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Cyberpunk 2077 had the Cyber bit down. TRIGGER’s new Netflix Original Anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, finally brings the Punk to Night City.
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0:00 What is “Punk?”
1:16 A Word From Our Corpo Sponsor (Opera GX)
3:09 Imaishi Unleashed
8:49 We’re Gonna REDACTED This City
15:05 Running on the Edge
19:32 Oh, How I Burn For You
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Luk R
13.04.2023I really liked your review. Good job. I have one remark though. I find it a little bit disappointing that you, as many others, have failed to mentioned Bartosz Sztybor and other Polish writers and creators behind cyberpunk: edgerunners. Sztybor script is a perfect content to fill the perfect anime form. This anime would not work as good without his script. Bartosz is one of the reasons why Witcher 3 is so much better than Netflix Witcher show. His Polish roots, the way we portret the tragedies in our Polish culture is one of the reasons why this anime stands above the others. What I mean is that collaboration between Polish and Japanese authors resulted in the best anime of the year. PS almost all the songs on the soundtrack are Polish.
Bruno Garcia
13.04.2023Wait…Cybernetics heavy story set in 20XX?
Is Megaman part of the cyberpunk chronology?
openemailone One
13.04.2023what a fcking awesome crew and characters
Scorn
13.04.2023David's decline is probably my one disappointment, merely following in Maine's footsteps and having learned Jack Schitt from his downfall. Should've emphasized cyberware that made him a better speedster.
At least the cyber skeleton was cool, though.
Dovakinn1903
13.04.2023So glad I watched the show before this ngl bc if I was tuning in just to see if the show is good I wouldn't of watched it bc the whole story pretty much spoiled
hecc mcgee
13.04.2023So he got fucked because he got a prototype sandevistan. Fuck there's so many variants in 2077
The Last Fire
13.04.20233:36 That explains allot
NK Irmath
13.04.2023As someone who approached this world knowing nothing, the only complaint I have with the show is that it didn't say give any kind of history or any references to any kind of 0 tech cults or societies that could have been a really cool and subtle contrast to the rest of the world.
Adam G.
13.04.2023I've never been able to get into anime, it's just never really could get into like my friends. I had a ton of people recommend this so me because I like the cyberpunk franchise. This definitely my favorite series, absolutely loved it.
jordan dogan
13.04.2023It's really good mann season 2 would be cool nomatter how it go now I just wanna buy the game now
Unhuman011 1
12.04.2023my girl finally finished watching Edge Runners and i can say that It left her SanDevistated😂
Siriel
12.04.202324:58 "…going out in a blaze of glory" -> don't worry, if you got that part, you don't need to play the game to understand everything in the anime XD
Heck
12.04.2023I honestly think cyberpunk 2077 had too much content and was too shallow in it all. If it had a linear storyline with a story like edgerunners and ended as a tragedy with V failing, it would have been so much better
Zeikier
12.04.2023As Pat and Woolie said, the City always wins.
Julia Monem
12.04.2023the last episode really did give some NGE energy, now I know why
Yomatius
12.04.2023Just finished watching this show. It's so good. Thanks for your detailed review.
Omura Media
12.04.2023This anime went way harder than it ever needed to, but thankfully did and really added flourish to the created world. Between the foreshadowed events, the building sense of dread, the futility, it still gave you glimpses of hope through the show. It perfectly sets you up for heartbreak, in the most beautiful way. Im really curious to see how they could possibly do a season 2. Possibly making the series a consortium of vignettes of different fatally fated protagonists fighting the system, or leading to something where our heroes from season 1 still persist. Either way, this anime got me back into the game (that even at its broken state at launch) that I love.
Raven Bridges
12.04.2023Honestly I loved the show it was so beautifully animated an amazingly written the show got me interested in the world so I started looking into the video game an playing it.. the show introduced me to the world of cyberpunk and i have been diving into the lore of the series ever since
Patrick Armand
12.04.2023Great analysis, agreed with every point made. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Evan Farley
12.04.2023Lost me at the Sex Pistols aren't Punk. Such a hand-me-down opinion. Let me guess, they were a boy band, right? blah blah blah. Funny how bands that help define a genre never live up to the strict parameters imposed by the music experts yet to be born. Saying that any of the seminal Punk bands of the 70's aren't Punk just sounds ridiculous. If they were posing, what were they posing as? Themselves? The Dolls maybe, musically? Remember, outside of the New York scene, and the British music press that wrote about said scene, Punk wasn't a thing yet that could be posed as, only gotten in on the ground level. It's like accusing the Beatles of posing to get in on the British Invasion, or Nirvana of posing to get on Grunge. This is why Blondie and Talking Heads are Punk, there were no gatekeepers when the movement was forming, no postcard Punks or working-class Skins, or DIY-Anarcho-vegans in the scene to tell them they weren't punk.
Jtree
10.04.202310:38 no, it is not for me at least. It failed to open.
dave curry
10.04.2023Jeez watch edge runners in 4k hdr such a beautiful show those colors. I hope there is a season 2.
Bob Kerman
10.04.2023I pre-ordered Cyberpunk then forgot about it soon after due to the launch issues. Watched edge runners last week and becuase of that, got back into cyberpunk 2077 since its now actually playable. That show is good. Makes me appreciate the game more I guess
Sir Panzer
10.04.2023Just finished Cyberpunk Edgerunners and holy shit that was an amazing show, your video is off the walls and amazing! Keep it up!
Nikola Maric
10.04.2023The smile by the game maker guy after his death, that put David in a simulation sort of now makes me wonder , why exactly did he smile when he was about to die .
I wouldn't be surprised if they went ahead and made season 2 (even though they said they won't) they reveal that the whole thing was a simulation which showed David that he infact isn't special or smth
Bendzsike
10.04.2023"I didn't have time to say any other names before that ad runs." Use adblock kids.
Squirrel Queen
10.04.2023Long live rebecca
Conman
10.04.2023What’s crazy to me is that if you compare the anime characters to how the game plays out, V looks like a god, especially for the secret ending (spoilers)
Where V walks through the front doors of Arasaka, kills the top elites of Arasaka’s army, kills the once thought boogeyman of night city that defeated David in less then 2 min (if you cut out all the talking which btw adds only an extra minute) a year prior, and defeats one of the largest corporations in night city
Anthony Langford
10.04.2023Having just played through cyberpunk and rewatched the anime, i can confirm that playing the game only makes the already great anime even better. The context the game provides was excellent.
Pomarańczowa Szarlotka
10.04.2023I didn't finish this anime (haven't seen last two episodes) bc how much not my cup of tea it turned out to be. I wanted to like it and I like the animation and music but the story, setting and most of the characters weren't appealing to me. Also to much sexual content for my asexual ass. Edgerunners had possibly the most disgusting kissing I've seen in animation, maybe because of too much detail and because I couldn't care less about characters romance.
I am a big fan of romance as a genre but I found David's and Lucy's relationship unconvincing and kinda out of the blue. Like post time skip they talk about the things that they logically should have talked and knew about eachother a log time ago. I assume the skip was by about 2 years. It seems like they barely talked to eachother during those 2 years. Despite living together! And since their relationship was so inauthentic to me it takes away from they decisions, supposedly motivated by their great love for eachother.
There also are my personal tastes, like how I love nature, the woods and am against unnecessary body alterations. I like science fiction but it turns out not this flavour.
It just was a show made especially not for me
HexCodeFF
09.04.2023At least this Trigger anime doesn't do the same plot reconstruction as almost every other major anime of theirs.
Brobje V
09.04.20238:53 shit man i was using the same argument since launch, i can't understand how people can be so blind sometimes. I mean even the song in the opening titles says it all.
JayJay Golden
09.04.2023Thats why i like to refer to certain artists as 'modern punk'; they might not be punk in sound, but theyre punk in attitude.
Ren, hobo johnson, perhaps even oliver tree, have a bit of that attitude for example.
Yardy
09.04.2023Did you just call sex pistols posers?
MisteryCard
09.04.2023Cyberpsychosis is your body rejecting the chrome cuz it sees it as a virus of metal and wires that go through you body but your brain can’t keep up with the nerve signals hence those nerve blocking meds best way to fight cyberpsychosis is to go full cyborg like Adam but the you’ll lose you grip on the human emotion which most people in nc want to keep
Ȥαԋισɳ
09.04.2023I love how he manages to absolutely butcher "Gurren Lagann" and "Neon Genesis Evangelion" so brutally 💀
Thanos Lisitsis
09.04.2023They should make a non Canon 2nd season and let Lucy and David have a happy ending
Offline
09.04.2023I genuinely didn't put together how this was gonna end until about episode 8eight or nine. Guess I'm just dumb.
Axeius
09.04.2023im very far from the emotional type but this anime was one of the few that made me cry
Foogi
09.04.2023If johnny with a nuke couldn't stop arasaka and the other corporations what makes you think anyone else can?
o00vv00o
08.04.2023FYI opera is hella shady don’t get it
Daniel Bear
08.04.2023I really wish you could get the car in the game. I loved this anime, one of the best out
Gunumn
08.04.2023Modern Day "Punk" is authoritarian whereas Punk from the 80's was against the establishment. Thats why Rage Against the Machine is more for the Machine than against it.
Cyberpunk as a genre brings back the original 80's/90's style, but is stitched together with chrome an neon.
The revenant gamer
08.04.2023Beautiful characters dealing with extreme human degeneracy. It’s a technological singularity for the human race. The singular and most potent antagonist to this universe is time the fact that all forms of massive civilizations will chrome up to extinction is quite sad. Driven from either greed and hatred for one’s self or the sheer need for survival. Night city really is the motto “live fast die young”
Nicholas Walls
08.04.2023This show HURT in the best of ways. The FIRST EPISODE is punk as fuck. When he gets his mums freaking ashes…showing the capitalist dystopia in the bleakest ground level way possible.
It is a system that grinds down humanity for profit, the dollar above the person.
It continues to largely hit those notes throughout, even as the power scales.
Another aspect is the sheer RAPIDITY of it all. The story is told over roughly a YEAR, and in it one can become a "legend" as an Edgerunnner. In addition to the rampant splatting of characters, it SHOWS the "burn out" aspect they TELL with the characters dialogue.
Damn good.
Also, I respect y'all for your Rebecca simping but I'll stan Dorio all the way.
Final note: Maine might have been my favorite character.
Alex Fan
08.04.2023Idk if it was subtle or not but this video spoiled the ending for me and actually really ruined the show for me. I love mother's basement but i do hope he's more careful next time.
I can't pursue what I'm truly passionate about
08.04.2023are you seriously telling me Sex Pistols aren't punk?
Nebe I
08.04.2023If you like the song at the end of the vid you shouldnt watch the anime because it will trigger ptsd if you did
Mathew Weeks
08.04.2023Awesome
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