sad and frightening yes, but what's beautiful about it...

Yeah it was really well done! With the eyes shivering. And when you are going insane even more, the whole body shivering. But why exactly does the body shiver when you are going down the road of cyberpychosis? Was David's Sandevistan activating all while he was shivering? What do you guys think causes those eye shiverings? Also a common theme in cyberpychosis seems to be thinking about your past. For example, Maine fought about his past when he was a soilder and almost no cyberware. I think he walked to night city on foot and that is why we saw that road. And david also sees his past layed on top of the things actually going. The past with his mother.

@Repeat after me: Pron ain't worth it yeah , that makes sense. man this show is so good....

Cyberphychosis is a genius idea

People trapped in their own memories, not being able to tell reality from their minds. Really reminds me of dementia.

I went back to the game bc of this anime, and the song makes me sad every time it comes on now lmao

@@ImUppish I usually drive around the city with that song on and it builds a strong atmosphere. Now it just makes me sad. :(

Hearing it come up at the end of this video had me preparing to breakdown again before Garnt switched to a joke to end it.

I really like the song but I refuse to listen to it for fear of being sad in the middle of the day

I was having such a great time listening to the song after watching episode 2 and now after finishing the show, it'll never be the same for me ever again. I tear up every time I hear it.

Bro i just finished it watched this video and im still crying wtf is wrong nothing has his me this hard in a long time

@@jonathankraig425 yea it does the pulling your feet when your onthe rug great writing

@@jonathankraig425 I was fully expecting everyone to die but the fact Lucy survived and was left all alone - once again - absolutely broke me. I think it was made even worse by only watching the outro on the last episode...the ending theme "Let you down" fucking hits home right after watching the show and after the final scene with Lucy.

@@AkinaGhost yeah i knew david was a goner for sure but they did such a great job of making you hope he’d survive. I just wanted them to be happy at the end

@@jonathankraig425 some one talk to me. i'm really sad now. the ending was heartbreaking. why even introduce a romantic aspect to a show just to break our hearts in the end. got too attached to the characters.

a like just for the reference at the end. my man..

Studio Trigger enjoyers already used to the empty feeling:

This is gonna hit hard when One Piece ends.

Same feeling as finishing witcher 3 for me amazing but horrible

I didn't cry but there definitely was longing for the characters. Makes me want to play Cyberpunk but I can't :(

That wasn't Lucy's dream anymore tho she just wanted to see David live and ya know how that ended

Neither it was his mom's wish to get to top of arasaka tower as mecha cyber psycho. Nor it was Maine's dream to get whole Edgerunners group wiped. He completed every dream only seemingly.

Cyberpsychosis would lead someone to believe that...

He achieved those dreams in the most broken, ironic, self-defeating ways possible. He stood atop Arasaka Tower as a gangster on a suicide mission, which is not at all what his mother wanted. He lived up to Maine's legacy as another chromed out cyber psycho. He saved Lucy and sent her to the moon when he had finally become more important to her than any lunar vacation.

And yet he was shot in the head at the bottom of Arasaka Tower

Hollywood: *Steals notes*

@@TheMaestroMizerous Then they proceed to completely misinterpret everything and make a live action

@@justinvlaun oh god that hit so hard....

And castlevania also ?

nice to see your here! Love what you do man

that's cool, Trigger also wanted Rebecca to stay as CDPR wanted to change her and now she's one of the top favorite characters

I had exactly the same experience. I was not prepared

I'm fucking destroyed

@@arthurius_3022 Same. Finished the show 30 minutes ago and had to rewind the last bit. But on second thought I'm really glad they chose the ending they did instead of some "happy ever after" stuff

@@r0vul143 I finished yesterday and that's the thing, it's a really good ending but it's very tragic. That's why it stick with us so much. Man I feel so empty godamn

Yeah holy fuck. And that song

Same

Same here! I hope they make a new season about corpo or nomad story next

@@shadowfoxnz7894 I think it would he really dope to do like 2 more seasons but each with different characters and so on. And make it 13 episodes... my only problem with egde runners was it was 10 episodes instead of 13 heck even 12

in Night City life is cheap

as I was watching the last chapter I was so sad that it was ending and no one was getting a happy ending

David's a kid who couldn't afford to drive. He was a good kid before he turned to crime so it's not like he boosted cars.

Today I started playing again and I crashed into a lamppost just two seconds after entering the car...

Genius! They've canonized the bugs.

😂💀

God damn my thoughts exactly

I agree, I felt the same

You put it in words! I've talked to my friends about this show and the best thing I could quantify about it was "I finished the last episode, exhaled for about a minute, then went to bed without thinking about it at all." I told them not to watch it because it left me confused but the longer I've thought about it the more I want other people to watch it, at least so I can talk to people who know what we saw and unpack it.

It's alright, we were all 13 years old once.

@@hoon_sol Lol

@@profdouglas1392 Was a wild ride

beautifully spoken.

Well said. I like grimdark to a degree, depending on how you define it, but I think the word you were going for there is "nihilism". And you're absolutely right about Edgerunners--it's a tragedy, for sure, but it is a very well-told one, and it is not nihilistic. That's the thing I love about the world of Cyberpunk, the Cyberpunk 2077 game, and this anime--it is dark, and it shows darkness and depravity for what it is, but it celebrates characters who don't give in to all of that, even if they struggle terribly and don't very often succeed. There is beauty in that kind of portrayal of life.

Oh, you have wonderfully put into words what I could not! My father browses Netflix all day all night (retired old man), and of all the times I watched whatever show was on his TV... I always thought how meaningless the show felt, but I couldn't tell what made it meaningless. Then there's Edgerunners here, which I watched on my own in another TV simply because Studio Trigger. The protagonist and his crew died like the ones I saw on dad's TV, but Edgerunners was meaningful. Memorable. Brilliant.

​@@NaitomeIyayou have to show him better movies/series my bro

Loved the comment!

Where was that one? I mightve missed it

@@OneNativeWolfe74 the chapter where maine becomes cyberpsycho, the 7 I think it was or the 6

@@yoroshikuonegaishimasu8649 thanks

I didn't tell that to anyone i talked about the show and knew about the game. I thought, no way they're hinting towards the games' bug/issues. That's because the show is basically marketing towards the game, so it would make no sense. But yeah, you're probably right lol.

I laughed so hard at that haha

Yeah there is a ton of fan services for people who played and liked the game.

It gave me a super weird nostalgic feeling when I recognized specific streets from the game. It’s the only time I’ve ever watched an anime and thought “Holy shit I’ve BEEN there!”

@@dCa991 fr

While i prefer arcane to edgerunners overall, both are absolutely fantastic in their own right. They are two opposite on how to do an adaption of an established game and whats so neat is that both could not be better. They are both insane and i cant believe they came out within a year of each other.

i had 200 hours on the game before watching, every episode i was just like "hey i know where that is!"

Same here! Kinda sad that I probably wont experience anything better for a long time now

Buckle up, there's lot of masterpieces out there that you can experience for the first time.

@@H1kari_1 any suggestions?

​@@MrGLUb If you liked Cyberpunk I think Fate/Stay Night and the movies are a way to go. Awesome animation and non-bullshit pacing. After the first fight scene you'll be convinced. It's more of a fantasy vs. reality thing though. I thought for a while but it's hard to find something similar to Cyberpunk honestly, it's that unique of a show.

@@MrGLUbStudio Trigger is the studio that animated this, starting with their other masterpieces would be a good start if you like their style. Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill are both great and just as fast paced.

ratio?.... (joke man)

Nah because the relatability in that scene did me in

Same

It made me tear up. And so tragic we didn't see more of her.

It made me tear up as well

Even I, a stone hearted man she'd a tear to the ending

i can feel you choom

What heartbreaking ending? Didn't Josuke came in and fixed everything?

At least the ending wasn't as bleak as Devilman: Crybaby, but tragic and sad regardless.

@@blejac948 WE NEED JOSUKE AND SHINING DIAMOND

and you will never get more

Literally the only thing to help is to play the game and enjoy the dlc as well

yup

Agreed. With the right pacing, several people would have needed a hug had this been a 25-30 ep series, with these 10 episodes to wrap it all up.

there was alot of good things in the show, the writing was ehh probably not one of them

Sandevastated

@@bigbabyh.a.m.6896 nah i would definetly say writing was one of them especiellz since they stuck to the landing unlike 90% of fictional media which screws up the ending.

It got adapted into depression

@@Bamiyanbigasf 😂

Now you can listen to it and let it finish with depression

legend.

I call cap, no one has played this game enough to find a favorite song. It's so bad I went back and tried to play it after watching edge runners and immediately uninstalled again.

I didn't know that. Thanks.

At least you knew that the moment they introduced Adam smasher they were all screwed.

There are a few places you will recognize. A lot of scenes are just outright taken from places within teh game, and I don't mean the iconic ones. Trigger must have played the game looking for places to shoot, and wouldnt suprise me if they just "filmed" in game scenes to get the feeling of it.

the gun sounds kinda sound the same but im not sure

After playing the game you view Adam Smasher so much different, it's not enough that he killed Johnny, now he killed David and best girl Becca too 😟

"not that much you'll notice" wtf does this mean lol. if you are watching a show and paying attention you will notice many things. Do you mean notice anything incredibly new? I have not finished the game because I have a PS4 and its shite, but there were some things kinda fresh to me. what it looks like to deep dive, sandevistans, better text/call system because in game it seems like i get 20 texts in 10 seconds.

Didn’t catch that when I watched it, shame

A nice call out to the in-game bug where the cops literally out of nowhere.

Oh I remember it I think it was at episode 9 or 10 I think it might be actually 9 but I don't remember

@@kuroshinko427 only it wasn´t really a bug, was it? They just didn´t have a better system in place. It felt like a placeholder system, they didn´t have the time to replace with an actual system before launch (same for the crowd system and traffic system).

@@lanzelotz26 yeah, and they still do appear out of nowhere 😅

Make sure you have the Edgerunner DLC and see all the tie-in locations and items in the game.

should i buy cyberpunk and play it this summer? Im really thinking about it. Is the atmosphere as good as the show?

@@KevinDevZ The storyline and city atmosphere is perfect. It is as good as the shoow, even all locations in the show are in game. I haven't really seen any bugs in my 90 hour gameplay (i'm playing on ps5, it runs in stable 60 fps). Characters are really well written, city is built with many details. There is also big DLC comming in this year that will make this game even more awesome. I definetly recommend it to you!

@@KevinDevZ Look into the modding scene---they have gone above & beyond the call of duty in improving the game.

Same here binged it with my friend who havent seen any anime in his life and he loved it too, and bought cp77 week later and now u bought phantom liberty

Honestly it only really made sense in dub

Lol just stop with that acting like it’s anything different from usual as MOST to ALL English dubs are fantastic and phenomenal! People just need to place the respect onto that as MOST English dub anime has been great to amazing to fantastic for the last 20 years entirely so. People just need to clean their ears and actually PLACE respect where it’s there. Seriously.

@@chr0n0lect MOST anime make EQUALLY as much sense in the English dub JUST like in the original.

​@@chr0n0lective watched in polish dub and I dont see any other option the original jap dub would not fit in there

@@Gadget-Walkmen I got your back bro. People act like we're still watching speed racer when they complain about dub. Erika Harlacher is my favorite actor, even including live action actors.

Read this in his voice

I hate being that guy, but I think you meant to say "Epitome" not "Epiphany". Epitome means it's a perfect example of a certain quality or message. Epiphany is a sudden realisation of a great truth. I still 100% agree with what you said though, there are no happy endings here, just sweetness of memory to try and dull the bitter pill of loss. And the sickly feeling of pain and nostalgia when you remember everything that brought you to where you are. How far you feel, or what you had to sacrifice along your journey.

A thing of beauty - I know Will never fade away

@@bigbangtheory0000 lmoa woops thanks for the heads up

I feel people want Cyberpunk to be way more cynical than it actually is - and are somehow enjoying this implanted pessimism. But it's not really that bleak... [SPOILERS] Anime literally ends with Lucy embracing the light. Someone seeing that ending and thinking it's NOT deeply optimistic is a bit weird to me. Also... Despite the quote you shared, most of game's endings are also optimistic. One that is not comes with the game actually booing you for your decisions. Night City is often described as a prison, Lucy even calls it a 'prison of light'. Of course, it's not an actual prison of body, but one of soul. People can't escape it not because it's impossible to just get out of it, but because they are chasing something self-destructive inside of it. For some it's just about monetary reasons so essential to this hyper-capitalist dystopia. That's why every ending that presents characters being able to get out is highly symbolic - they are finally free. If that's not a great closure, what is... Cyberpunk is not very subtle. Everything it wants to say is fairly transparent, that's why I'm a bit baffled by this forced nihilism. P.S: Sorry, Bird Boi, this was not aimed specifically at you, but to many-many comments made in this vein I saw on the web. Cheers! ^^

Fun Fact: The average life expectancy in the New United States is only 53 years old despite being a much more technologically advanced setting. The reason? Violence. Anyone past this point is either lucky or rich.

@@shadowslasher11X Edit: This comment was me assuming he was talking about the actual US lack a moron, ignore this comment

@@graphite7898 They're referring to the NEW United States. It's the current USA in the Cyberpunk Universe. No agenda pushing here brother, just facts about this baller fictional universe.

@@ethanrajczak3041 I'm fucking stupid, I apologize greatly. I assume everything negative about the US is a political statement because I see it all the time💀 Good message to tell me to play the game already, damn I feel dumb (also cool to see that the game has just that much lore in it, with life expectancy and all)

@@graphite7898 lol no prob choom, I fully understand that feeling. The video game is lore rich, but the setting is also info heavy cause of the tabletop. Some seriously good shit if you are into that or just like reading wikis.

Bruh

@Robert Reynolds well said

honestly real shit, i personally HATE fan service and it makes me not want to watch, but the way they did it here my god i loved every second

Those were some of the whackiest nipples i've seen.

@Robert Reynolds yes, I agree. But the style and plot requires naturally require "edgy" stuff , and it was all tastefully. And real intimacy is something that 99% of the animes lacking, be it either by age restriction or bad screenplay.

true fax.

I didnt know anything about cyberpunk before this show, all I knew were the t-poses. And even with that outlook o was completely invested in the show due to its stellar storytelling, characters, music, and overall style.

Crazy watch other anime

God I feel like I'm the only one who sees this as lazy writing to get sympathy for a character. School bullies, over worked mom, poor area, I mean jesus and now Gigguk praises this?

@@dericmederos1514 idk bro like I didn't really care much when the chars died , was even kinda happy to see Adam smasher kill em like, idk I usually care for chars n stuff but I just couldn't bring myself to give 2 fks abt the characters , I get they were trying to be realistic rather than overdramatic IG but yea

The little cameos of buildings or some characters really helped me get into the world too. Trigger did a perfect job of capturing Night City both in terms of style and its hostility

When does Edgerunners take place? Before or after the events of the game?

@@blakebridges8989 It takes place years beforehand, though by how much I'm not sure. But there's a few characters that are alive in the anime that aren't in the game, and you can pick up certain items from the anime later on in the game.

@@blakebridges8989 before, tho not too long before... There's a drink called "David Martinez " in the afterlive of the game, tho wakako, the one who sent out Julio still exists. So at max like 20 years before but more likely 5 - 10 years

@@blakebridges8989 according to the fandom wiki atleast the last episode takes place in 2076 so a year before the main game though I have no idea where they get that info from or how accurate it is.

Just finsihed the series, same boat as you, knowing what wouldve happend already, and damn did it still crash hard. Im still on denial stage, think it will come in big waves as im about to sleep later lol

@doliio volay Absolutelly agree, it blew my mind when i saw the phone calls or lucy in the hacking sequences being exaclty like in the game

@doliio volay Yea, played the Game on launch and going back after watching the Anime, feels kinda like im playing through the Anime (Ringtone etc)

I wanna play this Game but i have a potato PC😭😭😭

@@zainali5917 Unironically this game is worth $1000. Build your own PC to play this game. It's worth it.

@@zainali5917 Literally was able to run this on high settings on a used 300 dollar asus gaming laptop. Bounght a 500 dollar laptop replacement just to run it better at 120 FPS and Ultra settings :P

Totally Agree! I have even reinstalled the game just to be apart of this world again and to make sure I UTTERLY ANNIHILATE a certain enemy. This anime brought some life back to the game and anime as a whole IMO.

Remember a year ago asking you in chat if you watched Gigguk. Hope the expansions and excursions for Cyberpunk continue at this level

How can they 'Mirror' when the game has like 3 or 4 endings? lol. The anime looks disgusting. So colorfull like its made for 8 y/o.

@@Kytharion I LOVE ADAM SMASHER!!!!!!!

@@carn1fex_ because all the endings share the same themes of cyberpunks being remembered by how they die - that all of them have tragic to at best bitter-sweet endings. your taste is shit and your opinion is wrong, anime is banging. local man no joke complains that cyberpunk is colourful. the setting literally defined by bright fucking coloured neon lights

Yup. His review of Your name. had me weeping by the end. IIRC he also did the video for A Place Further than the Universe that made me weep, too. And when I say weep, I don't mean just crying, I mean snot, sobs, the whole nine yards. Though that said, that could very well just be because both of those anime made me weep when I watched them, but he does capture the feeling of these types of shows in his videos about them, for sure.

when that devilman crybaby ost came in i was absolutely destroyed

PTSD trigger

I'm glad I accidentally came across it in my youtube music shuffle and was like ayo this is hype & slaps. Then I watched the show and was like OH the songs from this show? Where is it? I'm 8 episodes in and I haven't heard it yet! Boom, then it hits me....

For real. I tear up during it, but somehow it's also already a happy nostalgia memory.

as a fan of the band and song from before the show came out its absolutely wild watching it blow up, so deserved

@@Jakepf its actually a radio song in the game lmao. all the songs in the anime were in the game and it shows. the production quality of the soundtrack was amazing.

I know right he really does amazing anime essay with the thoughts and emotions, and delves deep into the characters and setting. I really love his vids. Also gives great recommendations, finished Cyberpunk edge runners when it came out, nearly wanted to cry after finishing it. Too bad they cant contiue Davids story, I wanted more, but it was a good finish

@@blankderp2865 No way it was a good finish man. It was too depressive and kinda bad written cuz of plot armor

@@MrMadmaggot A depressing end is not objectively bad in the slightest, many series have benefitted from one. Also, where did you see any plot armor?

@@Anim0sityy I mean the ending was bad becuz of the plot armor. Lucy knew what Arasaka (the bigass corp that enslaved her once) wanted to do with him and Lucy also stopped caring about the moon, her dream changed to him being with her, just a couple of words could have changed everyhting. Or just making chooms to earn $$$$ and then going to the moon. After all they already had an expensive flat and $$$, not to tell how dumb of him was to chrome up so much. Even David died thinking he fulfilled her dream when in reality he didn't. I can also talk about how dumb David's mom was for not breaking but meh.... let's leave it.

@@MrMadmaggot It sounds like you're just mad that everything didn't go exactly how you wanted it to for a happy ending, that's not the definition of plot armor, that's just a narrative. In a world where if you don't fit in with the Corpo bigwigs, your two alternatives are being a bum, or if you're lucky, poor, or doing illegal shit. If you weren't aware, doing illegal shit, especially in Cyberpunk's universe, is dangerous, so you'd want to get and upgrade shit tons of cyberware to ensure you don't die, and the line is too fine, most don't have the privilege of having a balance, they either aren't chromed enough and die and early death, or chrome up too much and go into cyberpsychosis. It's a cyberpunk tale through and through, you either go quietly with the flow of the corporations, or you fight back and get snuffed out, becoming something of a legend. David was always gonna die in that line of work.

Watch code geass

@Real time Entertainment sadness inducing

C H A D E N E R G Y

Because its only supposed to be a “loli” in the dictionary sense….. The freaks who wanted to cancel her probably thought different 🥶

I hate it because she's not even really a loli, she's just a woman that isn't traditionally busty or anything. If anything Becca is more like a gremlin trope, something Trigger uses in most of its series, than she is a loli lol. I hate that people see small chest and instantly think loli character also I'm very glad Becca got to stay. I love her.

@@Castardly I agree but in the interview and idk how close to actuality the wording they used was cdpr developer said “ lolis dont exist in cyberpunk” then she said trigger said “the loli stays” so it might be her interpretation/form of what was actually said. But also its bs cause when you got that weeb music on body heat radio. Ya theirs gonna be people that are gonna wanna make themselves like anime character or all cuties etc.

@@Castardly Loli: "young-looking girl" "small in frame" "age is ignored" Don't really see how that doesn't apply. I mean loli doesn't mean actually and literally a child so what's the problem here exactly?

same

I cried at the end, no worries lol

Incredibly dumb takes throughout, bravo

BRO THATS FACTS I BINGED IT LAST NIGHT AND FELT SO MANY FEELINGS THAT KILLED ME.

I got the same feeling from Devilman: Crybaby. That hollow feeling when you finish an amazing show, is so bittersweet.

I finished it in one night ....it was sad but I expected it so I'm not as depressed.

Yeah that's kind of why imo it felt a bit rushed. Not necessarly that the story didn't come through well enough, but because I liked the characters so much that I wanted to spend more time with them. Basically they only showed us their missions where someone died or something really major happened, while I would like to have seen them just doing a couple normal-ish missions and see them build up their relationships with each other and all of that good stuff (just to be clear I didn't want them to do 2 or 3 more seasons or anything, but maybe 15-20 episodes instead of 10). That being said I still absolutely loved the anime

binged it in one night and have been thinking about it for the past 3 days i just feel empty

Even crazier is the song was written for the game, probably a few years ago now, and TRIGGER was able to use an existing song from the game superbly in the anime.

I know right??

@whaaa t Reported

Edgerunners is great but Arcane is one level better simply because Edgerunners suffers from pacing issues. It did everything else right. While Arcane did everything right from the start imo.

@@GuyLogen Agreed. I loved Edgerunners, but Arcane S1 is possibly my favorite season of a show ever, animated or live action. Nearly flawless imo

@@Merlincat007 yep, Arcane is just impossible to even slightly compare it with edgerunners. This show is just fine, Arcane is a masterpiece

@@witcherpie Edgerunners is really good imo!

we haven't seen chainsaw man yet. hold your horses lol

" Lucy eventually making her dream come true" She didn't her dream was to be with David more than to go to the moon, it was even more painful to her to be there alone. She didn't just lose the one she loved the most: David, also all her friends from the gang. "Let me tell you something: when great storytelling l" I cannot agree with that either, the plot armor was there. Lucy not telling him her true dream and not telling him what she found on Tanaka's head, cause all that shit on the end. They both were ready to die for each other but they couldn't tell each other the truth?????? damn

@@MrMadmaggot yeah the ending ruined it so much for me. I know this genre isn't supposed to end well and most people are fine with that, but man I liked the characters and wanted them to be happy, lol. Endings like this make me rate a 10/10 show 7 at most. And the sad part is that the ending is the thing I remember the most (and the impression it left on me) and when that's not good in my eyes, I wouldn't recommend the show to anyone and probably forget it entirely.

@@tiltedbybox6118 You're entitled to your opinion of course, but in terms of story-telling, animation, cinematography, relatability, they truly hit the nail on this one. I take it you prefer a bit of a cliché happy ending instead of a human one, because that lack of communication on both Lucy and David is truly relatable in human behavior nowadays and is a perfectly placed example of how things could've gone totally different but didn't. I think saying you "wouldn't recommend the show to anyone and forget it entirely" is highly unfair to such a masterpiece since you said yourself you knew what you signed up for, "I know this genre isn't supposed to end well..". That was precisely their aim with the anime, to have us fully immerse in the Night City experience, hit us with so many different emotions and truly connect with the characters on a personal level. The fact that the ending hurt you, me, and all of its fans this much only proves how great a job they did. Props TRIGGER 👏

@@NahIdWinLobotomyKaisen I agree, although communication seems so "obvious" to us that's because we are the watchers and are aware it's the easiest answer. In today's society with all the social media that kind of stuff also doesn't happen. Communication is lacking even for the most mundane problems. Or at least that's my opinion on what I see from other people I know. Additionally Lucy was super scared of Arasaka. Just given her reaction shes was probably paranoid and wanted to handle it herself. That is a common human behavior, to handle things yourself so that the person you care about isn't burdened. To "shield" them from the danger you are aware of instead of asking for help. Is it the correct answer? No but it's a pitfall millions of people will fall into.

I ended up getting the game on sale last month and decided to watch the anime as well. I got reckt. I have now picked up the updated TTRPG that the game was based off of and will GM for the first time with some friends. It's interesting because the theme of the Cyberpunk is that you're not the hero destined to save the world, you're the bottom of the barrel just trying to survive, and regardless of you dying or your crew getting fucked, the world keeps spinning. The anime just captured that feeling so well.

I actually died laughing at the convoy smashing through traffic

When I first heard Trauma Team sounds immediately after some of the characters fucked up their client I laughed and screamed “it’s the exact same time limit like in the game”

@@Xottapchenko It goes to show that they do really care about the details and old cyberpunk 2020 material. They were eaten by development hell.

i love how in the english dub they say something along the lines of "dammit. ncpd just keeps on coming. it's like they are appearing out of thin air." One of the best references in the game.

Yeah he mentioned the music but it’s all actually from the game. Plus all the sound effects and yeah. Everything. I love it.

🙋‍♂️

Just like Gigguk said. I didn’t think Trigger had it in them to tell a cyberpunk story. It’s actually quite outside their wheelhouse. So they definitely blew my expectations

@@WhatsUrName0o7 Thing is Trigger mainly done animation and direction. Anime story is written by CDPR writers, together with Mike Pondsmith.

@@alexfaden3091 The basic story outline likely was about it. The animes entire script, all the characters and their designs, and the direction was done by Trigger. I think CDPR had far less to do with the result than some people want to admit

@@fearedjames script was literaly writen by game writers, together with Pondsmith. Same with characters. You can even find old character design created by cdpr artists before they were recreated in anime style. Trigger did animation, added some changes to characters and directed action scenes.

Yo I recognize your pfp, female fulgrim of the emperor’s children right? Love that artist’s 40k works.

if only the game is completed , so many idea and concept but they must rush it

It's in Cyberpunk universe so of course. But yeah I'm worried a bit because Netflix episode dumping might make it lose hype but I'm glad it wasn't the case with this anime

I fucking love everything in this anime

Giancarlo was fucking amazing

one of the few cases where dub is a lot better than sub imo

David VA gets hated on so much tho since he also dubs tanjiro from demon slayer. I love his VA

@@Ahgmimi In my opinion Esposito was even better

Bruh Becca was my fav character 😭😭😭

It was great, but the best visual storytelling? Nah. Watch any ep of texhnolyze, paprika, serial experiments lain, sonny boy, angles egg, 2001 nights, belladone of sadness, ext

@@scottgimple8107 tryna be different

@@Zenkaiwrld he is right tho

I felt like the production and how trigger handled it was absolutely phenomenal,l. But the story felt lacking. Like, even though there is this whole backstory element, it just exemplifies that his entire life revolves around edgerunning, with no real reason as to why. And this scene felt wrong to me just because I wasn’t that connected to the characters, as there isn’t really any time given to understand them in any way. Nor are many of them given any real intrigue except maine. Even the though the framing is just unparalleled, the substance of it just Isn’t there. Which is really a shame, because of how good everything looks and feels.

Yeah, my issue with current movies is that they spend too much time on exposition thus taking away from the movie itself. I wish more tv shows/movies would do something simple like you mentioned, it tells you about the character without taking away the flow of the show/movie.

You described my feelings perfectly, had a complete sense of emptiness, i could almost feel Lucy's emotions looking at her empty eyes, up alone on the moon without David. They really did deserve a happy ending, that's what makes it so tragic. I also cried like a bitch, not after watching it but the day afterwards, thinking about Lucy and David and what could've been even in relation to things that have happened in my own life, my own sense of loneliness at times. I think it's the saddest I have ever been having watched any show.

This. It's like having a good dream but then you wake up.

@@XBullitt16X no one gets a happy ending in night City

@@XBullitt16X I just finished it , and you explained it perfectly . I just feel empty . Almost like the anime was a brain dance and the end was like taking off the headset to reality. We truly got to experience the feeling of how citizens feel in nightcity everyday. This show is amazing

This isn't even the top 10 saddest endings in Anime - Go watch Madoka Magica or something, then come back.

Btw, what the heck is wrong with people on MyAnimeList. The dumbest shit I read in years is on their review list lol

Lucyna kushinada (Lucy) was of half Japanese half Polish origin

There's like 5 songs in polish altogether if I counted correctly

@@knownanonymous1791 That’s really cool, I am of Polish and Turkish heritage and I love seeing other rare combinations like mine

That song haunted me for days in my mind. I still get teared up if I hear it

You haven't watched Made in Abyss, Golden Kamuy and many more.

@@animerman2017 Evangelion

@@animerman2017 I have watched both of these.

Watch Devilman Crybaby

That’s what I love about their relationship… it feels realistic and chaotic

If you want slow go to every other anime where they can’t even hold hands after 100 episodes 😂

We got just a taste of love and then it was absolutely shattered and obliterated

@@justinmorales9597 I want it to be like one piece I would watch every single episode

I disagree. It felt rushed as fuck. The only thing that made it not seem as rushed is the chemistry that the characters have together

Correct. Him not being able to sleep is a HUGE indicator of the development cyberpsychosis also. Gotta love those subtle details put into this show.

I always had the theory that cyberpsychosis is inevitable once you get too chromed up in cyberpunk, but some rare peoples have a functional psychosis like Adam Smasher. He's a total nutjob and has all the symptoms of cyberpsychosis, it's just that it seems like he can "control" it.

@@sebk7168 and V

A good ripperdoc could help avoid cyberpsychosis

Rule of cool and the thematic nature of the show gives it a pass but using immune suppressant medication to stop psychotic episodes is laughable. It would have made more sense for individuals with lots of cybernetics to take anti psychotic injections and medications like invega in addition to their immune suppressants that would have been a nice touch. Though it would mean the psychosis is treatable which takes away the terminal illness vibes the show was giving.

it'd be almost 4h even when skipping OP and ED

Character development and story plot points were 100% on point

Lucy was my favourite, what a tragic fat for her character.

Watched the entire series in the night in one sitting, it's kinda blurry.

Bro can’t do math 😭

it really hits hard when you go "holy shit I stood in this place in night city once" popping some goon's head and stuff.

That’s the best part about it the producer and director of the anime both played the game in its entirety to get that exact experience of the game in The show

Like, they literally got game assets to work with; this isn't as much a labor of love as just copying CDPR's homework. Still good tho.

They even brought that puzzle mini-game as a part of hacking interface. XD

Night City is small so you get to remember lots of it compared to other games such as GTA. I enjoyed how most of the shots you can pretty much know what part of the city it is

Paid shill much? I mean, did anyone actually play the game other than for laughs at how broken it was?

@@ExodusCore i don't think you played it that's for sure, or you played for half an hour on a crappy ps4 and refunded

@@ExodusCore I played on PC at launch on a powerful rig and had a good time. Fav game of all time? Nah. But the city, the story telling and the music, the graphical tech, all stellar. The game shoulda never come out on last gen consoles, that I can agree with. Typical internet guy “YOU LIKE SOMETHING THAT I DONT, IMPOSSIBLE!!” Btw, Cyberpunk 2077 has a higher concurrent play record than the Witcher 3… so leave your dumb opinions at the door.

You can even recognize the various weapons, like how MAXTac is rocking Tech Rifles.

@@mrpetebojangles21 I played on an Xbox One X at launch and sure I had some bugs and frame skips when riding a bike too fast but it ran surprisingly well compared to many other people's experiences, and it runs smooth as butter now with patch 1.6 so I gotta disagree, the game definitely deserves to exist on last gen consoles

Yup gave me the cowboy bebop vibes, not many anime like that out there

@@bladebk5537 cause it’s character driven. Characters are more important than the overarching story

Solarpunk is real-under-represented.

I think a Cyberpunk anime spin-off to edge runners in the episodic fashion of cowboy bepop would also work (if the production quality of edgerunners is maintained)

Here is the full video: Best anime *ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hoOJZZibkaWqlJ8.html*

I cried* *more than i want to admit to

I heard that its better to play the game first but I dont feel like spending £50 to watch an anime so I watched it first but now I wont to play the game.

I finished it two days ago. I'm still crying.

Even more rarely for me cause this wasn't enough to get me to cry sadly.

…..

It was just a standard 'training montage' from any 80's movie. It's not that impressive tbh.

i played the game after the anime dropped said to myself it's time to play it before watching the anime and yep after 106 hours the game is a masterpiece music story characters writing gameplay wise then i watched the anime and it was great

It's pretty much fixed. The mod that completely rebalanced and fixed the game was essentially officially patched (the mod was taken down as a result).

I watched the anime but held off. It wasn't untill my friend and I got to talking about the show in person a week ago that he said: THEY FIXED THE GAME GO PLAY IT!! I'm like ok haven't stopped for a week to the point where my wife made her own character on her own profile and we are both playing the game. She hasn't watched the show yet though

Ifkrrrrr😂

Playing that song is so illegal, it's "Secret Base" level of crying on command

Fucking right ? It's already been a week since I've seen it and now that bittersweet song is stuck in my head again.

They just used characters you meet in certain canon gigs, like Johnny and Saboro and Adam Smasher. Took that storyline modified it and ran like hell with that ball. But all and all Mike Pondsmith did a phenomenal job with world building to make a truly dystopian world where all that matters is if you have the Eddie's to survive another day and if you have proper medical coverage. I found Cyberpunk RED. To be a bit more fun than the original for TTRPGS. But both are phenomenal. It was nice that CDPR gave anyone who bought a copy a code to get the original TTRPG as a free pdf from their site. I know a lot of people that actually got into the hobby because of that little freebie giveaway.

​@@tombombc wait, I totally missed that about getting a pdf copy of the original game. Does that count if you bought it on console!?

It may have been only in physical copies though. Sorry not 100% sure

There's a reason his name is plastered in the biggest font they could find in the opening credits.

@@danylerasu4917 Someone at Trigger tried to make people know about TTRPGs.

Honestly, I'm happy that we got a story with a definitive start and end. There's no coming back for the gang. They didn't get hit with the Soulkiller, shit most of them don't even have living relatives. The Edgerunners ended with David and that really hits home.

SPOILERS I wished for a happy ending between David and Lucy because they care so much about each other but what I got was honestly a better representation how much they actually care about each other

I feel like the entire ending sequence is perfect as a cyberpunk story as well. With the game and the show it's all about the journey and how everything builds to get to the final gig but once your there everything is already in place and for better or worse it's all going down and it's going down right now. The "final gig" is almost like its own entire story with character introductions and deaths and story arcs

Also I started playing Cyberpunk again due to the fact I want to make a David build

PAIN is all I feel

Yeah I have the same feeling. I had to force myself to watch the last two episodes even if I didn't want to. And now I feel empty. It's been three days since I finished watching and I can't get the ending out of my head

@@zyadabaza438 and DESTROY Adam Smasher with it,utterly humiliate him with it

Do you have a shareable anime Playlist? I use tidal for my music streaming. Or if you have a UKposts one I'd also accept that. I recently finished bleach and I love their OST especially Hajime No Ippo. Fucking amazing workout music. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽.

Indian here....can confirm.

Especially cause it's true. Indian traffic is GTA Online in Night City.

Yep. I almost woke my roommate up lmao

It's standard driving experience in India, although it's tame compared to 6pm Friday traffic on the streets of Bangalore lulz!!

Indians use sandevistan mode when they drive in traffic and crash

David Martinez has been a drink in the game for a while, way before the update, too

@@perilousloki4712 its reasonable to say the drink was included during the production of the anime since it only was added a couple months ago

@@perilousloki4712 that is so cool! I always assumed they added it in the Edgerunners update, I didn't realize it has always been in.

@@NotTsurugi It hasn't always been in the game, they added it in 1.5 and the Edgerunners update was 1.6. Still pretty cool of them to add it as foreshadowing of the anime to come

@@VilasNil Oh my bad for misreading what you said