Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Dreams are doomed to die in Night City, a futuristic Californian metropolis. As a teenager living in the city's slums, David Martinez is trying to fulfill his mother's lifelong wish for him to reach the top of Arasaka, the world's leading security corporation. To this end, he attends the prestigious Arasaka Academy while his mother works tirelessly to keep their family afloat.

When an incident with a street gang leaves David's life in tatters, he stumbles upon Sandevistan cyberware—a prosthetic that grants its wearer superhuman speed. Fueled by rage, David implants the device in his back, using it to exact revenge on one of his tormentors. This gets him expelled from the academy, shattering his hopes of ever making his mother proud.

After witnessing David's newfound abilities, the beautiful data thief Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada offers to team up with him, handing him a ticket to salvation. However, associating with Lucy introduces David to the world of Edgerunners—cyborg criminals who will break any law for money. Edgerunners often lose their lives, if the cyberware does not break their minds first; but in his fight for survival inside a corrupt system, David is ready to risk it all.

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Lucy Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Martinez, David Main

KENN Japanese

Rebecca Supporting

Kurosawa, Tomoyo Japanese

Maine Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Smasher, Adam Supporting

Misono, Yukihiro Japanese

Falco Supporting

Kase, Yasuyuki Japanese

Kiwi Supporting

Honda, Takako Japanese

Martinez, Gloria Supporting

Hino, Yurika Japanese

Ripperdoc Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Dorio Supporting

Kaiden, Michiko Japanese

Tsutsumi, Naoko Producer

Imaishi, Hiroyuki Director, Storyboard, 2nd Key Animation, Animation Director

Urakari, Hiroki Sound Director

Yoneyama, Mai Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Sep 13, 2022

ReplicantFromRio

Recommended

One of the best animr ever. It's intense, full of action and emotion. The anime is an adrenaline injection and the same time there are emotional parts that made me cry. The animation is a masterpiece, studio trigger is incredible.
The story is very surprising, you don't expect some things are going to happen with the main characters.
Cyberpunk is a very unique genre of science fiction, and I have to say, this anime has all elements of a very good cyberpunk story. We have the social critics, the femme fatale persona, the nihilist characters, the rock music, thr hight tech - low life ambience ... etc.
The characters are not easy stereotypes, the are people like us, with flows and strengths. But it's a cyberpunk story, it's very difficult to resist the temptations.
I think people will love it, there is a lot of slangs from the series universe to learn, but it will be a easy job to learn during the watch time.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is definitely an amazing show. I recommend.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Sep 19, 2022

TheAsterNaut

Mixed Feelings

I never played Cyberpunk 2077 so I have an unbiased opinion about the franchise going into this show.

Character: 5/10
With as short and as bloody as this show is, it's hard to make people you care deeply about aside from 1 or 2 main characters and the rest are just along for the ride. If we had 12 episodes with more time to feel for the cast, I feel like the emotional payoffs would be much higher.

Art: 10/10
I don't need to explain to much into this, Studio Trigger puts their souls into anything they create. The visuals are colorful and the action is hot.

Story: 3/10
Without ... spoiling it, I will say it started off pretty strong until about the half-way point of the show. After a certain point, the main character and a couple of other characters just seems to behave unlike they would based on how the show portrayed him up until that point because the story demands conflict.

Music: 6/10
Most of the music is hit or miss, but when it hits its pretty good. Sadly, the opening is fairly bland and even though the show is 10 episodes, I started skipping it because it's meh.

Total: 4/10
The ending reminded me of another show (Akame ga Kill) and it's another great example of how too much killing can leave a show spiraling down until it crashes at the end. Really could've been a 7 or an 8 if the finale was written better.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Sep 17, 2022

KesterDraconis

Not Recommended

I specifically want my money back for the Netflix subscription from the writers, and I'm giving this series the first one-star review I've ever made on this website.

This show is like a drop tower that doesn't go up slowly, or a rollercoaster that starts at the top and then goes to nothing but a straight path till it slowly, slowly, slowly slows down, without any breaks until it finally stops, and by that point, you don't care anymore, are bored/emotionally disconnected, and want a refund. It promised so much more, was actually kinda fun at first, and then wasted your time at the end - ... the most important part of a story.

What would otherwise be a great series is marred by horrible writing and an unfulfilling and largely uninteresting ending for the characters. People may like it now but just as with every show that destroys its character investment with the audience, it will be a flash in the pan for that attention. It is no surprise then that most people's attention is mainly given to the rather nice animation by Trigger, and which I am all the more annoyed about, given it gets dragged down by the writing.

Writers must give the audience some sort of emotional satisfaction, be it happy, sad, conflicted, etc. However, if a story leaves me suddenly uncaring about any of its cast, I won't feel anything from the consequences of the narrative. This story felt like it went out of its way to make you care less and less about most of its characters. However, it didn't stop there, but further wasted whatever little emotional investment I'd made into any of them rather than giving any kind of completion or emotional fulfillment.

I do not see how such a narrative is supposed to make me feel anything towards it, not even sad or even disappointed. A lot of characters die in it, but people dying in stories isn't in and of itself interesting or emotionally shocking - goons die all the time. Killing off your characters, much less basically turning them into goons, purposefully defeats the point of having a fantastical narrative, to begin with. Instead of making me feel anything for the show, it will just leave me angry at the writers for wasting my time without any payoff for what little interest they may have garnered.

So I say again, I want my money back.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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