The fact Smasher complimented David and in a roundabout way offered him to become a relic is about as much respect as we’ll ever see Smasher give someone.
@T€RB Ironically, he blew Silverhand apart without giving him a second thought (the scene we play in the game is a false memory, the duel on the rooftop was between Morgan Blackhand and Smasher, with Johnny being torn in half by Smasher the moment they saw each other in the Arasaka lobby). So technically David still has the highest honor lol
David fulfilled every dream he took up. He got to the top of the tower, just like his mom wanted. He became a legend, just like Maine wanted. He got Lucy to the moon, just like she wanted. But, if you asked all three of them if they were happy with what David had to do, and sacrifice, in order to fulfill those dreams, sadly, not one of them would say yes.
@@elsotanodelhorror810 Yes, to be on the moon WITH David. At first, it was to just go to the moon, until she'd fallen in love with David. Damn, Lucy... I feel sad as f*** for her...
well when he got to the literal top, that was not what his mother meant. Lucy going to the moon was just a consolation, when they were together, she just wanted to be with him like what she said when they were falling, so that's off too. He only fulfilled the being a legend because he was living for others his whole short life.
David died knowing Lucy was safe and alive, and without ever losing control of himself. This is currently my pick for anime of the year. It was something different and special. Every episode hit. Love the characters, with my favorite being David and Rebecca, because he's somewhat more relatable, and Rebecca was there for our guy till the end. Love this show, even though it lefted me completely broken
@@everybody7576 bro it's not about darkness it's about what they been throw All the charcters have good back story and more it's like watching a great fantasy book a life
To be frank he wasn’t really an villain or antagonist. Just a bad guy hired at the end to deal with something that can expose/ruin arasaka. In general arasaka execs is the villains with how much control they have and how they treat ppl.
@@dungeonmaster16 Very much agreeable, I only bluntly call him a villain but it's like you said, he's not an actual villain. However, it has to be said that he kind of gained a good chunk of popularity after this episode. I don't have the game and hadn't heard of any other characters until Adam Smasher debuted in this episode, suddenly he was everywhere on my timeline and recommendations. I hear he's actually an easy boss in-game which is disappointing considering how much hype was built up around this character after the episode
That last scene gets me everytime when she smiles remembering David and then when he disappears her sadness comes back in and shows on her face. Safe to say bringing the show and watching the last episode at 2 AM was not the best idea, going to sleep after that ending sucked.
Each time i read that about the entire cyberpunk genre i get more motivated in writing a hopefull cyberpunk story. Imagine this in a corrupted wrold where corporations and greed rule the earth and goverments only serve as a way to contain discontent to reach the true warlords of the earth something arises, something ancient, revenge from the natural world against this machine man with machine hearts that go against the natural empathy and comunity of mankind, strangling his hearts to not feel for the people they opresses, walloing in superiority to negate empathy. A druid arises from the filth of the biggest city to reclaim it armed with a soft power against the cold calculations of the machines I think it could be good
This anime ironically portrays Adam Smasher far more accurately than the game does, in regards to the original tabletop. Because in the tabletop, when Adam Smasher shows up, you’re incredibly lucky to leave with 1 of 5 party members alive.
True. Granted V is supposed to be a legend in his own right. A 1 in a billion guy. V is supposed to be stronger than smasher. If anyone else in the game fought him they'd be instantly wiped out. V not only kills him, but depending on the ending you choose, he does this on his own.
@@jayharr8839 yea it’s kinda crazy that if V didn’t have that chip he probably would’ve been able to take down arasaka completely because he would’ve had even more time to improve and upgrade. Although it’s hard to say if he would’ve gone that far if he didn’t have the incentive of deaths door being close by.
Adam smasher has been in the game for 50+ years. He's basically a full blown Psychopath so he was already Psycho before hand and cybrpsychosis hits people differently.
Adam Smasher calling David’s gear “a child’s toy” is one of the few times an anime villain wasn’t underestimating the main character, but just accurately describing them.
@@robertfishburn8545 David at full power wouldn't stand a chance against someone who is almost completely chromed out with advanced tech from Arasaka like Smasher is
@@robertfishburn8545 "Iec dragoon cyberpunk wiki" makes this Google search, you will see the Fandom page for cyberpunk with the Smasher full body convertion
@@robertfishburn8545 Smasher is in Dragoon armor with a top-of-the-line Sandy straight from the depths of Arasaka R&D. In the tabletop he has high proficiency with all weapons, knows an anti-armor martial art called Panzerfaust, and suffers no drawbacks from being a fullborg brainpod because he's already a "High-Functioning Cyberpsycho" according to the setting creator. Meanwhile, David can't even stand in the Cyberskeleton without the antigrav on
Lucy got out, and has a chance for a real life. That's more than most people get in Night City. I'll also give Kiwi a tiny amount of credit, since her last request wasn't "kill Faraday," it was "save Lucy."
Adam Smasher was Night City's answer to David ignoring every sign that he wasn't as special as he thought. Even as David was squaring up to the machine you could tell that he didn't think Smasher could stack up against him, letting himself get distracted from what everyone else easily identified as the biggest threat in the room. Absolutely poetic how Smasher dismantled everything David had going for himself. With the Sandevistan no longer David's trump card, his strongest attack with ALL his gravity weapons was only able to lower Smasher's arms and make the dude slouch. There was no more running from the truth David was trying to get away from.
By the time he used the gravity weapons though, his goal wasn't to kill Adam Smasher. His goal was to keep Lucy safe. That's probably part of the reason he started laughing at the end there.
The show's director Hiroyuki Imaishi has never done a second season or sequel to anything he's made as far as I know. Man walks in with a story, tells it the coolest way possible, and peaces out. If ya'll haven't seen his 2007 masterpiece Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann you gotta. It's the hypest shit imaginable.
@@gambeano oh yeah, not saying he didn’t do better than most people would have. It’s just that David was already losing it and Smasher knew the cyberskeleton’s weak points, plus having decades of combat training.
@@powersofdestruction5694 He may have had all that, but some people are just built different. David thought he was but he wasn't. V didn't think they were but they were. David thought he was a V, he was just a David.
@@ShaggyDabbyDank David was built different it’s just V and smasher are built better. Let’s not forget David was still able to do things no one else was able to do before.
Rob sleeping throgh the whole episode and then dropping the wisdom at the end will never cease to amaze and infuriate me in equal amounts. Haha. One love.
I still can’t get this ending out my head. It so tragic but so beautiful and the fact that they used the song that was popular from the game. Made it soo much more better.
Such a damn good show. Also major props to Studio Trigger & the people from CD Projekt Red that helped them create this absolute banger of an anime. Edit: Adam Smasher is one of the main bad guys in the video game so you do kinda get more, a lot of the locations from the anime are ones you can go to in the game & they just recently added some more stuff from the anime into the game so on the real, the game is definitely worth checking out(especially if you get it on PC 'cause the mods are dope af).
@@Aevum13th The locations obviously were (as the locations in the anime are literally taken from the game 1x1), and stuff like Adam Smasher were already there. But the last update added things like Rebecca's Shotgun that you can find in a specific place, a side quest that involves the anime (and if you complete it you get David's jacket), the house Lucy and David stay in (the big fancy one after the little time skip) is an actual house you can buy, and iirc you can also meet Falco (I think he might be part of the quest? Not sure as I haven't gotten to it yet.)
@@warlok363 We were talking about what was already in the video game vs what they added from the anime. Obviously Smasher was already part of Cyberpunk before the game. My point was he was already in the game before the anime existed.
I have a lot of sympathy for Kiwi. She was part of a crew she was loyal to and loved, and everyone died and she was nearly killed. Even still she stayed with David only to watch him go down the same road, start to go psycho, and Lucy was murdering anyone who learned about his existence. It was all falling apart, again, and she was going to go down with them unless she found a way out. She still felt badly about it, but it was either burn out with David and Lucy or get out for good and she chose an out.
Also both did value each other more then her. Like if Lucy and David were given an out or could go to the moon, both would have taken it over her life. Sadly, in Nightcity you have to care for yourself and trust no one.
Kiwi wasn’t a hostage in the crew. the only reason Rebecca was around was because of loyalty to David, while Falco had respect for him. Kiwi could’ve just walked away but no, she chose to stab them all in the back for one final paycheck and paid the price for it in the end. (She was a good villain)
There are a lot of Cyberpunk lore videos on TH-cam, especially regarding Adam Smasher's backstory. Short version of why Adam isn't Cyberpsycho is because he was already actually psycho back in when he was in his meat body. After he was blown apart by an RPG, Arasaka offered him a full borg conversion (back in the 2020s, remember that this is an alternative timeline compared to IRL) and afterwards Adam fully drank the transhumanist coolaid and believes that the flesh is weak and that humans are worthless meatbags. To summarize he has no humanity left to lose and is fully adjusted to being something more than human.
David went out like a badass though. On his own terms, without going full psycho. He kept his promises. Literally all of them. The one to his mom about going to the top of Arasaka tower. The one to his ripperdoc about never going to go cyberpsycho, and to Lucy about getting her to the moon. One of the best shows period
Thats just typical standardization for homes. V lives in MegaBuilding 10. David is in MegaBuilding 4. You can visit David's place, but the MegaBuilding is closed off.
It is the same one, represents his and V's beginning since you both start at the same place. Then in that swanky apartment they have later on is also in the game, it's the most expensive apartment and signifies that one's reached the top.
In table top game, the video game, and this anime; Adam Smasher is always called in to end the table top game, to end the game, and to end this anime. His stats are high as shit where no player's party could ever reach, in anime hes basically unstoppable not even with quickhack from Lucy, and he is the final boss of the video game too to end the game.
There will NOT be a season 2 of her taking on the corps, this is a prequal to the story in the Cyberpunk game (they aren't related, but David is mentioned in the game).
Now you all know why so many people got back into the game. After Rebecca and then David got popped people booted up the game to kill Adam Smasher themselves.
Fun fact: in the game there's a bar called The Afterlife that has drinks named after night city legends, and one is the David Martinez. Also Keanu Reeves but we don't talk about that
V from cyberpunk 2077 finishes the job for them. They added new content that allows you to actually get in touch with Falco and ask what happened to David. He doesn’t give you a straight answer, and basically says don’t come looking for us, but he arranges for the Santo Domingo fixer to pass on David’s yellow jacket as a gift. Eventually V kills Smasher.
They've said that there won't be a season 2 which imo is probably the right choice. Other Cyberpunk shows following totally different people and stories though? I can see that, especially with the success they had here. This series stuck heavily to the content that is from the game, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. However there is a shit ton of other stuff that could be covered based off of Mike Pondsmith's tabletop games
The reason why so many things were brought up and not explained is because this is already set in a heavily explained universe with Cyberpunk 2020, RED, and 2077 explaining a lot of things not explained in this So all the backstory with Adam Smasher that you guys were interested in already exists
You shoud play the game to know what happen to Adam and Arasaka the game take place 1 year after the event of the anime ,btw they are not gonna make season 2 this is a stand alone anime .
I don't remember the last time an episode have made me want to pause in the middle of it, because I got so nervous and anxious about what would happen. Fantastic show and incredible finale. And they're not making a sequel, to see what happens to Arasaka and smasher you need to play the game.
there isn't much explained in the anime because everything was explained in the game, Adam Smasher is also in the game and they clarify what he is and how he became what he is
To be Fair. V Has Been Far More Experience than David Does, Regardless of Lifepath ( A Nomad Tribal Who Can Gun Down Saka, A Well Known Gangster who is reliable, Or an Arasaka Counter Intel Agent who probably is Higher up the Food chain. ).
@T€RB Cyberpunk is more than a single crew. They could have done new season = new crew, new story. In truth, David's story isn't too extraordinary compared to other events that have or could happen. There's a plethora of lore & material when it comes to the Cyberpunk franchise. Nonetheless, CPDR is on record saying they have no plans to continue the anime, and Trigger isn't known to do more than a season.
@@krazyknva78 I'd be fine with more anime from different studios or whatever but topping edgerunners is gonna be a tough one. Capturing that magic isn't something easily done twice.
14:21 You mention wanting to know more about Adam Smasher, and also said at the beginning that you were thinking about getting into CP77. DEFINITELY play the game!!! The game still has some flaws (way less than release). Beyond that though, the story and quests are amazing. Adam Smasher is pretty savage in that game. My only gripe, is how we don't see him a bunch, but when you do... oh buddy. I do wish there were more main quest stories, but man, there are like 40-50 gigs from fixers like Wakako (David's fixer for the gig in episode 7, the one who calls Julio a fool) and all of them are solid. Oh, and in the game you don't have to worry about cyber-psychosis from implants.
@@Toxic_Chiccken I'm talking about the main dude, you know, the one who made both statements I'm talking about. NGL, been watching these guys for about 2 years and I still don't know their names lol. They are amazing nonetheless.
17:10 rob was correct on one of your reactions pat said deathnote isn’t an anime, he was complimenting the writing saying it was writing like a live action series or something.
The events of this show take place a few years before Cyberpunk2077 game. It was great watching the show and recognizing all the places in the show from the game. There may or may not be a few characters from the show in the game ;) . If ya'll haven't played the game, then I encourage trying it. It was a little rough when it first came out but, it's a very solid game now.
This show is placed 1 year before the game. David has his own drink at the Afterlife bar (a thing only given to those cyberpunks that died and became legends)
I like how there’s not really a central antagonist in this series. It’s just Night City itself and what it turns people into. David is what happens when you get a good decent kid mixed in the wrong side of town, the least he could do was help someone escape Night City as it claims him. Lucy did truly love him, for he was the only good thing that came into her life. Now she’s going to make sure his sacrifice wasn’t wasted.
arasaka is pretty much the central antagonist though especially when it comes to johnny silverhands storyline and even this anime with how they set up david and his crew
Fact is Smasher was the character, in Cyberpunk TableTop, DM would send to end the campaign. Thats his function was, no matter how good your character was, all it managed was to get on his radar and be promptly dealt with.
For the way they used "choom,"I think the word you were looking for is "sarcastic." Imagine someone calling you "friend" or "buddy" but in a menacing way - they are clearly not your friend.
The reason most of the dangers in the city are still there (Arasaka, Adam Smasher, etc.) Is because this takes place before the game. The game's story deals with these dangers and puts closure to some events in the show (though it doesnt get rid of them entirely). Highly reccomend the game just for the story. Edit: its also confirmed that there wont be a season 2, so all of the stories in this world will be through the next Cyberpunk games
The unfortunateness of the world of Cyberpunk and Night City. Mike Pondsmith said it himself, "Cyberpunk isn't about saving the world. It's about saving yourself." For the Edgerunners, V, Johnny Siliverhand and everyone else who lives in Night City, they can't save themselves without sacrifices.
Truthfully I get why there is so much left in the air about certain things like smasher and other bits of lore and stuff. Alot of this is explained in the game whether through cutscenes or reading it in game.
I think they'll do a spin-off (possibly with Keanu) with a completely different main character and Lucy is going to be some super famous anonymous hacker for hire.
Bro I might need to pick up the game to whoop the smashers ass!
I'd watch that. Use a shotgun, in honor of Rebecca
It's a great game! It was very buggy at release but its pretty much good now
It's really good, recommend it.
Nah fr this episode made me cry like a bitch 💀 I’m finna be on Adam smasher ass
It's only a button away
The fact Smasher complimented David and in a roundabout way offered him to become a relic is about as much respect as we’ll ever see Smasher give someone.
facts...especially for a piece of meat.
Well.... He kinda compliments Evelyn in his own Adam Smasher kinda way
Stop sucking lol
@T€RB Ironically, he blew Silverhand apart without giving him a second thought (the scene we play in the game is a false memory, the duel on the rooftop was between Morgan Blackhand and Smasher, with Johnny being torn in half by Smasher the moment they saw each other in the Arasaka lobby). So technically David still has the highest honor lol
@@Minileblanc interesting 🤔
David fulfilled every dream he took up.
He got to the top of the tower, just like his mom wanted. He became a legend, just like Maine wanted. He got Lucy to the moon, just like she wanted.
But, if you asked all three of them if they were happy with what David had to do, and sacrifice, in order to fulfill those dreams, sadly, not one of them would say yes.
specially Lucy, by the end of the series her dream was to be with David
@@elsotanodelhorror810 Yes, to be on the moon WITH David. At first, it was to just go to the moon, until she'd fallen in love with David. Damn, Lucy... I feel sad as f*** for her...
well when he got to the literal top, that was not what his mother meant. Lucy going to the moon was just a consolation, when they were together, she just wanted to be with him like what she said when they were falling, so that's off too. He only fulfilled the being a legend because he was living for others his whole short life.
nah fmaski that forfrfski thioggh hgit
he also split the reward evenly as maine wanted
15:12 "Adam smasher gotta be smashed, Arasaka gotta be blown up"
V: allow me to introduce myself
Wake the fuck up Samurai, we’ve got a city to burn.
Yeah V and Johnny Silverhand in the same body is bad news if your name is Adam Smasher or have anything to do with Arasaka
Adam Smasher : **shivers**
Silver hand: for thousands of years I lay dormant
Who has awoken me from my slumber
“It’s like… I was made for this”
David died knowing Lucy was safe and alive, and without ever losing control of himself. This is currently my pick for anime of the year. It was something different and special. Every episode hit. Love the characters, with my favorite being David and Rebecca, because he's somewhat more relatable, and Rebecca was there for our guy till the end. Love this show, even though it lefted me completely broken
Cyberpunk was great anime but for the anime of the year is made in abyss s2 that shit was crazy and dark
@@hozifasddig481 What's so good about Abyss????
I mean David didn't know for sure Lucy was going to be safe, but he saved her and gave her a chance at her dream.
@benjamin tsoi it being dark doesnt make it good.
@@everybody7576 bro it's not about darkness it's about what they been throw
All the charcters have good back story and more it's like watching a great fantasy book a life
Adam Smasher really just became one of the top anime villains of the year with about 5 minutes of screen time despite not even being an anime villain
How tf would he be top anime villains of the year 💀
@@9inesmalty
>Shows up last minute bored
>Calls MC a child
>Goomba stomps best girl
>Refuse to elaborate
>Leave
@@Razgriz_01
Just like I’n the ttrpg
To be frank he wasn’t really an villain or antagonist. Just a bad guy hired at the end to deal with something that can expose/ruin arasaka.
In general arasaka execs is the villains with how much control they have and how they treat ppl.
@@dungeonmaster16 Very much agreeable, I only bluntly call him a villain but it's like you said, he's not an actual villain.
However, it has to be said that he kind of gained a good chunk of popularity after this episode. I don't have the game and hadn't heard of any other characters until Adam Smasher debuted in this episode, suddenly he was everywhere on my timeline and recommendations.
I hear he's actually an easy boss in-game which is disappointing considering how much hype was built up around this character after the episode
That last scene gets me everytime when she smiles remembering David and then when he disappears her sadness comes back in and shows on her face. Safe to say bringing the show and watching the last episode at 2 AM was not the best idea, going to sleep after that ending sucked.
Ong
Fr man. I had school the next day and I couldn't sleep because of that ending
fr.. remind me to not watch on sundays, wont get enough sleep for school
I mean, she smiled looking up at earth on the last shot of her face
in the same position .
Always remember one cardinal law of cyberpunk: "There are no happy endings in Night City"
unless your Morgan black hand
@@kinggundragon3728 thought you said Morgan freeman
@@kinggundragon3728 Facts lol
Its not about how you live its about how you go out.
Each time i read that about the entire cyberpunk genre i get more motivated in writing a hopefull cyberpunk story.
Imagine this in a corrupted wrold where corporations and greed rule the earth and goverments only serve as a way to contain discontent to reach the true warlords of the earth something arises, something ancient, revenge from the natural world against this machine man with machine hearts that go against the natural empathy and comunity of mankind, strangling his hearts to not feel for the people they opresses, walloing in superiority to negate empathy.
A druid arises from the filth of the biggest city to reclaim it armed with a soft power against the cold calculations of the machines
I think it could be good
When you realize Lucy stopped smoking cigarettes when she fell in love with David because he said “I don’t like smoke”. I still haven’t recovered.
I havent noticed it😅
That's sick, reminds me of ingame when you give johnny your body he gives up smoking and drinking.
You can see her smoking in the beginning of episode six
This anime ironically portrays Adam Smasher far more accurately than the game does, in regards to the original tabletop.
Because in the tabletop, when Adam Smasher shows up, you’re incredibly lucky to leave with 1 of 5 party members alive.
True. Granted V is supposed to be a legend in his own right. A 1 in a billion guy. V is supposed to be stronger than smasher. If anyone else in the game fought him they'd be instantly wiped out. V not only kills him, but depending on the ending you choose, he does this on his own.
@@jayharr8839 yea it’s kinda crazy that if V didn’t have that chip he probably would’ve been able to take down arasaka completely because he would’ve had even more time to improve and upgrade. Although it’s hard to say if he would’ve gone that far if he didn’t have the incentive of deaths door being close by.
Luckily Adam Smasher in the game now lives up to his name
V is strong BECAUSE of the chip. Otherwise they're just an above average Merc. @@tsavage4337
from the beginning to the end of the show, the vibe u get from the song changes drastically 😢
Oi
It physically hurts to hear it now lol. Kinda sucks because it's a good song.
First time hearing the song: 🥰🥰
Last time hearing the song: 😭😭
@@VannywiththeFanny It's perfect cause Nighty City robs you of everything that's pure and good.
Adam smasher has been in the game for 50+ years. He's basically a full blown Psychopath so he was already Psycho before hand and cybrpsychosis hits people differently.
Basically, the dude had no humanity to begin with. It's hard to become any more crazy and murderous than he already is.
In the tabletop, his canon empathy stat is "Yeah, right..."
Adam Smasher calling David’s gear “a child’s toy” is one of the few times an anime villain wasn’t underestimating the main character, but just accurately describing them.
I'm genuinely curious what his specs are, and what a fight between them with David at full power would've looked like
@@robertfishburn8545 Smasher still would've won easily tbh
@@robertfishburn8545 David at full power wouldn't stand a chance against someone who is almost completely chromed out with advanced tech from Arasaka like Smasher is
@@robertfishburn8545 "Iec dragoon cyberpunk wiki" makes this Google search, you will see the Fandom page for cyberpunk with the Smasher full body convertion
@@robertfishburn8545 Smasher is in Dragoon armor with a top-of-the-line Sandy straight from the depths of Arasaka R&D. In the tabletop he has high proficiency with all weapons, knows an anti-armor martial art called Panzerfaust, and suffers no drawbacks from being a fullborg brainpod because he's already a "High-Functioning Cyberpsycho" according to the setting creator.
Meanwhile, David can't even stand in the Cyberskeleton without the antigrav on
Lucy got out, and has a chance for a real life. That's more than most people get in Night City.
I'll also give Kiwi a tiny amount of credit, since her last request wasn't "kill Faraday," it was "save Lucy."
Adam Smasher was Night City's answer to David ignoring every sign that he wasn't as special as he thought. Even as David was squaring up to the machine you could tell that he didn't think Smasher could stack up against him, letting himself get distracted from what everyone else easily identified as the biggest threat in the room.
Absolutely poetic how Smasher dismantled everything David had going for himself. With the Sandevistan no longer David's trump card, his strongest attack with ALL his gravity weapons was only able to lower Smasher's arms and make the dude slouch. There was no more running from the truth David was trying to get away from.
By the time he used the gravity weapons though, his goal wasn't to kill Adam Smasher.
His goal was to keep Lucy safe. That's probably part of the reason he started laughing at the end there.
In the game you can purchase David’s drink at a bar called the afterlife… only Legends of Night City can get that type of treatment😭🤧
You can also David's Jacket as reward for a side job.
*Dead legends
One of the ingredients is cola, which is funny considering David hates fizzy drinks
@@theveira I like to think that Lucy knew this and with the story was related to Rogue Lucy put that in as a little inside joke.
@@eddieguererro46
Ain't any living legends in Night City regardless
The show's director Hiroyuki Imaishi has never done a second season or sequel to anything he's made as far as I know. Man walks in with a story, tells it the coolest way possible, and peaces out. If ya'll haven't seen his 2007 masterpiece Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann you gotta. It's the hypest shit imaginable.
I love how the title is phrased as though David didn't just talk shit and then proceed to get several new assholes torn in him by Smasher.
tbf Adam smasher was David when he went against V in the game. David was literally in deaths door way before he went against Adam.
@@gambeano oh yeah, not saying he didn’t do better than most people would have. It’s just that David was already losing it and Smasher knew the cyberskeleton’s weak points, plus having decades of combat training.
@@powersofdestruction5694 oh ok my bad lol just tired of the David slander
@@powersofdestruction5694 He may have had all that, but some people are just built different. David thought he was but he wasn't. V didn't think they were but they were. David thought he was a V, he was just a David.
@@ShaggyDabbyDank David was built different it’s just V and smasher are built better. Let’s not forget David was still able to do things no one else was able to do before.
Rob sleeping throgh the whole episode and then dropping the wisdom at the end will never cease to amaze and infuriate me in equal amounts. Haha. One love.
Bro is going through cyberpsychosis
I still can’t get this ending out my head. It so tragic but so beautiful and the fact that they used the song that was popular from the game. Made it soo much more better.
Such a damn good show.
Also major props to Studio Trigger & the people from CD Projekt Red that helped them create this absolute banger of an anime.
Edit: Adam Smasher is one of the main bad guys in the video game so you do kinda get more, a lot of the locations from the anime are ones you can go to in the game & they just recently added some more stuff from the anime into the game so on the real, the game is definitely worth checking out(especially if you get it on PC 'cause the mods are dope af).
I thought the stuff in the anime was always in the game.
@@Aevum13th The locations obviously were (as the locations in the anime are literally taken from the game 1x1), and stuff like Adam Smasher were already there. But the last update added things like Rebecca's Shotgun that you can find in a specific place, a side quest that involves the anime (and if you complete it you get David's jacket), the house Lucy and David stay in (the big fancy one after the little time skip) is an actual house you can buy, and iirc you can also meet Falco (I think he might be part of the quest? Not sure as I haven't gotten to it yet.)
You're right about the PC mods. They're crazy good right now.
Correction, Adam Smasher was one of the legends of the TTRPG, which they then bought into the 2077 game.
@@warlok363 We were talking about what was already in the video game vs what they added from the anime. Obviously Smasher was already part of Cyberpunk before the game. My point was he was already in the game before the anime existed.
I have a lot of sympathy for Kiwi. She was part of a crew she was loyal to and loved, and everyone died and she was nearly killed. Even still she stayed with David only to watch him go down the same road, start to go psycho, and Lucy was murdering anyone who learned about his existence. It was all falling apart, again, and she was going to go down with them unless she found a way out. She still felt badly about it, but it was either burn out with David and Lucy or get out for good and she chose an out.
Also both did value each other more then her. Like if Lucy and David were given an out or could go to the moon, both would have taken it over her life. Sadly, in Nightcity you have to care for yourself and trust no one.
Kiwi wasn’t a hostage in the crew. the only reason Rebecca was around was because of loyalty to David, while Falco had respect for him. Kiwi could’ve just walked away but no, she chose to stab them all in the back for one final paycheck and paid the price for it in the end. (She was a good villain)
kiwi was not loyal at all lmao bitch turned 180 on a dime the moment faraday gave her the chance
@@josecmch98 newsflash, the real villain is Night City and the extremely messed up world it is set in.
and she got punched in the face mid dive by maine
the amount of ppl that played cyberpunk to avenge David and Rebeca is crazy man
If that ending scene showed Lucy crying instead of smiling I would’ve lost it
There are a lot of Cyberpunk lore videos on TH-cam, especially regarding Adam Smasher's backstory. Short version of why Adam isn't Cyberpsycho is because he was already actually psycho back in when he was in his meat body. After he was blown apart by an RPG, Arasaka offered him a full borg conversion (back in the 2020s, remember that this is an alternative timeline compared to IRL) and afterwards Adam fully drank the transhumanist coolaid and believes that the flesh is weak and that humans are worthless meatbags. To summarize he has no humanity left to lose and is fully adjusted to being something more than human.
David went out like a badass though. On his own terms, without going full psycho. He kept his promises. Literally all of them. The one to his mom about going to the top of Arasaka tower. The one to his ripperdoc about never going to go cyberpsycho, and to Lucy about getting her to the moon. One of the best shows period
Damn episode put Jerry through it! He was looking defeated by the end of the episode. Great reactions.
Glad yall enjoyed the show so much
"Adam Smasher hurry! Go on, kill the boy!"
" *Who the fuck are you?* "
Something I didn't realize, was that V's apartment looks suspiciously like David's apartment at the very beginning of the season.
Thats just typical standardization for homes. V lives in MegaBuilding 10. David is in MegaBuilding 4. You can visit David's place, but the MegaBuilding is closed off.
@@Razgriz_01 But you should visit anyway. For Night City legends leave behind legendary gear...
It is the same one, represents his and V's beginning since you both start at the same place. Then in that swanky apartment they have later on is also in the game, it's the most expensive apartment and signifies that one's reached the top.
If you didn’t realize, the opening showed David getting his brains blown out, and the silhouette of the person was “Night City” itself.
Tell that man Rob to get some sleep 😂😂😂 He been fallin asleep every reaction lmao
9:03
"She literally put him together". I love this
RIP Rebecca, she was a real one!
My favorite of the crew.
Just binged all 10 episodes back to back.
Glad yall enjoyed this series man. One of the best of the year. Now you want more? Go play the game!
In table top game, the video game, and this anime; Adam Smasher is always called in to end the table top game, to end the game, and to end this anime. His stats are high as shit where no player's party could ever reach, in anime hes basically unstoppable not even with quickhack from Lucy, and he is the final boss of the video game too to end the game.
There will NOT be a season 2 of her taking on the corps, this is a prequal to the story in the Cyberpunk game (they aren't related, but David is mentioned in the game).
David: Nooo im a bigshot.
Adam Smasher: 🤣
2:29 i laughed hysterically when he said that
Now you all know why so many people got back into the game. After Rebecca and then David got popped people booted up the game to kill Adam Smasher themselves.
N then they all fell in love with V lol.. the absolute unfair powerhouse he is
Ive been waiting so long for you guys to get to this
time to see your reactions to that end
Btw there is a season 2 for this.
Its called Cyberpunk 2077.
These guys knew it was over did David when smasher appeared it’s like darth Vader making an appearance
That comment from Lucy in eps4 “you’re the guy who jumps into save anyone even when you’re the one on fire “
Fun fact: in the game there's a bar called The Afterlife that has drinks named after night city legends, and one is the David Martinez. Also Keanu Reeves but we don't talk about that
Adam smasher got that black airforce energy.
15:10 correct , People always miss this when they praise the show ,, it’s not perfect
“Happy Ending? Here, folk folks like us? Wrong City. Wrong people.” - Johnny Silverhand
V from cyberpunk 2077 finishes the job for them. They added new content that allows you to actually get in touch with Falco and ask what happened to David. He doesn’t give you a straight answer, and basically says don’t come looking for us, but he arranges for the Santo Domingo fixer to pass on David’s yellow jacket as a gift. Eventually V kills Smasher.
I love how energetic they are at first then slowly got hit by the feelings lmao
They've said that there won't be a season 2 which imo is probably the right choice. Other Cyberpunk shows following totally different people and stories though? I can see that, especially with the success they had here. This series stuck heavily to the content that is from the game, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. However there is a shit ton of other stuff that could be covered based off of Mike Pondsmith's tabletop games
Any anime that can wrap its story up in a small amount of episodes and still be to tier earns my respect 1000%
Evan was holding himself to not cry at the end, and soon after Pat too 🔥
Pat really thinks Lucy can take on corpos in Night City lol
3:26 No way did he spoil one piece for himself 🤣
They're dumb
The reason why so many things were brought up and not explained is because this is already set in a heavily explained universe with Cyberpunk 2020, RED, and 2077 explaining a lot of things not explained in this
So all the backstory with Adam Smasher that you guys were interested in already exists
About as happy an ending as someone in Night City gets
“you know you didn’t lose your self control” and “I really wanna stay at your house” hit the hardest 😢
“A Happy ending? Here? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people”
You shoud play the game to know what happen to Adam and Arasaka the game take place 1 year after the event of the anime ,btw they are not gonna make season 2 this is a stand alone anime .
10:28 when you feel the COMPLETE DEVASTATION! in your soul.
That’s a cyberpunk story for you , never a happy ending.
Little does Pat know, the game answers most of his questions about the series
I don't remember the last time an episode have made me want to pause in the middle of it, because I got so nervous and anxious about what would happen. Fantastic show and incredible finale.
And they're not making a sequel, to see what happens to Arasaka and smasher you need to play the game.
In the game David Martinez is a legend among the people who hate Arasaka, you can find his drink in the afterlife when you go buy one in game.
there isn't much explained in the anime because everything was explained in the game, Adam Smasher is also in the game and they clarify what he is and how he became what he is
You guys always have the hardest intros
7:05 I was watching with a friend and he said, "damn, diamonds in rocket league"
Watching Edgerunners made me realise how effing OP V is actually...even in act 1 we are just ripping Arasaka agents to shreds
To be Fair. V Has Been Far More Experience than David Does, Regardless of Lifepath ( A Nomad Tribal Who Can Gun Down Saka, A Well Known Gangster who is reliable, Or an Arasaka Counter Intel Agent who probably is Higher up the Food chain. ).
Only complaint I have of this Anime is that I wish it was longer.
I think that’s everyone’s complaint
@T€RB Cyberpunk is more than a single crew. They could have done new season = new crew, new story. In truth, David's story isn't too extraordinary compared to other events that have or could happen. There's a plethora of lore & material when it comes to the Cyberpunk franchise. Nonetheless, CPDR is on record saying they have no plans to continue the anime, and Trigger isn't known to do more than a season.
@@krazyknva78 I'd be fine with more anime from different studios or whatever but topping edgerunners is gonna be a tough one. Capturing that magic isn't something easily done twice.
@T€RB I could have used maybe two more episodes.
I want dlc where the next big bad is cyborg David. Make the fans kill david again lol
Bonus points for somehow not crying at the end. Shit broke me bruh.
If they do another season, they gotta do a new crew
14:21 You mention wanting to know more about Adam Smasher, and also said at the beginning that you were thinking about getting into CP77. DEFINITELY play the game!!! The game still has some flaws (way less than release). Beyond that though, the story and quests are amazing. Adam Smasher is pretty savage in that game. My only gripe, is how we don't see him a bunch, but when you do... oh buddy. I do wish there were more main quest stories, but man, there are like 40-50 gigs from fixers like Wakako (David's fixer for the gig in episode 7, the one who calls Julio a fool) and all of them are solid.
Oh, and in the game you don't have to worry about cyber-psychosis from implants.
They would have to play it on their own no? Unless they take turns but that would be a bit weird
@@Toxic_Chiccken I'm talking about the main dude, you know, the one who made both statements I'm talking about. NGL, been watching these guys for about 2 years and I still don't know their names lol. They are amazing nonetheless.
@@tuph4088 same but evan, jerry , patrick , wellz , and rob 😭
17:10 rob was correct on one of your reactions pat said deathnote isn’t an anime, he was complimenting the writing saying it was writing like a live action series or something.
16:50 How I feel knowing Pat got spoiled about G5
The events of this show take place a few years before Cyberpunk2077 game. It was great watching the show and recognizing all the places in the show from the game. There may or may not be a few characters from the show in the game ;) . If ya'll haven't played the game, then I encourage trying it. It was a little rough when it first came out but, it's a very solid game now.
I feel you Jerry... man looks as devastated as I was after watching this
This show is placed 1 year before the game. David has his own drink at the Afterlife bar (a thing only given to those cyberpunks that died and became legends)
Why is this Rob guy always so stoned that he can bearly keep his eyes open?
CDPR deadass made a villain that is the Darth Vader of the Cyberpunk universe.
I like how there’s not really a central antagonist in this series. It’s just Night City itself and what it turns people into. David is what happens when you get a good decent kid mixed in the wrong side of town, the least he could do was help someone escape Night City as it claims him.
Lucy did truly love him, for he was the only good thing that came into her life. Now she’s going to make sure his sacrifice wasn’t wasted.
Yep. Well the entire timeline and setting of Cyberpunk, from the TTRP, is really craptastic and a horrible place.
arasaka is pretty much the central antagonist though especially when it comes to johnny silverhands storyline and even this anime with how they set up david and his crew
It is a great ending. David may be special but Adam is a legend. Just another kid with big dreams in Night City.
Fact is Smasher was the character, in Cyberpunk TableTop, DM would send to end the campaign. Thats his function was, no matter how good your character was, all it managed was to get on his radar and be promptly dealt with.
was just watching this as i finished the series last night, no one picking up on how pat mentions gear 5 at 3:25 a year before they got to that ep?
"Vs" is a crazy title considering yall know what happened to David😭
For the way they used "choom,"I think the word you were looking for is "sarcastic." Imagine someone calling you "friend" or "buddy" but in a menacing way - they are clearly not your friend.
Man. So glad I finally listened to the hype a week ago. This shit was a gem
The reason most of the dangers in the city are still there (Arasaka, Adam Smasher, etc.) Is because this takes place before the game. The game's story deals with these dangers and puts closure to some events in the show (though it doesnt get rid of them entirely). Highly reccomend the game just for the story.
Edit: its also confirmed that there wont be a season 2, so all of the stories in this world will be through the next Cyberpunk games
Don't know how you guys held it together, I'm still ballin at that ending.
Season 2 is Cyberpunk 2077
The unfortunateness of the world of Cyberpunk and Night City. Mike Pondsmith said it himself, "Cyberpunk isn't about saving the world. It's about saving yourself." For the Edgerunners, V, Johnny Siliverhand and everyone else who lives in Night City, they can't save themselves without sacrifices.
"absolute and complete DEVASTATION!!!" hahaha
🎵nobody get out alive🎵
at @11:11 there is a theory where they did keep David alive and he becomes the next smasher brainwashed by arasaka.
Man second from the left was destroyed 🤣 and I completely relate
Truthfully I get why there is so much left in the air about certain things like smasher and other bits of lore and stuff. Alot of this is explained in the game whether through cutscenes or reading it in game.
Don't be like me and drink the only 3 David Martinez drinks in the game. They never come back and now the hole in my heart is left unfilled
Thank you RTTV for reacting to this
I think they'll do a spin-off (possibly with Keanu) with a completely different main character and Lucy is going to be some super famous anonymous hacker for hire.
Netflix didn't produced it, only gave a streaming space. CDPR produced it.
3:25 did he just say it reminds him of Luffy's Gear 5? funny he knows what's that like given they are in Whole Cake arc.
Man after this episode Night City suddenly got populated by a whole lot of angry folks looking to hunt Adam Smasher with a shotgun.