SummarySet in the future, teenager David Martinez travels to Night City where he becomes an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk in this anime series from CD PROJEKT RED and Studio Trigger.
SummarySet in the future, teenager David Martinez travels to Night City where he becomes an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk in this anime series from CD PROJEKT RED and Studio Trigger.
So watchable right off the bat. ... Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners is a fantastic addition to the Cyberpunk universe. Its narrative is even more engaging than the original game in certain respects, with a protagonist it’s easy to get behind and root for.
I skipped past this quite a few times before I finally clicked, man am I glad I did, everything about this series is beautiful and not one I'll likely be forgetting anytime soon.
The animation is fast, action packed, the music and art is super pretty and the main characters you'll easily love right away. I do wish the ending was more forgiving, and though the ending can leave you #crushed and maybe a little teary the biggest pain is in knowing there won't be a season two so keep that in mind going in.
Finally got to watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and it's probably my favorite anime I've ever watched. I loved how amazing they were at creating such a full fledged, interesting, colorful, visually spectacular world; the animation was exceptional. The performances were phenomenal especially from Aoi Yūki, Kenn, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Wataru Takagi, Takako Honda, Kazuhiko Inoue, Michiko Kaiden, Hiroki Tōchi, Yurika Hino, and Yukihiro Misono. The writing was outstanding especially the character development specifically with the characters David and Lucy. An A+ series.
Compared to something like Arcane, this adaptation very much feels like just an ad for the source material. Nothing impactful happens throughout the entire season. All characters are very forgettable. Main plot device "cyber psychosis", is something that is impossible to relate to, because it's a made up concept that is never explained in the anime itself. The slivers of sympathy the main character earns in the first few episodes are quickly spent in the second half of the season and I found myself hoping for the character to be killed off.
An all round mid show, with the exception for the production quality (hence a 6 and not a 5). And even then, everything regarding vehicle crash physics looked comically bad.
A decent adaptation, it manages to capture the Cyberpunk setting very well with the beautiful cinematography and amazing soundtrack, but the sudden character development feels unnatural, and the entire story is quite rushed and disjointed, I couldn't connect emotionally with any of the characters and I ended up not caring about most of them, even though liked the ending a lot.
I liked some of the characters and the visuals were good, but there is one big elephant with a cyberexo problem in the room: It is all meaningless.
It is made meaningless by itself, because the writing is so all over the place and the things that happen so absurdly overpowered and incomprehensible, that everything that happens is merely arbitrary. Does someone die? Does something explode? Who knows? You get to see it when it happens. It has nothing to do with physics or with established laws. The main character is even faster than light. Really. But then again... not really. But then again, really. The writes just made a huge mess and broke their own worldbuilding over and over and over again. It could have been so much more.