My English teacher said that's the point of tragedies: they make you constantly think about "what could have been." They don't leave you satisfied, so your brain ponders the story more and gets a more true understanding of the tragic characters and their flaws. If there is no consequence to their tragic flaw, then the impetus to learn from it fades away.
Sometimes tragedy leaves an impact on us and causes us to remember the experience on a deeper level. It leaves such an impact on our minds that it's hard to forget
Pretty unfortunate tbh. They could have made David realize after Maine’s death that he shouldn’t have such an ego but instead they turn him into a chrome junkie. Show coulda easily had 1-2 more seasons and brought in even more money than it’s already siphoning in. Also 10 episodes was beyond rushed. Perhaps I’m just annoyed about it not being a happy ending but I didn’t get any sleep after watching this and just checking these vids out makes my stomach churn… Maybe me venting on a random 1 month old YT comment will solve my depression lmao
@@Jayyrains the story would end up bad if it was that long, we got a short masterpiece and thats exactly how its supposed to be, also theres no way david wouldnt have become a chrome junkie. he did all of this so he could avenge his mother
No se pero siento que tenía potencial para darnos un poco más ya que otra serie así no me dará el mismo impacto y sentimiento y nivel de calidad y belleza y buena trama argumentada y muchas cosas más, no se pero el anime pudo ver dado un poquito más aunque el final duela lo hace hermoso su que aun de depresion
The fact that it wasn’t a good ending and that people are making good endings to it shows how much meaning it had and impacted all of us how we can’t let go the bad endings and I really like that even though it still gives me depression
Because the whole point and message the anime is trying to tell is that Night City itself is a hellscape that the average people resort to crime to as being an only way to success from their lower class status, and that thousands die chasing that dream. V, Adam smasher, and Morgan Blackhand, are the only people that I can recall with poor backgrounds that technically made it alive to see their success through this route, they had to forgo everything that they attached themselves to in order to become what they are out of the thousands that are killed daily doing the same. These characters aren't as fortunate to have opportunities laid at them like V and smasher and come out alive, even Silverhand who had everything anyone could've ever wanted ended up dead sticking to the crime game. I don't think anyone would've felt as much to the characters if they were kept alive all the way to the end, and on top of that they're criminals, they understood full on the risks and consequences of doing what they did.
As the writer Anton Chekhov said: “If at the beginning of the play there is a gun hanging on the wall, then by the end of the play it should fire.” In the case of Edge runners, that gun for me was the Adam Smasher. When he was mentioned in a dialogue somewhere at the beginning of the series, I realized that there would be no happy ending.
Good quote! But Adam Smasher was mentioned wayy later, right after the time skip in episode 7, by Ripperdoc when David goes in for more implants. So the real Chekhov's Gun were the constant reminders that nobody comes outta Night City alive, that happy endings don't exist and that nobody's special, not even David. No exceptions. But he ignores all the numerous times he's reminded of the truth and carry's on until you-know-what happens with his mind.
When they talked about Adam Smasher doing crazy stuff and also that legendary hacker doing crazy stuff, I was expecting to see some crazy stuff happen by the end. Like a promise from the writer to the reader to tell him what to expect
Even as far back as the tabletop game, hearing about Adam Smasher was enough to send dread into players. Because if he ever showed up in a campaign being ran by the GM, it was a guarantee to more than likely be a total party kill. The only person who went up against Smasher and lived to tell about it was Morgan Blackhand. The fact that Falco and Lucy survived because David gave his life to save them was a miracle, because the outcome could have been worse than what we saw.
Things to note. Rebecca got David's chain and jacket as well as her brothers arm. She also appears to be with a nomad group outside the city. They are drinking David's drink at the end too.
@@cptncutleg To be fair, if David survived everything, he'd be the biggest NC legend. Even bigger than Silverhand. He would've beat Smasher and hit both Militech and Arasaka real hard AND lived to tell the tale. That's more than both Johnny and V.
It's up to us, what to choose and I'll choose this just because it tells me, even after going down the wrong path, one can come out stronger and live the way he wants to. I am just blabbering, I like this because it's a happy ending and I've got enough reality checks in life as is, I'd prefer this for my sanity.
I feel like this encapsulates why people loved Edgerunners so much: it gave us a cast of characters we got invested in, that we wanted to see make it out, that we wanted to see live long futures after all they’ve gone through. It was truly devastating to see most of them get killed…but they live in Night City, the city that’ll chew you up and spit you out, and happy endings, if they even exist, are only for the people that can escape its grasp.
You know whats the 1 thing yeah? It was 10 episodes, We didn't get as much of them as every single one of us individually wanted. You usually grow tired of even the greatest of casts, this one we didn't get enough of.
Tragedy leaves your mind unsatisfied so it makes you think about what could have been. A brilliant way to get people invested in the game again. This series was genius marketing. They knew exactly what they were doing. Edge Runners won anime of the year. Damn good, hope they keep producing more stories.
fuck man, i just didn't know this show has sad a ending, my main goal in watching this show was to get rid of depression in my real life, i lost my lovely ones in the real life and yeah its fucked, and then i found this show banner across the internet, and i think it might be a good thing to minimize my depression because there's a beautiful white haired girl on the banner, and i might get some motivation to get girls after watching this show, but... the truth is more painful, on the show i feel so attached to the crew, and then watching them die one by one, and lastly rebecca and david must die too, its fucking sad man, i got more depressed after this show, fuckkkkk, wish I never ever ever have watched the show, fuck me.
Seeing Rebecca wearing David's jacket, that right there made me tear it. To me it symbolizes that he's passing up that life and as a memento of the good times they had together.
Every time I think about Becca I wish Arasaka would have recovered her engram for the soulkiller project like they did with Johnny. I know it’ll never happen and it hurts more than it should. I just wish that her loyalty to David would’ve been rewarded instead of it being her downfall, given that in Night City that kind of loyalty is extremely rare. RIP best girl, gone but never forgotten.
@@umarthdc yeah you’re right, but if you remember they recovered Jackie’s engram and he had an even lesser rep than Becca. Anything is possible when you’re on 500ccs of Copium. I was thinking it would be cool if they brought her back as a romanceable character on the cyberpunk sequel, but again… copium.
@@iancolon5886 I'm scared that David is in Makoshi by CP2077 (even if Smasher seen to Zero him) the early comment of being a "construct" sent chill down my spine.
@@iancolon5886 They only did it because they want to know where the hell did Jackie put the relic, if you interact with his engram later on, you will know that they get just enough from his brain to know where he put the relic. That relic is theo only working prototype for the save your soul project, without it, Arasaka won't gonna be able to do anything.
Wanna know what makes this even more sad to me? I can honestly see this as a dream Falco has. Falco is across the whole comic besides maybe david the most prominent and clearly happy about how things turned out. Happy that David and Lucy got together. However what tips it off as potentially a dream is certain inconsistencies. Direction of davids rocket compared to the landing spot. Them breathing on the moon. (David i guess you could kinda argue cus cyberware MAYBE but Lucy had no gear on) And it kinda just feels like a fever dream. Feels like the sort of dream Falco might of had like a year after what happened and then woke up and shed a tear or two. But only that much cus ya know its Falco.
To be fair, it's a good attempt at changing the ending. Becca and david live, they both go to the moon, beca inherits one of her brother's hands, it's all very touching, but I feel it just wouldn't hit the same as how it ended originally. It's the end of David's story, he was suffering from major cyberpsychosis and no amount of un augmenting himself would change it at this point, so we knew it would be the end, and I accepted he was going to die, I cried the whole time thinking and watching that play out, but I was happy that Lucy, a girl that was defied everything because of her up bringing, and childhood, that she finally got to live, have a boyfriend, fall in love, and finally got to go to the moon. It is no longer David's story, it's Lucy's story now.
it feels just like, Lucy entered in high depression and this is the end that she expected to live, since She wasn't totally aware of the level of cyberpsychosis on david
@@PierrotKio She was aware, and she wasn't depressed, she was scared because she knew if David learned he was special he would add the exoskeleon to be stronger which would surely make him psycho. That's why she was hunting down runners on the side so Arisaka wouldn't know to use David, and David wouldn't know about his possible good compatibility with the exoskeleton.
That is actually true but the fact is that from the moment he entered in her life to the moment he died, David was the only reason for Lucy to live. Like when you look at all of their interaction, she jsut wanted him to be near. And the fact that he would just die like that is making me so sad for Lucy and David. I mean... They deserved better
Play the game!! It’s genuinely very good now (yes there’s still bugs but the vast majority of them are fixed) and there’s so much content and great storylines (even beyond the ones most people talk about- like some of the gigs having their own storylines and follow ups and all the questlines that come out of the blue and end up being amazing- Sinnerman, for example- and the main storyline itself which is very good- i know it isn’t perfect but that doesn’t mean it isn’t good.) Honestly there’s no real reason not to play the game at this point (unless you don’t have or don’t want to spend the money, which is fair.) I started playing about six months after release and with every update it gets better and better.
do not play the game there are CIA gangstalkers that constantly praise it in every comment section. Edgerunners was amazing but the game is an artistic failure.
It's really cool how rebecca got the bionic arm of the pillar that is her brother, it shows that deep down, rebecca cared about him Edit: bro 2,5k likes wtf? Haha
What do you mean "Deep down" She got super angry at the Cyberpsycho, Kiwi had to hack her cyberware to make her faint. Most people misunderstood the "He was mine to kill", it was meant to Pilar but that's just the usual love-hate relationship between brothers. If she wanted to kill Pilar, she could have done it herself in many occasions.
@@ionmeth2031 Wwwh....what do you mean she died? No!!! she is alive😢😭. Are you not watching this video? She is safe and sound in the earth with Falco, and David is in the moon with Lucy😢. They live happily ever after 😢😢😢 This video is the proof no one getting bad ending😢. Are you some kind of a sadist who like people suffer?😓 The writer never write a tragic story to boost selling of a glitchy game just to make new players killed a single unsignificant NPC. They are good people who never using fans tears for money.😓
@@noxic8863 DND creature, pretty much a walking apocalypse (that I think) PASSIVELY GENERATES A DEAD ZONE FOR ALL MAGIC IN (what I also think is) A 500 METER RADIUS!
@@SaM-zz2tq Dungeons and Dragons. A pen and paper role playing game, like the original Cyberpunk game that inspired Edgerunners. It is a fantasy setting.
He is basically Sundowner at this point. The chaotic cyborg who should beat the living shit out of you but can't lend a hit, I think he is more of an Alduin or Miraak, both are basically gods in their legends but when you fight them you beat them so easily. Alduin was easier than Miraak who was supposed to be the second best Dragon Priest, but for some reason Miraak could beat easily Alduin in the game and both could be defeated by the dragonborn without weapons.
What do you mean? This is the true ending😢. The writer never write a bad/sad ending to boost the selling of a failed game just to make people killed a single NPC. They are a good people who cared about fans mental health of course they write a good ending for our beloved characters
1 year ago I lost a good friend to suicide, he had the same last name, cyberpunk had hit me real hard cause I really didn’t know what I was in for other than it was from studio trigger. They certainly triggered something in me for the past couple weeks. Thanks this helps, the copium is doing its job
Through out my years of living this anime was the only piece of media that genuinely made me she'd tears and no that isn't an exaggeration. After the ending I say their in silence as the credits rolled I put the tv off and went to my room and we'll I balled my eyes out. This show honestly left a mark and I will remember it throughout my days
Imagine a Cyberpunk sequel of a boy who goes on a journey to find the missing piece in his life, a piece that his mother could never forget till her dying breath. A piece surrounded in myths and legends, stories passed down from his mother. Stories that eventually lead him to Night City, where it all began, and where a new legend will be born.
A year later and i'm still hurting from the show. Thank you for this. I feel like i got a part of my heart back. See ya in the afterlife choomba. Great work.
we got the good ending. this just makes it sweeter. knowing this is what lucy yearns makes adam smasher 100 times cooler. what a machiavellian chad. damn adam smasher is dope.
It's the opposite for me. IMO it's the ending I wanted, but not the ending David deserved. Both David and Lucy lacked the communication and trust necessary for a happy ending to have occurred. Their goals of saving one another were distorted into beliefs that they had to struggle alone. For a happy ending, David and Lucy would have needed a completely different relationship right after the time skip.
Truly, when Adam smasher said that David Martinez, after completely obliterating basically all of Militech, was not worth his time, there was going to be no happy ending.
THIS IS THE CORRECT TIME COURSE KYLE! We've found it's design. We must remake the Time Course on this timeline or the alternatives, canonise the correct ones before C-orrector saw this as another mistake. This Ending must preserve and archived.
One of the holes i can punch in this is thr fact that the cyberskeleton completely severed the lower half of davids body. And his arms were as well, im pretty sure. Not to mention his Cyberpsychosis was too far gone, no amount of immunosuppressant would work at that point.
i like how you did to David's Jacket by giving to Rebecca as a gift but there is questions of this pic, how come David change his ExoSkeleton to his normal body? how Lucy and David able to breath in space without a Space Suit? anyway its nice ending and i think the final boss in 2077 game wont happened bec i dont know if Adam Smasher is really dead in this pic or just leaving there broken for out of commission....also i hope they add another pic like year later after Edgerunners, V and Jackie are making business with Rebecca and Falco
I think that David might have come to Doc to give him replacement limbs and about them in space: they might be doing that thing from episode 2-Lucy tries to cope with what happend at Arisaka Tower and goes into,, VR" and David probably went to her house, saw her and decided to join to suprise her. It's not perfect explenation but it works for me
Changing parts it's not that difficult, remember that Dorio said to Maine that he need to stop with those implants, same with Rebeca and Lucy with David. Possibly he returned to a more organic body after becoming a cyberpunk and he just want to live with lucy outside of Night City. In the game, when you message Falco he said "We're outside the radar now" speaking on plural. So, that's why this ending is not that... crazy to become canon, or the most part of it, besides, David din't die on-screen, remember, if it didn't happened on-screen it means that it didn't happened, the only issue here is going to be Rebecca because we saw her dying on-screen but who knows, if we create a lot of push we can get this canon because it's not that impossible since it can be applied to the canon of the game as well. Except the beginning, since Adam needs to be alive for 2077 but they could just leave him outside of combat before David became a cyber psycho and run away.
В аниме показали что во всей вселенной как таковой нет главного злодея,люди живут без цели - зарабатывают деньги что бы купить импланты,импланты нужны для заработка ещё больших денег для этих же имплантов,люди перестали быть людьми - они живут без чувств,без любви и мечты - они живут что бы работать на чужую мечту,да,каждый может мечтать в Найт Сити,но большинство мечтаний ложные,город сам даёт эти ложные мечты человеку,к примеру полет на луну как это было у Люси,когда она попала туда - она поняла,что никуда не делась от цепкой хватки города,на ее лице нет улыбки,так как она потеряла свою истинную мечту - жизнь с Дэвидом
If the anime has a good ending most people forget it after watching..but when an anime has an ending like this the anime resides on people's heart for ages..(eg Your Lie in April, I want to eat your pancreas, plastic memories, and Cyberpunk Edgerunners)
No, it's quite the opposite. When an anime has a bad ending, we try to forget it and never watch it again, while a good ending makes us want to see it again.
With the success of this anime, I hope to see more of it. You can tell though that they wrote it to be a one off, seeing as how most of the team is dead at the end. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing some of that ret-conned to make it into a proper series. Since it is based so close to the game in timeline, it'd be cool to see some of these character's stories branch into the game, like you never actually meet V or anything, but they inadvertently help each other and stuff like that. Either way I'm good. Anime was great. I wish they'd consider a happier ending though next time. Just because Night City swallows a lot of people up, doesn't mean that it ALWAYS has to.
everything that happened in the show is canon and heaps of stuff from the show is mentioned in game, V is told about David Martinez after finding the brain dance he watches in the beginning of the show and other items like Davids jacket and Rebecca's shotgun can be found. also a drink at the afterlife is named the David Martinez, Falco messages V telling him their crews gone dark but V and david are very much alike. so i think its far to late to retconn anything now, i think we are stuck living with everyone being dead and Lucy being alone.
The anime probably won't continue because Trigger doesn't like making anime that last more than 1 season, they just have 1 season anime and honestly the anime ended perfectlym
If they do another show I hope it focuses on another aspect of Night City. What I think would be *really* cool is if each "Season" we're done by a new Studio. Cause then we could have a bunch of fully fleshed out stories in the same universe by a bunch of different visionaries to really get the vibe for how diverse a place Night City is
@@Quickleaf Honestly that's kind of what I'm hoping for, as much as the ending broke me. I wouldn't want them to wave a magic wand and have everything that happened in the finale undone. Though I personally would prefer they keep using Trigger, but since they don't do more than one season, that's off the table. But yeah, a Second Season that focuses on another group of Edgerunners would be awesome. About the only thing I worry about is the writing not being up to par. Night City is a meat grinder, so there's not gonna be happy ending for that team either. So we've gotta make a group that's just as likeable/well-written as the David's crew. But aren't clones of that crew. Which I think would be the biggest challenge. A part of me doesn't want them to even try, because something in me tells me they'll fall short. But there's that part of me that wants to see them take a crack at it.
tbh, the only thing i really dislike about edgerunners ending is becca's death. I accepted that the show was david's story, and it was going to end badly. But becca's death was soul crushing dude. In a world of the worst people, secrecy being core to survival, and depression being the norm, someone like becca dying, someone who wears her emotions, and finds joy in the everyday and mundane was like squashing the last light in night city.
You know it's a really good fucking show when watchers are still attached to it.
I had to take a break from watching when I saw that David had a drink at the Afterlife. Some Chooms just can’t get their happy endings.
I’ve watched it like ten times now and I still get heartbroken by it
@@ICECOLD154010 times? I was so heartbroken; I could never go back. 2 times were enough for me.
im not crying you are
It's been a year since I watched this anime, hell, I literally tear up every time I remember it
"A happy ending? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people."
Indeed but,just a little curious
There would be no NC legend like David if this happened
"You don't get to live a bad life and have good things happen to you"
Technically they’re on the moon
@@redwolf6829 Meanwhile V is living legend,lol
Even if that living time is just slightly longer than if V died
Rebecca's new hand being a hand of her brother is really heartwarming.
omg ur right!
I also love that at the end I'm pretty sure she was drinking a David Martinez
Also, Falco raising a David Martinez is a nice touch.
@@McCracken2003 Shame that Rebeca was not shown cry or something like that for brother. She was just angry in that one scene.
@@jankrnac3535she wanted revenge, not acceptance
My English teacher said that's the point of tragedies: they make you constantly think about "what could have been." They don't leave you satisfied, so your brain ponders the story more and gets a more true understanding of the tragic characters and their flaws. If there is no consequence to their tragic flaw, then the impetus to learn from it fades away.
I wish the story made sense, I wish the tragedy part made sense
Wise observation from your English teacher.
But those dreams... Will Never Fade Away.
yea not long after thinking about what could have been i am reminded of how horrible my life is.
Sometimes tragedy leaves an impact on us and causes us to remember the experience on a deeper level. It leaves such an impact on our minds that it's hard to forget
The ending we all wanted but knew it’ll never happen.
😭
Pretty unfortunate tbh. They could have made David realize after Maine’s death that he shouldn’t have such an ego but instead they turn him into a chrome junkie. Show coulda easily had 1-2 more seasons and brought in even more money than it’s already siphoning in. Also 10 episodes was beyond rushed. Perhaps I’m just annoyed about it not being a happy ending but I didn’t get any sleep after watching this and just checking these vids out makes my stomach churn… Maybe me venting on a random 1 month old YT comment will solve my depression lmao
@@Jayyrains you too huh
@@Mr_Random-nc2gi Yup. Nothing has changed either lol
@@Jayyrains the story would end up bad if it was that long, we got a short masterpiece and thats exactly how its supposed to be, also theres no way david wouldnt have become a chrome junkie. he did all of this so he could avenge his mother
I love how the bad ending destroyed me, then watching the good ending made me break down again
#1 comment I think its the same for all of us
8 month later. I still feel weird when I think of this show. You know this feeling that you wish it wasn’t over because you want more of it? Yeah…
Feel u bro
An unsatisfactory ending is a bad ending, because when you think about it, you just want to forget it or not have seen it.
It was special.
no 😝
No se pero siento que tenía potencial para darnos un poco más ya que otra serie así no me dará el mismo impacto y sentimiento y nivel de calidad y belleza y buena trama argumentada y muchas cosas más, no se pero el anime pudo ver dado un poquito más aunque el final duela lo hace hermoso su que aun de depresion
The fact that it wasn’t a good ending and that people are making good endings to it shows how much meaning it had and impacted all of us how we can’t let go the bad endings and I really like that even though it still gives me depression
it was a good ending for night city u just don't rly understand the vibes i think
Same thing with Little Nightmares 2….
Because the whole point and message the anime is trying to tell is that Night City itself is a hellscape that the average people resort to crime to as being an only way to success from their lower class status, and that thousands die chasing that dream. V, Adam smasher, and Morgan Blackhand, are the only people that I can recall with poor backgrounds that technically made it alive to see their success through this route, they had to forgo everything that they attached themselves to in order to become what they are out of the thousands that are killed daily doing the same.
These characters aren't as fortunate to have opportunities laid at them like V and smasher and come out alive, even Silverhand who had everything anyone could've ever wanted ended up dead sticking to the crime game.
I don't think anyone would've felt as much to the characters if they were kept alive all the way to the end, and on top of that they're criminals, they understood full on the risks and consequences of doing what they did.
it wasnt a bad ending, it just wasnt happy, leaving a sweet sour taste
@@AfroXaolin2023 why did you had to mention that? i was just recovering from it...
As the writer Anton Chekhov said: “If at the beginning of the play there is a gun hanging on the wall, then by the end of the play it should fire.” In the case of Edge runners, that gun for me was the Adam Smasher. When he was mentioned in a dialogue somewhere at the beginning of the series, I realized that there would be no happy ending.
Good quote! But Adam Smasher was mentioned wayy later, right after the time skip in episode 7, by Ripperdoc when David goes in for more implants. So the real Chekhov's Gun were the constant reminders that nobody comes outta Night City alive, that happy endings don't exist and that nobody's special, not even David. No exceptions. But he ignores all the numerous times he's reminded of the truth and carry's on until you-know-what happens with his mind.
When they talked about Adam Smasher doing crazy stuff and also that legendary hacker doing crazy stuff, I was expecting to see some crazy stuff happen by the end. Like a promise from the writer to the reader to tell him what to expect
For me it was the mom wanting to see David at the top of Arasaka Tower. Knew it had some sort of double meaning
Even as far back as the tabletop game, hearing about Adam Smasher was enough to send dread into players. Because if he ever showed up in a campaign being ran by the GM, it was a guarantee to more than likely be a total party kill. The only person who went up against Smasher and lived to tell about it was Morgan Blackhand. The fact that Falco and Lucy survived because David gave his life to save them was a miracle, because the outcome could have been worse than what we saw.
For anyone wanting to know more about the quote, its known in storytelling as a tool called Chekhov's Gun.
Things to note. Rebecca got David's chain and jacket as well as her brothers arm. She also appears to be with a nomad group outside the city. They are drinking David's drink at the end too.
i didnt even notice that 🥲😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
David shouldn't have a drink.
He's not dead in this.
@@cptncutleg yuop...not remembered how u live but how u die
@@cptncutleg I'm willing to handwave it away as just being a shot of vodka topped with NiCola without it having the name.
@@cptncutleg To be fair, if David survived everything, he'd be the biggest NC legend. Even bigger than Silverhand. He would've beat Smasher and hit both Militech and Arasaka real hard AND lived to tell the tale. That's more than both Johnny and V.
This hits even harder. What could've been... but will never be
in a way it all never was, so u might imagine that aswell
Stooooop I’m about to start ugly crying all over again😭
All because the game exists (jk)
It's up to us, what to choose and I'll choose this just because it tells me, even after going down the wrong path, one can come out stronger and live the way he wants to.
I am just blabbering, I like this because it's a happy ending and I've got enough reality checks in life as is, I'd prefer this for my sanity.
What are you talking about? That's the real ending.
No matter how many times I hear that song, every time it feels like a punch in the gut
same:(
same bro
Oh come on it's been 5 months and this still made me tear up
Forreal bro
Bro me to
Same man hope we see an anthology out of edgerunners at least sometime soon. In the mean time might have to get the game
same....
I cant listen to that song anymore without getting emotional
I feel like this encapsulates why people loved Edgerunners so much: it gave us a cast of characters we got invested in, that we wanted to see make it out, that we wanted to see live long futures after all they’ve gone through. It was truly devastating to see most of them get killed…but they live in Night City, the city that’ll chew you up and spit you out, and happy endings, if they even exist, are only for the people that can escape its grasp.
Only problem is, no one can escape it.
You know whats the 1 thing yeah? It was 10 episodes, We didn't get as much of them as every single one of us individually wanted. You usually grow tired of even the greatest of casts, this one we didn't get enough of.
Lmao “Night City bad mkay”.
@@nekoreieditsJudy made it
@@nandoman4769You missed the whole point of Night city huh?
I love how the drink is a David martinez
Assuming the Multiverse Theory is true, this definitely happened in a different timeline/universe.
You don’t understand how much I needed to read that
@@joshking5661 That ending hit me hard too.
This actually makes me feel better now. Thank you
This could also mean, in a different timeline, something worse than the canon ending has happened
@@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 even the thought of that is sickening
Tragedy leaves your mind unsatisfied so it makes you think about what could have been. A brilliant way to get people invested in the game again. This series was genius marketing. They knew exactly what they were doing. Edge Runners won anime of the year. Damn good, hope they keep producing more stories.
bro i downloaded the game on my garbage can of a pc just to kill smasher. Fuck yh they did good marketing wise but im depressed, 3rd day now
@@NoKudos nice bro
Btw couldn't sleep cuz of the ending 😞
And then there's me, who didn't buy the game because of the cardboard ending.
@@NoKudos Stay safe bro
fuck man, i just didn't know this show has sad a ending, my main goal in watching this show was to get rid of depression in my real life, i lost my lovely ones in the real life and yeah its fucked, and then i found this show banner across the internet, and i think it might be a good thing to minimize my depression because there's a beautiful white haired girl on the banner, and i might get some motivation to get girls after watching this show, but... the truth is more painful, on the show i feel so attached to the crew, and then watching them die one by one, and lastly rebecca and david must die too, its fucking sad man, i got more depressed after this show, fuckkkkk, wish I never ever ever have watched the show, fuck me.
"Here, for folks like us? Wrong city. Wrong people." -Johnny Silverhand
Seeing Rebecca wearing David's jacket, that right there made me tear it. To me it symbolizes that he's passing up that life and as a memento of the good times they had together.
I’m pretty sure she had her brothers hand aswell (don’t remember how to spell the name)
Every time I think about Becca I wish Arasaka would have recovered her engram for the soulkiller project like they did with Johnny. I know it’ll never happen and it hurts more than it should. I just wish that her loyalty to David would’ve been rewarded instead of it being her downfall, given that in Night City that kind of loyalty is extremely rare. RIP best girl, gone but never forgotten.
They probably got David's, but an anonymous merc like Becca would be useless for them, no matter how good a person she was...
@@umarthdc yeah you’re right, but if you remember they recovered Jackie’s engram and he had an even lesser rep than Becca. Anything is possible when you’re on 500ccs of Copium. I was thinking it would be cool if they brought her back as a romanceable character on the cyberpunk sequel, but again… copium.
@@iancolon5886 you are right! Didn't think of Jackie, then there is still hope of an appearance in the sequel or the dlc
@@iancolon5886 I'm scared that David is in Makoshi by CP2077 (even if Smasher seen to Zero him) the early comment of being a "construct" sent chill down my spine.
@@iancolon5886 They only did it because they want to know where the hell did Jackie put the relic, if you interact with his engram later on, you will know that they get just enough from his brain to know where he put the relic. That relic is theo only working prototype for the save your soul project, without it, Arasaka won't gonna be able to do anything.
1:29 of pure Copium. I NEED MORE OF IT PLS
This pulled me out of the depression the real ending gave me. Thank you.
Fucking same
i mean.. you could just say this is the real ending, and ignore all the people who say "COPE"
thats what i did
this ending made me even more depressed, because this is what could be, but will never be
me too bro
This is the real ending
Wanna know what makes this even more sad to me? I can honestly see this as a dream Falco has. Falco is across the whole comic besides maybe david the most prominent and clearly happy about how things turned out. Happy that David and Lucy got together. However what tips it off as potentially a dream is certain inconsistencies. Direction of davids rocket compared to the landing spot. Them breathing on the moon. (David i guess you could kinda argue cus cyberware MAYBE but Lucy had no gear on) And it kinda just feels like a fever dream. Feels like the sort of dream Falco might of had like a year after what happened and then woke up and shed a tear or two. But only that much cus ya know its Falco.
Yeah, like a dream he got after he was contacted by V and painfully reminded about everything that happened
oh boy you just make this even more sad
No this is not what happened this is the true ending don't change my mind you bastards ahhhhh😭
Maybe In David's Last Moment His Mind Got Downloaded and Lucy used the Rest to make him a great end Picture
SSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHADDAP shaddap, shut your trap, shut your silly billy mouth hole you are RUINING this
just realizing that the hand they gave rebecca at 0:13 is one of her brother's gold hands
To remember her time with her brother
To be fair, it's a good attempt at changing the ending. Becca and david live, they both go to the moon, beca inherits one of her brother's hands, it's all very touching, but I feel it just wouldn't hit the same as how it ended originally. It's the end of David's story, he was suffering from major cyberpsychosis and no amount of un augmenting himself would change it at this point, so we knew it would be the end, and I accepted he was going to die, I cried the whole time thinking and watching that play out, but I was happy that Lucy, a girl that was defied everything because of her up bringing, and childhood, that she finally got to live, have a boyfriend, fall in love, and finally got to go to the moon. It is no longer David's story, it's Lucy's story now.
You do have a point here.
it feels just like, Lucy entered in high depression and this is the end that she expected to live, since She wasn't totally aware of the level of cyberpsychosis on david
@@PierrotKio She was aware, and she wasn't depressed, she was scared because she knew if David learned he was special he would add the exoskeleon to be stronger which would surely make him psycho. That's why she was hunting down runners on the side so Arisaka wouldn't know to use David, and David wouldn't know about his possible good compatibility with the exoskeleton.
That is actually true but the fact is that from the moment he entered in her life to the moment he died, David was the only reason for Lucy to live. Like when you look at all of their interaction, she jsut wanted him to be near. And the fact that he would just die like that is making me so sad for Lucy and David. I mean... They deserved better
well in the anime lucy and david are both main characters so..
Despite not playing the game, this anime can give you a sense of what it could be. Crying right now
I hope you get a chance to play the game choom 😉
Play the game!! It’s genuinely very good now (yes there’s still bugs but the vast majority of them are fixed) and there’s so much content and great storylines (even beyond the ones most people talk about- like some of the gigs having their own storylines and follow ups and all the questlines that come out of the blue and end up being amazing- Sinnerman, for example- and the main storyline itself which is very good- i know it isn’t perfect but that doesn’t mean it isn’t good.) Honestly there’s no real reason not to play the game at this point (unless you don’t have or don’t want to spend the money, which is fair.) I started playing about six months after release and with every update it gets better and better.
do not play the game there are CIA gangstalkers that constantly praise it in every comment section. Edgerunners was amazing but the game is an artistic failure.
@@jonharkins1719 cia gangstalkers? Lmao I just like the game bro
Honestly I played it after watching the show and it is now my favorite game of all time
A happy ending? For folks like us? Wrong city. Wrong people.
-Johnny Silverhand
It's really cool how rebecca got the bionic arm of the pillar that is her brother, it shows that deep down, rebecca cared about him
Edit: bro 2,5k likes wtf? Haha
No, do not give me hope :(
What do you mean "Deep down"
She got super angry at the Cyberpsycho, Kiwi had to hack her cyberware to make her faint. Most people misunderstood the "He was mine to kill", it was meant to Pilar but that's just the usual love-hate relationship between brothers. If she wanted to kill Pilar, she could have done it herself in many occasions.
Becca is a softy, emotional. Ofc she loved her brother.
I mean, that is exactly why she died. Delivering her crush to her love rival.
@@ionmeth2031 Wwwh....what do you mean she died? No!!! she is alive😢😭. Are you not watching this video? She is safe and sound in the earth with Falco, and David is in the moon with Lucy😢. They live happily ever after 😢😢😢 This video is the proof no one getting bad ending😢. Are you some kind of a sadist who like people suffer?😓 The writer never write a tragic story to boost selling of a glitchy game just to make new players killed a single unsignificant NPC. They are good people who never using fans tears for money.😓
at 1:30 notice how rebecca is holding the david martinez drink (you can find it in game)
My pessimist ass knew what was gonna happen from the "i'll get you to the moon scene"
When David meets Game Smasher instead of Lore/Anime Smasher:
@PJ Rivera what is a tarraques?
@@noxic8863 DND creature, pretty much a walking apocalypse (that I think) PASSIVELY GENERATES A DEAD ZONE FOR ALL MAGIC IN (what I also think is) A 500 METER RADIUS!
@PJ Rivera whats DnD..am pretty stupid so pls tell
@@SaM-zz2tq Dungeons and Dragons. A pen and paper role playing game, like the original Cyberpunk game that inspired Edgerunners. It is a fantasy setting.
He is basically Sundowner at this point. The chaotic cyborg who should beat the living shit out of you but can't lend a hit, I think he is more of an Alduin or Miraak, both are basically gods in their legends but when you fight them you beat them so easily. Alduin was easier than Miraak who was supposed to be the second best Dragon Priest, but for some reason Miraak could beat easily Alduin in the game and both could be defeated by the dragonborn without weapons.
Honestly this artwork is professional level and the plot of this comic would have totally fit right into the ending of the show
It's insane how much the feeling of the song changes depending on whether the images you're looking at are happy or sad.
I know it's not true but I'd like to believe that this is the true ending to the story
Everyone want a good ending nobody want a bad one
Shuichi-
@@-Vinnie_official- Some people want a bad ending,but most of time they regret about it
@@skell6134
people: WHY DO EVERYTHING GOTTA BE GOOD ENDINGS?!
edgerunners:
@@tinksouffle Basically
What do you mean? This is the true ending😢. The writer never write a bad/sad ending to boost the selling of a failed game just to make people killed a single NPC. They are a good people who cared about fans mental health of course they write a good ending for our beloved characters
It's the fact that the "sad ending" left such a strong impact with everyone means the ending was really good.
Cultivating hatred and sadness of others, I will not call it good.
in other means good, lmao...@@dylandidi1019
Hatred? No.
Sadness? Yes, but the beautiful kind. The bitter-sweet kind. @@dylandidi1019
@@dylandidi1019Good as in well written
Not good ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
@@dylandidi1019 Nah.. you just think it's bad because your favorite character didn't have plot armor and died Lol.
This is what flashed before David eyes right before he died
1 year ago I lost a good friend to suicide, he had the same last name, cyberpunk had hit me real hard cause I really didn’t know what I was in for other than it was from studio trigger. They certainly triggered something in me for the past couple weeks. Thanks this helps, the copium is doing its job
reading that he had the same name gave me chills. I hope you're doing okay
@@dysfuncshan doing better, I have to be thankful for the few good friends I’ve got
Good to hear choom, live your best life. For him.
my condolences
Walk with the shadows and live a long and wonderful life and try to never forget your friend.
"A happy ending? For folks like us? Right city, right people."
- Jimmy Goldenfoot
day town average joe, jimmy goldenfoot
Ah yes, Jimmy Goldenfoot of the hit Lazrpop band "cowboy" with lower casing letters.
@@slickbuster8346 Yooo didn't they do that Us Cracks collab back in '23? In front of Petrochem tower?
@@jimijenkins2548u mean us crax? The death metal band?
Man whoever made this thank you .
0:01 If Adam Smasher was the pc version
Through out my years of living this anime was the only piece of media that genuinely made me she'd tears and no that isn't an exaggeration. After the ending I say their in silence as the credits rolled I put the tv off and went to my room and we'll I balled my eyes out. This show honestly left a mark and I will remember it throughout my days
Imagine a Cyberpunk sequel of a boy who goes on a journey to find the missing piece in his life, a piece that his mother could never forget till her dying breath. A piece surrounded in myths and legends, stories passed down from his mother. Stories that eventually lead him to Night City, where it all began, and where a new legend will be born.
You know, it was so sad to see every one die. But this ending was the best one it could ever have.
This deserves way more views 🔥
A year later and i'm still hurting from the show. Thank you for this. I feel like i got a part of my heart back. See ya in the afterlife choomba. Great work.
Same here brother
しっかりとレベッカが最後まで見送ってくれているのが最高に良いし切ない
😔
無論、うるさいやつは最後まで横にいった
😢”it’s too good to be true”
Thank you so much! I needed this.
Makes me wish that CDPR would actually make a Edgerunners prequel to CP77 where you have an alternate ending like this
@gunn3rdaphnx481 I think they mean a videogame prequel.
im literally crying right now... good job, you really brought back all those feelings from watching the anime.
we got the good ending. this just makes it sweeter. knowing this is what lucy yearns makes adam smasher 100 times cooler. what a machiavellian chad. damn adam smasher is dope.
Not the ending we want, but the ending our boy deserved.
It is the ending we want though
Speak for yourself mf. I want this ending lmao
@@ryanh4148 lets be honest, had they gone with this ending - the show would of gotten shat on
@@k4d0s Ya I can't decide what ending I want more, sad endings hit harder and last longer with us so in a way they're better
It's the opposite for me. IMO it's the ending I wanted, but not the ending David deserved. Both David and Lucy lacked the communication and trust necessary for a happy ending to have occurred. Their goals of saving one another were distorted into beliefs that they had to struggle alone. For a happy ending, David and Lucy would have needed a completely different relationship right after the time skip.
I teared up during the anime.
I cried like a baby to this video.
Truly, when Adam smasher said that David Martinez, after completely obliterating basically all of Militech, was not worth his time, there was going to be no happy ending.
just gonna pretend it actually ended like this so that I can listen to this song again without spiralling into a deep depression
What do you mean , this is canon nothing bad hapend evryone is happy and alive :'(
“This story is about a time that never was, on a night that never came.”
Falco is so much more prominent here than in the show. Maybe this is his imagination.
THIS IS THE CORRECT TIME COURSE KYLE! We've found it's design. We must remake the Time Course on this timeline or the alternatives, canonise the correct ones before C-orrector saw this as another mistake. This Ending must preserve and archived.
Ok, I am stumped. Could you please tell me what piece of media is this a reference to?
@@oldking7480 I referenced nothing. It just came up in my mind. KYLE! GET ZE PANZERSHRECKER!
@@georgeridden1705 I see, nice.
Good Job
Proceed!
I Did not want a realistic ending I just wanted to see them alive 😢
Then go see a princess Disney flick.
"A happy ending? For punks like us? Wrong city, wrong people choom."
that is NOT the quote 😭😭😭😭😭
This song and anime just has away of bring people together even if it has a tragic ending.
El final que todos queríamos 😢
You don't know how much I need this !! Ty
こうなって欲しかった。でもこの終わり方では僕らの心にここまで爪痕は残せなかった。
Bitch life cruelly bypassed us(
Этот короткий ролик залатал подорожником мою раненную душу. Благодарю
Ты не один такой
Я искал этот коммент, солидарен.
Думаю он многим как бальзам на душу.
@@MegaAstronavt он спас наши души от полного уничтожения
согласен, пусть хотя бы так они будут счастливы
The perfect ending. This is how it ends in my mind. Thanks for the vid!
보는내내 전율했습니다. 감사합니다ㅜㅜ
One of the holes i can punch in this is thr fact that the cyberskeleton completely severed the lower half of davids body. And his arms were as well, im pretty sure. Not to mention his Cyberpsychosis was too far gone, no amount of immunosuppressant would work at that point.
Stupid well written show. Stupid interesting worldbuilding. Stupid character flaws.
I just finished it the other day and I really needed that, thanks man
"I'm not crying, you're crying" moment
*we’re both crying*
Same @@obolstudios5154
That shot of David coming out of the ship is 10th level design I almost cried
This city no matter who you are it will take something from you
Эту концовку желал каждый человек, который досмотрел аниме до конца и имел чувства к персонажам...
и вот именно поэтому мне в аниме понравилось всё, кроме концовки
just seeing my 2 fav characters with each other happy is all i needed and this works, i love rebecca and falco
Ok but David just casually breathing in space.
i like how you did to David's Jacket by giving to Rebecca as a gift but there is questions of this pic, how come David change his ExoSkeleton to his normal body? how Lucy and David able to breath in space without a Space Suit?
anyway its nice ending and i think the final boss in 2077 game wont happened bec i dont know if Adam Smasher is really dead in this pic or just leaving there broken for out of commission....also i hope they add another pic like year later after Edgerunners, V and Jackie are making business with Rebecca and Falco
I think that David might have come to Doc to give him replacement limbs and about them in space: they might be doing that thing from episode 2-Lucy tries to cope with what happend at Arisaka Tower and goes into,, VR" and David probably went to her house, saw her and decided to join to suprise her.
It's not perfect explenation but it works for me
Full cyber body plus internal air tank? Or vr. It should be in ova what if
Not his art bruh it's stolen
Its a BD
Changing parts it's not that difficult, remember that Dorio said to Maine that he need to stop with those implants, same with Rebeca and Lucy with David. Possibly he returned to a more organic body after becoming a cyberpunk and he just want to live with lucy outside of Night City. In the game, when you message Falco he said "We're outside the radar now" speaking on plural. So, that's why this ending is not that... crazy to become canon, or the most part of it, besides, David din't die on-screen, remember, if it didn't happened on-screen it means that it didn't happened, the only issue here is going to be Rebecca because we saw her dying on-screen but who knows, if we create a lot of push we can get this canon because it's not that impossible since it can be applied to the canon of the game as well. Except the beginning, since Adam needs to be alive for 2077 but they could just leave him outside of combat before David became a cyber psycho and run away.
this makes me sad and happy and i wish it was the true ending
В аниме показали что во всей вселенной как таковой нет главного злодея,люди живут без цели - зарабатывают деньги что бы купить импланты,импланты нужны для заработка ещё больших денег для этих же имплантов,люди перестали быть людьми - они живут без чувств,без любви и мечты - они живут что бы работать на чужую мечту,да,каждый может мечтать в Найт Сити,но большинство мечтаний ложные,город сам даёт эти ложные мечты человеку,к примеру полет на луну как это было у Люси,когда она попала туда - она поняла,что никуда не делась от цепкой хватки города,на ее лице нет улыбки,так как она потеряла свою истинную мечту - жизнь с Дэвидом
This is canon in my heart.
Esse era o final, que todos nós brasileiros queríamos...
vou fingir que acabou assim, mt tristeza
we need this...
Lucy need this...
David need this...
Rebecca survived, im all for it
If the anime has a good ending most people forget it after watching..but when an anime has an ending like this the anime resides on people's heart for ages..(eg Your Lie in April, I want to eat your pancreas, plastic memories, and Cyberpunk Edgerunners)
Your Lie in April... 🥲
your lie in april i forgot after a week. Evangelion got me depressed af but this ones worse.
No, it's quite the opposite. When an anime has a bad ending, we try to forget it and never watch it again, while a good ending makes us want to see it again.
For all the series many issues I still feel that the music was perfect.
Gonna make you all sad rn
"THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS, THERE IS NO TOOTH FAIRY, AND THERE IS NO HAPPY ENDING"
quando eu terminei a serie eu procurei por um video assim a 11 meses atrás ja tinha confortado meu coração e voltei aqui para dizer bão
All viewers wanted this. But if it had ended this way, we would never have known about it.
With the success of this anime, I hope to see more of it. You can tell though that they wrote it to be a one off, seeing as how most of the team is dead at the end. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing some of that ret-conned to make it into a proper series. Since it is based so close to the game in timeline, it'd be cool to see some of these character's stories branch into the game, like you never actually meet V or anything, but they inadvertently help each other and stuff like that.
Either way I'm good. Anime was great. I wish they'd consider a happier ending though next time. Just because Night City swallows a lot of people up, doesn't mean that it ALWAYS has to.
If they do choose to continue if want it to be a happier ending
everything that happened in the show is canon and heaps of stuff from the show is mentioned in game, V is told about David Martinez after finding the brain dance he watches in the beginning of the show and other items like Davids jacket and Rebecca's shotgun can be found. also a drink at the afterlife is named the David Martinez, Falco messages V telling him their crews gone dark but V and david are very much alike. so i think its far to late to retconn anything now, i think we are stuck living with everyone being dead and Lucy being alone.
The anime probably won't continue because Trigger doesn't like making anime that last more than 1 season, they just have 1 season anime and honestly the anime ended perfectlym
If they do another show I hope it focuses on another aspect of Night City. What I think would be *really* cool is if each "Season" we're done by a new Studio. Cause then we could have a bunch of fully fleshed out stories in the same universe by a bunch of different visionaries to really get the vibe for how diverse a place Night City is
@@Quickleaf Honestly that's kind of what I'm hoping for, as much as the ending broke me. I wouldn't want them to wave a magic wand and have everything that happened in the finale undone. Though I personally would prefer they keep using Trigger, but since they don't do more than one season, that's off the table. But yeah, a Second Season that focuses on another group of Edgerunners would be awesome. About the only thing I worry about is the writing not being up to par.
Night City is a meat grinder, so there's not gonna be happy ending for that team either. So we've gotta make a group that's just as likeable/well-written as the David's crew. But aren't clones of that crew. Which I think would be the biggest challenge. A part of me doesn't want them to even try, because something in me tells me they'll fall short. But there's that part of me that wants to see them take a crack at it.
In an Infinite Multiverse, anything is possible. May the crew enjoy their happy ending in Night City and beyond…until V makes their appearance
Bruh david got killed by adam smasher while v destroyed him
tbh, the only thing i really dislike about edgerunners ending is becca's death. I accepted that the show was david's story, and it was going to end badly. But becca's death was soul crushing dude. In a world of the worst people, secrecy being core to survival, and depression being the norm, someone like becca dying, someone who wears her emotions, and finds joy in the everyday and mundane was like squashing the last light in night city.
i`ll never get over 0:59
This show made me tear up after not crying for 4 years
Thank you man i needed that, i swear this show haunted me, this gave me closure.
скажу честно я всегда буду помнить всю их команду, очень как по мне трогательное аниме
"Legends are just martyrs... You wanna be one? Die in the most glorious way"
Da igual el idioma que hables, nuestra depresión es compartida! Este fue el verdadero final! Verdad? :c
Te has vuelto un gran soñador Timmy :")
A happy ending? For folks like us? Wrong city. Wrong people.
DUDE STOP
Two alternate endings.
First 1 is the real ending. We all know what happens.
Second is this one. I can deal with this….
Finalmente un good ending que se merecía la comunidad