That's pretty much Cyberpunk. It's all guts and glory from the bottom to the top. When Humanity is a stat, you know that part of the lore is in just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
When David is hallucinating and talking to his mom, telling her what he wishes he could have back then, you can see that it dawns on Rebecca exactly what's driving David, and you can see her heart break. The bittersweet smile she has, it hits me so deep.
Johnny: “What did you expect?” V: “I don’t know… uhh… a happier ending for everyone involved.” Johnny: “Here? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.”
So the guy that shot David in the opening wasn't Faraday or Smasher. It's most likely a personification of Night City. The moral of both the Game and show is that Night City always wins in the end.
I like this bittersweet ending. The show advertised David's descent so early in the season and I'm glad they didn't shy away from it. I just feel bad for Lucy.
I really love the ending song "Let You Down", especially after the final episode. It is literally David apologizing to all his loved ones, for only chasing other people's dreams and never having one of his own, for not being strong enough to maintain his sanity, and for becoming another victim of Night City.
Fr man get me upset I wish better for David just like Lucy . But I atleast he won the war maybe not the battle but he did what he could do for his love ones .
Exactly, he technically fulfilled all of their dreams, but he did so in a way that would've left all of them heartbroken, he let them down while succeeding in fulfilling what they wanted.
Specifically, in the tabletop game where adam smasher was as op as he is in the show (except for the sandevistan - he had a berserk instead), he was only weak to hacking thanks to being so mechanical. So you needed to have netrunners to debuff him and solos to pile the damage on instead
@@selfconfidenceee nah people should be able to express themselves however they want as long as it doesn’t effect others. This is extremely healthy. While I agree men should be about to cry without judgement, they should also be allowed to cope how they want. There’s a million ways to skin a cat.
After finishing this show despite what ratings Cyberpunk got, I instantly bought the game and I can say that I definitely enjoyed it especially with the context that I got from the show. What an amazing story
@@VDA19 CDPR should have known their limitations then and not shipped for those consoles. This excuse doesn't work anyway. Plenty of other graphically demanding games on this level run fine on last gen. Cdpr was just over-ambitous for their first dense open world game and didn't have the experience to optimize. Outside of graphics, the game is still full of bugs and poorly implemented systems so you can't just blame last gen players.
@@VDA19 my pc is high end and the game is A BORE with a good story...the open world and everything around it SUCKS definitily not the promised game but glad it has garbage fanboys defending even a shiny trashcan
The sandevestan, the thing that gave David such an advantage, the thing that made everyone know he was special for being able to handle it and to Adam it’s nothing special. There’s always someone better out there
Adam had a professional ripper (Arasaka funded), while David had a back ally doc. V has access to better rippers, and Johnny's experience with Smasher and better balancing abilities. David's build is messy. V's builds can be OP.
If your wondering a person’s ability to resist implants is a based on their wellness in life. David is special because his mom worked so hard to make his life better. Thats why Mane goes cyberpyscho when they take on that stressful job and david goes cyberpyscho during combat.
Man I loved this reaction series. Marketa's emotions were pretty much how I reacted. When I played the game I did a Nomad, which lined up almost perfectly with the ending that I ended up getting.
Marketa is kind of harsh on Lucy and her strength lol. I think Lucy proved how much of a badass netrunner she is as she continuously fought off Arasaka's own netrunners and agents the entire time that David was running his crew. It took Kiwi, also a badass netrunner and someone who taught Lucy, to be able to capture her. Finally, you just need to look at the stupid amount of hacks she threw at Smasher at the end - it's just that Smasher is... well... you could say he's "special."
Yeah like Lucy isn't made out of magic. She's a hacker with an okay grasp of hand to hand combat. There really is nothing that skill set can do in her situation later on in the story.
All this time everyone’s talking about David being special yet Adam was just insulted they’d compare them. And he proved that point by tearing off his anti-grav training wheels, showing us he can’t even stand without them. This shows just how big the difference between David and Adam, and by extension V is
As someone else pointed out, using the gravity amplifier on men, APC's and tanks pulped metal and flesh with contempt. When David used it against Adam Smasher, it mildly slowed him down, and majorly pissed him off.
Kind of cheap when Smasher is basically a brain in a cage of the strongest alloy money can buy, like yeah he's stronger but it still doesn't really justify the ego@@Zombiewithabowtie
Just for Context there is a way to Cure Cyberpsychosis. Mike Pondsmith, the guy who created Cyberpunk has said that cyberpsychosis can be cured by love. It's Human connection that helps a person recover from it and love is the strongest form of connection. That is why David is this resistant, his Love for Lucy litteraly keeps him sane.
@@rezalmaoV is a one in a million case because V literally can’t become a cyberpsycho from the author himself. V is pretty much a God in the Cyberpunk universe.
@@rezalmao the creator of the Cyberpunk universe literally said that V can’t go psycho and it’s because of various reasons so if you want to not believe the creator, then I don’t know what to tell you.
The ending makes me cry every time even when the song comes on in the car in game I have to pull over the car for a few minutes before I can change the station
As it turns out, Lucy's dream was a bit of a monkeys paw. She got what she wanted, but it clearly wasn't all that worth it. Bittersweet is the best you are ever gonna get in that world.
Fun fact: In the Cyberpunk 2077 there is a bar called Afterlife, there they make drinks named after legends of Nightcity, one of those drinks is called David Martinez. Cyberpunk 2077 was launched in 2020. PS: English is not my primary language, sorry for many mistake rsrs
The reason you can’t get Cyberpsychosis in the game is because 1. V has an high tolerance for cyberware 2. You can’t really obtain any experimental military grade cyberware 3. The link to the Johnny Silverhand construct in his head is also preventing his mind from damaging itself to keep it tip top for when his mind is eventually taken over by the construct. It’s also worthy to note that Cyberpsychosis works differently in the game compared to the anime. In the anime it’s basically just if you have to much chrome you’ll eventually break while in the game it seems to have a lot more factors than just having a shit ton of cyberware.
I was upset that Rebecca was killed off. She was definitely one of the best supporting characters on the show. Her character development and her personality was amazing. It was clear she had a crush on David but it was established that’s never gonna happen, she becomes his dedicated ally who will always stay by his side and try to help him out no matter what happens. I was really hoping she would survived this.
In the actual tabletop Cyberpunk games, once Adam Smasher shows up it's extremely lucky if your team makes it out with anyone left. Rebecca dying is Lore Accurate.
Another cool thing about the Corpo start is that V is in Arasaka counter Intel, so the two Arasaka goons are v's coworkers and v is right across the hall when all this goes down
This final episode will forever be etched into my mind. Rebecca than David’s sacrifice already had me crying. But the ending when Lucy finally goes to the moon plus the music from the game playing. Was painfully tragic, yet soo beautiful. 😭
I'm with u bro like I was crying mad/sad tears cuz I wanted David to get his happy ending. But how Rebecca went out ruin me also like damn she couldn't have dodge it or sumun like dayum she had David back aswell. Just alot fr 😅😢😅
It's kind of a shame that they couldn't change the status quo. Just show the amazing world off. But as it's a spin off, the story isn't allowed to change anything. It all needs to still be the exact same world for the game. So everything the characters did was futile. Or maybe that's supossed to be just how night city is. Chews people up. Can't be changed or challenged, just find whatever crumbs of life/ressistance you can, before you bow out at the end. It's completely the opposite of gurren lagann. Both are about making your own meaning, but one is about making things better, and the other is about fighting to get human connection/just a little happiness for a short while. One's pessimistic and one's optimistic. But both struggles are worth it and are just as meaningfull. I feel really bad for lucy, she got the emptiest consolation prize in the world. I also can't believe she's any safer up there from the corps. No one to enjoy the dream with, i half expected her to vent her helmet at the end, just to round the team out. Can you imagine the burden of having to live on? Knowing you have to, because the others fought so hard for you.
Yeah, very good anime, very sad story. Now it remains to watch the video with the full version of the ending song, there is an additional story about one character who is associated with the team of edgerunners
Was anime of the year for me! Story and animation was top tier! A rare sight now a days, in my eyes. Love the reaction as always! Lookin forward to the next whatever it may be!
"Blaze your way down the rebel path" - Silverhand on "Chippin' In" Which I think is my biggest takeaway from CP2077/ the anime /Night City in general.. Doesn't matter how you make a dent, or where you are after the dents been made, its the pursuit of making that dent and not sacrificing your integrity or beliefs along the way. (typical Johnny simp answer, I know lmao)
Of course Adam Smasher wins, his the main bad guy ( for Johnny) in cyberpunk 2077. His coat is a nice piece of EQ in the game but I wish we could get his OP Sandi, Although mine makes me so OP as is I can clear a room in 3 seconds
"The whole city knows there's something up with Arasaka, So there's gonna be some changes?" BRUH.... This is a tuesday in night city. This whole thing won't barely make it above the Bottom bar crawl on a newsfeed.
Nomad start to Nomad ending is the best story progression and character progression for V by far. It’s also the only one that’s really punk in any way.
I love the amount of detail in the whole Pondsmith's cyberpunk world. If you played the game and checked out the drinks in the Afterlife bar youd see one named after David. So they pretty much gave away how this was going to end
I stated watching this on a day when I was feeling extra down and trapped by the real world, ready to snap like David at the end of ep1. I feel that that factor amplified my engrossment in this series, and a week later I'm still riding this high.
"You don't make a name as a cyberpunk by how you live. You're remembered by how you die." Edgerunners takes place in 2076 and there's a drink named after david in the game. The Martinez. He was remembered
“Street Kid” was my first-run where I just played how I would play & decision I would make Then my second-run I was “Nomad” & role played it as the daughter of Morgan Blackhand & tried my best keeping her build to the T to Morgan’s image & whats known about him, making sure I kill nobody cause it’s said he doesn’t kill, had his entire outfit, made sure I would side with Militech in the very beginning (the woman Dex tells you about) & right now I’m on my third-run as an Arasaka “Corpo” 😎. It’s pretty fun role playing as a Corpo, ngl. Lol
Adam Smasher in the show: All the same meat to me. I'll slaughter every last one of you. Adam Smasher in the game: UWU please don't hurt me, I might fall apart~
Yep he is very underpowered in the Video Game, look up his stats in the Tabletop RPG and he is ULTRA powerful. To me it would have been better if you crippled one of his limbs or something to escape rather than taking him out entirely.
aaawwwe Marketa's reaction at the end I felt that though when watching this the first time. I am sooo happy you guys decided to watch this it is absolutely perfect. I don't think there is an overall lesson to be learned in the show but a lot to take from each individual perspectives and psychoanalysis. overall the series portrays psychosis and dissociative identity disorder really well from multiple points of view. you can check out a few different videos of psychologists and MD's that provide insight into the show and share their own opinions and conclusions related to cyber ware and the psychology of the characters.
Ketty, Lucy was going around killing everyone who knew about David's abilities. She accomplished _a lot_, she only got out-hacked by Smasher and when she got cocky and was ambushed
Very bittersweet ending to a tragic story. This show always makes me think of Uncut Gems; you know from the start it's going to be a tragedy, but there's this tiny bit of hope you want to hold onto that they'll end up alright.
In the game the reason V doesn't get cyber psychosis no matter how much you upgrade, is because due to the fractured mind Johnny is simply absorbing it. And they will never do a Johnny Silverhand thing because most of his memories are altered by his ego. In the game there are things that just don't add up when you see his memories. But then you have stuff like Cyberpunk RED where they expand upon how events really went down and who was actually involved. Johnny was never Arasaka's number 1 enemy, he was just mixing in Morgan Blackhand's(Smashers actual rival) stories in to his own.
Militech is the true arch enemy of Arasaka, Morgam is "only" the best Solo on the continent, besides hating Arasaka, so he took any contract that made it possible to screw with them. Morgan participated in the assault to use a nuclear bomb to destroy Arasaka's headquarters along with its database, but the plan came from Militech, even though didn't work 100%, those pulled some strings so that Arakasa was blamed for the nuclear explosion in Nigth City.
Best love story I've seen in a long time and a tragic one at that. I finished CP2077 so many times before Edgerunners came out and each playthrough after haven't been the same. Trigger Studio and CDPR have made probably the most faithful game adaptation shows ever made. You can literally visit every place in the show (except the moon of course). You find easter eggs everywhere and you actually feel like it did happen and you are just discovering it as V a year later.
One of the wildest things about adam smasher, is that he has several other bodies that he can download his brain into upon death. Even if one body is destroyed, he literally lives through his other 6 bodies or wait for a new one to be made. My guy is basically immortal
It's not really a cyberpunk story if it has a happy ending, The best you can hope for is something bittersweet like Bladerunner. Real Cyberpunk isn't a genre where plucky underdogs rise up and beat the corrupted system, it's not where you find heroic tales of dogged resistance fighters changing things for the better. Cyberpunk is the depiction of a world where the system has already won before the story even started. An exaggerated, extrapolated vision of our profit-obsessed world today that just happens to be dressed up in neon and flashy chrome. It leaves you feeling empty because it's not intended to be a story with a moral, there's no silver lining to David's death, no lesson to be learned. It's just today's warning of tomorrow's tragedy. Ultimately nothing David and his crew did will matter to Night City. The city itself will remain, looming over the wasteland like a steel monstrosity that never really even noticed David existed. Night City consumes everyone within it from the poorest street kid to the top most corpo, all just fodder for a machine. Even if the entire Arasaka corporation itself were to suddenly implode, its assets would just be picked over by its competitors and the system of corporate hyper-capitalism would continue on and in the big picture it would be as if nothing had changed.
the most painful part of this episode was adam smasher showing up, knowing the anime takes place before the game made me realize most likely everyone was gonna die since smasher is still alive in the game
I think one of the upsides of the story is that for David, he never had a dream. His mother had her dream of him. Then Maine had his dream of him succeeding him. But in the end. He chooses to give Lucy her dream. It was his way of expressing his love to her, and his life was a cost he was happily willing to pay to give it to her. It's sad, because Lucy decided she wanted to experience that dream with him.
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"This is a good show, I'm just sad." that encapsulates the show right there lol
🤓🤓🤓
That's pretty much Cyberpunk. It's all guts and glory from the bottom to the top. When Humanity is a stat, you know that part of the lore is in just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Its cyberpunk. The genre tends to be dark.
@@Kuhtarrr4293💀
When David is hallucinating and talking to his mom, telling her what he wishes he could have back then, you can see that it dawns on Rebecca exactly what's driving David, and you can see her heart break. The bittersweet smile she has, it hits me so deep.
She also realizes that she's not important enough to bring him back to reality, but knows that Lucy could
@@hiddenInsight486that what I took away from it :( she knew she wasn’t enough
Johnny: “What did you expect?”
V: “I don’t know… uhh… a happier ending for everyone involved.”
Johnny: “Here? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.”
So the guy that shot David in the opening wasn't Faraday or Smasher. It's most likely a personification of Night City. The moral of both the Game and show is that Night City always wins in the end.
Yep! There's a reason it's silhouette made up of buildings and skyscrapers, whereas David's is made up of all the people he meets.
Mr Blue Eyes?😮
If you know, you know…
@@acidrain92 definitely not mr blue eyes
also "There are no happy endings in Night City"
"Hey, Adam, how come you never go cyberpsycho?"
"That's my secret David. I've always been a psycho."
I like this bittersweet ending. The show advertised David's descent so early in the season and I'm glad they didn't shy away from it. I just feel bad for Lucy.
I really love the ending song "Let You Down", especially after the final episode. It is literally David apologizing to all his loved ones, for only chasing other people's dreams and never having one of his own, for not being strong enough to maintain his sanity, and for becoming another victim of Night City.
love your interpretаtion
Fr man get me upset I wish better for David just like Lucy . But I atleast he won the war maybe not the battle but he did what he could do for his love ones .
Exactly, he technically fulfilled all of their dreams, but he did so in a way that would've left all of them heartbroken, he let them down while succeeding in fulfilling what they wanted.
16:20 ironic bc Lucy's build in the game is ridiculously powerful lol
Specifically, in the tabletop game where adam smasher was as op as he is in the show (except for the sandevistan - he had a berserk instead), he was only weak to hacking thanks to being so mechanical. So you needed to have netrunners to debuff him and solos to pile the damage on instead
Any build is ridiculously powerful in the game. You get to a point where you literally just play on easy mode
There's a drink named after David in the in-game bar. A shot of vodka topped with Ni-Cola. "Aim high, and go out with a bang."
And of course it's a fizzy drink
David doesn't like carbonated drinks
They gave Smasher some of the sickest dialogue in the show.
"NONE LEAVE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE!"
Fuckable meat is wild
Who are you to challenge me
"You think you're special 'cause your scrappy?!"
And of course, you can't forget
"WHO THE _FUCK_ ARE YOU?"
Not alive
Idk it's pretty hard to top "you look like one fuckable meat"
I noticed spidey makes jokes during sad moments as a defense mechanism to not get sad or tear up
It’s a healthy coping mechanism
@ not really healthy. Men should be able to show their emotions and not be ashamed of crying
@@selfconfidenceee nah people should be able to express themselves however they want as long as it doesn’t effect others. This is extremely healthy.
While I agree men should be about to cry without judgement, they should also be allowed to cope how they want. There’s a million ways to skin a cat.
After finishing this show despite what ratings Cyberpunk got, I instantly bought the game and I can say that I definitely enjoyed it especially with the context that I got from the show. What an amazing story
@@VDA19 CDPR should have known their limitations then and not shipped for those consoles. This excuse doesn't work anyway. Plenty of other graphically demanding games on this level run fine on last gen. Cdpr was just over-ambitous for their first dense open world game and didn't have the experience to optimize. Outside of graphics, the game is still full of bugs and poorly implemented systems so you can't just blame last gen players.
@@VDA19 my pc is high end and the game is A BORE with a good story...the open world and everything around it SUCKS
definitily not the promised game
but glad it has garbage fanboys defending even a shiny trashcan
@@VDA19 If your game can’t play on older consoles don’t release it for those consoles
@@derfritz4550 Simply Driving around Nightcity at night listening to music was incredible, I feel bad that you struggle to just enjoy things.
@@bruhbruhson8864 I feel bad that your standards for gaming are so low that you actually think Cyberpunk is a good game
Spider called it on Rebecca. "She definitely didn't go out like no Bitch though."
The sandevestan, the thing that gave David such an advantage, the thing that made everyone know he was special for being able to handle it and to Adam it’s nothing special.
There’s always someone better out there
V: Allow me to introduce myself.
Adam had a professional ripper (Arasaka funded), while David had a back ally doc. V has access to better rippers, and Johnny's experience with Smasher and better balancing abilities. David's build is messy. V's builds can be OP.
@XDarkNation literally though Adam smasher was nothing to V
@@Cugastratos You ain't seen nothing yet.
If your wondering a person’s ability to resist implants is a based on their wellness in life. David is special because his mom worked so hard to make his life better. Thats why Mane goes cyberpyscho when they take on that stressful job and david goes cyberpyscho during combat.
I think Rebecca’s fate is appropriate for the tone of the setting: doing something selfless in Night City can only lead to your doom.
In the game, if you pick the Corpo origin they can reference this episode. Arasaka counter-intelligence spent a week cleaning up after.
That incredible song from the second episode came back and delivered the gut punch of the year...
Man I loved this reaction series. Marketa's emotions were pretty much how I reacted. When I played the game I did a Nomad, which lined up almost perfectly with the ending that I ended up getting.
Soy
did you get the "Fucking Meat!" ending?
this is the pain we all felt.
Time to go to the bar and order a David Martinez
Marketa is kind of harsh on Lucy and her strength lol. I think Lucy proved how much of a badass netrunner she is as she continuously fought off Arasaka's own netrunners and agents the entire time that David was running his crew. It took Kiwi, also a badass netrunner and someone who taught Lucy, to be able to capture her. Finally, you just need to look at the stupid amount of hacks she threw at Smasher at the end - it's just that Smasher is... well... you could say he's "special."
Yeah like Lucy isn't made out of magic. She's a hacker with an okay grasp of hand to hand combat. There really is nothing that skill set can do in her situation later on in the story.
Boss: “I like the tragedy of David and Lucy, but what can we do to REALLY twist the knife?”
Writer: *stares at Rebecca*
All this time everyone’s talking about David being special yet Adam was just insulted they’d compare them. And he proved that point by tearing off his anti-grav training wheels, showing us he can’t even stand without them. This shows just how big the difference between David and Adam, and by extension V is
As someone else pointed out, using the gravity amplifier on men, APC's and tanks pulped metal and flesh with contempt.
When David used it against Adam Smasher, it mildly slowed him down, and majorly pissed him off.
Kind of cheap when Smasher is basically a brain in a cage of the strongest alloy money can buy, like yeah he's stronger but it still doesn't really justify the ego@@Zombiewithabowtie
I've been waiting for this one of the most devastating finale
Sandevastated
Just for Context there is a way to Cure Cyberpsychosis.
Mike Pondsmith, the guy who created Cyberpunk has said that cyberpsychosis can be cured by love.
It's Human connection that helps a person recover from it and love is the strongest form of connection.
That is why David is this resistant, his Love for Lucy litteraly keeps him sane.
What a dumb reason. Especially in this universe
What about V?
@@rezalmaoV is a one in a million case because V literally can’t become a cyberpsycho from the author himself. V is pretty much a God in the Cyberpunk universe.
@@youngrootv V can become a cyberpsycho
@@rezalmao the creator of the Cyberpunk universe literally said that V can’t go psycho and it’s because of various reasons so if you want to not believe the creator, then I don’t know what to tell you.
The ending makes me cry every time even when the song comes on in the car in game I have to pull over the car for a few minutes before I can change the station
Nothing but tears at the end
This anime was pain. Poor Lucy has no one left
I was very much Marketa when I finished watching this just bawling my eyes out and there’s no other dhow that made me feel that way EVER!!
No happy endings in NC. Even all the endings in the game are rather bittersweet.
As it turns out, Lucy's dream was a bit of a monkeys paw. She got what she wanted, but it clearly wasn't all that worth it. Bittersweet is the best you are ever gonna get in that world.
“Happy ending, people like us? Wrong place, wrong city”
Went out like a G. David got his own drink in the bar too in-game for being a legend 👌
Fun fact: In the Cyberpunk 2077 there is a bar called Afterlife, there they make drinks named after legends of Nightcity, one of those drinks is called David Martinez. Cyberpunk 2077 was launched in 2020.
PS: English is not my primary language, sorry for many mistake rsrs
What a series. I'm still the saddest about Rebecca's death, she was such a real one the whole way through.
The reason you can’t get Cyberpsychosis in the game is because 1. V has an high tolerance for cyberware 2. You can’t really obtain any experimental military grade cyberware 3. The link to the Johnny Silverhand construct in his head is also preventing his mind from damaging itself to keep it tip top for when his mind is eventually taken over by the construct. It’s also worthy to note that Cyberpsychosis works differently in the game compared to the anime. In the anime it’s basically just if you have to much chrome you’ll eventually break while in the game it seems to have a lot more factors than just having a shit ton of cyberware.
They did Rebecca dirty. Also after this show came out, the game added a drink named after David in the bar you go to in the game.
I was upset that Rebecca was killed off. She was definitely one of the best supporting characters on the show. Her character development and her personality was amazing. It was clear she had a crush on David but it was established that’s never gonna happen, she becomes his dedicated ally who will always stay by his side and try to help him out no matter what happens. I was really hoping she would survived this.
In the actual tabletop Cyberpunk games, once Adam Smasher shows up it's extremely lucky if your team makes it out with anyone left. Rebecca dying is Lore Accurate.
Another cool thing about the Corpo start is that V is in Arasaka counter Intel, so the two Arasaka goons are v's coworkers and v is right across the hall when all this goes down
This anime had the best music and visuals so good on top with Cowboybebop to me
"None leave the slaughterhouse. Not alive" - a man who thinks he is the Grim Reaper
This final episode will forever be etched into my mind. Rebecca than David’s sacrifice already had me crying. But the ending when Lucy finally goes to the moon plus the music from the game playing. Was painfully tragic, yet soo beautiful. 😭
I'm with u bro like I was crying mad/sad tears cuz I wanted David to get his happy ending. But how Rebecca went out ruin me also like damn she couldn't have dodge it or sumun like dayum she had David back aswell. Just alot fr 😅😢😅
Me just wanting the guys to shut up so I can feel the feels with Marketa 😂
"Everybody dies"
Akamegakill: that's funny
The look on Lucy's face at the end made me tear up... Night City bad
The intro literally couldn’t have been better to depict Davids story
This is one of those series that you will think about it from time to time months from now
It's kind of a shame that they couldn't change the status quo. Just show the amazing world off. But as it's a spin off, the story isn't allowed to change anything. It all needs to still be the exact same world for the game. So everything the characters did was futile. Or maybe that's supossed to be just how night city is. Chews people up. Can't be changed or challenged, just find whatever crumbs of life/ressistance you can, before you bow out at the end. It's completely the opposite of gurren lagann. Both are about making your own meaning, but one is about making things better, and the other is about fighting to get human connection/just a little happiness for a short while. One's pessimistic and one's optimistic. But both struggles are worth it and are just as meaningfull.
I feel really bad for lucy, she got the emptiest consolation prize in the world. I also can't believe she's any safer up there from the corps. No one to enjoy the dream with, i half expected her to vent her helmet at the end, just to round the team out. Can you imagine the burden of having to live on? Knowing you have to, because the others fought so hard for you.
Yeah, very good anime, very sad story.
Now it remains to watch the video with the full version of the ending song, there is an additional story about one character who is associated with the team of edgerunners
Smasher didn't get cyberpsychosis because he was, as a human, already a psychopath. He didn't have sanity to lose.
14:00 First reactors I have seen who know what a Construct is. Thankfully David wasn't made into one.
I hope y’all react to the MV for the Ending Song next. To complete the trauma.
Was anime of the year for me!
Story and animation was top tier! A rare sight now a days, in my eyes.
Love the reaction as always! Lookin forward to the next whatever it may be!
"[Lucy] just kept getting smacked down."
Welcome to Night City. XD
Yeah according to Pondsmith(The Tabletop Creator) the Cure to Cyberpsychosis is Love...
David wanted to help Lucy's dream come true. But she'd already found a new dream. Him.
"Blaze your way down the rebel path" - Silverhand on "Chippin' In"
Which I think is my biggest takeaway from CP2077/ the anime /Night City in general.. Doesn't matter how you make a dent, or where you are after the dents been made, its the pursuit of making that dent and not sacrificing your integrity or beliefs along the way. (typical Johnny simp answer, I know lmao)
One of the games main tag lines is "There's no happy endings in Night City"
“Happy ending, for us in night city? Wrong city wrong people.”
Of course Adam Smasher wins, his the main bad guy ( for Johnny) in cyberpunk 2077. His coat is a nice piece of EQ in the game but I wish we could get his OP Sandi, Although mine makes me so OP as is I can clear a room in 3 seconds
"The whole city knows there's something up with Arasaka, So there's gonna be some changes?"
BRUH....
This is a tuesday in night city. This whole thing won't barely make it above the Bottom bar crawl on a newsfeed.
11:48 close your eyes and just listen
I'm glad yall enjoyed this anime. It's actually moved into my top 10 anime series. Not including anime movies.
Nomad start to Nomad ending is the best story progression and character progression for V by far. It’s also the only one that’s really punk in any way.
Nighty City crushes your soul, if you're lucky enough to survive it
In the tabletop Adam was kind of a "Rocks fall everyone dies" solution when the players get out of control
This is the definition of the meaning, “We won, but at what cost?” 😭
I love the amount of detail in the whole Pondsmith's cyberpunk world. If you played the game and checked out the drinks in the Afterlife bar youd see one named after David. So they pretty much gave away how this was going to end
Next time you go to the Afterlife bar in game, drink a David Martinez in his honor.
what an amazing finale
lmao the fact that micky didnt know diff paths start differently haha
I stated watching this on a day when I was feeling extra down and trapped by the real world, ready to snap like David at the end of ep1. I feel that that factor amplified my engrossment in this series, and a week later I'm still riding this high.
"You don't make a name as a cyberpunk by how you live. You're remembered by how you die."
Edgerunners takes place in 2076 and there's a drink named after david in the game. The Martinez. He was remembered
“Street Kid” was my first-run where I just played how I would play & decision I would make
Then my second-run I was “Nomad” & role played it as the daughter of Morgan Blackhand & tried my best keeping her build to the T to Morgan’s image & whats known about him, making sure I kill nobody cause it’s said he doesn’t kill, had his entire outfit, made sure I would side with Militech in the very beginning (the woman Dex tells you about)
& right now I’m on my third-run as an Arasaka “Corpo” 😎. It’s pretty fun role playing as a Corpo, ngl. Lol
Adam Smasher in the show: All the same meat to me. I'll slaughter every last one of you.
Adam Smasher in the game: UWU please don't hurt me, I might fall apart~
Yep he is very underpowered in the Video Game, look up his stats in the Tabletop RPG and he is ULTRA powerful. To me it would have been better if you crippled one of his limbs or something to escape rather than taking him out entirely.
now you guys know why I really want to stay at your house is a ptsd trigger for the fans
"Why is she shooting?"
Have you *met* Rebecca?
I hope they check the Lackadaisy pilot.
Any chance we can get Castlevania reactions from you guys next?
Winner of Anime of the year! Let's gooo!
aaawwwe Marketa's reaction at the end I felt that though when watching this the first time. I am sooo happy you guys decided to watch this it is absolutely perfect. I don't think there is an overall lesson to be learned in the show but a lot to take from each individual perspectives and psychoanalysis. overall the series portrays psychosis and dissociative identity disorder really well from multiple points of view. you can check out a few different videos of psychologists and MD's that provide insight into the show and share their own opinions and conclusions related to cyber ware and the psychology of the characters.
I cried at the end so much
We all knew Marquetta was going to cry
So soy lol
Ketty, Lucy was going around killing everyone who knew about David's abilities. She accomplished _a lot_, she only got out-hacked by Smasher and when she got cocky and was ambushed
Great reaction yall.
Very bittersweet ending to a tragic story. This show always makes me think of Uncut Gems; you know from the start it's going to be a tragedy, but there's this tiny bit of hope you want to hold onto that they'll end up alright.
Unfortunately there will not be a season 2. This is just meant to be a limited series
Oh man here come the TEARS
Him: a night city tragedy
Me: i guess for you and them. But for night city and smasher it was just thuesday.
In the game the reason V doesn't get cyber psychosis no matter how much you upgrade, is because due to the fractured mind Johnny is simply absorbing it.
And they will never do a Johnny Silverhand thing because most of his memories are altered by his ego. In the game there are things that just don't add up when you see his memories. But then you have stuff like Cyberpunk RED where they expand upon how events really went down and who was actually involved. Johnny was never Arasaka's number 1 enemy, he was just mixing in Morgan Blackhand's(Smashers actual rival) stories in to his own.
Yeah, at that moment V was basically zombie
Militech is the true arch enemy of Arasaka, Morgam is "only" the best Solo on the continent, besides hating Arasaka, so he took any contract that made it possible to screw with them. Morgan participated in the assault to use a nuclear bomb to destroy Arasaka's headquarters along with its database, but the plan came from Militech, even though didn't work 100%, those pulled some strings so that Arakasa was blamed for the nuclear explosion in Nigth City.
Best love story I've seen in a long time and a tragic one at that. I finished CP2077 so many times before Edgerunners came out and each playthrough after haven't been the same. Trigger Studio and CDPR have made probably the most faithful game adaptation shows ever made. You can literally visit every place in the show (except the moon of course). You find easter eggs everywhere and you actually feel like it did happen and you are just discovering it as V a year later.
One of the wildest things about adam smasher, is that he has several other bodies that he can download his brain into upon death. Even if one body is destroyed, he literally lives through his other 6 bodies or wait for a new one to be made. My guy is basically immortal
It's not really a cyberpunk story if it has a happy ending, The best you can hope for is something bittersweet like Bladerunner. Real Cyberpunk isn't a genre where plucky underdogs rise up and beat the corrupted system, it's not where you find heroic tales of dogged resistance fighters changing things for the better. Cyberpunk is the depiction of a world where the system has already won before the story even started. An exaggerated, extrapolated vision of our profit-obsessed world today that just happens to be dressed up in neon and flashy chrome. It leaves you feeling empty because it's not intended to be a story with a moral, there's no silver lining to David's death, no lesson to be learned. It's just today's warning of tomorrow's tragedy.
Ultimately nothing David and his crew did will matter to Night City. The city itself will remain, looming over the wasteland like a steel monstrosity that never really even noticed David existed. Night City consumes everyone within it from the poorest street kid to the top most corpo, all just fodder for a machine. Even if the entire Arasaka corporation itself were to suddenly implode, its assets would just be picked over by its competitors and the system of corporate hyper-capitalism would continue on and in the big picture it would be as if nothing had changed.
Rebecca didn't deserve what happened to her ;-;
Fax
the most painful part of this episode was adam smasher showing up, knowing the anime takes place before the game made me realize most likely everyone was gonna die since smasher is still alive in the game
I think one of the upsides of the story is that for David, he never had a dream. His mother had her dream of him. Then Maine had his dream of him succeeding him. But in the end. He chooses to give Lucy her dream. It was his way of expressing his love to her, and his life was a cost he was happily willing to pay to give it to her. It's sad, because Lucy decided she wanted to experience that dream with him.
To the editor, yes Faraday is petting the guy which I'm assuming is their signal for the guy to open up and him to shoot Kiwi.
After seeing Smasher in this you can't help but be amazed at how godlike V becomes.
Adam Smasher: You have a construct in your brain, and mods that would kill normal humans
V: Rudimentary Implants
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The soundtrack was pure 🔥