Lucy said you don't earn the name of Cyberpunk because of how you live, but because of how you die. So, when Smasher called David a cyberpunk, I took it as him saying "you got this far and will have a death worthy of the name".
@@AsukaLangleyS02 Died with a smug face fighting Smasher after making it to the top of Arasaka tower, putting down the fixer who betrayed him and his crew, all this after crushing a Militech batallion and most of the Arasaka rescue team on the way there. If that's not punk, I clearly don't know what punk means.
When David said "I think im built different" I had to pause and genuinely laugh good and hard. The line itself isn't bad its just that term has been memed to hell
@@rebotsomat that has got to be the worst comparison I have ever seen. He knew he was gonna die and had to keep telling himself that he was different so that he could keep going. At first he believed it but as time went on he knew that he was losing it. He set out what he wanted to do and died a legend, never stopping until he was gone
Great review. I want to mention something about the show length. Short and sweet is how Cyberpunk stories were always told. Originally these stories are tabletop RPG scenarios. When David's whole story is over in 10 episodes, that's just faithful to the source material. Having the same crew for several seasons would absolutely not fit in. Cyberpunks find their legendary and/or tragic conclusion in no time at all.
agreed. some people also complained why the character death seems meaningless. I mean, it's Night City after all. Whatever you do, the city will still kicking the next day.
The dub is notable for having Giancarlo Esposito as Faraday, as well as returning cast from the game for Wakako and Adam Smasher, and I could be wrong, but Delamain, too. It's not perfect, but the VAs returning from the game really lends those characters a lot more believability if you played the game. I think the problems with the dub are the attempt at adding stutters in to make dialogue sound naturalistic, which didn't translate into the performances, the characters just sometimes say things twice, and then some of the writing for the returning characters can be a little too verbose for their character, especially with Adam Smasher. The usual thing also occurs, a few lines here and there are said with the wrong intonation, but whatever, it's not like it happens with every other line.
I actually ended up just watching the dub because it just felt weird coming from the game and suddenly everyone was speaking Japanese... In what's supposed to be California...
@@phobos2068 yeah, I’ve watched enough anime to get used to it. What throws me off more is the English dub trying to lip sync with the Japanese dub synched animation, makes it quite jarring TBH.
adam smashers first line in the game is "you look like a cut of fuckable meat. are you?". in the pen and paper, he wrote an entire article about why meat is shit, borg up; and it only gets weirder because he dated michiko arasaka, saburo's granddaughter, and used a spare body that looked like elvis presley
I love this anime. It really captures that there are no happy stories in Night City. Just moments of tolerable existence surrounded by death, corruption and pain.
Started watching Edgerunners Monday evening. Finished watching Edgerunners Monday night. Since then I've been feeling a weird sense of "emptiness". I feel heartbroken in a way, sad, depressed. Consuming videos about this show like crazy. The memes, the reviews, videos about references in-game. But there's still this void. Like a person you've been with for a long time and all of a sudden they're missing. It feels like something inside of me is missing. It's so weird.
The Cyberpunk setting has existed since the late 1980s, it was made for a Tabletop RPG by a guy named Mike Pondsmith (who appears as the radio host Maximum Mike in the video game), and while I was disappointed with the 2077 version of Adam Smasher, the anime version is 1/1 to how terrifying an encounter with him in the tabletop is. Mike created him as a one man TPK machine and Adam absolutely lived up to that in the anime.
If he did not got Cyberpsycho he would have beaten Adam 100%. Adam's tech is good but it's not as good as what David currently has. ANti Grav is broken and would put him on top easily.
@@marclenraymagdaraog691 bro the whole cyber psychosis thing made the show so interesting I feel like the actual game itself should have been more on that topic and theme instead of Johnny silverhead honestly
I had an issue with some of the needledrop moments and the car scenes towards the end looked way to silly as everything was just floating around. The only character I really like was Rebecca but she just didn't fit in the setting for me and seemed more of a fit for Trigger's other stuff. David's character didn't get good until he started getting deep into the shit. He just seemed way to naive at times when he's lived in this world and acts super surprised and childish.
It's kinda cool that everyone gets something slightly different out of this. Lucy thought of David as a payday knowing that she would make 80% of the take and hand him over to Maine. She had no interest in whether David lived or died, as long as they did not make a mess in her apartment, and was perfectly willing to distract David with a show implying that they had a connection. David, on the other hand, went from working hard for his mother's dream of being choice Arasaka meat to Maine's dream of having a complete Merc team, and finally Lucy's dream of getting to the moon, even though he thought the moon was just a prison. Maine was really the only Cyberpunk with any 'conscience' but more from a "don't hurt kids" and "be a boyfriend" with Dorio and "give people a fair cut" point of view, in contrast to Lucy who was selfish to the point that it might slightly inconvenience her to share the minimum amount of the take, or that it might be inconvenient for her to try to save Pilar (much safer to just hide and let David take care of it), or work with the team regarding Tanaka, or do anything at all to help David with the team, or actually show her true feelings, but everyone else was manic-depressive. Lucy was the only one who was truly and purely evil throughout, even to the point of betraying literally everyone who helped her, but, the "moral point" of the "whole thing" was that only being 100% self-centered made any sense, since everyone on the team died from selfless acts, despite all of their rhetoric "the only one you can trust is yourself". Lucy was simply the only one who actually practiced that, was able to depart from any human connection, and avoid death, and ultimately reap the benefits. And that is, exactly, the vibe of Cyberpunk.
Like you said, people interpret the show very differently and I think what you're saying is a great analysis. However for me, the main message of the show can be summarized by docs line after David leaves for arasaka, "another tale for the next dreamer", really highlights (at least imo) the overall message. Although again, different meaning can be interpreted for sure
Fun fact before the anime came out the name David is mentioned I game since the beginning....the name of a drink in the afterlife, which only legends get once they die. David became legend and will be immortalized in the afterlife and those who knew and heard of him. And with that I hope we get anime of the other legends like knowing more about the world of night city
I get where this view of the ending is coming from but i kinda see it as a tragedy / cautionary tale, much in the sense of what cyberpunk is supposed to be about. Spoilers obvsl With the super on the nose "im built different" the ending seems like an antithesis to exaclty that, and in the final episodes it was clear how that was gonna end. Not only did he get himself killed, but also his friends and left the one he loved most alone. The scene on the moon drives that home- Lucy got there, but shes alone, and clearly not happy about that. In the end his final moments were a glorious rage against a horrible society, but he really didnt change that much. So thats how i see it; Society unchanged, his loved ones alone and unhappy or dead. Classic tragedy really.
1:32 yeah I'm with you there I guess Trigger really shines the most when they're left to do whatever they think it's best; BNA was a project they owned themselves sure, but stuff didn't feel fresh in the same way the made it be in Promare, a project just a year before. I'm actually amazed that Edgerunners turned out so good despite the constrictive thinking they had to use for the anime there, the thing I usually think they are the weakest at
The reason the World of Cyberpunk is fucked up, is because in that universe Humanity decided to throw away their ethics and morals after WW2, meaning rampant technological growth via total exploitation of human and natural resources. The Earth was bled dry and humanity prey upon itself to advance its decrepit cesspit of a civilization. Which is why Night City is such a special place, because it embodies everything wrong in their world, and the Story of David Martinez is a story of a dreamer in the so called City of Dreams. Wrong people, wrong city. There is no happy ending for the dreaming ones.
Its been a long time since Ive seen anything this good and I can safely say its the best show ive seen this year, everything about it is just so organic. The characters here behave like real people. For example, the couple could have left after Maine`s death, they had enough money at that point to start over somewhere else out of NC. But David wanted to be a legend, despite the various warnings from his ripperdoc as well as what he himself witnessed about cyberpsychosis. Lucy on the other end aclimated herself with her luxury high rise lifestye even though at that point she knew about Arasaka going for David and presumed to be able to protect him against an army of netrunners on Arasakas payroll, which was pretty hubris on her part. By the time they reached this point they were no longer being honest with each other about the problems they started to ignore. So much so that the trip to the Moon was even forgotten by the couple. I think their behavior translates well to reality, they really feel organic, just regular people facing their problems and dealing with situation in life as they happen. These characters are actually beliavable, what they say and do feels real, they`re not like those single minded shonen protagonists that seem to have inhuman unbreakable will, these characters feel like real people.
I watched the whole thing in one night, and started it again last night, but will be going through it more slowly. It hits SO hard, has amazing and intricate characters, even the ones who don't have a major character arc are all interesting and have their own depth to them.
The way I see it, this is the story of a man who drove himself to the grave protecting the one thing he had left. I loved the symbolism behind the desert road, and David pushing past the end.
I honestly thought when watching it that "Oh David will be fine, he'll survive and go to the moon with Lucy." but then I realized that he was gonna die, tbh it is a great anime, and I personally really loved lucy for her design, I rate this anime a 9/10.
I really did not expect this show to have this kind of effect on me. Left me kinda empty. That song.. Loved it in the game, now it got completely new dimension. That fkin song.
Rebecca though (!). What a wonderful addition to the cast- I've never witnessed anything like this kind of friendship in the catalogues of anime and visual media that I've consumed in my life time. The show was excellently produced with a great story, but Rebecca and her will to break with what a "normal friend" ought to do (ie, tell David to calm his S*** and de-mod) she instead was a true friend- she knew that the height of the stakes - David would incur a 95% chance self-destruction If given his way. But she acquiest anyway, because not only would she have granted him almost anything on the term of friendship alone, but she believed in _his_ outstanding resolve to achieve his objective, and to deny him this would be to totally stand in the way [and be a crappy friend, and given these outcomes she came to one logical conclusion - give him what he asked for]. ... .... I actually strongly identify with this particular situation and this relationship was a napalm knuckle sandwich; it hits hard and it sticks strong. To encapsulate their relationship in one single phrase : "If you murder someone, a good friend won't tell anyone that you did it, but a truly great friend will help you bury the body" .. You are David, and Rebecca is that wonderous friend. Thanks for reasing.
Honestly, I hated how David ended up practically doing the same exact mistake as Maine. I am not sure that your interpretation of his character arc is correct, but it sure is better than him simply not having one at all.
Anime did an amazing job with their relationship where despite this being such a violent and unforgiving environment/place 2 people can still truly love each other and be willing to sacrifice everything for one another but in the end...Johnny was right "wrong city, wrong people"
The show made Night City into such a living breathing location now that I cant help but want to see different stories and struggles in the world, I know its asking to much but with how lame recent anime's have been this one was a true treat
This show was awesome, it showed how fought and brutal NC is. It’s stylization was awesome, they made you connect and like the character in the brief episodes you saw of them. And then immediately killing them, reminding you of where they are. It was always a hard smack of reality. Also Rebecca> Lucy
Show was good but still to short to do justice to both theme and characters, but who knows maybe they make shows manga to give us more(I really hope so)
The theme seemed more about the dangers of addiction and knowing your limits. David didn't really seem to have a dream and instead just followed the dreams of others whether it's Maine or Lucy.
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He was built different but Adam Smasher was built different even more, with how little human is left in him he was moreso literally "built" and not born.
Even tho I still wanted to see Lucy happy with David and him still being alive at the end, I finally understand his meaning towards his life and yea a little bit of me still want him to live but again I fully understand why he died. Also Rebecca didn't deserve her death.
man i just chillin in my bed one day and suddenly my friend asking me about my webcomic, and i was wondering what about it and then he said an anime stole my character name from my comic and i said well if it's David or Lucy or any other character a lot of story has already use that name and he said no the anime used David and Lucy as a couple, and here i am now discovering about cyberpunk now has an anime, with a character that has a very coincidental name as my character as a couple like my webcomic story... should i change the name of my character? i made it in 2018 and has a few reader here and there, just give me an advice pls
Some people whenever I mention a 2D animated show aimed for a more mature audience: "I dont do anime" This leaves me with more questions than goodwill reccomendations
To those who don't already know, the bar featured in the show, the afterlife, names their drinks from individuals who made a lasting impression on night city, from legends basically. And yes, one of their drinks is called "The David Martinez."
You also could only get a drink if you bite it in a legendary way. Johnny stormed and killed dozens in Arasaka tower and David annihilated a whole militech battalion and somewhat held his own against Arasaka’s top gun.
you'd think this would mean something, since in-game you're actually looking for smasher at one point, but it kinda goes nowhere just like anime's story i guess it's poetic in a sense? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like man David has gone through so much just for him to die like that. Bullying, mother died, chased by the animals, nearly escaping death, I was wishing a happy ending between him and Lucy. The part when Lucy imagines David still there makes it even sadder
I like lucy, but i love Rebecca she knows David is losing it during her giving him his med's, but still pushed on fighting to be on his side, for her friend, and the only semblance of family left for her, even though he already has someone to love, but still trusted her to give him his meds should he ever lose himself, her death ain't justice i love her character
Rebecca is a great character. I thought she would just be a loli fanservice kind of character but they really made her into a memorable friend to David. I'm still gonna simp for Lucy, but I have to give credit where credit is do
I think that's kind of the point though. Anyone can die a brutal death at any time and there is no justice or injustice to it. It's just the life of the cyberpunk. Live fast, die young.
@@CulturedCrusader since you only mentioned kill la kill and ttgl and said didnt like much of the stuff since, i do have to wonder whats your opinion on promare then. Also sorry to say this, but Rebecca>Lucy
Rebecca was clearly best girl. She was the only one who cared enough to realize that David was going over the edge even before the cyberskeleton incident, and if David and the others to listen to her they would all still be alive. She literally gave her life for David even while accepting that she wasn't the one he was interested in. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of people out there right now vowing to find her shotgun in game(you can, go look for it at the corpo plaza area) just so they can blow Adam Smasher to bits with it.
People forget that Lucy set David up to die and it was thanks to Maine’s kindness as well as the fact that his mom was “part of the crew” that he lived.
@@JohnDoe3-1-4 She didn't set him up to die though. Maine wanted his Sandevistan back and DISCUSSED the possibility of killing him for it since it was cheaper than doing it the legit way (which David would actually live through) but Lucy spoke up twice against doing that (in her apartment at least...how guilty she felt initially is kinda up for grabs). You seem to be forgetting that she had just met him and recognized that he had the gear that her "boss" had paid for before he got screwed (again the whole "killing him" shit was mostly Maine's idea and only got brought up in the apartment). Also Lucy was on the same page as Rebecca that David needed to cool his shit with the implants and even told him that to his face. I agree that Rebecca was easily one of the best characters in that anime (and pretty much any anime) but y'all are fangirling over her a little too hard =/ Meanwhile I'm sitting here grieving over my boi Maine Q_Q
@@MrRawrCEO Don't get me wrong, I agree with you overall, it's just that for me the fact that Rebecca never once thought of ditching her clearly psycho friend because it was a suicide mission that makes her best girl. Going with him to rescue the girl he was really interested in despite obvious feelings for him, that's real shit. Lucy's solo antics got her caught up and fucked up, even though she was doing it for David, her lack of trust lead to the team's end ultimately. She needed someone watching her back, David needed her at his back to bring him back from the edge, like Rebecca said. Also, yeah same about Maine. Moment of silence for the homie that still managed to recognize David through his full blown cyberpsychosis and tell him to run rather than just fucking zeroing him out then and there.
@@MrRawrCEO I didn’t forget anything, she was opposed to the idea of killing him but didn’t put up much of a fight against the idea. She knew that he was going to likely be killed for it when she set him up. If it wasn’t for the fact that his mom was part of the crew he’d be dead, unless they had the money to remove it which they did not. Did she become a better person towards the end of the series? Yes, but it doesn’t excuse her previous actions.
Lucy character design is so mesmerizing, this entire show is aesthetically pleasing and high octane. At the end, it also paints a melancholic aftertaste. Haven't felt void and empty for an anime for quite a while.
i vividly remember a show that has made me feel like this apart from your lie in april (i know there are others but these two seem the most similar to me)
I felt some morbid satisfaction when watching Adam Smasher body David and call his sandevistan mid. That’s what he should have been in the game, an absolute unit that could actually keep up with an endgame character.
@@hasanmuttaqin464 of course he's build differently. He is yours character. He is strong because of YOU the player say so. If you say he is super saiyan god level strong then he might as well be.
Nah smasher can't keep up with V, just built different. Sandevistan is definitely mid though; if David had a Kerenzikov and knew how to bhop across night city- he would've been unstoppable.
@@enoch7564 Yep also David Martinez is not the only Legend in the Night City. The entire Cyberpunk is just an entire setting for the Night City and the place where Legends are made. Basically just a city full of legends including David and Silverhand.
This anime was built in the style of 90’s anime. Chaotic, gritty, brutal and deeply and I am here for it. Brought that occult feeling back. Anime these days aren’t like this anime and it’s sad.
Completely agree; thought it was just me. It felt so good to watch this, like something lost had been found. The color design was absolutely phenomenal, using analogue and complementary schemes perfectly, and meshing saturation with grit and texture so well. The way characters are drawn in certain scenes, like the first time David gets a nose bleed is very late 90s/early 2000s. It just has a cool, underground feel to it that anime forgot about. And that grain filter on Maine’s hallucination scenes in episode 6 just felt right. I thought I couldn’t enjoy anime anymore, like I had changed and I could only like the stuff I grew up with. Shows like this and Mob Psycho give me hope.
I understand that there aren't too many chaotic, gritty and brutal animes as in the '80s to 2000s but there are some out there like Attack on Titan, Devilman Crybaby, Mushoku Tensei, 86, Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song, Vinland Saga, Re-Zero, and Made in Abyss. It's just that you need to go deeper to find those types of anime
the reason why this show feels like a return to the form of kill la kill and the like is because this is the first trigger series in a while to be directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, who is the director of those classic name-making trigger shows.
Honestly, this anime was so fucking good. For only 10 episodes istg it created the feeling of an entire full length anime. action-packed, Gore-filled, Titty-Bazoombin, it all gives the anime such an amazing look, feel. I've heard some criticisms for how short it was, and how so much content was squished down to such a short show. But I think that doesn't matter, in 10 episodes it could deliver so much raw emotion and action, while I would've liked a longer anime, its amazing just the way it is. + Also 100% Lucy best girl + New subscriber
Lucy best girl fo sho without a doubt. And yeah, even though it was pretty short, u don't notice it until u finished the anime and u realize how much ur longing for more.
For me this anime hit me hard because of how short it was, it ended so suddenly and in such a painfully sad way that it hit me like a bullet. I can say with confidence that this anime is the only one to ever make me cry like someone who’s experienced a loved ones death. Also because of how it leaves you craving for more it helps bring people to the game and give it some much needed attention. It’s exactly what I want out of a show about a game, that being motivation to play the game.
This was absolutely one of the best anime I've ever seen, it's the type of show that after you finish it you're left putting it together in your head time and again, only being able to do that. For two days after watching it I could only think of Edgerunners, shit had me in a chokehold(and it still does lol)
@@jb-dn5fy I already owned it so I reinstalled it yesterday lol, grinding missions to get strong enough to breeze through the story and kick Smasher's ass. Best part is when I was doing a mission at some ripperdoc's place I really want to stay at your house started playing and the only thing I felt was pain. Listening to it on Spotify vs listening to it in the game are two completely different things
@@Sam-vz8pm is it a enjoyable game? Watching videos on it has gotten me really hype. It's downloaded but I have my 3 month and 2 year old until work! Get home and the family is sleep so ill probably get on it then. Yeah David became a tragic character. I really felt for him after he killed that innocent girl during the mission. He was suffering big time
Cool channel, it makes me glad to notice more and more content creators that employ quick jokes that demand your full attention Stuff like Sseth, Nisse, KorewaEden, etc.
its also very poetic how in the beginning Davids mom sacrificed everything to ensure he would live a good life; which in turn, David does the same for Lucy near the end
@@wingsoficarus1139 her body is pretty small, but there is ZERO indication she's a young child. She has an older brother though, so maybe people extrapolated too much from that. She definitely doesn't act like a child - not even a teenager. Nor sound like one. Rebecca is fucking dope.
Edgerunners broke my heart Even though i expected a bad ending it still hit so hard and the song also stuck in my head too 😭 No good ending in Night City
Depends on interpretation too though. In a way, that was the best ending for an edgerunner. The whole theme of the Afterlife is to live your life the way you want and end it in a blaze of glory. Hence David's smile at the end... he was truly happy.
@@atrocious7766 The best ending? Wow, looks like I am the only one who thinks, that it felt totally wrong. Killed by Smasher does not make you a legend, ask Johnny how he felt. I do not care about the Cyberpunk lore, just played the game and at first, I was not even interested in the anime. Well, while playing Cyberpunk I thought why not and started it. And it was looking good. But the ending felt weird, while being suppressed with the anti-gravity tool. The next moment he is tearing it up. I know David had to die to become a legend and Smasher had to stay alive, but killing him like a dog...
@@arturforderer6224 that's the magic of cyberpunk,you ARE a dog,everyone in night city is, they all die the same, no protagonism whatsoever,you're all a mechanism of a machine that can work by itself.
One of the things I love is the parallel with V (Spoilers, for Cyberpunk 2077, you've been warned). David is practically a know-nothing kid at the start. His tolerance is his one benefit, but by and large he has to start from scratch, and he grows into an absolute unit of an Edgerunner, and his choice is to give his life for the people he loves. But he also *feels* trapped, when for he and Lucy, all it would take is for him to choose to walk away, and the two could have a happy ever after. He chose to become a legend in spite of that. Contrast V: Regardless of lifepath, they're skilled, no matter what they're doing. A Corpo has training, the Streetkid is still skilled enough to be a Solo early on, and the Nomad isn't new, just Naive because they come from an entirely different environment they escaped because of clan politics. They're also a loner, more or less, until they meet Jackie. Shit happens, and this skilled character gets someone they could call a true friend, family besides, and more. And all it takes is one botched job for it to all go wrong. They get sick, saddled with something they shouldn't have that's slowly killing them, and in the process they come to find the meaning of their life, and even though they're a loner at heart, they come to discover that there are people who care about them, that they never have to face their problems alone. It too Johnny constantly in their head for them to learn that. David's story is about how his death had meaning, and how he was happy to give his life for others. How despite having barely any dreams, he'd give it all if it meant the one he loved could have hers. V's is about learning the value of your life, and what it means to fight for it, be it to the bitter end or clawing for every scrap of time you've got, and damn anyone who says otherwise. And knowing that there will always be people you love trying to lift you up. Not to mention, on the broader sense of Cyberpunk as a setting: Johnny, Rogue, David, V...tomorrow it will be someone else, the next day someone else. Night City, it's the city of legends, a meat grinder - It doesn't matter the age, there will always be someone striving to sit on that throne.
Bro can we have a mod that changes the Graphics of cyberpunk to be more like the anime even adding new anime clothes and hair i would play more and i have like 69 hours in already
Quick note about the dub, Faraday was voiced by Giancarlo Esposito (Gustavo Fring) and Falco was voiced by Matt Mercer (Mccree and Leon). The cast was amazing. The translation was also amazing. I still can't believe they said "I'm built different." out loud.
01:14 , the moment I'm sure Lucy fell in love with David. (And personally, the moment I fell in love with Lucy the Character). Rebecca is cute as well.
Idk if you watched the show but this is the moment David fell in love with her most likely. Lucy developed feeling overtime, in reality she was just trying to keep him from getting killed so the Sandevistan would go to maine who appears while they are Brain dancing and she basically betrays David. When David joins the crew they get to know one another and she looks at him and feels pity because "You dont make a name for yourself as a Cyberpunk by how you live, make a name by how you die." And she just feels that if he died it would be her fault. But she does develop feeling for him during the Jobs they work and etc. And in the end does fall in love with him and falls hard. And at the same time begins to open up more mostly to David but also to the crew and her cold exterior remains the same but I'm sure the crew has picked up on a few changes and her raging emotions when it comes to David or her skills in netrunning.
@@waxierzero2198 I like how a lot of these characters separate their professional life to their personal lives. I like to think the reason Lucy fell in love with him is because he was such a genuine person in a city filled with 2 faced parasites. (Kiwi and Faraday just to name two)
id honestly recommend you watch it in dub rather then sub unless you can understand Japanese, the anime was clearly made for a very wide audience so they put a lot into the English dub, e.g Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from breaking bad) as Faraday. the subtitles often mistake bits of slag and in-universe terminology for other things so it ends up being a little bit of a mess.
oh no no no. even if one understands japanese it's still inferior to the english version. the slang is either completely missing (no gonks and choombas) or feels very forced (tech names are translated, yes, but sound foreign and stand out very much as loan words they are - organically they would have been "acclimatised" by native speakers in time, as history has shown, but how each term ends up is anyone's guess so they are not "processed" in this way of course, so it's just cut & paste from english therefore alien feel). some things are also just "off" despite japanese being the OG version and english being translated. i'm as weeb as weebs get, but this is the first anime where i ditched the JP OG and watched the EN DUB instead. it's not only good in terms of voice acting, if not superior (ripperdoc, becca etc.) but it is just linguistically superior, by far.
I’d argue there’s at least a few regrets on David’s plate. His end is a tragedy. He does not regret saving Lucy or living for his friends. But he 100% wishes he could’ve gone to the moon with Lucy. He even said so himself. If he time to properly communicate what he wanted and hear what other people wanted. Maybe a slightly better ending could’ve happened I feel like cyberpunk is more of a cautionary tale than anything
yeah after watching it twice tho, i must pin this on lucy tho - he was trying to communicate with her, ask her to come back, telling her he needs her, team needs her, team also told her he needs her, and she still put ignore on all that and went stubborn solo like a 0 exp gonk noob - not only after working with a team for over 2 years she should have known very well it's stupid to go on missions alone, and that it's better to work with a team, have a backup, rear protection, additional pair of eyes looking out for you, but also she literally ignored david's needs and i can't understand why, her character seems so inconsistent throughout. she was clearly sensitive and shrewd, cleverly noticing david was living gloria's dream and it wasnt his early on, but then just went full on mute as she got closer with him even? this makes no sense at all. just before the last heist they had this talk, david again clearly says he needs her, and she makes a couple of bad ignore/denial/run away & hide decisions there then that make him think about breaking up even? and she just LEAVES him with that thought??? wtf.
Falco can give missions or be interactable, def prefer Lucy staying on the moon and being a radio comm cameo at best; The implication is that she's escaped that life so it'd be very weird to have her back in the life after everything. I'd like a mission where we just just send David's Jacket to her.
I love Lucy
Preach brother🙏😎
She’s a 10 but Becca exists
yeah no im going to hell
becca the one we don´t deserve
@@mugenr becca exist, but silverhand
@@mugenr Becca exists but Lucy, change my mind☕
Lucy said you don't earn the name of Cyberpunk because of how you live, but because of how you die. So, when Smasher called David a cyberpunk, I took it as him saying "you got this far and will have a death worthy of the name".
He never did anything worthy besides being a quick fight for Smasher.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 Died with a smug face fighting Smasher after making it to the top of Arasaka tower, putting down the fixer who betrayed him and his crew, all this after crushing a Militech batallion and most of the Arasaka rescue team on the way there. If that's not punk, I clearly don't know what punk means.
@@TrueDiox The kid got beat like a bitch.
@@TrueDiox he also has a drink in the afterlife which cements him as a legend in night city
@@sneakyXXRocket Wait what he does? *starts reinstalling cyberpunk*
When David said "I think im built different"
I had to pause and genuinely laugh good and hard. The line itself isn't bad its just that term has been memed to hell
and given his end, hes as cocky as those eboys who get bodied in some online game and rage quit
that scene was built different huh... I'll just go away now
i lost my MIND when i heard him say that
@@rebotsomat not really cocky, he just knew he was gonna die, so he did with a smile haha
@@rebotsomat that has got to be the worst comparison I have ever seen. He knew he was gonna die and had to keep telling himself that he was different so that he could keep going. At first he believed it but as time went on he knew that he was losing it. He set out what he wanted to do and died a legend, never stopping until he was gone
Great review.
I want to mention something about the show length. Short and sweet is how Cyberpunk stories were always told. Originally these stories are tabletop RPG scenarios. When David's whole story is over in 10 episodes, that's just faithful to the source material. Having the same crew for several seasons would absolutely not fit in. Cyberpunks find their legendary and/or tragic conclusion in no time at all.
agreed. some people also complained why the character death seems meaningless.
I mean, it's Night City after all. Whatever you do, the city will still kicking the next day.
i wonder, how many legends are there beside him in this lore?
I'm a big fan of animes that just hits extremely hard with only 1 season, so I can rewatch it every year. Like I've watched Erased so many times.
@@xdyrarara sourcebook on its own mentions at least half a dozen, but on top of that there's V (depending on the ending), David and Jackie
@@xdyrarara idk. if I'm guessing, V, Silverhand, Adam Smasher probably and David Martinez.
The dub is notable for having Giancarlo Esposito as Faraday, as well as returning cast from the game for Wakako and Adam Smasher, and I could be wrong, but Delamain, too. It's not perfect, but the VAs returning from the game really lends those characters a lot more believability if you played the game. I think the problems with the dub are the attempt at adding stutters in to make dialogue sound naturalistic, which didn't translate into the performances, the characters just sometimes say things twice, and then some of the writing for the returning characters can be a little too verbose for their character, especially with Adam Smasher. The usual thing also occurs, a few lines here and there are said with the wrong intonation, but whatever, it's not like it happens with every other line.
I just assumed them saying things twice was nc slang/lingo.
Ok, I’m gonna have to rewatch the whole series for the sole reason that Giancarlo voiced Faraday. Legendary.
I actually ended up just watching the dub because it just felt weird coming from the game and suddenly everyone was speaking Japanese... In what's supposed to be California...
@@phobos2068 yeah, I’ve watched enough anime to get used to it. What throws me off more is the English dub trying to lip sync with the Japanese dub synched animation, makes it quite jarring TBH.
adam smashers first line in the game is "you look like a cut of fuckable meat. are you?". in the pen and paper, he wrote an entire article about why meat is shit, borg up; and it only gets weirder because he dated michiko arasaka, saburo's granddaughter, and used a spare body that looked like elvis presley
The only bad thing about this anime is that there's only 10 episodes and it's so good it leaves you hungry for more.
And sad. It leaves you sad.
I had to doublecheck your subscribers because you sould like you should have millions. Great review man
Don’t know if you’ll see this brother but, I haven’t enjoyed someone’s content like yours in awhile, subbed.
I love this anime. It really captures that there are no happy stories in Night City. Just moments of tolerable existence surrounded by death, corruption and pain.
this show has some annoying common anime tropes like "this girl is super cute and quirky but also totally op" and shit like that.
I dont cry from much, but this show had me bawling on episode 6 and the final episode.
Started watching Edgerunners Monday evening. Finished watching Edgerunners Monday night. Since then I've been feeling a weird sense of "emptiness". I feel heartbroken in a way, sad, depressed. Consuming videos about this show like crazy. The memes, the reviews, videos about references in-game. But there's still this void. Like a person you've been with for a long time and all of a sudden they're missing. It feels like something inside of me is missing. It's so weird.
The Cyberpunk setting has existed since the late 1980s, it was made for a Tabletop RPG by a guy named Mike Pondsmith (who appears as the radio host Maximum Mike in the video game), and while I was disappointed with the 2077 version of Adam Smasher, the anime version is 1/1 to how terrifying an encounter with him in the tabletop is. Mike created him as a one man TPK machine and Adam absolutely lived up to that in the anime.
Ending got me punching the air. That aside you should def replay cyberpunk. It's great now!
This show emotionally destroyed me lol
If you really think about it he died like a true ultimate Legend by the hands of Adam Smasher the NC Boogeyman
If he did not got Cyberpsycho he would have beaten Adam 100%. Adam's tech is good but it's not as good as what David currently has. ANti Grav is broken and would put him on top easily.
@@marclenraymagdaraog691 The simp need anti-grav to do anything. He was fucked even if he wasn't psychoing out.
@@marclenraymagdaraog691 bro the whole cyber psychosis thing made the show so interesting I feel like the actual game itself should have been more on that topic and theme instead of Johnny silverhead honestly
I had an issue with some of the needledrop moments and the car scenes towards the end looked way to silly as everything was just floating around. The only character I really like was Rebecca but she just didn't fit in the setting for me and seemed more of a fit for Trigger's other stuff. David's character didn't get good until he started getting deep into the shit. He just seemed way to naive at times when he's lived in this world and acts super surprised and childish.
David is 17. Hardly any surprise why he acts childish.
It's kinda cool that everyone gets something slightly different out of this. Lucy thought of David as a payday knowing that she would make 80% of the take and hand him over to Maine. She had no interest in whether David lived or died, as long as they did not make a mess in her apartment, and was perfectly willing to distract David with a show implying that they had a connection. David, on the other hand, went from working hard for his mother's dream of being choice Arasaka meat to Maine's dream of having a complete Merc team, and finally Lucy's dream of getting to the moon, even though he thought the moon was just a prison. Maine was really the only Cyberpunk with any 'conscience' but more from a "don't hurt kids" and "be a boyfriend" with Dorio and "give people a fair cut" point of view, in contrast to Lucy who was selfish to the point that it might slightly inconvenience her to share the minimum amount of the take, or that it might be inconvenient for her to try to save Pilar (much safer to just hide and let David take care of it), or work with the team regarding Tanaka, or do anything at all to help David with the team, or actually show her true feelings, but everyone else was manic-depressive. Lucy was the only one who was truly and purely evil throughout, even to the point of betraying literally everyone who helped her, but, the "moral point" of the "whole thing" was that only being 100% self-centered made any sense, since everyone on the team died from selfless acts, despite all of their rhetoric "the only one you can trust is yourself". Lucy was simply the only one who actually practiced that, was able to depart from any human connection, and avoid death, and ultimately reap the benefits. And that is, exactly, the vibe of Cyberpunk.
Like you said, people interpret the show very differently and I think what you're saying is a great analysis. However for me, the main message of the show can be summarized by docs line after David leaves for arasaka, "another tale for the next dreamer", really highlights (at least imo) the overall message. Although again, different meaning can be interpreted for sure
Fun fact before the anime came out the name David is mentioned I game since the beginning....the name of a drink in the afterlife, which only legends get once they die.
David became legend and will be immortalized in the afterlife and those who knew and heard of him. And with that I hope we get anime of the other legends like knowing more about the world of night city
I get where this view of the ending is coming from but i kinda see it as a tragedy / cautionary tale, much in the sense of what cyberpunk is supposed to be about.
Spoilers obvsl
With the super on the nose "im built different" the ending seems like an antithesis to exaclty that, and in the final episodes it was clear how that was gonna end. Not only did he get himself killed, but also his friends and left the one he loved most alone. The scene on the moon drives that home- Lucy got there, but shes alone, and clearly not happy about that. In the end his final moments were a glorious rage against a horrible society, but he really didnt change that much.
So thats how i see it; Society unchanged, his loved ones alone and unhappy or dead. Classic tragedy really.
1:32 yeah I'm with you there
I guess Trigger really shines the most when they're left to do whatever they think it's best; BNA was a project they owned themselves sure, but stuff didn't feel fresh in the same way the made it be in Promare, a project just a year before. I'm actually amazed that Edgerunners turned out so good despite the constrictive thinking they had to use for the anime there, the thing I usually think they are the weakest at
Just wanna say congrats. Keep seeing your vid on my recommendations and the views are 📈. Well played my friend
10/10 anime. Intro was very hype, characters were amazing, the ending made me cry a bit, AND THAT EFFING CREDITS SONG GETS ME EVERYTIME.
Pretty good review. Mmm yes I also can't wait for the fan art 🤤
Fan art? 😏
yeah "fan art". Also if u find some good ones u mind hitting me up for the source?
The reason the World of Cyberpunk is fucked up, is because in that universe Humanity decided to throw away their ethics and morals after WW2, meaning rampant technological growth via total exploitation of human and natural resources. The Earth was bled dry and humanity prey upon itself to advance its decrepit cesspit of a civilization. Which is why Night City is such a special place, because it embodies everything wrong in their world, and the Story of David Martinez is a story of a dreamer in the so called City of Dreams. Wrong people, wrong city. There is no happy ending for the dreaming ones.
Good thing everything is done in an ethical and moral way today!
''Humanity decided to throw away their ethics and morals after WW2'' People never had ethics and moral to start with
@@takanara7 humanity really became an extinction level event. Outside the habitations and corpo funded living sectors everywhere else is a wasteland.
Haven't seen an anime in years, this one pulled me in and I LOVED IT
Its been a long time since Ive seen anything this good and I can safely say its the best show ive seen this year, everything about it is just so organic. The characters here behave like real people.
For example, the couple could have left after Maine`s death, they had enough money at that point to start over somewhere else out of NC. But David wanted to be a legend, despite the various warnings from his ripperdoc as well as what he himself witnessed about cyberpsychosis.
Lucy on the other end aclimated herself with her luxury high rise lifestye even though at that point she knew about Arasaka going for David and presumed to be able to protect him against an army of netrunners on Arasakas payroll, which was pretty hubris on her part.
By the time they reached this point they were no longer being honest with each other about the problems they started to ignore. So much so that the trip to the Moon was even forgotten by the couple. I think their behavior translates well to reality, they really feel organic, just regular people facing their problems and dealing with situation in life as they happen.
These characters are actually beliavable, what they say and do feels real, they`re not like those single minded shonen protagonists that seem to have inhuman unbreakable will, these characters feel like real people.
I watched the whole thing in one night, and started it again last night, but will be going through it more slowly. It hits SO hard, has amazing and intricate characters, even the ones who don't have a major character arc are all interesting and have their own depth to them.
one criticism.
Rebecca best girl and you can't tell me otherwise i will swoon for Hot tempered and crazy women
Bro this dude is funny as HELL 😂. Subscribed 💯
The way I see it, this is the story of a man who drove himself to the grave protecting the one thing he had left. I loved the symbolism behind the desert road, and David pushing past the end.
I honestly thought when watching it that "Oh David will be fine, he'll survive and go to the moon with Lucy." but then I realized that he was gonna die, tbh it is a great anime, and I personally really loved lucy for her design, I rate this anime a 9/10.
So glad Smasher was done justice here too. They did a great job depicting him and everything else in the setting.
You wait, just you wait. When Kobeni’s car is animated, I’d wager everything that it’s best girl of the year
Steam charts spiking from people loading up Cyberpunk 2077 to kill Adam smasher again for Rebecca.
The end of Edgerunner gave me Infinity War Vibes hard. lol
Trigger went hard on this one.
I even forgive them when hey end up in space.
And Rebecca is best girl.
I am happy to have found another sensible person that sees the beauty of Lucy
The fact david didnt go full psycho even till the end....
Cdpr and same line "____ is not known for how _____ lived but how he died" Witcher/Cyberpunk.
I really did not expect this show to have this kind of effect on me. Left me kinda empty. That song.. Loved it in the game, now it got completely new dimension. That fkin song.
Saving anime once again, studio trigger
I think Rebecca is like a sister to David, and David replaced her bro. So this relationship, that i liked more than Lucy's.
Rebecca though (!). What a wonderful addition to the cast- I've never witnessed anything like this kind of friendship in the catalogues of anime and visual media that I've consumed in my life time. The show was excellently produced with a great story, but Rebecca and her will to break with what a "normal friend" ought to do (ie, tell David to calm his S*** and de-mod) she instead was a true friend- she knew that the height of the stakes - David would incur a 95% chance self-destruction If given his way. But she acquiest anyway, because not only would she have granted him almost anything on the term of friendship alone, but she believed in _his_ outstanding resolve to achieve his objective, and to deny him this would be to totally stand in the way [and be a crappy friend, and given these outcomes she came to one logical conclusion - give him what he asked for]. ...
.... I actually strongly identify with this particular situation and this relationship was a napalm knuckle sandwich; it hits hard and it sticks strong. To encapsulate their relationship in one single phrase :
"If you murder someone, a good friend won't tell anyone that you did it, but a truly great friend will help you bury the body" .. You are David, and Rebecca is that wonderous friend. Thanks for reasing.
Trigger really letting their inner Gainax out with this show 😂
Honestly, I hated how David ended up practically doing the same exact mistake as Maine. I am not sure that your interpretation of his character arc is correct, but it sure is better than him simply not having one at all.
Anime did an amazing job with their relationship where despite this being such a violent and unforgiving environment/place 2 people can still truly love each other and be willing to sacrifice everything for one another but in the end...Johnny was right "wrong city, wrong people"
The show made Night City into such a living breathing location now that I cant help but want to see different stories and struggles in the world, I know its asking to much but with how lame recent anime's have been this one was a true treat
Average Chicago Lifestory:
I mean “built different” would be normal English now instead of slang by 2076
This show was awesome, it showed how fought and brutal NC is. It’s stylization was awesome, they made you connect and like the character in the brief episodes you saw of them. And then immediately killing them, reminding you of where they are. It was always a hard smack of reality. Also Rebecca> Lucy
This anime just gives me heavy Gurren Lagann energy. That's the only reason I like it tbh.
Show was good but still to short to do justice to both theme and characters, but who knows maybe they make shows manga to give us more(I really hope so)
The theme seemed more about the dangers of addiction and knowing your limits. David didn't really seem to have a dream and instead just followed the dreams of others whether it's Maine or Lucy.
What does Dexter DeShawn ask V, life of peace or a Living Legend? I think David wanted peace but couldn't, so he chose to be remember by one person.
I too "look it in" natxlix... great review ;)
Hey dude, I'm planning on making a TH-cam video on arcane but I don't know how to import the video directly into my computer for editing and use it safely use them while avoiding copyrights.
“She wound have been fine if not for the American healthcare system”
Art imitates life I guess
The weirdest part about the anime is… you see more of what the game is about. Like it’s all THERE just not well explained…
He was built different but Adam Smasher was built different even more, with how little human is left in him he was moreso literally "built" and not born.
Rebecca = Best Friend
Lucy = Wife
Kiwi = Ex-girlfriend
Even tho I still wanted to see Lucy happy with David and him still being alive at the end, I finally understand his meaning towards his life and yea a little bit of me still want him to live but again I fully understand why he died. Also Rebecca didn't deserve her death.
man i just chillin in my bed one day and suddenly my friend asking me about my webcomic, and i was wondering what about it and then he said an anime stole my character name from my comic and i said well if it's David or Lucy or any other character a lot of story has already use that name and he said no the anime used David and Lucy as a couple, and here i am now discovering about cyberpunk now has an anime, with a character that has a very coincidental name as my character as a couple like my webcomic story... should i change the name of my character? i made it in 2018 and has a few reader here and there, just give me an advice pls
Rebecca best girl. Lucy is just emo and annoying and gets her teammates killed with her bullshit.
It's style over substance and rule of cool over actual story telling. It's all right.
how much of the actual games budget went in to this instead?
Dubbed was great. Gustavo Fring voices one of the villians soooo
Bro i didn’t expect this anime to be this good😩 Ima need multiple seasons
Some people whenever I mention a 2D animated show aimed for a more mature audience: "I dont do anime"
This leaves me with more questions than goodwill reccomendations
To those who don't already know, the bar featured in the show, the afterlife, names their drinks from individuals who made a lasting impression on night city, from legends basically. And yes, one of their drinks is called "The David Martinez."
You also could only get a drink if you bite it in a legendary way. Johnny stormed and killed dozens in Arasaka tower and David annihilated a whole militech battalion and somewhat held his own against Arasaka’s top gun.
I love that cyber punk added some Easter eggs, like Becca’s gun
you'd think this would mean something, since in-game you're actually looking for smasher at one point, but it kinda goes nowhere just like anime's story
i guess it's poetic in a sense? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@BreadMine you can visit Rebecca's apartment too.
@@LucidForever Then some asshat name V storms in and finishes Smasher for Jhonny and David with a dildo bat :P
The ending of edgerunners didn't make me cry, but god damn did it hit hard.
facts i just finished watching it and this feeling is killing me
We need a mod that allows us not only to beat Adam Smasher, but totally eviscerate him then violate his corpse
Like man David has gone through so much just for him to die like that. Bullying, mother died, chased by the animals, nearly escaping death, I was wishing a happy ending between him and Lucy. The part when Lucy imagines David still there makes it even sadder
@@naoroepke2939 true. I didn't cry but fuuuuuuuuuuck I want to.
Nah, it was funny. Rebecca got squashed like a bug and simp David got fucked easily.
I like lucy, but i love Rebecca she knows David is losing it during her giving him his med's, but still pushed on fighting to be on his side, for her friend, and the only semblance of family left for her, even though he already has someone to love, but still trusted her to give him his meds should he ever lose himself, her death ain't justice i love her character
Rebecca is a great character. I thought she would just be a loli fanservice kind of character but they really made her into a memorable friend to David. I'm still gonna simp for Lucy, but I have to give credit where credit is do
@@CulturedCrusader you should try the game after they release the dlc .
I think that's kind of the point though. Anyone can die a brutal death at any time and there is no justice or injustice to it. It's just the life of the cyberpunk. Live fast, die young.
Go play the game, go beat Adam Smasher to a pub.
@@CulturedCrusader since you only mentioned kill la kill and ttgl and said didnt like much of the stuff since, i do have to wonder whats your opinion on promare then.
Also sorry to say this, but Rebecca>Lucy
“I was built alternatively. Constructed alternatively. I’m not built different, I’m built stupid.”
- Geuce, TheRussianBadger
Now I want someone to make a edit of Edgerunners with The Russianbadger crew as each character respectively
"y'all were built different. I'm built incorrectly"
@@MLGLionKnight that would be awesome 👌
That's David in a nutshell.
I was built in an on orthodox fashion
Rebecca was clearly best girl. She was the only one who cared enough to realize that David was going over the edge even before the cyberskeleton incident, and if David and the others to listen to her they would all still be alive. She literally gave her life for David even while accepting that she wasn't the one he was interested in. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of people out there right now vowing to find her shotgun in game(you can, go look for it at the corpo plaza area) just so they can blow Adam Smasher to bits with it.
People forget that Lucy set David up to die and it was thanks to Maine’s kindness as well as the fact that his mom was “part of the crew” that he lived.
@@JohnDoe3-1-4 She didn't set him up to die though. Maine wanted his Sandevistan back and DISCUSSED the possibility of killing him for it since it was cheaper than doing it the legit way (which David would actually live through) but Lucy spoke up twice against doing that (in her apartment at least...how guilty she felt initially is kinda up for grabs). You seem to be forgetting that she had just met him and recognized that he had the gear that her "boss" had paid for before he got screwed (again the whole "killing him" shit was mostly Maine's idea and only got brought up in the apartment).
Also Lucy was on the same page as Rebecca that David needed to cool his shit with the implants and even told him that to his face. I agree that Rebecca was easily one of the best characters in that anime (and pretty much any anime) but y'all are fangirling over her a little too hard =/
Meanwhile I'm sitting here grieving over my boi Maine Q_Q
@@MrRawrCEO Don't get me wrong, I agree with you overall, it's just that for me the fact that Rebecca never once thought of ditching her clearly psycho friend because it was a suicide mission that makes her best girl. Going with him to rescue the girl he was really interested in despite obvious feelings for him, that's real shit. Lucy's solo antics got her caught up and fucked up, even though she was doing it for David, her lack of trust lead to the team's end ultimately. She needed someone watching her back, David needed her at his back to bring him back from the edge, like Rebecca said.
Also, yeah same about Maine. Moment of silence for the homie that still managed to recognize David through his full blown cyberpsychosis and tell him to run rather than just fucking zeroing him out then and there.
can confirm, Guts is now one of my favorite Iconics and I'm pivoting from a reflex build to a body build to shove it down Smasher's throat
@@MrRawrCEO I didn’t forget anything, she was opposed to the idea of killing him but didn’t put up much of a fight against the idea. She knew that he was going to likely be killed for it when she set him up. If it wasn’t for the fact that his mom was part of the crew he’d be dead, unless they had the money to remove it which they did not. Did she become a better person towards the end of the series? Yes, but it doesn’t excuse her previous actions.
Lucy character design is so mesmerizing, this entire show is aesthetically pleasing and high octane. At the end, it also paints a melancholic aftertaste. Haven't felt void and empty for an anime for quite a while.
i vividly remember a show that has made me feel like this apart from your lie in april (i know there are others but these two seem the most similar to me)
Cowboy Bebop is the only other anime that has made me feel so sad.
Does she has cyborgs implants too?
@@carlososler7024 Yep quite a bunch, especially invasive ones for her deep dive hacking.
@@carlososler7024 she also has a monowire
I felt some morbid satisfaction when watching Adam Smasher body David and call his sandevistan mid. That’s what he should have been in the game, an absolute unit that could actually keep up with an endgame character.
Yup. The way I was able to beat him so easily after they hyped him up so much in the game left me surprised.
Well, v is just build much different(i mean why wouldn't, v literally have the relic chip which just negates any cyberpsychosis)
@@hasanmuttaqin464 you cant go crazy if you're already crazy
@@hasanmuttaqin464 of course he's build differently. He is yours character. He is strong because of YOU the player say so. If you say he is super saiyan god level strong then he might as well be.
Nah smasher can't keep up with V, just built different.
Sandevistan is definitely mid though; if David had a Kerenzikov and knew how to bhop across night city- he would've been unstoppable.
There's a drink sold in the Afterlife named after David Martinez. It's been there since before the release of Edgerunners.
The anime has been in the works for a long time. So it makes sense that cdpr knew way early on that David Martinez would be the name of a legend.
@@enoch7564 and thats amazing lore building
Aim high and go out with a bang
@@enoch7564 Yep also David Martinez is not the only Legend in the Night City. The entire Cyberpunk is just an entire setting for the Night City and the place where Legends are made. Basically just a city full of legends including David and Silverhand.
@@marclenraymagdaraog691 So theyll make a new season and the mc will be one of the drink names from the club.
This anime was built in the style of 90’s anime. Chaotic, gritty, brutal and deeply and I am here for it. Brought that occult feeling back. Anime these days aren’t like this anime and it’s sad.
yeah it's been so long I have seen anime with such 90s raw like feelings. The protagonist had actual personality which is rare these days.
I agree.. I also really felt that nostalgia that was strange coming from a new anime but I really understood when I finished and looked back.
Completely agree; thought it was just me. It felt so good to watch this, like something lost had been found. The color design was absolutely phenomenal, using analogue and complementary schemes perfectly, and meshing saturation with grit and texture so well. The way characters are drawn in certain scenes, like the first time David gets a nose bleed is very late 90s/early 2000s. It just has a cool, underground feel to it that anime forgot about. And that grain filter on Maine’s hallucination scenes in episode 6 just felt right.
I thought I couldn’t enjoy anime anymore, like I had changed and I could only like the stuff I grew up with. Shows like this and Mob Psycho give me hope.
I understand that there aren't too many chaotic, gritty and brutal animes as in the '80s to 2000s but there are some out there like Attack on Titan, Devilman Crybaby, Mushoku Tensei, 86, Vivy Fluorite Eye's Song, Vinland Saga, Re-Zero, and Made in Abyss. It's just that you need to go deeper to find those types of anime
Instead we get GOATED anime like Bocchi the Rock
the reason why this show feels like a return to the form of kill la kill and the like is because this is the first trigger series in a while to be directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, who is the director of those classic name-making trigger shows.
Honestly, this anime was so fucking good. For only 10 episodes istg it created the feeling of an entire full length anime. action-packed, Gore-filled, Titty-Bazoombin, it all gives the anime such an amazing look, feel.
I've heard some criticisms for how short it was, and how so much content was squished down to such a short show. But I think that doesn't matter, in 10 episodes it could deliver so much raw emotion and action, while I would've liked a longer anime, its amazing just the way it is.
+ Also 100% Lucy best girl
+ New subscriber
Lucy best girl fo sho without a doubt. And yeah, even though it was pretty short, u don't notice it until u finished the anime and u realize how much ur longing for more.
Isn't that how almost everything made by studio Trigger is? 😅
For me this anime hit me hard because of how short it was, it ended so suddenly and in such a painfully sad way that it hit me like a bullet. I can say with confidence that this anime is the only one to ever make me cry like someone who’s experienced a loved ones death. Also because of how it leaves you craving for more it helps bring people to the game and give it some much needed attention. It’s exactly what I want out of a show about a game, that being motivation to play the game.
Bro this needs to be longer
Agreed but AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE THE ANIMATION?
This was absolutely one of the best anime I've ever seen, it's the type of show that after you finish it you're left putting it together in your head time and again, only being able to do that. For two days after watching it I could only think of Edgerunners, shit had me in a chokehold(and it still does lol)
Omg same here, I was at work just thinking about it. especially the ending, got me in the feels I couldn’t believe it.
Facts. Literally bought the game to help ease my pain...
@@jb-dn5fy I already owned it so I reinstalled it yesterday lol, grinding missions to get strong enough to breeze through the story and kick Smasher's ass. Best part is when I was doing a mission at some ripperdoc's place I really want to stay at your house started playing and the only thing I felt was pain. Listening to it on Spotify vs listening to it in the game are two completely different things
@torino that's what happens when you watch a good show, you can't help but crave for more
@@Sam-vz8pm is it a enjoyable game? Watching videos on it has gotten me really hype. It's downloaded but I have my 3 month and 2 year old until work! Get home and the family is sleep so ill probably get on it then. Yeah David became a tragic character. I really felt for him after he killed that innocent girl during the mission. He was suffering big time
Cool channel, it makes me glad to notice more and more content creators that employ quick jokes that demand your full attention
Stuff like Sseth, Nisse, KorewaEden, etc.
Nothing makes me happier than being compared to Sseth
@@CulturedCrusader hey hey people
@@CulturedCrusader Who would have thought an African warlord would pioneer a cultural movement.
its also very poetic how in the beginning Davids mom sacrificed everything to ensure he would live a good life; which in turn, David does the same for Lucy near the end
Lucy spent her time trying to save David from Arasaka, Rebecca spent hers trying to save him from himself.
Rebecca wins.
Frfr Adam would smash.
Not a fan of Loli's personally so I respectfully disagree with your opinion.
@@wingsoficarus1139 she aint a child, smol person thankfully, sad theres a misconception
@@OctavianAfton Isn't there a scene in the first episode that implies shes a child? Im confused.(or at least made her cyberware resemble a child)
@@wingsoficarus1139 her body is pretty small, but there is ZERO indication she's a young child. She has an older brother though, so maybe people extrapolated too much from that. She definitely doesn't act like a child - not even a teenager. Nor sound like one.
Rebecca is fucking dope.
Edgerunners broke my heart
Even though i expected a bad ending it still hit so hard and the song also stuck in my head too 😭
No good ending in Night City
at least it was bittersweet and not a bad ending.
Ending for David was so badass, perfect death for edgerunner
Depends on interpretation too though. In a way, that was the best ending for an edgerunner. The whole theme of the Afterlife is to live your life the way you want and end it in a blaze of glory. Hence David's smile at the end... he was truly happy.
@@atrocious7766 The best ending? Wow, looks like I am the only one who thinks, that it felt totally wrong. Killed by Smasher does not make you a legend, ask Johnny how he felt. I do not care about the Cyberpunk lore, just played the game and at first, I was not even interested in the anime. Well, while playing Cyberpunk I thought why not and started it. And it was looking good. But the ending felt weird, while being suppressed with the anti-gravity tool. The next moment he is tearing it up. I know David had to die to become a legend and Smasher had to stay alive, but killing him like a dog...
@@arturforderer6224 that's the magic of cyberpunk,you ARE a dog,everyone in night city is, they all die the same, no protagonism whatsoever,you're all a mechanism of a machine that can work by itself.
"I can't wait for all the Lucy fanart" amen to that brother
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funny thing is now rebecca is the most popular girl
lucy has a fraction of the fanart rebecca got, sad really
@@somnolentSlumber weebs just love their loli chars
@@somnolentSlumber curse you loli lovers!!!
the show used cyberpsychosis as an allegory for addiction
Don’t think it happens in the video game but in the role play game yeah you can if you lose too many humanity points
@@arguechefs2998 Well you can fight against cyberpsychos
@@arguechefs2998 you have you own mental issues in the game, very different from cyberpsychosis
One of the things I love is the parallel with V (Spoilers, for Cyberpunk 2077, you've been warned).
David is practically a know-nothing kid at the start. His tolerance is his one benefit, but by and large he has to start from scratch, and he grows into an absolute unit of an Edgerunner, and his choice is to give his life for the people he loves. But he also *feels* trapped, when for he and Lucy, all it would take is for him to choose to walk away, and the two could have a happy ever after. He chose to become a legend in spite of that.
Contrast V: Regardless of lifepath, they're skilled, no matter what they're doing. A Corpo has training, the Streetkid is still skilled enough to be a Solo early on, and the Nomad isn't new, just Naive because they come from an entirely different environment they escaped because of clan politics. They're also a loner, more or less, until they meet Jackie. Shit happens, and this skilled character gets someone they could call a true friend, family besides, and more. And all it takes is one botched job for it to all go wrong. They get sick, saddled with something they shouldn't have that's slowly killing them, and in the process they come to find the meaning of their life, and even though they're a loner at heart, they come to discover that there are people who care about them, that they never have to face their problems alone. It too Johnny constantly in their head for them to learn that.
David's story is about how his death had meaning, and how he was happy to give his life for others. How despite having barely any dreams, he'd give it all if it meant the one he loved could have hers.
V's is about learning the value of your life, and what it means to fight for it, be it to the bitter end or clawing for every scrap of time you've got, and damn anyone who says otherwise. And knowing that there will always be people you love trying to lift you up.
Not to mention, on the broader sense of Cyberpunk as a setting: Johnny, Rogue, David, V...tomorrow it will be someone else, the next day someone else. Night City, it's the city of legends, a meat grinder - It doesn't matter the age, there will always be someone striving to sit on that throne.
Fun thing: with the edgerunners update, now David has his name on a Afterlife drink, wich means he is a actual legend in NC
Nope that David in afterlife drink has been there even before the release of the ANime.
@@marclenraymagdaraog691 it wasnt added with the edgerunners upadate tô the game?
@@mdathos4867 no, it was there since release of the game
There’s plenty drinks in afterlife named after legends.
@@Mat_O. i know, what i am trying to say is that he made it there.
The English dub of this show as phenomenal. Especially since they used the voice actors from the game for Adam Smasher and Wakako, etc.
If you played the game in English, watching it dubbed is a must
I like that in the English dub the Tiger Claws still spoke Japanese
After like five episodes it hit me that Lucy's hair design is a reference to Lain from Serial Experiments Lain
Bro can we have a mod that changes the Graphics of cyberpunk to be more like the anime even adding new anime clothes and hair i would play more and i have like 69 hours in already
You had me until you called Lucy best girl.
Rebecca runs this season, Heretic.
Well lucky for us pedo opinions dont matter in sane society. Dorio best girl ez.
Fr, she's so cool
Rebbeca best girl
I like both, for different reasons. But still, Becca didn't deserve to die the way she did.. I was really surprised and shocked when she did.
@@l33tnobody1337 I guess that's just the cyberpunk way
Quick note about the dub, Faraday was voiced by Giancarlo Esposito (Gustavo Fring) and Falco was voiced by Matt Mercer (Mccree and Leon). The cast was amazing. The translation was also amazing. I still can't believe they said "I'm built different." out loud.
01:14 , the moment I'm sure Lucy fell in love with David. (And personally, the moment I fell in love with Lucy the Character). Rebecca is cute as well.
Idk if you watched the show but this is the moment David fell in love with her most likely. Lucy developed feeling overtime, in reality she was just trying to keep him from getting killed so the Sandevistan would go to maine who appears while they are Brain dancing and she basically betrays David. When David joins the crew they get to know one another and she looks at him and feels pity because "You dont make a name for yourself as a Cyberpunk by how you live, make a name by how you die." And she just feels that if he died it would be her fault. But she does develop feeling for him during the Jobs they work and etc. And in the end does fall in love with him and falls hard. And at the same time begins to open up more mostly to David but also to the crew and her cold exterior remains the same but I'm sure the crew has picked up on a few changes and her raging emotions when it comes to David or her skills in netrunning.
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I like how a lot of these characters separate their professional life to their personal lives. I like to think the reason Lucy fell in love with him is because he was such a genuine person in a city filled with 2 faced parasites. (Kiwi and Faraday just to name two)
id honestly recommend you watch it in dub rather then sub unless you can understand Japanese, the anime was clearly made for a very wide audience so they put a lot into the English dub, e.g Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from breaking bad) as Faraday. the subtitles often mistake bits of slag and in-universe terminology for other things so it ends up being a little bit of a mess.
oh no no no. even if one understands japanese it's still inferior to the english version. the slang is either completely missing (no gonks and choombas) or feels very forced (tech names are translated, yes, but sound foreign and stand out very much as loan words they are - organically they would have been "acclimatised" by native speakers in time, as history has shown, but how each term ends up is anyone's guess so they are not "processed" in this way of course, so it's just cut & paste from english therefore alien feel). some things are also just "off" despite japanese being the OG version and english being translated.
i'm as weeb as weebs get, but this is the first anime where i ditched the JP OG and watched the EN DUB instead. it's not only good in terms of voice acting, if not superior (ripperdoc, becca etc.) but it is just linguistically superior, by far.
One of the few animes that made me cry. Especially when that song hit at that last episode.
"Did you think I watched this on Netflix"
My mind: _Cyberpunk 2077 trailer music kicks in_
I’d argue there’s at least a few regrets on David’s plate. His end is a tragedy. He does not regret saving Lucy or living for his friends. But he 100% wishes he could’ve gone to the moon with Lucy. He even said so himself. If he time to properly communicate what he wanted and hear what other people wanted. Maybe a slightly better ending could’ve happened
I feel like cyberpunk is more of a cautionary tale than anything
yeah after watching it twice tho, i must pin this on lucy tho - he was trying to communicate with her, ask her to come back, telling her he needs her, team needs her, team also told her he needs her, and she still put ignore on all that and went stubborn solo like a 0 exp gonk noob - not only after working with a team for over 2 years she should have known very well it's stupid to go on missions alone, and that it's better to work with a team, have a backup, rear protection, additional pair of eyes looking out for you, but also she literally ignored david's needs and i can't understand why, her character seems so inconsistent throughout. she was clearly sensitive and shrewd, cleverly noticing david was living gloria's dream and it wasnt his early on, but then just went full on mute as she got closer with him even? this makes no sense at all. just before the last heist they had this talk, david again clearly says he needs her, and she makes a couple of bad ignore/denial/run away & hide decisions there then that make him think about breaking up even? and she just LEAVES him with that thought??? wtf.
Hopefully in the future we can get falco or Lucy or both in the actual game as interactable NPC's giving us gigs and missions
Falco can give missions or be interactable, def prefer Lucy staying on the moon and being a radio comm cameo at best; The implication is that she's escaped that life so it'd be very weird to have her back in the life after everything. I'd like a mission where we just just send David's Jacket to her.