I assumed off the top that it wouldn’t end well, being in Night City. But yeah, when they mentioned Smasher I knew what was ultimately going to happen and that David wouldn’t stand a chance.
"Alright David. Let's go. To the top then." That was the moment Rebecca knew they weren't making it back... but she loved David enough to not care. She stuck by him to the end. Ultimate ride or die
Johnny: “What did you expect?” V: “I don’t know umm… a happier ending for everyone involved.” Johnny: “Here? For folks like us. Wrong city, wrong people.”
with a bit of context as far as the backstory goes this ending feels quite a bit better. All things considered David didn't get captured and turbo torture experimented on by Arasaka. Lucy got away and didn't get recaptured and forced into her old job where the AI beyond the blackwall would have probably slowly ripped her mind apart/killed her outright. She didn't get hit with soulkiller for Arasaka to recycle and use again and again via copying and basically torturing each iteration via forced exploitation of her skills. Knowing the resources available to Arasaka and what was invested into their deaths/capture this is actually quite an optimistic outcome when you consider that Cyberpunk in general is incredibly pessimistic overall and most people lose absolutely and David, Lucy and crew still made out better than average even if Lucy were to get captured a few years later after we last see her on the moon which is still entirely possible. But yeah one of the general rules of thumb average people don't get to go up against major corporations and get any kind of win... at all. Silverhand despised corporations and dropped a nuke on Arasaka's doorstep of one of their major operations and that was only with the backing of one of the other major corporations (militech who basically run the modern united states with any president/official basically being one of their employees.) and still basically accomplished nothing. David functionally does more with far less so it really is a win from a certain point of view.
Honestly the more a reactor cries the more I enjoy the reaction. Maybe it's a way to relive the same emotions I felt the first time I saw something, but I always get excited when I see you reacting to a series that made me emotional too lol
It's a new way to connect to people and their humanity afforded to us by the internet. I've seen grown ass men cry to Squid Game on here and it makes me appreciate people opening up and making themselves vulnerable to their audience.
@@nickv1212I believe smasher and David should swap, David is incredibly and maybe could grow to stand with smasher if he had the money and resources, but just the facts that smasher is almost a 100 year old and almost full machine without getting psycho makes him above, now v I agree with you.
@@jacksonpablodiasdeoliveira9215 Iirc Smasher was a psychopath before he went full borg so he never suffered cyberpsychosis the same way as normal people. So technically he is suffering from cyberpsychosis it just doesn't affect him the same way because you can't lose what you never had in this case his humanity.
No, i disagree with V imunity to cyberware. He get that with nanobots of Relic - same reason, why modified BD did not killed him in both Rhyne murder and Scavengers trap.
Adam Smasher is a very important person in the Cyberpunk universe. He's been around since the 80's and 90's when Mike Pondsmith first created the first Cyberpunk Tabletop RPG or TRPG. The story of Edgerunners and the video game Cyberpunk 2077 take place in this universe. Adam Smasher plays in an important role in the narrative of Cyberpunk and is definitely one of the Legends of the Cyberpunk universe. He is indeed built different and there aren't many people that even come close to what he is capable of. A few Night City legends have gone toe to toe with him and a few have survived. Even tho the 2077 game has its own story and narrative within the Cyberpunk universe, Adam Smasher still is a part of it and the player encounters him several times. I can personally recommend playing Cyberpunk 2077 at least once to experience more of what this amazing story has to offer if you have a Play Station 5 or a decently powerful PC. Tho since the final patch and DLC is coming out within less than a month, it might be better to wait until they release. Thank you for this series.
Gotta add that for those that own a Steam Deck, the game runs incredibly well at ultra with some tweaking taking advantage of FSR (30-60 fps at ultra, 60fps if you run it with worse graphic settings)
adam smasher is suffering from cyberpsychosis in his own way, he never really had any shred of humanity to begin with and getting paid to kill people is just a bonus for him. he is what people say a high functioning cyberpsycho
They killed Becca because David died. I think we all know how seriously Becca has David's back. And I'm sure she has his back wherever they went, if there is a "wherever" in the Cyberpunk universe
I'm a 31 yr old guy, I just watched this show yesterday and I'm still crying... Never has a show broken me like this one has on such a deep and personal level. 💔 Especially that last scene... Seeing Lucy's face at the end there was just a gut punch and broke my heart again after 3 years since my last heartbreak.. 💔
In my opinion, the saddest thing about the ending (sadder than all the deaths) is the fact that Lucy is alone and probably feels guilty as hell. She was trying so hard to save David that she ironically ended up being the the biggest factor in arasaka being able to lure him out. She distanced herself, got captured, got David wrapped up in a whole mess without ever being able to talk to him and clear her name. Imagine having to live with that guilt. I really felt for her in that ending scene on the moon, where she realizes that David is no longer there. You can tell she blames herself for everything. In the end, David failed to realize that her dream wasn't the moon anymore, it was a life of peace with him. Be it on the moon, or wherever. She just wanted him to be there. Imagine how she felt when falco said "if I turn around now David will have died for nothing" and when falco told her David apologized for not being able to go to the moon with her. Her entire being probably broke in that moment and the guilt probably started to kick in as she was fully taking in what was being said to her. I feel like if she communicated with David, and talked to him sooner, she could've gotten him off the cyberware that ultimately ended up giving him cyberpsychosis and they could've laid low, got enough money and potentially left. Truly one of the most tragic stories.
Yeah it's something she's not gonna recover from for a while. But I guess we can take solace in the fact that this all happened within a year. It's heartbreaking, but it's nowhere near the end of Lucy's life. With that money, she still has a long life ahead of her and hopefully she can make the best of it.
@@CypressDahlia yeah hopefully! I like how they ended the season off without showing David's body or anything so that some people will be hopeful that maybe he's alive as a construct and in a potential season 2 Lucy may go and rescue him or something. This just makes the emotional connection to the anime even stronger. I really hope Lucy can recover from everything that took place so quickly
@@ShinigamiKenReacts yeah and canonically Falco quit edgerunning after this (likely also hiding from Arasaka since he prolly has a huge bounty on his head for this incident). So at least we get one positive story of someone who got out before it was too late. Good guy, Falco.
@@masemboross4996 A lot of people speculate that she's either living there or in the end scene, after embracing the sunlight she may have taken her helmet off which would be super dark. It's crazy how they left so many things ambiguous in the ending so people will keep speculating and form deeper connections with the series
The show definitely is a heart breaker. I haven't cried in over ten years and this episode made me teary eyed. Very fun watch along. Keep up the great work.
After watching this, I turned off the laptop and everything and started crying, trembling and gasping for air for like 1h. This show is beyond what words will ever wish to be able to praise.
@@kanon1118 I don't want to be a soul less human, but thanks for your recommendation. We all have a different meaning of what it means to „grow up”, yours just happens to be different from mine :)
@@AryaLux uhu, yours is crying for 1 hour after you watched a cartoon. mine is paying the bills taking care of my kids and actually living a life. i'll cry when i see poor people struggling to eat. but you know if you think a cartoon is more traumatizing than hunger for example. then sure.
probably already said but 4:03 (game spoilers kinda) someone wished for a happy ending and keanu reeves character said "Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."
Yeah, Adam Smasher saying he's "Special" is actually truth. He's the Boogeyman of Night City for a reason. Anyone who played the game knew what the outcome of this fight would be the second he showed up.
to make the wound a little deeper, theres an easter egg in the game on david's grave and lucy wrote "you didn't take me to the moon, but you were there with me"
This show was incredible. I've rewatched it about 5 times and every time the heart breaks. Someone made an alternative ending where everything works out just fine, and for some reason that makes me even more upset. It's like a never-ending sad spiral.
The pain 😭 I remember getting a headache from crying a lot during the ending. If it makes you feel any better, David died a legend and is now immortalized in the Afterlife bar in the game with his own drink, and you only get your own drink there if you're a Night City legend. Lucy migrated to the Moon and while living conditions there are aren't perfect, she has more chance of having a better life there than in Night City, especially if she gets into a good colony.
Idk if you have already watched it, but there's a little bit of the story you might have missed. It's in an official music video. This would take place before episode 1 starts and showcases another member of Maine's group (Net Runner named Sasha). It's in the official Cyberpunk 2077 Channel, and the title of the video is: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - Ending Theme | Let You Down by Dawid Podsiadło | Netflix As a trivia fact, the whole direction and animation on this MV was done by the same artist who made the new design/art of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 ; Ilya Kuvshinov.
For therapy, you can play the game Cyberpunk 2077 to get vengeance on Smasher if you wanted. If you do play 2077, we would love to join you on that journey.
I've always had a hard time showing emotion and especially crying but seeing you openly express what i also felt when watching (and rewatching) absolutely broke me down and made me cry both with you out of sadness for the show but also out of happiness that i was able to feel and express it as well. Thank you very much and god bless the youtube algorithm.
The moment, that aradaka counterintel said :"Adam Smasher... He is here already." is thr moment i knew how the show was gonna end, and i love the fact, that they made smasher lore accurate(khm.. Khm game... Khm... Khm...) and him actually backing up his statement "its a childs toy" after dismembering david in literally 5 sec.
Episode 10: When "I Really Wanna Stay At Your House" transitions from a super cool, catchy, lovey-dovey jam to beautiful, bittersweet trauma you'll never forget when it comes on, lol.
The fact that even two of them survived an encounter with Smasher was a blessing. Smasher is a menace in the lore, I mean he survived being at ground zero for the AHQ bombing.
Smasher: Who are YOU to challenge ME?! Faroh: Who the fuck are you?! *all the while Smasher is literally tearing David and his cyberskeleton apart lmao* Adam Smasher is a mainstay figure of the Cyberpunk TTRPG and his presence meant little to no chance of success or survival for our crew.
Falco is the best character in the series, followed by Rebecca. Loyal, does his job well, a man of his word, a real survivor. He's actually so loyal and so unproblematic that you don't really even notice he's there lmao.
He must be prepared for death to follow so loyally straight into the fire. Some might call it idiotic. He was not guaranteed survival there, and I like to think he is well aware that all cyberpunks die. I have to wonder what made him so accepting of that.
Actually David IS special. His tolerance with implants/chrome is almost as good as Smasher. The difference is that Smasher is a psycho to begin with. David isn't, He's actually on the opposite part of the spectrum.
David was special in the beginning but he lost what made him special. His humanity. His mother loved and cared for him, sacrificed for him. When he did go edgerunner he didn't kill, not until the cyberpsycho and even then he killed goons defending his friends but bit by bit he started to lose his compassion and heart. That's what causes cyberpsychosis. The amount of chrome someone has and the disassociation that can result is a factor and can exacerbate it, but what cyberpsychosis really is is the loss of your humanity, your compassion, your empathy. Once you start killing it's a slippery slope and in Night City killing is all too common. Adam is special because he's a psychopath. He had zero empathy, zero compassion to begin with, so there is nothing to lose, nothing to slip away from.
The reason why Kiwi betrayed the gang was because she was getting old, wanted as much of money as she could get from this last job and then just quit. Because in a place like Night City, you don't tend to live long, especially while doing jobs like she did. But I think the major reason why she did what she did was because she saw the same symptoms of cyberpsycosis happening on David, as Maine had, and she didn't want the same thing happen with David or even worse - get killed. Unfortunately things didn't go as she planned...
We also can't forget that when she was hired to catch the netrunner for Arasaka, Kiwi nor Faraday had any idea that the person was Lucy. And by the time Lucy stepped in the trap Kiwi had set up, well, too late to back out now. Lucy would still be caught, she'd get no money, and she'd have Faraday and Arasaka after her ass.
It’s funny how you asked why the arasaka corpos look like bugs. One of the motifs in Cyberpunk is how danger is detected by insect standards. People where bright colors and get bugged out optic implants just like venomous insects are identified by bright colors and protruding eyes.
David only lived for other peoples drwams. He made his moms dream by reaching the top of of the tower, maines dream of him becoming a edgerunner and leading the gang, the of course lucy. Sad part about it is lucys dream later became just to be with david and if he would have realized that we wouldnt have this sad ending
The first time i watched it i wept like a baby. I was extremely sad, but not because of David, although he was very relatable character. Everyone who played the game before the show knows he was about to die in the end. The signs were all there since episode one. I felt really sorry for Lucy. For first time in her life she opens up to anyone, for the first time she doesn't feel alone and all of a sudden all of that is lost. She loses not only the person closest to her, but all of her friends as well. David died for his friends, supported by them till the very last moment. Lucy at the end had no one. Arguably she had the worst fate of them all.
There's this side character you can stumble across in the game this show is based on; he's a BD director chilling at a bar and he's talking to his groupies about how mainstream BDs can cause the viewer to experience very simple, clean emotions like sadness or joy, but that the industry's editing habits of making the experience super clean and clear like that doesn't allow viewers to experience the Real, Messy emotions you get in real life, like for example combined sadness and joy, or bittersweetness. I'm absolutely convinced that conversation you can overhear in the game is a metatextual comment on the writing in this anime. Except for the pure tragedy of the first couple episodes, every single emotion the show throws at you is messy. And how goddamn bittersweet is that ending, with Lucy on the moon remembering David's joy when she first showed him her dream?
in the first version of the script Lucy was pregnant with Divid's child at the end. but Mike Ponsmith Vetoed it saying it was "too much of a happy ending."
Scariest thing is that, even as lethal and psychotic as Adam Smasher is, he still wouldn't have survived Night City if he didn't have the vast, far reaching arm of the Arasaka Corporation to retreat under after every mission. It would take the lives of hundreds, but even Smasher can't survive Night City by himself.
feel your pain, this was really sad, even tho I don't like David that much it still was a gut punch for me, especially thinking of how Lucy must have felt. But nevertheless I really appreciate shows like this that don't pull their punches and let the plot armour completely shatter from time to time. Hope other series take inspirations from this show's success and grow balls to do similar stuff (but not too many because I couldn't stomach all that pain, I still want the occasional happy ending xD)
The real game comparison is looking at this as a bunch of PCs having a GM drop Adam on everyone because they started poking where they shouldn't. These circumstances play out often in the tabletop where Adam will fuck up about half or more of the party and the game is now to retreat.
My favorite hobby nowadays is to see people getting crushed by this ending. Lucy knowing damn well he is going to die while David is happy because at least she will live always destroys me, man.
If it makes it any better the game of Cyberpunk 2077 takes place a few months after this event or possibly a year? The player plays either Male or Female V and you could get revenge for David and the others by finding Adam in game. The game even references events from this show and other pieces of media connecting to the video-game itself.
The sad thing about cyberpsicosis is that is similar to a terminal i'll, once you have The first simptoms it's over. And only cause pain to the people around you, because there is nothing they can do about it, just wait for the end.
Super late reply. That is definitely not true. Max Tac are rehabilitated Cyberpsychos. With proper therapy, you can come back from psychosis. Cyberpunk 2077 has you capture Psychos alive for testing. The TTRPG version has a built in feature where you need to get therapy to stay sane. Fixers can find reliable therapists that can help. Everyone has a Humanity score. When your Humanity score hits 0, you go into cyberpsychosis. You can regain Humanity through friends, doing generally good deeds, or therapy. Every piece of Chrome you attach takes away from your maximum Humanity, until you teeter on the edge of psychosis. You cannot ever get a higher maximum Humanity, even if you remove chrome. There's one big problem though. Night City is it's own country, ruled by corporations, and is technically a post nuclear wasteland. How are you going to find a good licensed therapist around here?
As a man in not even ashamed to admit I had a sad reaction to this I didn't think an anime could cut so deep man😅rest in peace the goat David Martinez I got his jacket on my cyber punk character as we speak 👊🙏
No, he's just a fully functional cyberpsycho, thanks to having been a full on sociopath even before he went full borg. Little bit similar to how Johnny Silverhand suffers from cyberpsychosis but is functional.
If you play games, I suggest that you should play CD Projekt Red's "CyberPunk 2077" video game that takes place 1 year after David Martinez Story. I fully recommend that you play this if you want to start your story in the CyberPunk Universe. Basically CyberPunk Edgerunners is a spin off prequal to the game CyberPunk 2077.
Not gonna lie, by episode 9 I was almost afraid to watch your reaction to the finale. But like David, I said fuck it, YOLO! and now I'm sobbing harder than I did when I watched it by myself.
Telemetry on implants system to improve them for future users. These military grade implants are create for a reason, every corporation is preparing for future corporate wars. So, they need their soldiers to stay longer on the battlefield without losing themselves.
I knew it was gonna be bad when the mentioned smasher in lore the mf gave up his humanity to become a monster atleas while hes in this body hes basically a high functioning cyberpshycho with a mercs mindset thriugh qnd through you saw what he looks like underneath all that armour he aint human anymore and he likes that factn
WHY WAS THIS RECOMMENDED TO ME PLS HELP ME 😭😭😭
Lol, I feel you. It’s a good show even tho it’s a tragedy. I enjoyed your reaction to the series throughout. Keep up the great work👍🏾
All who have experienced Night City understand
Becca: Best girl!
Sorry but no happy endings. Not in this city
Maybe some Kaguya Sama will heal you
Those who played the game knew. As soon Adam showed up it was over.
Rip David, you ended up becoming a legend after all
I assumed off the top that it wouldn’t end well, being in Night City.
But yeah, when they mentioned Smasher I knew what was ultimately going to happen and that David wouldn’t stand a chance.
Still to this day i always order a David Rodriguez at the Afterlife.
I remember knowing nothing about cyberpunk and after watching the show I bought the game just to Speedrun to the end and kill this bastard 😂
@@jaman3321 worth it.
@@jaman3321 yeah dude, FUCKEM UP!!
"Alright David. Let's go. To the top then." That was the moment Rebecca knew they weren't making it back... but she loved David enough to not care. She stuck by him to the end. Ultimate ride or die
Rebecca is the best girl for real.
Johnny: “What did you expect?”
V: “I don’t know umm… a happier ending for everyone involved.”
Johnny: “Here? For folks like us. Wrong city, wrong people.”
In the Cyberpunk story... Adam Smasher is: "He appears, everyone dies."
"The shadow of Death is the one I cast"
V: Death walks in my wake. So does this sex toy I got from a Miltech Milf. Tell the reaper I said "See Ya Soon, Choomba!"
Apparently in the TTRPG his empathy score is "Yeah, right." and he is exactly that, a living party wipe
But don't you beat him in the game? He doesn't seem that scary
@@alienatedslayerThe game ur an overpowered piece of shlt. Honestly its bs
"I will never emotionally recover from this"
-everyone who watched Edgerunners left Sandevistated
with a bit of context as far as the backstory goes this ending feels quite a bit better. All things considered David didn't get captured and turbo torture experimented on by Arasaka. Lucy got away and didn't get recaptured and forced into her old job where the AI beyond the blackwall would have probably slowly ripped her mind apart/killed her outright. She didn't get hit with soulkiller for Arasaka to recycle and use again and again via copying and basically torturing each iteration via forced exploitation of her skills. Knowing the resources available to Arasaka and what was invested into their deaths/capture this is actually quite an optimistic outcome when you consider that Cyberpunk in general is incredibly pessimistic overall and most people lose absolutely and David, Lucy and crew still made out better than average even if Lucy were to get captured a few years later after we last see her on the moon which is still entirely possible.
But yeah one of the general rules of thumb average people don't get to go up against major corporations and get any kind of win... at all.
Silverhand despised corporations and dropped a nuke on Arasaka's doorstep of one of their major operations and that was only with the backing of one of the other major corporations (militech who basically run the modern united states with any president/official basically being one of their employees.) and still basically accomplished nothing. David functionally does more with far less so it really is a win from a certain point of view.
Honestly the more a reactor cries the more I enjoy the reaction. Maybe it's a way to relive the same emotions I felt the first time I saw something, but I always get excited when I see you reacting to a series that made me emotional too lol
It's a new way to connect to people and their humanity afforded to us by the internet. I've seen grown ass men cry to Squid Game on here and it makes me appreciate people opening up and making themselves vulnerable to their audience.
@@CypressDahliahaha I share the same sentiment, seeing it breaks them helps knowing it broke me too even being numb to such things
We're all obviously empaths.
Facts, I’m not happy they’re crying but I finally get to see someone else feel the same pain
In night city people are remembered by how they die.
David was remembered for how he lived.
Adam Smasher is, indeed, “built different”, samurai. 😂😂😂
Smasher is 1 in a 10 billion, David 500 million, and V is literally god.
@@nickv1212I believe smasher and David should swap, David is incredibly and maybe could grow to stand with smasher if he had the money and resources, but just the facts that smasher is almost a 100 year old and almost full machine without getting psycho makes him above, now v I agree with you.
@@jacksonpablodiasdeoliveira9215 Iirc Smasher was a psychopath before he went full borg so he never suffered cyberpsychosis the same way as normal people. So technically he is suffering from cyberpsychosis it just doesn't affect him the same way because you can't lose what you never had in this case his humanity.
No, i disagree with V imunity to cyberware. He get that with nanobots of Relic - same reason, why modified BD did not killed him in both Rhyne murder and Scavengers trap.
@@radeksilar543 yup, I also believe that johnny's construct is what is preventing V to go full psycho
"Who the fuck are you?!"
Me in my best Jackie Welles voice: "Night City legend. Bleak mother-fuckin' one too..."
Adam Smasher is a very important person in the Cyberpunk universe. He's been around since the 80's and 90's when Mike Pondsmith first created the first Cyberpunk Tabletop RPG or TRPG. The story of Edgerunners and the video game Cyberpunk 2077 take place in this universe.
Adam Smasher plays in an important role in the narrative of Cyberpunk and is definitely one of the Legends of the Cyberpunk universe. He is indeed built different and there aren't many people that even come close to what he is capable of. A few Night City legends have gone toe to toe with him and a few have survived.
Even tho the 2077 game has its own story and narrative within the Cyberpunk universe, Adam Smasher still is a part of it and the player encounters him several times. I can personally recommend playing Cyberpunk 2077 at least once to experience more of what this amazing story has to offer if you have a Play Station 5 or a decently powerful PC. Tho since the final patch and DLC is coming out within less than a month, it might be better to wait until they release.
Thank you for this series.
Gotta add that for those that own a Steam Deck, the game runs incredibly well at ultra with some tweaking taking advantage of FSR (30-60 fps at ultra, 60fps if you run it with worse graphic settings)
adam smasher is suffering from cyberpsychosis in his own way, he never really had any shred of humanity to begin with and getting paid to kill people is just a bonus for him. he is what people say a high functioning cyberpsycho
@@OscarIna0fTimeVODsi would run with worse setting capped fps to 40 just to preserve battery life
@@VORASTRA I usually plat plugged so I don't mind too much about battery
2.2 added some awesome stuffs :)
They killed Becca because David died. I think we all know how seriously Becca has David's back. And I'm sure she has his back wherever they went, if there is a "wherever" in the Cyberpunk universe
I'm a 31 yr old guy, I just watched this show yesterday and I'm still crying...
Never has a show broken me like this one has on such a deep and personal level.
💔
Especially that last scene... Seeing Lucy's face at the end there was just a gut punch and broke my heart again after 3 years since my last heartbreak..
💔
It is that much more satisfying killing Adam Smasher with Rebecca's shotgun wearing David's jacket in 2077.
It is.
Not really.
@@thomasnewton2935yes it is 🤡
In my opinion, the saddest thing about the ending (sadder than all the deaths) is the fact that Lucy is alone and probably feels guilty as hell. She was trying so hard to save David that she ironically ended up being the the biggest factor in arasaka being able to lure him out. She distanced herself, got captured, got David wrapped up in a whole mess without ever being able to talk to him and clear her name. Imagine having to live with that guilt. I really felt for her in that ending scene on the moon, where she realizes that David is no longer there. You can tell she blames herself for everything. In the end, David failed to realize that her dream wasn't the moon anymore, it was a life of peace with him. Be it on the moon, or wherever. She just wanted him to be there. Imagine how she felt when falco said "if I turn around now David will have died for nothing" and when falco told her David apologized for not being able to go to the moon with her. Her entire being probably broke in that moment and the guilt probably started to kick in as she was fully taking in what was being said to her. I feel like if she communicated with David, and talked to him sooner, she could've gotten him off the cyberware that ultimately ended up giving him cyberpsychosis and they could've laid low, got enough money and potentially left. Truly one of the most tragic stories.
Yeah it's something she's not gonna recover from for a while. But I guess we can take solace in the fact that this all happened within a year. It's heartbreaking, but it's nowhere near the end of Lucy's life. With that money, she still has a long life ahead of her and hopefully she can make the best of it.
@@CypressDahlia yeah hopefully! I like how they ended the season off without showing David's body or anything so that some people will be hopeful that maybe he's alive as a construct and in a potential season 2 Lucy may go and rescue him or something. This just makes the emotional connection to the anime even stronger. I really hope Lucy can recover from everything that took place so quickly
@@ShinigamiKenReacts yeah and canonically Falco quit edgerunning after this (likely also hiding from Arasaka since he prolly has a huge bounty on his head for this incident). So at least we get one positive story of someone who got out before it was too late. Good guy, Falco.
@@ShinigamiKenReactsyou guys have to remember that the trip to the Moon was a One Way trip….Let that sink in.
@@masemboross4996 A lot of people speculate that she's either living there or in the end scene, after embracing the sunlight she may have taken her helmet off which would be super dark. It's crazy how they left so many things ambiguous in the ending so people will keep speculating and form deeper connections with the series
The show definitely is a heart breaker. I haven't cried in over ten years and this episode made me teary eyed.
Very fun watch along. Keep up the great work.
The tears will flow.
"you're gonna carry that weight"
After watching this, I turned off the laptop and everything and started crying, trembling and gasping for air for like 1h. This show is beyond what words will ever wish to be able to praise.
its just a cartoon, grow up
That is genuinely so so demeaning and invalidating. Have some empathy, grow up :)
@@kanon1118 I don't want to be a soul less human, but thanks for your recommendation. We all have a different meaning of what it means to „grow up”, yours just happens to be different from mine :)
@@AryaLux uhu, yours is crying for 1 hour after you watched a cartoon. mine is paying the bills taking care of my kids and actually living a life.
i'll cry when i see poor people struggling to eat. but you know if you think a cartoon is more traumatizing than hunger for example. then sure.
@@farohreacts come back to me in like 20 years and tell me if you still feel the same way.
probably already said but 4:03 (game spoilers kinda) someone wished for a happy ending and keanu reeves character said "Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."
Little did she know smasher was actually built different
meh hes weak cyberdeck better!
Built different being a high functioning cyberpsycho funny enough
that desk punch while sobbing at 15:54 was literally me 🤣🤧
Yeah, Adam Smasher saying he's "Special" is actually truth. He's the Boogeyman of Night City for a reason. Anyone who played the game knew what the outcome of this fight would be the second he showed up.
to make the wound a little deeper, theres an easter egg in the game on david's grave and lucy wrote "you didn't take me to the moon, but you were there with me"
This show was incredible. I've rewatched it about 5 times and every time the heart breaks. Someone made an alternative ending where everything works out just fine, and for some reason that makes me even more upset. It's like a never-ending sad spiral.
Been a couple days and i cant stop thinking about this show,😞 needed someone to cry with 😥
The pain 😭 I remember getting a headache from crying a lot during the ending. If it makes you feel any better, David died a legend and is now immortalized in the Afterlife bar in the game with his own drink, and you only get your own drink there if you're a Night City legend. Lucy migrated to the Moon and while living conditions there are aren't perfect, she has more chance of having a better life there than in Night City, especially if she gets into a good colony.
"yaaay" *uncontrollable sobbing* this exactly how I felt watching this
Lucys new memorial to david in the game as per the new update "David, you couldnt bring me to the moon, but you were there with me."
Best reaction of the series I've seen so far. Was pretty much the same way when I was done watching the last ep.
You call tell a lot about someone by their reactions to shows/movies. I feel safe in saying, you're a good person.
This is very very sweet 💖
Idk if you have already watched it, but there's a little bit of the story you might have missed. It's in an official music video. This would take place before episode 1 starts and showcases another member of Maine's group (Net Runner named Sasha).
It's in the official Cyberpunk 2077 Channel, and the title of the video is: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - Ending Theme | Let You Down by Dawid Podsiadło | Netflix
As a trivia fact, the whole direction and animation on this MV was done by the same artist who made the new design/art of Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 ; Ilya Kuvshinov.
For therapy, you can play the game Cyberpunk 2077 to get vengeance on Smasher if you wanted. If you do play 2077, we would love to join you on that journey.
ADAM SMASHER MOMENT 😭😭😭
I've always had a hard time showing emotion and especially crying but seeing you openly express what i also felt when watching (and rewatching) absolutely broke me down and made me cry both with you out of sadness for the show but also out of happiness that i was able to feel and express it as well.
Thank you very much and god bless the youtube algorithm.
The moment, that aradaka counterintel said :"Adam Smasher... He is here already." is thr moment i knew how the show was gonna end, and i love the fact, that they made smasher lore accurate(khm.. Khm game... Khm... Khm...) and him actually backing up his statement "its a childs toy" after dismembering david in literally 5 sec.
It was 3 seconds I counted 😢 😂
@@johnpastamanEven with that super Gundam suit, David can't make a scratch on Adam Smasher 😂😂 .. now who's the special One 😂
@@elliaselliyasa3885 if u wanna know that answer, its V
Rebecca's reactions represent us, the viewers
Adam Smasher, was, in fact, “built different” 😭 (also, to whoever recommended this to me i hope ur pillow is warm on both sides when u go sleep)
Girl, if you need a happy movie that will make you feel better, try Grave of the Fireflies. Fun for the whole family!
Why u lie
I cried also, and I usually never cry, glad there are people like you who have emotions still.
“I am never going to emotionally recover from this.” -Faroh Exotic, 2023
Episode 10: When "I Really Wanna Stay At Your House" transitions from a super cool, catchy, lovey-dovey jam to beautiful, bittersweet trauma you'll never forget when it comes on, lol.
The fact that even two of them survived an encounter with Smasher was a blessing. Smasher is a menace in the lore, I mean he survived being at ground zero for the AHQ bombing.
Smasher: Who are YOU to challenge ME?!
Faroh: Who the fuck are you?! *all the while Smasher is literally tearing David and his cyberskeleton apart lmao*
Adam Smasher is a mainstay figure of the Cyberpunk TTRPG and his presence meant little to no chance of success or survival for our crew.
Falco is the best character in the series, followed by Rebecca. Loyal, does his job well, a man of his word, a real survivor. He's actually so loyal and so unproblematic that you don't really even notice he's there lmao.
He must be prepared for death to follow so loyally straight into the fire. Some might call it idiotic. He was not guaranteed survival there, and I like to think he is well aware that all cyberpunks die. I have to wonder what made him so accepting of that.
Davids doctor explained who smasher was a couple episodes ago
well the fact is that Smasher isn't like David, David just thought of being "special" when in reality he was not, Smasher instead is really special
Actually David IS special. His tolerance with implants/chrome is almost as good as Smasher. The difference is that Smasher is a psycho to begin with. David isn't, He's actually on the opposite part of the spectrum.
David was special in the beginning but he lost what made him special. His humanity. His mother loved and cared for him, sacrificed for him. When he did go edgerunner he didn't kill, not until the cyberpsycho and even then he killed goons defending his friends but bit by bit he started to lose his compassion and heart. That's what causes cyberpsychosis. The amount of chrome someone has and the disassociation that can result is a factor and can exacerbate it, but what cyberpsychosis really is is the loss of your humanity, your compassion, your empathy. Once you start killing it's a slippery slope and in Night City killing is all too common.
Adam is special because he's a psychopath. He had zero empathy, zero compassion to begin with, so there is nothing to lose, nothing to slip away from.
@@TresTrefusisfinally! some who hecking gets it!
@@nerose274 :)
The reason why Kiwi betrayed the gang was because she was getting old, wanted as much of money as she could get from this last job and then just quit. Because in a place like Night City, you don't tend to live long, especially while doing jobs like she did. But I think the major reason why she did what she did was because she saw the same symptoms of cyberpsycosis happening on David, as Maine had, and she didn't want the same thing happen with David or even worse - get killed. Unfortunately things didn't go as she planned...
True, she almost got killed by maine too. Why tf did she want to risk her life for a cyberpsycho again for the second time
We also can't forget that when she was hired to catch the netrunner for Arasaka, Kiwi nor Faraday had any idea that the person was Lucy. And by the time Lucy stepped in the trap Kiwi had set up, well, too late to back out now. Lucy would still be caught, she'd get no money, and she'd have Faraday and Arasaka after her ass.
14:14 *ADAM SMASHER* Night City's Bogeyman of legend.
It’s funny how you asked why the arasaka corpos look like bugs. One of the motifs in Cyberpunk is how danger is detected by insect standards.
People where bright colors and get bugged out optic implants just like venomous insects are identified by bright colors and protruding eyes.
The way you shouted out for Rebecca...that was all of us at losing the best girl.
I love genuine reactions, this was exactly how I felt watching this
David only lived for other peoples drwams. He made his moms dream by reaching the top of of the tower, maines dream of him becoming a edgerunner and leading the gang, the of course lucy. Sad part about it is lucys dream later became just to be with david and if he would have realized that we wouldnt have this sad ending
The first time i watched it i wept like a baby. I was extremely sad, but not because of David, although he was very relatable character. Everyone who played the game before the show knows he was about to die in the end. The signs were all there since episode one. I felt really sorry for Lucy. For first time in her life she opens up to anyone, for the first time she doesn't feel alone and all of a sudden all of that is lost. She loses not only the person closest to her, but all of her friends as well. David died for his friends, supported by them till the very last moment. Lucy at the end had no one. Arguably she had the worst fate of them all.
Really enjoyed your reaction.
They had to give us a glimpse of david again at 15:52 just to really twist the knife
Adam smashed.
Adam smasher looks like darkside if he was cyberneticly enhanced
“Wrong city. Wrong people.”
WHICH IS WHY I PICKED THE STAR ENDING CUZ ITS THE BEST!
you know a good show when you start crying before you start watching the final :D
There's this side character you can stumble across in the game this show is based on; he's a BD director chilling at a bar and he's talking to his groupies about how mainstream BDs can cause the viewer to experience very simple, clean emotions like sadness or joy, but that the industry's editing habits of making the experience super clean and clear like that doesn't allow viewers to experience the Real, Messy emotions you get in real life, like for example combined sadness and joy, or bittersweetness. I'm absolutely convinced that conversation you can overhear in the game is a metatextual comment on the writing in this anime. Except for the pure tragedy of the first couple episodes, every single emotion the show throws at you is messy. And how goddamn bittersweet is that ending, with Lucy on the moon remembering David's joy when she first showed him her dream?
in the first version of the script Lucy was pregnant with Divid's child at the end. but Mike Ponsmith Vetoed it saying it was "too much of a happy ending."
Adam Smasher is legendary corpo assassin for Arasaka, he does their dirty work, scary indivdual.
Scariest thing is that, even as lethal and psychotic as Adam Smasher is, he still wouldn't have survived Night City if he didn't have the vast, far reaching arm of the Arasaka Corporation to retreat under after every mission. It would take the lives of hundreds, but even Smasher can't survive Night City by himself.
This show just came and gave the whole world some free depression and trauma
Lucy tried to "hack" Smasher to stop him, but didn't work, i think it's cause there's not much organic to him anymore, mostly cyborg.
That and He has top-tier equipement from Arasaka. That mixed with the fact He's a borg -> no chance for Lucy to hack that.
Smasher got probably the best personal ICE available on earth
@@SsecaveV with a f****** PARALINE (beginners cyberdeck) PRE 2.0: 🗿
@@nerose274 Pose 2.0 u can still hack the shit out of him and kill him
feel your pain, this was really sad, even tho I don't like David that much it still was a gut punch for me, especially thinking of how Lucy must have felt. But nevertheless I really appreciate shows like this that don't pull their punches and let the plot armour completely shatter from time to time. Hope other series take inspirations from this show's success and grow balls to do similar stuff (but not too many because I couldn't stomach all that pain, I still want the occasional happy ending xD)
they needed V
The real game comparison is looking at this as a bunch of PCs having a GM drop Adam on everyone because they started poking where they shouldn't. These circumstances play out often in the tabletop where Adam will fuck up about half or more of the party and the game is now to retreat.
your reaction broke my heart more than the last chapter T_T
Thanks David 😢
"Is there no hope ???!!"
Resume Night City in a nutshell XD.
As a hardcore Smasher fan, I was LOVING this episode😂 he tore through everyone like wet paper and I was living for it
Hey, in NightCity, there are no happy endings 😭
Nope.
Why am i back here watching this i know exactly what this series and that fuckin song does to me
Edgerunners.... Genre... Emotional damage.
First thing about Nightcity… there are no happy endings.
Second… NEVER fuck with Adam Smasher 😭😭😭😭
Unless you go by V
great reaction
I CAN FEEL
My favorite hobby nowadays is to see people getting crushed by this ending. Lucy knowing damn well he is going to die while David is happy because at least she will live always destroys me, man.
I yelled with becca as well u.u RIP but what a beautiful story. Loved it
If it makes it any better the game of Cyberpunk 2077 takes place a few months after this event or possibly a year? The player plays either Male or Female V and you could get revenge for David and the others by finding Adam in game.
The game even references events from this show and other pieces of media connecting to the video-game itself.
More information? More backstory? Girl! Play the game! I'm begging you!
1:20 “I love Becca” Oh no 😬
Rebecca, in this show, was everything to me. Its been a year and still hurts me till this day 🥲
Same...it hurts like no other character death has hurt before. Super unnecessary and made no difference on the rest of the ending.
This anime made me depress for months lmao..im glad it did win the anime of the year award.
The sad thing about cyberpsicosis is that is similar to a terminal i'll, once you have The first simptoms it's over. And only cause pain to the people around you, because there is nothing they can do about it, just wait for the end.
Super late reply.
That is definitely not true. Max Tac are rehabilitated Cyberpsychos. With proper therapy, you can come back from psychosis. Cyberpunk 2077 has you capture Psychos alive for testing.
The TTRPG version has a built in feature where you need to get therapy to stay sane. Fixers can find reliable therapists that can help.
Everyone has a Humanity score. When your Humanity score hits 0, you go into cyberpsychosis. You can regain Humanity through friends, doing generally good deeds, or therapy. Every piece of Chrome you attach takes away from your maximum Humanity, until you teeter on the edge of psychosis. You cannot ever get a higher maximum Humanity, even if you remove chrome.
There's one big problem though. Night City is it's own country, ruled by corporations, and is technically a post nuclear wasteland. How are you going to find a good licensed therapist around here?
As a man in not even ashamed to admit I had a sad reaction to this I didn't think an anime could cut so deep man😅rest in peace the goat David Martinez I got his jacket on my cyber punk character as we speak 👊🙏
Love it. Fcking Adam Smasher and faroh just saying "and who are u?"
My honest reaction the whole time 👁👄👁
Every play through I do of Cyberpunk 2077, I go to Afterlife and order a David Martinez. Gotta show my boy some respect.
I’m pretty sure the Deep Lore is that Arasaka SoulKiller’d Adam and put his Engram into the suit
No, he's just a fully functional cyberpsycho, thanks to having been a full on sociopath even before he went full borg. Little bit similar to how Johnny Silverhand suffers from cyberpsychosis but is functional.
Cyberpunk 2077 Emotional Damage. This should be title of this show.
If you play games, I suggest that you should play CD Projekt Red's "CyberPunk 2077" video game that takes place 1 year after David Martinez Story. I fully recommend that you play this if you want to start your story in the CyberPunk Universe. Basically CyberPunk Edgerunners is a spin off prequal to the game CyberPunk 2077.
girl i had the same reaction ill never recover 😔
Not gonna lie, by episode 9 I was almost afraid to watch your reaction to the finale. But like David, I said fuck it, YOLO! and now I'm sobbing harder than I did when I watched it by myself.
A huge update is coming to the game on the 26th, you should play it then :) but not before, it is still a bit busted
There's just something about a tragic story.
This cuts galore 😆
Becca best gurl❤
The question is, what did the corporations get out of it?
Telemetry on implants system to improve them for future users. These military grade implants are create for a reason, every corporation is preparing for future corporate wars. So, they need their soldiers to stay longer on the battlefield without losing themselves.
I love the anime love the game and loved the reaction
I knew it was gonna be bad when the mentioned smasher in lore the mf gave up his humanity to become a monster atleas while hes in this body hes basically a high functioning cyberpshycho with a mercs mindset thriugh qnd through you saw what he looks like underneath all that armour he aint human anymore and he likes that factn