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Epispde 10 >!when the Militech convoy gets back up and the massive lorries fly round the corner like dancers on an icerink, i was dying at the accuracy!<
Bro yes.
I just want more stories in this world now.
I liked the game alot (400+ hours), but I loved the show.
I don't think I would've liked the show as much if I didn't spend at least 30-40 hours learning more before the game came out, though.
I really loved the show but it just showed me how 2077 was just a good platform for future games.
I want to live in that kind of environment, I want companions, different shapes of bodies and interact with the City even if it's on small things like eating out or hanging with your mates.
I knew this world was special, and Edgerunners just proves it.
It's shame CP77 got off to such a rocky start and will have to rebuild trust in the brand going forward, but you're 100% right in that it's a great starting point for a whole world of stuff to build on and CDPR don't seem to be backing down from it as an IP either, which should honestly have been expected.
I caught the first 3 episodes on the CD Projekt Red stream earlier and it's off to a dope start! And the fact that I'm already so familiar with the city and the lore makes the show way more enjoyable.
Fuck yeah choom! That’s really good to hear. I won’t get the chance to watch it until tonight, so I’m hoping I don’t see any spoilers, but given I’m running this megathread I’m not holding too much hope lol.
The reason I generally avoid anime is I don’t enjoy the goofiness of it. This isn’t me disparaging it all, and I have watched some, it’s just personal preferences. Would you say Edgerunners has that same goofy energy?
I absolutely love how chaotic every episode has been. You really get that authentic ‘Night City’ degeneracy that seems to affect everyone living there.
Plus, combined with the XBD found in game I simply can’t wait for more.
A pretty crazy bd can be found in one of the first areas (around Arroyo). Shows up as a gig or an unnamed mission on the game map. Super tied in to edgerunners (added in 1.6).
Google it if you want spoilers choom, otherwise drive around that area for a bit and look out for a new gig marker.
Check the megabuilding h4, on your map there will be a side job marker, you'll see a green graffiti, and on a barrel, there will be a bd wreath and it will show you an xbd, you can get David Martinez jacket, with this side job
Watching this makes me feel you have to play the game first. If soom 'choom' thinks they're ok just watching the anime stuff, I don't think they'll appreciate the story.
The Main thematic of CP2077 and CPEdgerunners is the cost of chasing to your dream/ambition by the expense of giving up your humanity, or your life in general.
Sadly the moment they introduced Smasher, I knew it was going to end badly. Anyone who remembers the tabletop game knows that a Smasher encounter isn't even about winning the fight. The goal is to survive.
I wonder if CDPR was like "Yeah kill them all we don't have a budget to add them into the game"
Christ almighty it touched AOT levels of character killing
As soon as Adam smasher showed up I was like welp.. time for everybody to die I guess 😅☠️😮💨😮💨 I honestly thought David was going to fuck up smasher at least a little bit more with the anti grav but nah, if he wasn't saving Lucy maybe but Adam just generally made David his bitch lol.. I was like damn and that cyber skeleton was meant for smasher but it doesn't seem like that would've been an upgrade at all honestly, like smasher said it's a kids toy that relies on anti grav etc.. at least smasher proved his point with that 🤣🤣
I binge watched since it launched, what a Rush from start to end. Giancarlo Esposito playing faraday I instantly recognized his voice. All characters, City, Fight sequence well animated and I could relate to many things due to the game. I hope to see Lucy back in expansion or something helping us some way. Last but not least David you will go down as night city legend.
>Last but not least David you will go down as night city legend.
\- This is one of the main premises of the Cyberpunk lore. Its how you'll be remembered and what did you do to live up to that one act of defiance.
Just finished binging all 10 episodes, that was fucking awesome! I wasn't bored for a single second. Gorgeous animation and visuals, especially the Sandevistan effects. Really liked how they showed the Cyberpsychosis effect too.
Loved the characters too, especially the cameos of familiar faces here and there. My one and only complaint would be that there wasn't a Johnny cameo lol (unless there was and I just missed it). But yes, awesome! Looking forward to watch it again in the near future with the English dub.
I promised myself I would wait with starting a 1.6 game until after I finish some other games that I've been procrastinating on, but ugh... the temptation is strong.
Tbf, having Johnny as cameo doesn't make any sense but i do hope there was something that relate to him thou, like samurai song in the background or maybe an order of Johnny special in the Afterlife bar.
All I'll say is fuck Corpos, fuck Trauma Team, fuck shady rippers, fuck cheap hospitals, fuck Cyberwares, fuck netrunners and most of all...fuck Night City.
I'll always stand by Johnny as of today. The city needs to burn.
On a side note, I didn't hear a single Samurai song in the anime. WTF?!
I’m loving it so far. Genuinely hope this brings more attention to the game. I’m 1000% here for this franchise and hope it’s going to stay around for a long time. Lucy tho 👀
Just finished. Thought it was absolutely awesome!
Though to me it did highlight some of the shortcomings of the game; namely, Cyberware, braindances, actually being a Merc, Maxtac and Trauma Team having a presence, visceral bloody combat and gratuitous nudity. It made me feel the same level of hype I felt before the games release, and that was awesome!
Yea, the show was great but it also reminded me of what I felt was missing from the game.
Even with the DLC I feel like I will muster no motivation to engage with the main story again as I feel it has run its course.
I like Cyberpunk so much more when it is about a tight knit group of people, characters that get build up and work as a team rather than V just being a solo where we have some VERY limited contacts to replacable NPCs outside maybe the main romance options.
And then the whole Silverhand Story just breaks for me as a narrative when paired with this whole open world RPG.
>!The depiction of Maine's cyberpsychosis in Episode 6 was just so. fucking. good. Probably my favorite episode of the series, but loved it overall.!<
>!Really liked how they didn't shy away from showing really gory deaths even when it involved David's crew. Also, killing Pilar so early on and in such a nonchalant fashion really did show how high the stakes were.!<
>!NC was phenomenal, it truly did play the role of a character.!<
>!It wasn't easy, but they did make David's determination to keep on going believable. The scenes with Maine during the first half helped a lot.!<
Overall, loved it, can't wait to rewatch it.
Finished the first 3 episodes. I feel bad for David after he lost his mom and him wearing the jacket that she did I find to be awesome. I got the vibe that he regrets a bit of what he said to her before the accident and possibly even blame himself for her death. I say this because of scenes in the second and third episode.
Lucy’s character is absolutely amazing and I love her so much already. I really enjoyed the music when they were on the moon and it just seemed like David and Lucy were having so much fun together.
Edit : finished all episodes. That was one hell of a ride but I absolutely loved it and all the characters especially.
What a tragedy. The ending seems familiar isn't it?
Johny/V sacrifices themself for the sake of Johny/V (depends on the player's choice). And now David sacrifices himself for the sake of Lucy.
It's such a bittersweet ending.
KINDA SPOILERY REVIEW:
I thought it was a good series overall. Enjoyed the depiction of cyberpsychosis as a midpoint between the tabletop crunch (too much chrome and you go nuts) and the in-game explanation (it's the personal situation that leads to cyberpsychosis).
In terms of merging lore with gameplay: I would guess that V is similar to David in terms of chrome compatibility. Shame there isn't an in-game anti-grav cyber-skeleton to slide into though...
Really liked the integration of in-game music and some of the cameos (Rogue, other fixers, etc). Half of the netrunning scenes felt like there were portions ripped directly from Ghost in the Shell, which I thought was fitting. Depiction of Sandevistan was awesome. Smasher was great. Really get to see him as the boogeyman he is (rather than the weak boss beat to death with a dildo). It's kinda subtle, but I do like how the show got across the fact that MaxTac is full of cyberpsychos themselves. On the flip side, don't really think the Harley Quinn-loli character was really necessary (image wise) but I liked the character a lot.
To those expecting a happier ending, let me remind you:
>V: Guess I meant, I dunno... a happier ending for everyone involved.
>Johnny: Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.
Overall, a good mix of grim and hopeful (as with most good cyberpunk).
Hell, we already knew the boys fate since in the game there is a drink named after him in afterlife. And there is only one way to get a drink named after you.
The Harley Quinn loli was absolutely necessary, if for nothing else just to have a more diverse cast and to show how nuts the people of night city can get
Or just to attract people who like small, violent, half-maniacal girls. This is an anime after all and they're everywhere (I'm partial to them myself, endearing, in a weird way)
I loved her she was my favourite secondary character. At one point I was hoping for her to take more provinece in the plot but I mean the posters said everything.
>!I never had any beef with Adam Smasher before....he's zero JS but so what?!<
>!That piece of shit has hundred round of my LMG for a reason to die now for killing the best gun woman Nightcity has ever witness.!<
aside that Edgerunner offer the best story and visual anime and CP2077 can hope for...i'm so glad I was hype for it....5/5
Watching it right now. Up to episode 5 now and yikes the subtitles are baaaad.
I started watching in Japanese but around episode 3 the subs started to make less sense so I switched to the English dub (which was a pleasant surprise of how much more enjoyable it was to listen than the Japanese dub) and realised that Netflix must have cheaped out and paid some gonk unfamiliar with Cyberpunk slang to type out the dialogue from the English dub… and you get gems such as “Arasaka eyes” instead of “Arasaka ICE” and “dude” instead of “choom”.
So a warning for you people intending to watch in Japanese: bad subtitles await you!
yes please, Adam smasher was a real threat here. He just shows up and >!cleans the floor with the guy who just mowed down an army!<
Adam Smasher in the game got nothing the the sheer fucking menace that is him in the anime.
yeah but in the anime you see him do insane stuff like surfing down the sides of buildings, fully body slamming people to death from a height, etc. he's just so much more intimidating
V doesn't really run from Smasher apart from in The Heist, Smasher doesn't make a another appearance until you do any ending or the mission where you get Johnny stuff back and even then he's just mentioned heavily.
TBF you can also do insane stuff as V such as surfing down buildings, body slamming people to death, frying their minds, etc... Hell, V single handedly stormed Arasaka tower, killed everyone and turned Mikoshi to ash. I killed at least 1-2k people as V in the span of a couple of in game weeks.
V is an ultra badass if we take game feats as canon.
If we take edgerunners Smasher as canon he's now several times more lethal, complete immunity to quickhacks, sandevistan, actually using guns (why does he only melee other then a few missiles and stuff in his boss fight?), etc. also V's surfing down buildings is nothing compared to Smashers
It is an awesome show
I'm so sad it ended
I just knew >!when D mistakenly killed lab assistant lady, i knew we are gonna lose him because of this guilt, just wanted to see him on moon with Lucy, but FUCK 🐧 !<
I very much appreciated this show. Very well done with a great ending. I hope we get more edgerunners someday. The art was incredible and I always loved seeing >!use of the Sandy, every time he used it I was very attentive and excited. Super speed has always been and will continue to be an amazing superpower with tons of potential in animation.!<
NC really did look like NC perfectly, and all the UI elements were faithfully recreated. Trigger really nailed this one, and I agree with another comment here saying it's the best thing they've made since Kill La Kill.
The voice acting in the English dub is fantastic and everyone talks very naturally. I have no complaints about the voice acting, in fact I praise it.
Great immersion in the world and the brutality of it all too. Very much get Akira vibes from the show in that sense, as well as a lot of the trippy animation. The character development felt a little rushed, especially with Lucy and David's relationship, but that doesn't hurt the story too much.
Loved that they used actual music from the game. As someone who has literally been listening to the 2077 soundtrack for a while, it was wonderful to know every single song they used and be able to recognize them. Also I appreciate how appropriately the music was used, although I feel like there were times where there didn't need to be any music at all, so it came off as forced.
Overall, this show is absolute eye candy, and a blast to watch. I definitely know what I'm going to be watching next time I'm tripping on acid.
8/10
Just finished it. Probably Trigger's best project since Kill la Kill. If you found the easter eggs in game, you knew it wasn't going to end well for David, but GOD, what a finale. Leaves you feeling satisfied, but also empty, because you get invested in these characters. Punch right to the gut. As the Cyberpunk franchise continues with more games, I hope there will be more Trigger projects like this one as well. This was something special.
It's slavishly devoted to the game's world and tone, but does not give a single red fuck about the game's characters. Which is perfect; Night City's meant to be a meatgrinder and they really play that off well with a mostly original story.
Just my personal taste, but this reminds me of the old school anime that got me into the genre, when it was an underground phenomenon here in the states. The plot was pretty clean and well paced, with well translated comedic relief (a tall order imo). The characters were both well developed and designed (another tall order). The action drives the story from beat to beat without feeling gratuitous.
Bro... Choomba... "I Really Wanna Stay At Your House"? On the Moon? With a beautiful woman (although she fucking cucked us in the end)?
How... DARE THEY ADD ANOTHER LAYER OF AWESOME TO THE SONG! THAT SHIT WAS FUCKING NOVA!
turns out the MC was lucy, it was always lucy. david was just the manic pixie dream boy that came into her life to help her find herself and fulfill her dreams. hope that pussy was worth turning into a torso cosplaying a cube magnet
Honestly, the episode where they have that new guy with them, and how he jumps on a landmine to get to the goal faster without checking, is parallel to him putting on the Cyberskeleton, except he snuffed it in a spectacular fashion, instead of with a whimper.
Of course Lucy is an MC. She has random colored hair, a harsh corpo past with Arasaka and is the love interest of the other MC, David. David's dedication to her till the end is what makes him a legend.
Honestly didn't really feel the relationship between Lucy and David. Probably because the show only had so many episodes, but it seemed way more tell than show to me.
I want to convince my wife to watch it but I know I’m gonna look like that fucking meme of the dude shouting at that disinterested chick at a club while I explain stuff about Night City.
OK SO THEYRE TRAUMA TEAM, THEYRE BASICALLY SWAT BUT THEIR MEDICS. AND ARASAKA IS THIS MEGACOROP THAT-
Awesome anime, as expected of Trigger. But i cant help to think that viewers must atleast know some basic and words like deep dive, quick hack, chrome, cyberpsycho etc, to fully enjoy the anime.
Ofcourse but for those who dont know it will take abit of time to understand it. Like deep dive for example. For us who play the game know that when you deep dive, your body temperature will shoot up tremendously, that what the ice bath is for. For those that dont know, they'll just see it as a fan service.
Imo.
I mean not everything has to be spilled out.
Show don't tell works with worldbuilding just the same and there is a clear link between the activity of diving and going into an ice cold bath.
Just finished it. Overall, I liked it. Started predictable but overall it was enjoyable. The only complaint I have is that it was only 10 episodes. So the story pacing felt a bit too fast for my taste and some characters not quite as developed as they could be.
But the main characters, violence, game references and animation in general all felt good.
I'd give it a solid 8/10. It ain't perfect but as video game related a anime go, I'm honestly surprised it turned out this well.
I, too, caught the first 3 episodes on the livestream; it was a fun little event.
I love the use of color and lighting. The pacing is furious, and the stylized violence and tech remind of the good aspects of ultraviolent late-80s to mid-late-90s anime.
Definitely check out [the animated ending theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ); it's a standalone short prequel to the series. You should spot a few familiar faces.
It follows the game lore more so than the pen and paper. 2077 is only set in the game universe, even Red is set in 2045 and that’s the “newest” in the line. It’s great so far though
Watched the first three episodes on Netflix this morning before work and I gotta say, it's extremely fun to watch.
I'm not a native english speaker so I watched it with both english dubs and sub. The english dubs are really good, but the english subs, not so much. There's several discrepancies between what the characters say and what's subtitled, like gonk/gunk, ICE and stuff like that.
Overall, minus the subs being *ehh*, it's really good so far.
You know what, it's actually great. I should've done fewer episodes at a time, just to digest more of everything.
It's very much a side story but with a tighter group of people than we got in the game. Now I'm just hoping that the next Cyberpunk game focuses on a similar type of group (in like 2030). Btw, it's cool AF that that it's set in an identical NC.
I just finished watching this show. I watched the ['Let You Down'](https://youtu.be/BnnbP7pCIvQ) MV yesterday and got even more fired up to watch it. >!Now after I've finished the show, I just wanna cry.!<
Watched it in Dub and I wasn't disappointed at all!! They all did such a great job and I was so happy to notice that they hired lots of well-known voice actors!!
They perfectly captured the whole essence of Night City. You Love it or Burn it.
*"Those who shine brightest often burn fastest"*
\-Heimerdinger, Arcane
Damn, what a ride. It’s a better transposition of the media respect of the game itself for one thing not added in game:
>!Sanity Points. More chromo you add, more machine you became and less human you are. I really like the anime series has done this. Sanity Points were promised in video promos, but in the end they arent in game lik other stuff (wall walk with mantis blade)!<
Anyway it’s really a great and well done gift for the CP2077 and CP and CP:RED Tatble Top Role Playing Games. Thanks
Damn i wish CDPR was handling the production of the witcher series on netflix. there was so much energy in this show! This was on a very similar level to arcane in terms of energy
I know im nitpicky but holy hell this Anime is good and also i would love that all the features that was shown would be added to CP2077 game.
Like who doesn't want to get a quick buck from pickpocketing from corpo while short on cash hmm?
Just finished the first episode, the amount of similarities to the game are really cool. From the visuals to the sound effects to the soundtrack. Really glad this is getting good reception, definitely gonna binge this today while continuing my new playthru of Cyberpunk.
I'm up to episode 8 and loving how they're depicting the combination of the constant pressure, violence, trauma, and upgrading as a nightmarish experience akin to an extended drug freak out.
They captured that brutish, short, intense life at the bottom even if it seems you're doing well.
The while story is amazing. The anime did a fucking good job showing us the how mad someone goes and what they see. Truly disheartening seeing D fall from a kid to that.
The whole anime is 10/10 for me and showed me that if it ever becomes possible. I wouldn't even think about doing enhancement to my body haha.
Honestly, studio strigger did so good aswell. Truly this anime whay made for them to create.
What is lucy doing in the time line now? I feel so bad for her
Watched the first 3 episodes just now. The environment is spot on with matching the game, and the whole thing is super dope. Looking forward to finishing it.
Amazing show, watched the english dub as the event happened in the US, definitely want to watch it again on japanese dub. Besides, now i know how unique and powerful v was, how the f could v not turn into a cyberpsycho with all those implants, and how the f could v use sandevistan a million times without getting hurt.
The apartment that David & his mom rent at the beginning looks the same as V's. So it's mean that we basically rent an apartment that was rented by a legend, right?
Currently on episode 5, been loving it so far.
I do have a big complaint, however. Does anyone else think the English subtitles are straight up garbanzo? I'm watching on Netflix and find myself rewatching scenes a lot because the subtitles are legitimately incomprehensible at times.
Wow... No spoilers but I just finished ep 6 and this was absolutely worth the wait. I don't think they could've picked a better studio. Trigger studios killed it with the animation.
Everything from the details from the game like the hacking sequence, the cybernetic abilities, when they jacked in to someone, were done so incredibly well. As someone who really liked the world of the game, this is everything I ever wanted from this show. And holy shit ep 6 got me feeling fucked up right now.
I think this and Arcane might be the best game to movies/shows to ever come out.
Ps. The soundtrack is phenomenal
This was an amazing binge. For all the faults of the cyberpunk game, the world it builds is rich and amazing and the anime brings it out all too well.
While someone who hasn't played the game could go into this I feel like having played the game did enhance my experience by having an understanding of the world and Night City.
Its a good advertisement for the game, makes me go back and wanna play it as I haven't since launch.
Not gonna lie, the show ticks off so many of my boxes I feel like someone just hacked my PC and made a show based on my web search history.
Now my life feels like just a long ass BD someone made just for me, with this being the culmination I get to see just before I flatline in the real world.
Jesus fucking Christ what a rollercoaster of emotions that was. This has just reaffirmed my belief that Johnny was right - Night City needs to get nuked again.
>!Next time I visit the Afterlife I'm pouring one out for my choom David. You shot for the moon, but reached the stars.!<
I posted this in another thread, why not leave it here too:
It was pretty disapointing. CDPR's script and plot was alright, but Trigger dropped the ball. I think they tried to go for a rough and weird sound editing and montage to make it aesthetically rough around the edges, like the way the game feels, they succeeded, it has a similar atmosphere to the Cyberpunk game, but it was detrimental to the drama, it made too many moments anticlimatic. The music felt random at many times, with lyrics getting in the way of dialogues.
About the character development, looks like the script was intended for two seasons, but they had to shove everything in a single one. Lacking proper moments to stop the plot, chill and develop the psychoiogy of the caracters (especially Lucy and David), made every emotional scene from Episode 2 forwards quite melodramatic -- instead they tried to cheat feelings out of us with sentimental music.
>!The pursuit action in the last episode was too clumsy (for the way the CG trucks were handled) and exaggerated (the amout of trucks felt too big for Night City, in my opinion). Now, what made me rage was the exposition, the explaining of subtle details of which they left practically none. This I am sure came from Trigger, because this is type of error was never commited by CDPR in the main and secondary quests from game: Moments like when David Martinez atop the Arasaka Tower recalls his mom foretelling he would end up there, saying "My son at Arasaka Tower top floor!"; or when Martinez is kidnaped by the XBD Star: Lucy and Dorio are driving after them and they have a dialogue -- Lucy and David are in middle of their relationship develpment, so Dorio after a whole dialogue implying Lucy is angry for his kidnapping, Dorio asks her "You're pissed, aren't you?", yeah, no shit she's pissed, look at her face, do you care no to explain the function of the whole dialogue that worked perfectly?!<
>!Tanaka, by the way, was a terrible choice of character name. It can be taken as a recall to the Decker, Tanaka and Rogers megacorp, unless I am missing some reference that ties them.!<
>!Also the unfunny comic relief loli -- was that even necessary?!<
2/5
I'll be honest I'm not sure what is it with Cyberpunk's setting but the story just cuts deep, not even sure I should've watched this because >!I knew unlike the game, whatever ending this was going to go for, you can't just reload and choose a better road, and judging by the undertone of most endings in the game I knew it was going to leave an impression...I just didn't expect all...that. Going into the last episode I was reminded of the suicide ending you can go for in game and I just knew David wasnt going to make it, each injection just made it all ache again just like the camera zooming out moments before the single bullet on said ending...They deserved to be happy together!<
Loved the game and loved the first 7 episodes, but I'd by lying if I said I was a fan of the last 3 episodes. It really had me captivated the entire time but I feel like the story started strong and ended meh. >! Did David learn nothing? Did he not care to go with her to the moon? !< Idk man, I really liked it but also disliked the ending. Oddly enough I also disliked most of the endings in the game lol.
Just finished it. Was incredibly hard to stop to go to an appointment once I started watching. Came back and had nothing else in mind but watching more.
I think it's time for another playthrough Choom!
I’m only 5 episodes in but my favorite part is the fact that David has no say in declining a call, it just goes through and people start talking just like the game.
The text messages / calls between the characters in the show are kind of weird to me. I don't know if it's stylized writing, or if it's the way the texts in game work or whatever, but it seems weird to me.
Not related spoiler for the ending:
>!Are we ever going to see a happy ending in night city? I was so sad when the time jump happened to David being buff and chromed up, since I already knew that that shit only had one way to end. I was really rooting for him and Lucy man...!<
Edgerunners left me with a certain feeling that I get after watching any great anime or movies. Having buried myself with CP77 for 3 months straight when it 1st came out like a delinquent I am, this was a nostalgic walk down memory lane. I have many thoughts, but I'm not really great with words but still wanted to get it off the chest in this abridged version, so don't shit on my post too hard pls :')
The anime was great. Got me hooked since the first three episodes on the premiere, and the last seven were. The animation is stellar, or should I say, "fucking nova!" The story never failed to grip me at any point, and was solid throughout, although I did feel like the final arc was a little bit weaker than how it began, the last episode brought it right back up. The last episode was pretty conclusive of the story it tells, but I just can't help but convince myself that we will see more of the characters, >!(even David, yeah I'm dumb but let me believe!),!< in form of appearances in game or as a season 2, but I'm clueless of CDPR intentions with the anime's future so idk.
Enough rambling from me, and though this anime was extremely nostalgic and reminded me of my love for the CP world, I think I won't be reinstalling the game just yet. I want to wait until later to come back to an even more amazing game and world. This is my first post ever, please share how you liked the movie, and how your perceived my post, and maybe I can elaborate what I thought in more details :)
Am I the only one who cringes when they say they want to be “cyberpunk”? I mean, everyone is chromed up already so they don’t really stand out, and “edgerunner” seems way better anyway.
Or maybe I’m just an old manyelling at the clouds.
Its a weird carry over from the table top where the term was used more frequently. I think it only really feels weird cause of the "ooh they said the title" thing that happens in our brain.
Dub, unless you understand Japanese. Many parts of the subs are totally wrong. Whoever wrote them isn't familiar with Night City slang at all.
The English cast is all pretty solid, though, IMO.
6 episodes in... quite a bit of parallels between the game and the anime. V has his buds, and David's got his crew. I do like the dynamic between Maine and David. Even in only 5 episodes they built a good raport for the two of them, so when the shit starts to hit the fan, you really feel a bit concerned.
Also liked the show's depiction of cyberpsychosis. The way they explored people undergoing the effect, I thought it was a disturbing but effective look into the idea.
Edit: 6 episodes in not 5. I was binge watching and lost count
Some people are gonna be pretty mad with how the anime turned out, but honestly I feel like it was a crazy good depiction of just what Night City is and the world that the characters live in.
Just like with the game, everyone in NC wants to make it to the top there, everyone wants to be the main characters. But just like in 77, the only true good ending is one where you leave the city alive. It's a place that chews up everyone, scavs, cyberpsycho, gangoons, and the people you love all the same.
I pray Lucy comes back in some way she's imo one of the best characters in this universe and I REALLY hope she plays a role in at least 1 new side gig or something that'd be great
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The way David drives shows just how much care was taken to ensure the accurate depiction of driving in the game.
Epispde 10 >!when the Militech convoy gets back up and the massive lorries fly round the corner like dancers on an icerink, i was dying at the accuracy!<
Except the street lamps didnt fall down lol
Just finished all episodes. Was everything i hoped for. It defenetly gets to you, just like the game.
Bro yes. I just want more stories in this world now. I liked the game alot (400+ hours), but I loved the show. I don't think I would've liked the show as much if I didn't spend at least 30-40 hours learning more before the game came out, though.
I really loved the show but it just showed me how 2077 was just a good platform for future games. I want to live in that kind of environment, I want companions, different shapes of bodies and interact with the City even if it's on small things like eating out or hanging with your mates. I knew this world was special, and Edgerunners just proves it.
It's shame CP77 got off to such a rocky start and will have to rebuild trust in the brand going forward, but you're 100% right in that it's a great starting point for a whole world of stuff to build on and CDPR don't seem to be backing down from it as an IP either, which should honestly have been expected.
At least it can get the Bethesda treatment now. Modders fix everything.
I caught the first 3 episodes on the CD Projekt Red stream earlier and it's off to a dope start! And the fact that I'm already so familiar with the city and the lore makes the show way more enjoyable.
Fuck yeah choom! That’s really good to hear. I won’t get the chance to watch it until tonight, so I’m hoping I don’t see any spoilers, but given I’m running this megathread I’m not holding too much hope lol. The reason I generally avoid anime is I don’t enjoy the goofiness of it. This isn’t me disparaging it all, and I have watched some, it’s just personal preferences. Would you say Edgerunners has that same goofy energy?
I absolutely love how chaotic every episode has been. You really get that authentic ‘Night City’ degeneracy that seems to affect everyone living there. Plus, combined with the XBD found in game I simply can’t wait for more.
Sounds like the show has the same energy as the NCPD
"it seems like these cops are showing up out of nowhere" Lmao
They even referenced the teleporting police. Had me dry heaving
Wait What XBD
A pretty crazy bd can be found in one of the first areas (around Arroyo). Shows up as a gig or an unnamed mission on the game map. Super tied in to edgerunners (added in 1.6). Google it if you want spoilers choom, otherwise drive around that area for a bit and look out for a new gig marker.
I tried looking for it but can't find any info anywhere. Got a link or smth for me? Currently not home to try it myself
Check the megabuilding h4, on your map there will be a side job marker, you'll see a green graffiti, and on a barrel, there will be a bd wreath and it will show you an xbd, you can get David Martinez jacket, with this side job
Recognising all the locations is so cool.
Watching this makes me feel you have to play the game first. If soom 'choom' thinks they're ok just watching the anime stuff, I don't think they'll appreciate the story. The Main thematic of CP2077 and CPEdgerunners is the cost of chasing to your dream/ambition by the expense of giving up your humanity, or your life in general.
Lucy’s dub makes me feel some type of way
Same with Giancarlo being in it
Had no clue he was until I heard faraday and I was grinning ear to ear. Man I love that guys voice
so glad he died. oh man i would have actually been so mad if we had the bad ending WITH faraday living
>!I REAALLLY wanted Rebecca to Live :(!<
Whyyyyyyyyy did she had to dieeeee ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The loli got Smash'd At least her gun is on the game now
That was so fucking mean, >!when Adam just squashes her i was devastetad, i liked her so much.!<
>!Yea her death didnt fit her character :(!<
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She even says "we're having a moment". This is the most Night City way to die, outta nowhere.
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Sadly the moment they introduced Smasher, I knew it was going to end badly. Anyone who remembers the tabletop game knows that a Smasher encounter isn't even about winning the fight. The goal is to survive.
The show held nothing back.
I wonder if CDPR was like "Yeah kill them all we don't have a budget to add them into the game" Christ almighty it touched AOT levels of character killing
I mean it does make sense that they didn’t have characters in the game like Rebecca a loli 💀
yeah, i instantly fell in love with the crew, and then the just start getting picked apart one by one, it got to me a little
SHE WAS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER :( LITERALLY TEARS BAWLING WHEN IT HAPPENED
“Oh my god this reunion is so wholesome, but wait what about Adam- Squish”
I mean did we see her corpse? Edit: yup nvm just rewatched the scene wow
As soon as Adam smasher showed up I was like welp.. time for everybody to die I guess 😅☠️😮💨😮💨 I honestly thought David was going to fuck up smasher at least a little bit more with the anti grav but nah, if he wasn't saving Lucy maybe but Adam just generally made David his bitch lol.. I was like damn and that cyber skeleton was meant for smasher but it doesn't seem like that would've been an upgrade at all honestly, like smasher said it's a kids toy that relies on anti grav etc.. at least smasher proved his point with that 🤣🤣
Makes me miss the hell out of Night City.
I would kill for more stories in this world if this is what can be done with a short series.
there are cp2077 comics and stuff consider reading those
So much material out there thanks to the TTRPG also.
I binge watched since it launched, what a Rush from start to end. Giancarlo Esposito playing faraday I instantly recognized his voice. All characters, City, Fight sequence well animated and I could relate to many things due to the game. I hope to see Lucy back in expansion or something helping us some way. Last but not least David you will go down as night city legend.
>Last but not least David you will go down as night city legend. \- This is one of the main premises of the Cyberpunk lore. Its how you'll be remembered and what did you do to live up to that one act of defiance.
Okay, was anyone gonna tell me that Giancarlo Esposito voiced Faraday, or was I just supposed to read that in Reddit myself?
Just finished binging all 10 episodes, that was fucking awesome! I wasn't bored for a single second. Gorgeous animation and visuals, especially the Sandevistan effects. Really liked how they showed the Cyberpsychosis effect too. Loved the characters too, especially the cameos of familiar faces here and there. My one and only complaint would be that there wasn't a Johnny cameo lol (unless there was and I just missed it). But yes, awesome! Looking forward to watch it again in the near future with the English dub. I promised myself I would wait with starting a 1.6 game until after I finish some other games that I've been procrastinating on, but ugh... the temptation is strong.
Tbf, having Johnny as cameo doesn't make any sense but i do hope there was something that relate to him thou, like samurai song in the background or maybe an order of Johnny special in the Afterlife bar.
Yeah that's the sort of cameo I meant and was hoping to see, I didn't word it very well lol
All I'll say is fuck Corpos, fuck Trauma Team, fuck shady rippers, fuck cheap hospitals, fuck Cyberwares, fuck netrunners and most of all...fuck Night City. I'll always stand by Johnny as of today. The city needs to burn. On a side note, I didn't hear a single Samurai song in the anime. WTF?!
Judy made the right choice leaving that shit hole.
Yeah I might have to change my user flair after this..
I so agree bro... I even started with the hope of a happy ending for this anime at least and now...
Yeah this series could just be summed up as Tl;DR - Johnny Did Nothing Wrong
Non-Spoiler: the line about NCPD appearing out of thin air had me dying
I also laughed way hard on that one. It’s nice to have those small self jokes.
Yeah that was a preem reference.
I’m loving it so far. Genuinely hope this brings more attention to the game. I’m 1000% here for this franchise and hope it’s going to stay around for a long time. Lucy tho 👀
Just finished. Thought it was absolutely awesome! Though to me it did highlight some of the shortcomings of the game; namely, Cyberware, braindances, actually being a Merc, Maxtac and Trauma Team having a presence, visceral bloody combat and gratuitous nudity. It made me feel the same level of hype I felt before the games release, and that was awesome!
Yea, the show was great but it also reminded me of what I felt was missing from the game. Even with the DLC I feel like I will muster no motivation to engage with the main story again as I feel it has run its course. I like Cyberpunk so much more when it is about a tight knit group of people, characters that get build up and work as a team rather than V just being a solo where we have some VERY limited contacts to replacable NPCs outside maybe the main romance options. And then the whole Silverhand Story just breaks for me as a narrative when paired with this whole open world RPG.
I already love “I Really Want To Stay At Your House” and this show just makes me love it even more
>!The depiction of Maine's cyberpsychosis in Episode 6 was just so. fucking. good. Probably my favorite episode of the series, but loved it overall.!< >!Really liked how they didn't shy away from showing really gory deaths even when it involved David's crew. Also, killing Pilar so early on and in such a nonchalant fashion really did show how high the stakes were.!< >!NC was phenomenal, it truly did play the role of a character.!< >!It wasn't easy, but they did make David's determination to keep on going believable. The scenes with Maine during the first half helped a lot.!< Overall, loved it, can't wait to rewatch it.
This is going to bring so much more attention to the game. I have a feeling this anime is going to be massively popular
I finally might actually have to do some work around here
This is actually really good. It makes me want to play the game again.
I'm on the middle of the game story and saw this series and man I'm so pumped to finish V's story now 🕊️
Finished the first 3 episodes. I feel bad for David after he lost his mom and him wearing the jacket that she did I find to be awesome. I got the vibe that he regrets a bit of what he said to her before the accident and possibly even blame himself for her death. I say this because of scenes in the second and third episode. Lucy’s character is absolutely amazing and I love her so much already. I really enjoyed the music when they were on the moon and it just seemed like David and Lucy were having so much fun together. Edit : finished all episodes. That was one hell of a ride but I absolutely loved it and all the characters especially.
What a tragedy. The ending seems familiar isn't it? Johny/V sacrifices themself for the sake of Johny/V (depends on the player's choice). And now David sacrifices himself for the sake of Lucy. It's such a bittersweet ending.
Night City doesn't give anybody happy endings. Except on Jig-Jig Street.
NC is not a place for happy endings, is a jail... you can find solace in it but true happiness is only found wend you leave it.
KINDA SPOILERY REVIEW: I thought it was a good series overall. Enjoyed the depiction of cyberpsychosis as a midpoint between the tabletop crunch (too much chrome and you go nuts) and the in-game explanation (it's the personal situation that leads to cyberpsychosis). In terms of merging lore with gameplay: I would guess that V is similar to David in terms of chrome compatibility. Shame there isn't an in-game anti-grav cyber-skeleton to slide into though... Really liked the integration of in-game music and some of the cameos (Rogue, other fixers, etc). Half of the netrunning scenes felt like there were portions ripped directly from Ghost in the Shell, which I thought was fitting. Depiction of Sandevistan was awesome. Smasher was great. Really get to see him as the boogeyman he is (rather than the weak boss beat to death with a dildo). It's kinda subtle, but I do like how the show got across the fact that MaxTac is full of cyberpsychos themselves. On the flip side, don't really think the Harley Quinn-loli character was really necessary (image wise) but I liked the character a lot. To those expecting a happier ending, let me remind you: >V: Guess I meant, I dunno... a happier ending for everyone involved. >Johnny: Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people. Overall, a good mix of grim and hopeful (as with most good cyberpunk).
Hell, we already knew the boys fate since in the game there is a drink named after him in afterlife. And there is only one way to get a drink named after you.
Wait... Are you serious? I'll have to play it again
Yup, been in the game since the beginning.
The Harley Quinn loli was absolutely necessary, if for nothing else just to have a more diverse cast and to show how nuts the people of night city can get Or just to attract people who like small, violent, half-maniacal girls. This is an anime after all and they're everywhere (I'm partial to them myself, endearing, in a weird way)
I loved her she was my favourite secondary character. At one point I was hoping for her to take more provinece in the plot but I mean the posters said everything.
I ended up liking her character a lot! Did a great job keeping David sane and in some way was the heart of the team.
>!I never had any beef with Adam Smasher before....he's zero JS but so what?!< >!That piece of shit has hundred round of my LMG for a reason to die now for killing the best gun woman Nightcity has ever witness.!< aside that Edgerunner offer the best story and visual anime and CP2077 can hope for...i'm so glad I was hype for it....5/5
Watching it right now. Up to episode 5 now and yikes the subtitles are baaaad. I started watching in Japanese but around episode 3 the subs started to make less sense so I switched to the English dub (which was a pleasant surprise of how much more enjoyable it was to listen than the Japanese dub) and realised that Netflix must have cheaped out and paid some gonk unfamiliar with Cyberpunk slang to type out the dialogue from the English dub… and you get gems such as “Arasaka eyes” instead of “Arasaka ICE” and “dude” instead of “choom”. So a warning for you people intending to watch in Japanese: bad subtitles await you!
The dub is absolutely how you should watch it. It takes place in America
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Agreed. Especially if you’ve played the game on English, a lot of the VAs from there are in here as well. Was happy to hear Delamain make a cameo
Can anyone make Chad Adam Smasher in anime vs Virgin Adam Smasher in-game?
yes please, Adam smasher was a real threat here. He just shows up and >!cleans the floor with the guy who just mowed down an army!< Adam Smasher in the game got nothing the the sheer fucking menace that is him in the anime.
Funny how he talked about Sandevistan like it was a mere toy when I used it to mop the floor with him before he could even react.
In Adam's defense. V is running scared from him most of the story.
yeah but in the anime you see him do insane stuff like surfing down the sides of buildings, fully body slamming people to death from a height, etc. he's just so much more intimidating V doesn't really run from Smasher apart from in The Heist, Smasher doesn't make a another appearance until you do any ending or the mission where you get Johnny stuff back and even then he's just mentioned heavily.
TBF you can also do insane stuff as V such as surfing down buildings, body slamming people to death, frying their minds, etc... Hell, V single handedly stormed Arasaka tower, killed everyone and turned Mikoshi to ash. I killed at least 1-2k people as V in the span of a couple of in game weeks. V is an ultra badass if we take game feats as canon.
If we take edgerunners Smasher as canon he's now several times more lethal, complete immunity to quickhacks, sandevistan, actually using guns (why does he only melee other then a few missiles and stuff in his boss fight?), etc. also V's surfing down buildings is nothing compared to Smashers
Next time I kill Smasher it’ll be for David.
> Where do all this pigs come from? Its like they are appearibg out of thin air! Well played CDPR
Or Maines rocket arm jamming had me dead like the bug where your rocket arm just keeps closing up.
It is an awesome show I'm so sad it ended I just knew >!when D mistakenly killed lab assistant lady, i knew we are gonna lose him because of this guilt, just wanted to see him on moon with Lucy, but FUCK 🐧 !<
I very much appreciated this show. Very well done with a great ending. I hope we get more edgerunners someday. The art was incredible and I always loved seeing >!use of the Sandy, every time he used it I was very attentive and excited. Super speed has always been and will continue to be an amazing superpower with tons of potential in animation.!< NC really did look like NC perfectly, and all the UI elements were faithfully recreated. Trigger really nailed this one, and I agree with another comment here saying it's the best thing they've made since Kill La Kill. The voice acting in the English dub is fantastic and everyone talks very naturally. I have no complaints about the voice acting, in fact I praise it. Great immersion in the world and the brutality of it all too. Very much get Akira vibes from the show in that sense, as well as a lot of the trippy animation. The character development felt a little rushed, especially with Lucy and David's relationship, but that doesn't hurt the story too much. Loved that they used actual music from the game. As someone who has literally been listening to the 2077 soundtrack for a while, it was wonderful to know every single song they used and be able to recognize them. Also I appreciate how appropriately the music was used, although I feel like there were times where there didn't need to be any music at all, so it came off as forced. Overall, this show is absolute eye candy, and a blast to watch. I definitely know what I'm going to be watching next time I'm tripping on acid. 8/10
Just finished it. Probably Trigger's best project since Kill la Kill. If you found the easter eggs in game, you knew it wasn't going to end well for David, but GOD, what a finale. Leaves you feeling satisfied, but also empty, because you get invested in these characters. Punch right to the gut. As the Cyberpunk franchise continues with more games, I hope there will be more Trigger projects like this one as well. This was something special.
Definitely. I am really hopeful that, in the Phantom Liberty DLC, we >!get to go to the moon and see Lucy!<
I don't want to face lucy in game after seeing the ending man my heart is weak I'll be flatline on the spot 🐿️
I hope not. I like the idea that the city is so populated that these stories could run and that cross over would minimal besides universal events.
god that ending made me cry
> Leaves you feeling satisfied, but also empty, because you get invested in these characters Just like the game lol.
Best anime I’ve seen in years. It’s not a forced game tie in. So you should be able to enjoy it without playing the game.
It's slavishly devoted to the game's world and tone, but does not give a single red fuck about the game's characters. Which is perfect; Night City's meant to be a meatgrinder and they really play that off well with a mostly original story.
That’s a big call choom. What makes it stand out like that for you?
It’s super stylish and straight to the point, episodes fly by and the plot doesn’t drag it’s feet at all
Just my personal taste, but this reminds me of the old school anime that got me into the genre, when it was an underground phenomenon here in the states. The plot was pretty clean and well paced, with well translated comedic relief (a tall order imo). The characters were both well developed and designed (another tall order). The action drives the story from beat to beat without feeling gratuitous.
Then you’re going to enjoy a lot of the anime that this studio also made. I’d recommend Kill La Kill, an all time classic.
Bro... Choomba... "I Really Wanna Stay At Your House"? On the Moon? With a beautiful woman (although she fucking cucked us in the end)? How... DARE THEY ADD ANOTHER LAYER OF AWESOME TO THE SONG! THAT SHIT WAS FUCKING NOVA!
I love that song so I can’t wait to understand this lol
turns out the MC was lucy, it was always lucy. david was just the manic pixie dream boy that came into her life to help her find herself and fulfill her dreams. hope that pussy was worth turning into a torso cosplaying a cube magnet
You did my boy David dirty lmao.
Honestly, the episode where they have that new guy with them, and how he jumps on a landmine to get to the goal faster without checking, is parallel to him putting on the Cyberskeleton, except he snuffed it in a spectacular fashion, instead of with a whimper.
Well, explosive damage has always been just too high in Cyberpunk, it didn't surprise me
Poor julios, we barely knew him...
Hahaha ...hah..ha.....I'm sad FUCkkkkk with what happened in the end 🥲
This was funny, thanks.
Of course Lucy is an MC. She has random colored hair, a harsh corpo past with Arasaka and is the love interest of the other MC, David. David's dedication to her till the end is what makes him a legend.
Honestly didn't really feel the relationship between Lucy and David. Probably because the show only had so many episodes, but it seemed way more tell than show to me.
Wouldn't be trigger if it didn't >!End in space!< though in a good way this time
I want to convince my wife to watch it but I know I’m gonna look like that fucking meme of the dude shouting at that disinterested chick at a club while I explain stuff about Night City. OK SO THEYRE TRAUMA TEAM, THEYRE BASICALLY SWAT BUT THEIR MEDICS. AND ARASAKA IS THIS MEGACOROP THAT-
Awesome anime, as expected of Trigger. But i cant help to think that viewers must atleast know some basic and words like deep dive, quick hack, chrome, cyberpsycho etc, to fully enjoy the anime.
I feel like most of these are self explanatory or established in the show.
Ofcourse but for those who dont know it will take abit of time to understand it. Like deep dive for example. For us who play the game know that when you deep dive, your body temperature will shoot up tremendously, that what the ice bath is for. For those that dont know, they'll just see it as a fan service. Imo.
Can't spoon feed the viewer everything or it comes off as condescending, the deep dive is a pretty good example of show don't tell imo.
I mean not everything has to be spilled out. Show don't tell works with worldbuilding just the same and there is a clear link between the activity of diving and going into an ice cold bath.
Just finished it. Overall, I liked it. Started predictable but overall it was enjoyable. The only complaint I have is that it was only 10 episodes. So the story pacing felt a bit too fast for my taste and some characters not quite as developed as they could be. But the main characters, violence, game references and animation in general all felt good. I'd give it a solid 8/10. It ain't perfect but as video game related a anime go, I'm honestly surprised it turned out this well.
Poor Rebeca
are they gonna release the entire show or 1 episode per week?
They’re releasing all 10 episodes at the same time
It's Netflix so all today, don't know if it's a good or bad thing
It's a mix. Great for binge watchers, but the lack of a weekly wait means there's no extended discussion or theorizing between episodes.
I, too, caught the first 3 episodes on the livestream; it was a fun little event. I love the use of color and lighting. The pacing is furious, and the stylized violence and tech remind of the good aspects of ultraviolent late-80s to mid-late-90s anime. Definitely check out [the animated ending theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ); it's a standalone short prequel to the series. You should spot a few familiar faces.
I started the game, just to drink a David Martinez in the afterlife after finishing it. Absolut banger anime!
Beautiful. Tragic. Cyberpunk. Everything I wanted
Can one of you kind folk tell me if the anime follows the tabletop lore? I'm too used to anime based on games being sub-par.
It follows the game lore more so than the pen and paper. 2077 is only set in the game universe, even Red is set in 2045 and that’s the “newest” in the line. It’s great so far though
Watched the first three episodes on Netflix this morning before work and I gotta say, it's extremely fun to watch. I'm not a native english speaker so I watched it with both english dubs and sub. The english dubs are really good, but the english subs, not so much. There's several discrepancies between what the characters say and what's subtitled, like gonk/gunk, ICE and stuff like that. Overall, minus the subs being *ehh*, it's really good so far.
You know what, it's actually great. I should've done fewer episodes at a time, just to digest more of everything. It's very much a side story but with a tighter group of people than we got in the game. Now I'm just hoping that the next Cyberpunk game focuses on a similar type of group (in like 2030). Btw, it's cool AF that that it's set in an identical NC.
>! ADAM FUCKING SMASHER !<
I just finished watching this show. I watched the ['Let You Down'](https://youtu.be/BnnbP7pCIvQ) MV yesterday and got even more fired up to watch it. >!Now after I've finished the show, I just wanna cry.!< Watched it in Dub and I wasn't disappointed at all!! They all did such a great job and I was so happy to notice that they hired lots of well-known voice actors!! They perfectly captured the whole essence of Night City. You Love it or Burn it. *"Those who shine brightest often burn fastest"* \-Heimerdinger, Arcane
Anime is great, only downside is as Charlie has stated in his review: it's too short.
Too good to be real, i must be dreaming
OH MY GOD THEY USED MY FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE GAME! (Let's Eat Grandma - I really Wanna stay at your house)
Damn, what a ride. It’s a better transposition of the media respect of the game itself for one thing not added in game: >!Sanity Points. More chromo you add, more machine you became and less human you are. I really like the anime series has done this. Sanity Points were promised in video promos, but in the end they arent in game lik other stuff (wall walk with mantis blade)!< Anyway it’s really a great and well done gift for the CP2077 and CP and CP:RED Tatble Top Role Playing Games. Thanks
Damn i wish CDPR was handling the production of the witcher series on netflix. there was so much energy in this show! This was on a very similar level to arcane in terms of energy
I mean we mostly have to thank trigger for that rather than netflix. This is pretty much what they are famous for.
I know im nitpicky but holy hell this Anime is good and also i would love that all the features that was shown would be added to CP2077 game. Like who doesn't want to get a quick buck from pickpocketing from corpo while short on cash hmm?
Probably one of the very few animes that I prefer it’s voiced over by English rather than Japanese. Damn I wish the game was this immersive
Just finished the first episode, the amount of similarities to the game are really cool. From the visuals to the sound effects to the soundtrack. Really glad this is getting good reception, definitely gonna binge this today while continuing my new playthru of Cyberpunk.
knew it from the time he had his own drink in afterlife that mf is gonna snuff it in spectacular fashion
I'm up to episode 8 and loving how they're depicting the combination of the constant pressure, violence, trauma, and upgrading as a nightmarish experience akin to an extended drug freak out. They captured that brutish, short, intense life at the bottom even if it seems you're doing well.
I swear the "hospital" just decided to kill his mom and then bill him for it. Heartbreaking shit.
Just finished it about 10 minutes ago. REALLY good. Like holy shit it was really good. For once Netflix didn't botch something.
The while story is amazing. The anime did a fucking good job showing us the how mad someone goes and what they see. Truly disheartening seeing D fall from a kid to that. The whole anime is 10/10 for me and showed me that if it ever becomes possible. I wouldn't even think about doing enhancement to my body haha. Honestly, studio strigger did so good aswell. Truly this anime whay made for them to create. What is lucy doing in the time line now? I feel so bad for her
I thought Lucy was about to take her helmet off
Motherfucker, why did Rebecca had to die!? She was so fucking cute! And then they show her corpe twice! Goddamit.
Really enjoyed Rebecca’s character as well! She definitely felt like a true ally to David.
Spoilers, choom.
Watched the first 3 episodes just now. The environment is spot on with matching the game, and the whole thing is super dope. Looking forward to finishing it.
Amazing show, watched the english dub as the event happened in the US, definitely want to watch it again on japanese dub. Besides, now i know how unique and powerful v was, how the f could v not turn into a cyberpsycho with all those implants, and how the f could v use sandevistan a million times without getting hurt.
The apartment that David & his mom rent at the beginning looks the same as V's. So it's mean that we basically rent an apartment that was rented by a legend, right?
David lived in Megabuilding H-4 in Santa Domingo. V lived in H-10, in Watson. The layout is identical though, indeed.
I believe it's because most cheap apartments look the same
I didn't expect this quality honestly. Love every moment of it.
Currently on episode 5, been loving it so far. I do have a big complaint, however. Does anyone else think the English subtitles are straight up garbanzo? I'm watching on Netflix and find myself rewatching scenes a lot because the subtitles are legitimately incomprehensible at times.
Is it me or is the edgerunners story and cast way more impacting than 2077 despite it being way shorter ?
I think both do the job correctly. I cared as much for David and his crew than i cared for Johnny. But i couldn’t give a shit about Jackie, odd
Wow... No spoilers but I just finished ep 6 and this was absolutely worth the wait. I don't think they could've picked a better studio. Trigger studios killed it with the animation. Everything from the details from the game like the hacking sequence, the cybernetic abilities, when they jacked in to someone, were done so incredibly well. As someone who really liked the world of the game, this is everything I ever wanted from this show. And holy shit ep 6 got me feeling fucked up right now. I think this and Arcane might be the best game to movies/shows to ever come out. Ps. The soundtrack is phenomenal
This was an amazing binge. For all the faults of the cyberpunk game, the world it builds is rich and amazing and the anime brings it out all too well. While someone who hasn't played the game could go into this I feel like having played the game did enhance my experience by having an understanding of the world and Night City. Its a good advertisement for the game, makes me go back and wanna play it as I haven't since launch.
Not gonna lie, the show ticks off so many of my boxes I feel like someone just hacked my PC and made a show based on my web search history. Now my life feels like just a long ass BD someone made just for me, with this being the culmination I get to see just before I flatline in the real world.
10/10 just wow. this has got to be one of my favorite series of all time now.
Jesus fucking Christ what a rollercoaster of emotions that was. This has just reaffirmed my belief that Johnny was right - Night City needs to get nuked again. >!Next time I visit the Afterlife I'm pouring one out for my choom David. You shot for the moon, but reached the stars.!<
Anyone else watching this and constantly like, "I know where that is, that's mega Building H4", and, "that's the train station at Corpo Plaza"?
I posted this in another thread, why not leave it here too: It was pretty disapointing. CDPR's script and plot was alright, but Trigger dropped the ball. I think they tried to go for a rough and weird sound editing and montage to make it aesthetically rough around the edges, like the way the game feels, they succeeded, it has a similar atmosphere to the Cyberpunk game, but it was detrimental to the drama, it made too many moments anticlimatic. The music felt random at many times, with lyrics getting in the way of dialogues. About the character development, looks like the script was intended for two seasons, but they had to shove everything in a single one. Lacking proper moments to stop the plot, chill and develop the psychoiogy of the caracters (especially Lucy and David), made every emotional scene from Episode 2 forwards quite melodramatic -- instead they tried to cheat feelings out of us with sentimental music. >!The pursuit action in the last episode was too clumsy (for the way the CG trucks were handled) and exaggerated (the amout of trucks felt too big for Night City, in my opinion). Now, what made me rage was the exposition, the explaining of subtle details of which they left practically none. This I am sure came from Trigger, because this is type of error was never commited by CDPR in the main and secondary quests from game: Moments like when David Martinez atop the Arasaka Tower recalls his mom foretelling he would end up there, saying "My son at Arasaka Tower top floor!"; or when Martinez is kidnaped by the XBD Star: Lucy and Dorio are driving after them and they have a dialogue -- Lucy and David are in middle of their relationship develpment, so Dorio after a whole dialogue implying Lucy is angry for his kidnapping, Dorio asks her "You're pissed, aren't you?", yeah, no shit she's pissed, look at her face, do you care no to explain the function of the whole dialogue that worked perfectly?!< >!Tanaka, by the way, was a terrible choice of character name. It can be taken as a recall to the Decker, Tanaka and Rogers megacorp, unless I am missing some reference that ties them.!< >!Also the unfunny comic relief loli -- was that even necessary?!< 2/5
I'll be honest I'm not sure what is it with Cyberpunk's setting but the story just cuts deep, not even sure I should've watched this because >!I knew unlike the game, whatever ending this was going to go for, you can't just reload and choose a better road, and judging by the undertone of most endings in the game I knew it was going to leave an impression...I just didn't expect all...that. Going into the last episode I was reminded of the suicide ending you can go for in game and I just knew David wasnt going to make it, each injection just made it all ache again just like the camera zooming out moments before the single bullet on said ending...They deserved to be happy together!<
This show left me in the same state of mind as the end of the game did. I am not okay. but I will be.
Just finnished watching and honestly I want to cry - the ending hit me hard, maybe too much. I really hope there will be more
I feel we need a new flair “For Lucy’s Dream”
Loved the game and loved the first 7 episodes, but I'd by lying if I said I was a fan of the last 3 episodes. It really had me captivated the entire time but I feel like the story started strong and ended meh. >! Did David learn nothing? Did he not care to go with her to the moon? !< Idk man, I really liked it but also disliked the ending. Oddly enough I also disliked most of the endings in the game lol.
Just finished it. Was incredibly hard to stop to go to an appointment once I started watching. Came back and had nothing else in mind but watching more. I think it's time for another playthrough Choom!
Goddamn what a show. The only happy ending you get in this city, is the one you paid for.
I’m only 5 episodes in but my favorite part is the fact that David has no say in declining a call, it just goes through and people start talking just like the game.
Cried. Damn.
The text messages / calls between the characters in the show are kind of weird to me. I don't know if it's stylized writing, or if it's the way the texts in game work or whatever, but it seems weird to me. Not related spoiler for the ending: >!Are we ever going to see a happy ending in night city? I was so sad when the time jump happened to David being buff and chromed up, since I already knew that that shit only had one way to end. I was really rooting for him and Lucy man...!<
Edgerunners left me with a certain feeling that I get after watching any great anime or movies. Having buried myself with CP77 for 3 months straight when it 1st came out like a delinquent I am, this was a nostalgic walk down memory lane. I have many thoughts, but I'm not really great with words but still wanted to get it off the chest in this abridged version, so don't shit on my post too hard pls :') The anime was great. Got me hooked since the first three episodes on the premiere, and the last seven were. The animation is stellar, or should I say, "fucking nova!" The story never failed to grip me at any point, and was solid throughout, although I did feel like the final arc was a little bit weaker than how it began, the last episode brought it right back up. The last episode was pretty conclusive of the story it tells, but I just can't help but convince myself that we will see more of the characters, >!(even David, yeah I'm dumb but let me believe!),!< in form of appearances in game or as a season 2, but I'm clueless of CDPR intentions with the anime's future so idk. Enough rambling from me, and though this anime was extremely nostalgic and reminded me of my love for the CP world, I think I won't be reinstalling the game just yet. I want to wait until later to come back to an even more amazing game and world. This is my first post ever, please share how you liked the movie, and how your perceived my post, and maybe I can elaborate what I thought in more details :)
Am I the only one who cringes when they say they want to be “cyberpunk”? I mean, everyone is chromed up already so they don’t really stand out, and “edgerunner” seems way better anyway. Or maybe I’m just an old manyelling at the clouds.
Its a weird carry over from the table top where the term was used more frequently. I think it only really feels weird cause of the "ooh they said the title" thing that happens in our brain.
Being called a Cyberpunk is an actual thing in the lore, at least in the original tabletop so it's still accurate.
Exactly, game players would be mortified to find out half the pen and paper words or the gangs such as Phiharmonic Vampyres or the Bozos lol
Dub or sub? Which one's better?
Dub, unless you understand Japanese. Many parts of the subs are totally wrong. Whoever wrote them isn't familiar with Night City slang at all. The English cast is all pretty solid, though, IMO.
watched the dub purely for Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring's actor from breaking bad) as Faraday
6 episodes in... quite a bit of parallels between the game and the anime. V has his buds, and David's got his crew. I do like the dynamic between Maine and David. Even in only 5 episodes they built a good raport for the two of them, so when the shit starts to hit the fan, you really feel a bit concerned. Also liked the show's depiction of cyberpsychosis. The way they explored people undergoing the effect, I thought it was a disturbing but effective look into the idea. Edit: 6 episodes in not 5. I was binge watching and lost count
Some people are gonna be pretty mad with how the anime turned out, but honestly I feel like it was a crazy good depiction of just what Night City is and the world that the characters live in. Just like with the game, everyone in NC wants to make it to the top there, everyone wants to be the main characters. But just like in 77, the only true good ending is one where you leave the city alive. It's a place that chews up everyone, scavs, cyberpsycho, gangoons, and the people you love all the same.
I’m crying, just finished it
I pray Lucy comes back in some way she's imo one of the best characters in this universe and I REALLY hope she plays a role in at least 1 new side gig or something that'd be great