watch this for the first time forever.
Edit: kill la kill this, kill la kill that. No I haven't watched it and I don't need almost 50 people to say "oh bro hasn't watched akame ga kill" I get it, shut up.
You should watch Devilman Crybaby if you haven't watched it yet
@@matiasbustamante1167 Hate that show just bc of the ending. Made everything pointless.
Nope highly doubt it. There are similar shows but the fact that 10 EPISODES made me care about romance (which I NEVER CARE ABOUT) is insane!
@@lilbubblegumleaks8104 the ending is literally what gave everything meaning, the world will never hand you victory when faced with literal unbeatable odds, for a story about love the ending is sooooo perfect
@@lilbubblegumleaks8104 then i don't think you understood the series bro
Faraday getting humiliated and disowned by both Arasaka and Militech, then disrespected by David and Adam Smasher just felt so good
Faraday is my most hated character in the series. Watching David go into cyberpyschosis over the last 3 episodes from shaky hands to losing it was painful
i liked how even Smasher didn't give a shit about him, he just waited like "kill that random bozo so i can fuck you up"
The worst part is cyberpsychosis actually has a cure. 99.99% of the people just too poor to pay for it. Adam smasher isn’t special, corporations just willing to spent a lot of money on him that’s all.
Faraday's english voice was TRASH AF
@@V4ultr3mTV do you know it’s giancarlo esposito? Not trying to change your mind - I only found out myself when I was watching the credits in the final episode
@@thomas.02 Yes I do know who he is, but his voice acting was still HORRIBLE. I give that job a 3 out of 10
You are not alone in being broken. The anime hits hard, right in the feels...
😭😭 it's good to share it, it was devastating for me as well.
I’m still crying about the ending rn
Maine was a amazing character. Like you said, he was basically David's father figure and was there for him. His final moment with David and how Maine wants him survive was really bitter sweet
I love how even though he is pissed David "stole" his implant as soon as he heard about his mom he instantly realize he had to step up and basically adopted him.
Fr, "Girl on Fire" which I think was ep 6 where all that went down is in my top 3 favorite episodes ever of any medium or genre.
Especially when he went cyberpshycho and still managed to talk to him:(
@@dinklezucc5982 Episode 6. Episode F**king 6.
The show really brings home how harsh the Cyberpunk setting is. In the grand scale of corporate scheming, the characters, no matter how much destruction they cause, do little to affect the status quo. Even Johnny Silverhand and the other legends weren't able to change much at the end of the day, and, as with David, died for their cause and dreams.
Yeah people see Cyberpunk as cool and flashy but even in the game its established that its just short lived lives stuck in an awful system.
The fact that no one casually talks about David & co literally a year after the events of the show further sums up how vapid life in Night City is despite everything that went down.
Kinda like Johnny though he didn't quite fade away thanks to his band that still gets radio play and the memorial site at Arasaka Tower. But now, its all background noise. No different from our world I guess.
It’s a common theme. The characters often talk about how it’s better to go down in a blaze of glory then quietly and with out purpose, but when you look at Johnny’s and V’s deaths it’s apparent that there was no glory. Nothing has changed after their death. Arasaka is still a powerhouse , the world is dying, you can’t stop the relic from taking over your body.
There is no glory, only the blaze that took you out.
@@zerechan Cyberpunk is an AWFUL societal model. We must do EVERYTHING possible to avoid our own civilization from descending to such hellish depths.
@@asshat8892 Its only ever glorious to those who see it from the outside, those who didn't loose anything for the "legend", I think I've learned something really important from Cyberpunk and that is that sometimes the best way to make real change is not to play for power but to stop doing so, being at the top doesn't make anyone happy in the world of Cyberpunk because you had to sacrifice so much to get there that there is nothing left but a big empty seat waiting to be taken by the next fool who wants to make it to the top.
If David had quit while he was ahead he would have been happy, he had friends, he had Lucy, he had money and would most likely not have to worry about making a living, he could have chromed down and lived a longer happier life with Lucy, which I am sure is what Lucy actually wanted once they got together she would have rather have David with her than going to the moon, because it is not a question of do I want to go to this place I've dreamed of going to or do I want the person I love to be with me for a long time?
In my opinion it is a no brainer you would want the person you love by your side, that is why I don't see Lucy's smile at the end as anything but a sad smile trying to hold back the tears from flowing, she wanted to go to the moon for sure but she would rather have gone there with David instead, and in lieu of that she would have rather continued watching her Moon BD with him back on Earth.
To make the ending even more tragic, on episode 4 when David tells Lucy "I'll take you to the moon, I promise", Lucy's response was to kiss him and tell him "I just don't want you to die". David never understood she cared more about his well-being than going to the moon.
Unfortunately towards the end David was going to go psycho with his upgrades and Lucy's protectiveness about the Cyberskeleton secret ultimately cost him David because she couldn't convince him to downgrade while holding back secrets from him. Not to mention she was going to get caught regardless and if she had told him the secret, David would have sought the Cyberskeleton by himself to save her anyway. They were on a doomed trajectory, they just didn't know it yet.
David's specialness ultimately became his biggest weakness, made him too stubborn to think he could fall to cyberpsychosis. Like an extraordinarily lucky gambler on a roll not knowing when to call it quits losing to only moderately lucky guy who knew when enough is enough.
@@Sombody123 I just hate how they made it seem like Lucy would somehow be able to save him as he kept slipping away
@@Sombody123 at least David NEVER really went cyberpsycho, even in death he still has his mind clear and talkshit to Adam.
Even if David did survive, he really was in the brink of cyberpsychosis in the fight with Smasher, dug himself too deep to actually think for himself, and thus only thought of others sake.
@@praisesui-tyan Well, you could say he was *running* along the *edge* of his sanity. One foot over, one foot within, in & out.
@@praisesui-tyan exactly. and they set it up pretty well too. On the 1st episode u can already see him struggling on how to feel about his situation. he nvr was really good at understanding wht he was feeling but he knws tht if he does nothing he'll probably hate himself evn more cus of wht happened so he definitely wasnt gonna do the same thing when it came to Lucy.
My boy David went out like a champ! Edgerunners was a very touching story that shows the lengths one would go to to save the ones that mean the world to them. Respect.
David even has a drink now in the game, literal G
I wish he was able to fight more though it should have been a longer fight
@@zerechan It has been in the game from launch or for the past few months. There is a video where someone saw it in February and goes "Who the fuck is David Martinez!?"
Man's got steam rolled by Adam Smasher
@@zer0sgaming618 guess it goes to show how much stronger Adam Smasher really is
YES! I agree I'm so god damn invested with Lucy and Davids relationship I just want to see them more!!!!!!!!!!
Was tooo real and too good
They did pretty good job made us invest in small amount of episode
What if david got something similar to the johnny treatment?
@@mallardofmodernia8092 how he got his head blown off
@@mallardofmodernia8092 It would be worse than if he just died, because he is never going to be slotted into a new body or be released, and he ever was it would be so far into the future that it would be a world without Lucy, so far into the future there would be no record of her ever existing or of where she ended up in her final days.
Edgerunners deserves every bit of respect it gets. Truly a masterpiece.
Couldnt agree more
imagine season 2 being about johnny sliverhand and the band trying to blow up askura
@@KXNGGREE would be pointless it's already in the game a season just about Adam smasher would make more sense
McNugget 94 i’m talking about what lead up to that point from how the band formed to johnny silver hand trouble with askura
@@KXNGGREE pretty sure Johnny said he was sick of how the corpos run every and wants it to change you don't need a whole season about that it's all mentioned in the game Adam smasher was a living legend I'd rather see that or just something else
"Too much loss for my soul" that sentence is exactly what I feel after watching Edgerunners. I actually feel depressed, I absolutely loved the show but Idk if I can ever watch it again. It scares me.
Man I literally just finished it and it was amazing I've seen some sad and depressing ones but it doesn't make it easier man. Shit got to me
Her smile at the end is so painful it's good, you can tell she isn't smiling for herself it's a smile that has accept whats happened truly speaks a thousand words
man, even knowing how it ended because of the spoilers and who died I finished watching it and the truth is I'm not ashamed to say that I cried when I saw the final sequence of Lucy on the moon, I'm not one to cry but I do break
the entire journey of David's hero shown and seeing how in the end Lucy was able to fulfill her dream halfway, but her gaze showed that she no longer cared without David but she could not commit suicide or return since it would make David's sacrifice worth nothing
Mentioning the first paragraph. I feel you. I'm not one to get emotional over movies and TV shows but when I do...man...I cry like a little bitch. It's weird because I usually don't feel anything throughout the entire show up until the ending.
This show made me wanna get into a relationship lol. Such a good show! Lucy knew all along what would happen to David… die a legend? Even silverhand (while alive) lost to smasher
@@shumayelkhan8154 yea, that's kind of the whole thing with night city. There is no happy endings in night city, you WILL die there
Haha wuss
@@shumayelkhan8154 I can't believe V of all people won against Smasher lol
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Corrections: Ive been made aware the better term for Cyberpunks economy of Corporatism not an overbearance of Capitalism. Ill leave it to you to decide that since I dont really care much plus I’m stupid. Regardless the consumerism thats pushed is why people mod themselves and can become cyberpsychos.
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I didn't know where else to write this tbh. but in Cyberpunk 2020 the gamemasters are literally encouraged to kill off player characters they feel are too overpowered with bigger overpowered characters so seeing how the story ended just gave me major nostalgia vibes to playing my own campaigns lmao
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Love your review of Edgerunners. Its an amazing original adaptation from TRIGGER. tho its still sad that majority of the characters die off one by one, Becca was one of the most heart-breaking to see. Im glad Adam Smasher got his Ass Whooped by V in the game, tho i wish i would play the game to beat his ass myself but maybe one day.
@@LukeJukeDuke I hope he truly dies, not sure if Arasaka or what has technology to be able to keep him alive even after being shredded (maybe an engram). In Edgerunners I thought the scene where he ripped out the hacking connections Lucy did on him meant he was somewhere else mentally, so him dying physically won't effect him but who knows.
@@0zWiz lucy mentioned that the old network had more and better knowledge than the current one in night city, and that the current network isnt interconnected with other cites around the world due to some hacker destroying about 80% of the old network, maybe the old network has sort of resurrection technology that could help make a comeback for david.
Rebecca deserved better, Lucy and Dave too, but damn. She was loyal without a second thought and sacrificed everything for the ones she loved. ;_;
Honestly? At least Becca went out a legend. I just wish she could have had a kiss on the cheek or a proper hug
This show asks the audience a question "Are you really alive?". If we look at all the antagonists they are stuffy corpo rats that don't see any value in life or people other than what they can get them in terms of money and status. The characters we love see value in the company we keep, our freedom to make our own choices, and our struggles to go as far as we can for ourselves and our loved ones. Does Smasher and Arasaka win? Yes and no. In their definition of the word yes. They got their test and they are still standing, still running the world. None of them are happy. Smasher is leading a completely unfulfilled life at the top of the foodchain completely devoid of joy. Nothing rivals him to push him to excel or fear to motivate him to do anything. Arasaka's employees are constantly looking over their shoulder for what is going to get them if someone else sees it as a way forward for them and they are always looking to do them same. Their lives are nothing but fear and treachery. David loses but in the end lived his life how he wanted and was with those he cared deeply for and got to show it to them, to be shown that his love was reciprocated. It doesn't matter if he died so young because he experienced something so few people in that world will ever know and exceeded his potential by miles. Did the city swallow him with what he would have to become to achieve his goals? It nearly did, but he rose above it to hang on to the one thing that still made him human. His need for love.
Good comment, just had to say I'm pretty sure Smasher is happy with himself, dude is a psychopath. Not a cyberpsycho (though probably some of that too), just a psycho. Man loves to kill and hates humanity, sees it as weak. I'd imagine he doesn't even concern himself with the idea of concepts like being happy or sad, he gets paid to be a mass murderer made out of metal and he fucking loves that shit
@@kohlwalushka I actually disagree about Smasher. If his goal was just to have fun murdering people then we wouldn't see him balk at the prospect of going downstairs to deal with David. He didn't think it was a worthy challenge and a waste of his time that he would have spent...Doing what else exactly? He doesn't do it just to kill. He kills to prove that he is better, that his way of life is superior. He's at the top so to him there was next to no reason to go downstairs and deal with those obviously lesser than him other than some pissant corpo was telling him to.
@@Maceman486 My brother in christ, Adam canonically only accepts jobs with high collateral damage and casualty rates. He literally does this for fun.
Ill not lie, I thank this is why Panam Palmer and the Aldecaldo's resonate with so many, myself included. Because there just such wonderful and nice people all wile living in a desert with nothing. All they have is eachother, Family. Wile everyone in NC lives for the day and is always looking over their shoulder.
I love Judy but she too has that uptight, ready to be backstabbed NC demeanor. Living as thoe tomorrow will be her last.
All she can rely on is the Mox who are nothing compaired to the Aldecaldo's.
Studio Trigger did a phenomenal job with Cyberpunk. From the colors, emotional moments, and music, just everything they did was amazing. I really liked David. He was super relatable. That conversation he had with his mom once he got expelled really hit hard same for that conversation that he had with Lucy about dreams in the second episode. David was the kind of person who only really lived for the dreams of others and not for himself. And I feel that hits home for a lot of us that watched the show.
The story and in particular the ending captured cyberpunk (The genre especially, but yes also the game) fairly well. There are few (if any) happy endings. In this case, Night City is a an entity that sucks out the life and joy of those within it.
It was done well, it was devastatingly sad and it was a perfect ending.
Yeah Night City is a leech on everyone that inhabits it. Dont think anyone has a happy beginning or ending in it sadly.
@@zerechan
It says something when the only "happy" ending you can get is leave Night City. But as they say, you don't leave Night City whole.
@@kodymcbride6901 The way I see Night City is both as a bug light and a casino, it lures you in with its bright lights and excesses, and you keep playing the city and you might win or loose but even if you win at first, we all know that in a Casino the House ALWAYS wins and it will take everything from you.
The reason no one gets a happy ending in Night City is because no one actually quits the city for real, no one ever quits when they are ahead, David had everything but his chase for more is what made him loose everything, He had a crew he could trust, he had a partner who loved him, he had money to live far above what he ever could when his mom was alive, he could have quit, not been a legend but rather a happy person who lived long.
The only real happy ending for the game in my opinion is where as Male V you leave the City with the Aldecaldos and Panam, leave the City behind and leave with your new family, you may not have as long to live as you wanted to but you are not alone, and you have something everyone in Night is always hunting for, family and love.
"it's a prison of light"
It's been almost a week and I can't get this Fucking show out of my head. Exact same feeling as when I finished Cyberpunk 2077 so much pain yet so much joy so bitter sweet that you can't even comprehend what just happened.
By the way this video deserves a new subscriber!
I feel the same bro... I don't know how to cope with these bitter sweet feelings.
@@OmenGoldhelm Thanks for the love!
@@zerechan Of course hope I see more from you
Felt the same way when i finished Akame ga kill, depression for more than a week.
Now with edgerunners i'm living it all over again.
Yeah i have to agree, Maine really surprised me how much i liked and appriciated him, a big brother to david and a mentor. rough, but fair. protective but expecting others to do their part and carry their own weight. helpful but at the same time willing to acknowledge that he does not have all the answers. I especially love how at the end he managed to control his cyberpsychosis for long enough to give david a fighting chance.
He's so under appreciated. His death gave me chills man, so tragic.
@@zerechan he's the father I never had, rip papa Maine
I honestly can’t even play cyberpunk anymore without remembering the show. The music. The Cyber psychosis, the moments, and what happens in the game. I can’t stop remembering it.
Yep, that's why I'll always have Rebecca's iconic Guts Shotgun and David's Jacket always equipped from now on, oh yeah and Body Heat Radio for the best tunes.
So true and thx to redmods and nexus mods i have also the anime ost as a radio station for driving arround night city
@@The_Night_Haunter-VIII I wanna get this game for PS5. How do you get David's jacket?
@@fezzy5591 You start a quest for the jacket outside of Mega building 10 in Santo Domingo. You'll see the quest on the map after completing the mission "The Heist". You'll see the Edgerunners logo written on the wall, with a BD to play.
@@The_Night_Haunter-VIII Much appreciated
I'm just sad that Lucy has to be alone now... :(
Legit the moon scene HURTS
@@zerechan Yeah... Season 2 PLEASE
What if she is pregnant with David’s child at least that will give her solace
@@nuera9086 I say impossible...
Its depressive and tragic. Makes me wanna punch Trigger or give this less than a 7/10 even tho it was a good show, but had so much potential. It was rushed and the ending was depressive.
true, i loved that Lucy and David got into a relationship fast instead of us being fed 30 hours of sexual tension.
Well i might be off on the runtime but didnt they tingle it a third of the series before out eyes
@@noehonegger4624 shut up weeb
I don’t even like anime but I’m a fan of the cyberpunk ip and this peaked my interest ended up binging it in one day and damn near tearing up at the end
Dude, try gurren lagann. You will love it
@@Артем-ь6е9л if this person liked this I would recommend bebop or ghost in the shell maybe flcl the only thing simple to guran Lagan is the animation studio with this lol
Damn near teared up? I’m grown ass man and I fucking balled my eyes out at the end
@@mookiestewart3776 Edgerunners structurally quotes it. The only difference is the setting and the time given for the plot to unfold. Edgerunners cheats in that regard. They don't need to explain the details of the world fully, as it is outside the scope of this particular anime. In turn, Gurren had more episodes. Gurren Lagann is a style icon. But if we consider something related to anime in the style of cyberpunk, then you are of course right.
Rebecca's struggle to keep David from losing himself, and her resignation when she realizes that he is lost and there's no going back just kills me. There are no happy endings in Night City, it just eats you up and spits you out, a mangled mess of unfulfilled dreams and what-could've-beens.
Likely why the Aldecaldo's are such nice people.
Bro if this shows was 3 episodes longer! I wouldn’t be able to handle it bro this shit hits hard I’m just now getting over it I cried like 4 times watching this shit
Lucy remembering David when she's on the moon is the scene that finally broke me, whenever I cry at a show or movie it's a slow build, but this is the first show that's simply had a snapping point. I want more of this show, but what we got was already so freaking amazing, I can't even think of what more I could want, I just want more.
the second lucy jumped on that stretcher and was driving it backwards I was in love with her character lol. If you've had a gorgeous crazy one then you know .....they'll drive you up the wall but they have your back and you get hooked like a drug. Her character brought back a lot of happy/sad memories for me
Show just reminded me of my own struggles and how I failed despite giving it my all. Lack of sleep, failing to attend cousins weddings, missing out on the fun stuff just so I can get something that was fair and was my dream, only for it to fail because of the system. The pain I felt, the struggle i endured, the things I missed out on was all for nothing just because they wanted to save name. Its unfair, its painful but it happens.
You cant win em all, but it would be helluva better life if I could win more instead of losing more.
I just stopped giving a fuck and decided to do what I felt was right kn smaller things. Its a start I guess.
And the thing that hit me most is, after watching the show. Aside from games, gym and everything else that keeps me distracted. I truly am alone with no one to share the pain with.
That and the show is sick, a good watch actually
10/10 would watch and be reminded that night city is the wrong place gathering the wrong people if you expect happy endings.
That’s life man you can give it your all even feel like you’re the one and others tell you and still not make it… glad you’re recovering. There’s someone out there for you, glad you go to the gym!! Just build a happy life for you
Sleep is critical for a happy and successful life… low sleep is equivalent to being drunk (thanks overly expensive neuroscience degree)
Hey man, I completely agree, this show was so damn emotional it got me tearing up in the end, and i rarely feel emotional about shows. Really sorry to hear that you’re going through rough times, lemme know if you want to talk, i’ll be glad to help any way i can :)
I think what hit me the hardest is that after his mother's death, he was just looking for a roundabout way to kill himself, he really just didn't care anymore, which was evident by how he immediately got the Sandy installed with no thought about the repercussions. And it was most sad to me that even Lucy wasn't enough motivation for him to stop with the augments. And the ending..... oh the ending....
I can't really see Lucy without David and that's how much I cared for them and all the characters in only 10 episodes. Imagine if they had more episodes to really flesh out the characters it would probably be sadder to see them end up like that
I really appreciate actually how many assets from the game were re-used for the show! Whether out of laziness or not, this means basically everything you see a character do is something you can do in game. My V character was basically fully specked into stealth. After watching David and Lucy, I bought a Militech Sandevistan , Legendary Monowires, and picked up Rebecca's shotgun.
The music too, i was seriously surprised some of the tracks were from the game instead of made for the show
It's not laziness, the anime takes place a year before in the same city so why not use already made stuff
@@fishfood8711 The soundtracks are basically all from the in-game "Body Heat Radio" station. I'm glad they highlighted how fucking scary MaxTac and Adam Smasher are to even most mercenaries.
I just finished watching it like 5 minutes ago and all i can say is wow it really hit me so hard i love this anime so much........ Rebecca best character
I love when lucy said, "it's netrunning time" and started hacking to save David.
i went into it having completed the game, so i know how cruel night city is
even with the expectations that it wasnt going to be a happy show i was still hit with sadness and left empty, even feeling anger
the randomness with some of the deaths was incredibly well done
every piece from music, soundtrack, characters good or bad, the story, i know there are a bunch of comments already saying this but everything was combined to make a fantastic story and to compliment/inhance cyberpunk 2077's story and world
but man, that final moon scene, all the emotions i felt watching the show flooded in at once, i was left face in hands whispering "cmon man.. why" at 4am
Right there with you. This show snipes you right in the feels.
I loved this show. Ending has me fucked up though I'm ngl. Having played cyberpunk I had a feeling that everything wasn't gonna go well, but I foolishly had hope mainly because of the dynamic between the mc and everyone. This anime really did surprise me though. Was interested because of the animation and having stuck it out with cyberpunk since a day 1 release on a ps4. I got way more invested in the story than I thought I was. Easily now in my top 10 anime I've seen.
The tragic overarching story with David and Lucy's struggle to save each other and achieve their dreams was painful.
But Rebaecca's sub-plot was icing on the cake that made it really, _really_ hurt. That scene where Rebecca realizes David is too far gone, accepts it, and comforts him, just crushed me.
While she might've had a screw loose and enjoyed violence a bit too much, she also simply wanted to be happy with everyone else in the gang. She was interested in David, but knew that the feeling would never be reciprocated. Her own brother got blasted in front of her out of nowhere. The only people she has left is the Maine gang, but everyone starts dying off one by one, she watches David slowly lose it to cyberpsychosis, and let's it all happen because they were doing what they wanted/needed for their own dreams. She saw everything fall apart around her, and then meets her untimely end supporting them. It's just so tragic to me.
Yeah she's such a tragic character they did her so dirty it hurts.
Hey man just wanna let you know I 100% rock with your commentary. Love the subtle beat in the back. Your voice doesn't over power the clips from the show or the music as it just kind of blends. It made me able to watch the entire video which I don't do most often these days. Good stuff!
My boy Von helped me pick out the music to match each character better, thanks alot for the feedback. I usually do anime power scaling stuff but was nervous posting this since I dont have the audience for it. Very glad you enjoyed it!
@@zerechan bro, you’re a natural. 100% should keep this type of stuff up.
@@zerechan First vid of yours that I've seen. It's truly phenomenal work!
This show had me in tears bro. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I’ve been playing since day 1
I have never become so emotionally attached to a show, let alone as quickly as I did. I sobbed over Gloria's death for at least 10 minutes and still get emotional just thinking about it, and that was just the first episode. Such an amazing story that I had so little expectations going into and simply cannot get over it
I’m still crying over episode ten. I swear this show is gonna make replay Cyberpunk just to demolish Adam Smasher
My heart is still aching from this. Might be a while for me to recover. I love how in most of the show scenes are chaotic shooty shooty but at the end when only Lucy makes it out alive the pacing of the show slows down by a lot.
I'm glad David and Lucy were able to make up before everything happened.... when sh!t got real both of them went away on a sour note but around the climax they both were confronting each other... which is why the glimpse of David and Lucy's confusion and momentary happiness getting taken away to shock and realization and her embracing the sun hurts my heart a lot.
That's what Cyberpunk genre is... Night City is like a beautiful curse. Those who manage to get away do not come out of it unscathed, like Lucy, Alt Cunningham, and Rogue Amendiares. They lost everything. No matter how much I wish Lucy and David are together and happy it's Night City that wins in the end, megacorps getting away and continuing their wrath with future young aspiring dreamers becoming legends and repeating the process. Like how David's doc said after he gave him military grade healing thing to keep himself sane.
The song will always give me the feelings I felt on the final scene, so will seeing the moon, space, and astronauts. They will always remind me of the deep scar Edgerunners episode 10 left. That ending sequence is too good and painfully heart wrenching, CDPR/Trigger literally rips your heart out and drops it in front of you. The kicker is the ending is a big open note, does she stay on the Moon at which has two known cities, but Arasaka and Militech have mining operations happening in 2077, or will she return to Earth where she might possibly be hunted.
Also would like to add a few things just to get it out of my chest:
Lucy not once ever said she believes in David like David said he believes in her when Maine messed up and knocked Kiwi out. But she did say she knows David will become a great edgerunner. I think this need for approval sort of drove him as well, she kept things sort of hidden from him and the fact that she was protecting him by killing netrunners who are actively trying to recover the corrupted files she intentionally corrupted to keep David safe. She probably never said she believes in him because she is afraid of losing him. Thinking about it their relationship is a little more deep than I thought, might have to do some self-brainstorming.
I love really in depth, deep and painfully beautiful anime like these. Darker than black, gunslinger girl, [C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control. But my heart, it just can't take it. I already struggle with depression enough as is. But I can't really bring myself to watch stuff that's not this particular type of gritty and realistic. I just... Wish they had just a *tiny* more happiness in their endings. Fuck.
That song at the end always destroys me.
I knew it wasn't going to be a happy ending, but it still hurts so bad.
This anime made me cry and broke my heat of the ending
This tore my heart into pieces, like damn.
Trigger is literally the BEST studio to write, compose and direct an anime of the series. Mad House, or Mappa for that matter, does not have such talented, creative, courageous, careful and unique visions towards a creation of theirs like this studio have. I'm so glad Trigger was chosen to do this and I'm glad to see Hiroyuki Imaishi directing an anime again that challenges him.
So glad! So fucking glad.
Best Trigger anime to me and one of the best animes I ever watched.
110% an emotional roller coaster ride but worth it all the way. I like Rebecca but not the same way everyone else does. Lucy has my heart.
I have never cried so hard at a anime in my life and I've watched some sad anime. The character building was top tier and emotionally invested me every episode making me feel like I was in their shoes
Something hit me about the names as I was watching the later episodes. "Main" is the term used in video games for the character class and customization options a player prefers.
But it's *also* a term often used for people's highest-level character in an MMO. Which is often the character from their first play-through.
The themes of this story revolve *heavily* in places on the idea that David is yet another play-through of "the same game" as Main and the rest of the crew.
Only in David's case, it's the *tabletop* version of Cyberpunk and not the video game. No respawns for Edgerunners here.
That song combined with painful story moments gets my emotions sky high every time.
What i find ironic is how David's death is like Silverhands almost perfectly, Something tells me or false hope tells me this isn't over. P.s cried at the end of the video thats how hard hitting the anime is
My guy they keep advertising it as Season 1. With the Success of the Show I'm pretty sure this is going to end up along the lines of Castlevania.
@@idonttknowhowtoswithmyname2808 Never watched Castlevania? Do you mean there will be more seasons with different characters or something? No way they can revert the ending now and bring characters back..
@@idonttknowhowtoswithmyname2808 I'd love to see other seasons exploring people of different backgrounds and their stories in Night City. But they'd have to work their asses off to even equal the grandeur of this one.
@@itsbreezy2521 David had a drink named after him in the afterlife. I wouldnt mind stories about all the other legends that had drinks made after them
@@gerettdiamond Ah, yeah that would be very cool
Rebecca getting those stupid arms is just as bad as David getting all his mess...
Nothing short of amazing what they were able to accomplish in only 10 20 minute episodes.
It took just 10 episodes to rip our hearts apart. This was an awesome watch. The characters and their flaws were so beautifully crafted. Adam Smasher will pay.
This story was golden, it reminded me a little of the movie drive (2011)
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I was hyped for this show the second the trailer came out. Was not disappointed
Well, the game and this anime like to remind us that climbing the ladder to the top in the streets of Night City doesn't ever end well.
No such thing as living legends.
Couldnt have said it better myself
After finishing the show, and being left in emotionally tatters. I've went through dozens of reviews, reactions and opinions about this wonderfully tragic masterpiece.
This review is definitely one of my favorites. I really loved how the characters were emotionally described, and had their actions and consequences acknowledged.
The heartfelt appreciation for the crew's complex personalities, and their bittersweet relationship with each other, gave me some much required closure.
The beautiful editing of the scenes provided a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The best part has to be, when the OST started playing, and it showed Rebecca helplessly watching David go completely off the deep end, my heart shattered again, together with hers.
Going through the comments, it was comforting to know, despite the problems we all are going through, living in this cruel, hateful, clown fiesta of a world, so many people still shared a genuine emotional connection through this series.
Thank you so much for this wholesome and entertaining review. Keep up the good work!
Very glad you enjoyed my perspective and analysis. I wanted this video to evoke my emotions for each character perfectly, in fact, if you listen closely each song for the characters is different and is there to evoke the emotion I felt for them. This video was a passion project I expected to get maybe 100 views but I’m glad people like you ran into it and could enjoy it
I just can't believe that 10 episodes of barely 25 minutes is all we get man..
This hit me in all the feels. I also came to the sad realization I may never experience being loved so much by someone like Lucy did for David, or be crushed on so hard and cared about like how Becca did for him as well.
Bro the ending was just extreamly sad like i was extramly sad because all the characters where so well made i felt like they were my friends and there deaths hit hard and when David died it was just depresion
It was a beautiful show. The scene where they kiss and the rocket is lifting off is amazing, and I want it as a poster or a painting. I cried during the last episode.
I’m loving that I found two more TH-camrs cuz of their reviews to this show. Just awesome. Started over my second playthrough too
David should’ve chosen the Nomad life path, that way he could’ve rode off into the sunset with Lucy
Dude got locked in the streetkid with a spice of corpo life style
I’ve only had the empty feeling 3 times from amazing writing, and this was one of them.
Literally binge watched this show twice in the same week, fucking cried, it's a master piece
Me too 😩 once in japanese, and once in english
@@FernandoWhitehorn Same
Man the story telling, the art, and the music just hits home. Just finished the series, feeling depress right now T.T
I think I'm now in the fifth stage of grief which is acceptance after watcjing this show. A very beautiful score indeed👍
But the song "I Really Want to Stay at your House," will give me heartaches every now and then😢
That ending is bittersweet, but to me the saddest moment is when Rebecca realizes David's past saving. I think that moment was done so well, and the way it played out was meant for the viewer as well.
We all held out hope that David would have anime protagonist plot armor, but the second that vial didn't work, all hope was lost.
My heart broke with Rebecca's
unpopular opinion - Lucy is a fool who got everyone killed because of her lack of trust in the one she loved. She tried to take the burden of the arasaka hunters herself instead of telling the truth. If she told David what she was doing, he most likely never would have died and she wouldn't have been caught so easily . In a way, she killed him.
You are correct, her actions LEGIT got Maine and Dorio killed although Maine himself likely would have died or killed others himself had he not died here. The issue is she KNEW if she got David involved, based on Arasakes plans, he would wind up in the exoskeleton suit. So its not really trust, she just knew david wouldnt resist the suit if it meant saving her and she was very much correct. I can argue though that if Dorio was alive maybe Rebecca wouldnt have died. Dorio wouldnt let Becca be so reckless.
@@zerechan losing Dorio and Maine is a massive hit to the crew, they were the supporting pillars, of the group, Maine is the Charismatic leader who knows how to call shots if he's not being crazy, and Dorio is the voice of reason that pulls Maine together, something that David cannot do alone, he needed Lucy to be his voice of reason, Becca is also his closest confidant but she's not Lucy, and well, we all know how that spirals out. If only Lucy went clean with David they could have tackled the problem together and maybe perhaps have gotten out of Night City somewhat intact.
An unpopular opinion I actually agree to huh
Yeah I bet during the moon scene it's not just grief for David but for the others all for keeping it all to herself. That's gonna haunt her to the grave it's so fucking depressing and so cyberpunk.
@@KePzez I don't think it's an opinion, I'm pretty sure this was a deliberate point the show was trying to make. To add to what everyone else has mentioned via the crew falling apart and Lucy not telling David about Arasaka, her not joining back in the crew to help him keep it together really fucked him up long term. We see how just an embrace and kiss from her helps break him out of psychosis longer than even the meds managed. If she came forward with the truth, talked more, helped with the day to day more, it no doubt would've been easier to tackle the problems. Once she was kidnapped it was a wrap, Lucy brought him into the game, gave him his first drink, popped his cherry, etc. No way he was not going to go all out to save her at that point.
Nah. David would have still have died because even though he wouldn't have used the cyberskeleton, he would have still gone cyberpsycho from all the cyberware he put on his body plus the spine implant
Just to make the cyber-psychosis bit hit a little harder, emotionally speaking - that tolerance is based entirely on one's mental and emotional health. If someone has a lingering trauma, a regret, something haunting them that needs to be dealt with, the amount of chrome they can take on depends entirely on how powerful that 'baggage' is. David's was two-fold - seeing both his mother and Maine die in front of his eyes, powerless to do anything about either one.
This is why individuals like Adam Smasher are perfectly fine - he was already an emotionally-detached psychopath, so chroming up to the max put no strain on him. V from CP2077 is a special case; because V has Johnny Silverhand as a 'buffer', V isn't vulnerable in the same way. V always has someone with whom to discuss whatever problems they face.
Long story short - you only go "psycho" from chroming up if you've got unresolved problems.
I feel so happy because I watched this but I feel so empty at the same time after I finished it :/
This shit had me broken too man, the fucking moon scene at the end was so heart-breaking, why must we suffer 😭
It was indeed a great anime of 2022
Rebecca got Sephiroth'd.
This show was honestly great, starting with all the physical aspects of the show thanks to TRIGGER and the production team this was awesome.
Now let's talk story.
From the moment David's mom died you can see how different this universe is from ours. He couldn't mourn her death like us. He couldn't show feelings because how often this happens and how he had to go to cremate her mother himself. This is the story of the weak people left in the shadows by rich and live-how-i-want capitalists and corporations. The weak deserve to live and love too. And when they don't, they stray away from their path. This is how we don't want our future to be.
5:28 this is brilliantly said. Thanks you for this.
As Johnny himself said
"Good ending?"
"Wrong city. Wrong people."
I'm glad they portrayed NC and cyberpunk as a whole without the rep the game has earned. I loved it and thought the game was criminally hated, this was a great breath of air only to put me back into the
DEEP ABYSMAL VOID.
FK THIS SHOW :(
Also amazing vid man 💙
I'm so happy the hype is this strong although it'll probably last a week
The show really would be perfect if it was 12 episodes, needed just a little more huh
Man, everytime I hear that song it makes me tear up. Absolute must watch
Honestly the ending made me tear up, such a great story. Only downside is I feel it was rushed
Yeah it definitely needed like 2 or 3 more episodes.
Yes, "I really want to stay at your house" 🥺😭😭😭😭
I just binged this yesterday and dunno dude. The tragedy didnt really leave a mark on me. I admit that seeing something like rebecca die made me hate Smasher with a passion. More than the game did. But overall I knew what i was getting into.
I had hopes that they would defy the rules of the gerne. But I started playing cyberpunk 2077 again just before the anime released by coincidence and it hammered it into me that there are no happy endings in this world. I saw the ending coming from a mile away that david was gonna lose it to help Lucy with her dream. I mean the whole cyberpsychosis theme was set up in the first minutes. After watching Rebeccas brother (dont even remember the name right now lol) be offed just like that, pretty much confirmed it for me that I wont be seeing much of the main cast anymore once the show is over. But that Is cyberpunk for you: wont be remembered how they lived, but how they died.
All in all, I loved the show. They really immersed you into the setting, constanly recognising parts of night city. Its a love letter to the game and not some cashgrab from the IP.
The animation, exessive violence, Soundtrack and the freaky characters. I love it. They nailed what cyberpunk is about. I mean its more explicit with nudity than actual Hentai.
I have to second Moistcr1tikal on this as in that this feels like watching Redline. The Show is entertaining just by being completly over the Top with everthing.
I wish it was a couple of episodes longer tho. It would have done wonders for the story and characters. But I agree on the what you said about Lucy and David that there was no unnecessary drama and I praise them for that.
Definetly hoping for more in this direction.
The tragedy was 100% predicted but what I didn't predict was how much i'd like the characters. That's what made it hit for me
I was on major copium or just blind lol. I didnt watch the intro or trailers, legit went in purely blind thinking it would follow usual anime tropes where true love saves the day but nope. Think it was my own fault partially that this hit so hard but I still credit the writers and VA's for making everything feel so real.
@@zerechan Well I played the game and there's a literal line "Happy ending for us? Wrong people, wrong city" so I knew it wouldn't be a ridin off in the sunset together type of ending.
Idk, I think the tragedy was less about the things that were happening and more about why and to who they were happening. We're talking mothers, sons, brothers, long time friends all losing their lives and minds for no reason and how everything came to be just another news story for most people in that enormous rotten city. Not to say the game didn't drive the same points home already, but as a standalone work I really am glad it did it so well once again.
yeah there's never a good ending in a cyberpunk/dystopian world. bladerunners didn't have a good ending. none of t he cyberpunk endings were great either. it usually finishes with a harsh reality of death and impending death and despair with a small glint of hope.
Hearing you talking about this relief my feelings as well, thx
Appreciate it 🖤
I was 99% sure she was going to pull off her helmet at the end and die
killing off an important character is one thing and Maines death felt right but killing almost everyone felt like too much
No happy endings in Night City
Agree. I feel like there is no point in watching the anime. But others might disagree with my conclusion
Literally can’t stop thinking about it and tearing up.
Shocked how good this show was 👏👏👏
everytime i hear that fucking song i tear up and now my youtube recommendations are just bunches of videos with that song 😭😭😭
I'm pretty new to anime, with FMA brotherhood being my intro to the medium. Somethings stick, some haven't, but this show... wow. With no exposure to the Cyberpunk universe, this was a totally organic experience for me and I haven't stopped thinking about it since finishing it in one sitting. It was a beautiful piece of art. If anyone can make recommendations for me based on this, i would appreciate it! Great breakdown, love the video!
FMAB would require atleast 1 hour for me to discuss in a video. Although it isnt in my top 5 right now, I recognize it as the greatest anime of all time. However, Id say the things this show wanted to establish it thoroughly established more than alot of shows can in 2 seasons.
It felt a bit like Arcane.
A adaption from video game to a tv-series by borrowing it’s world and lore but introducing new characters slowly building upon them through some breathtaking animated scenes.
“Too much loss for my soul, but the cyberpunk vibes couldnt be executed any better” - bravo sir
It's really hard not to take the copium and hope that David got turned into a construct somehow, or cloned by arasaka due to his high cyberware tolerance or SOMETHING
Thing is smasher gave him a a choise
But David like : like i give a fuck
Smasher task was to stop david not to kill him since arasaka needed david
There is 2 options i think
1. 100% smasher has a BD implant
and it would be risky to him refuse an order from arasak so he did not kill David
2 . He killed David from empathy
But there is a very interested thing
Smasher got hit by an RPG what turned him literally mush and the arasak managed to "save him" David can be alive but its on the devs
Same goes for V in the star ending he has 3 months left to live and Alt literally copied the original V on a different soul killer + Panam contact
So basically V and hes/her friends has a big chance to save him from death but again its on the devs
Extra: Phantom Liberty is the only DLC what CP2077 get because CDPR going to use Unreal engine since the Witcher 4 is gonna use UE5 if we lucky we can get prequel DLC
Ps : the Loli must stay Rebecca the best
But it won't be the same david. It only a copy.
I fucking love maine, the music in his death made that scene the best from the show I've seen so far
Literal chills
There are hints in the lore that cyber psychosis is apparently not a real condition, but one unset by the attempt to control the subject remotely.
If this really turns out to be true, the nearly every cyberpsychos condition is induced with an insidious purpose behind it.
Which means characters like Maine, David, every other person.. didn't have to go through what they did.
Reading this makes me feel so sad for some reason I cant understand
The technology is purposely flawed, or rather they can already fix the issue yet they wont, because their capitalists in a bad way.
If I'm being honest I think I would hate this being true, as it would take cyberpsychosis from being a tragic Icarus moment to just more evil corpo stuff. One's just a lot more meaningful than the other.
I've been researching this a lot recently. Based on everything available we have to draw from, there's no actual definite cause of cyberpsychosis. Heck, even the definition of cyberpsychosis itself is up in arms.
I hope it's false because it's too far fetched. Body rejects because of overdose of implants that's good enough.
Man I felt so bad by the end it was put together real nicely!!!
Lucy’s dream came at a cost. What she loved the most, even more than the moon. In the end I believe she realized this, this is what makes that final scene so heartbreaking to me. I’d bet that she’d sacrifice everything just to have David back.
This show made me sad for 3 days after I watched it... That doesn't happen often for me. Amazing show.