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Cyberpunk Edge runners starts off on such a high point but quickly looses focus and squanders its last half on what could have been an amazing title.

The first 5 or so episodes are very on point, the animation is top notch, the characters are well designed and the story is extremely engaging.

I found myself binge watching the first 5 and could not take my eyes off it. This unfortunately does not hold true for the second half the the series, which quickly starts to fall apart. The character development doesn't seem to make sense, and the plot goes into very generic very quickly ... with really no direction on what it wants to do. This ultimately leaves the finale empty.

The rest of the review will contain some major spoilers.

The end of the series just ends up being a very big disappointment. Similar to Akame ga kill, they start to kill off main characters really fast, and for seemly no reason. David begins to go cyber physco, and after the time skip we really start to see the show lose its footing.

Another thing is the music is just so out of place and awful. At the end you have an empty husk of a show with characters who get killed off non nonchalantly playing to a strangely up beat soundtrack that ultimately makes no sense.

The show ultimately falls apart with its last act and never fully recovers, and ultimately makes you care less for the characters.

****Some Small Spoilers***

So first off I would like to start by saying I absolutely loved season 1 of this show. I actually binged it in about a day or so and thought it was a really fun new anime. It was almost therapeutic in a way how things moved along in a fun happy go lucky type of way.

That being said, this new season has been a pretty big unfortunate let down. After Catarina effectively stops her doom in the first season, the second season picks up with little direction. Everyone is still infatuated with Catarina to the point where, it's kinda weird ... now, and it consumes them almost completely.

There are a few fun episodes, the play they put on comes to mind, however this time around the show seems to have trouble re-establishing its footing. It takes way to long for this season to re-establish where it was trying to go, and by the time it gets there, it feels like its over.

I am getting kinda tired of the villains present in the show too, very quickly confrontations are completely thwarted because the villain cant help but admire Catarina so much that they become good, and no repercussion follows as Catarina just forgives them cause that's what she does. It makes these conflicts feel like they carry little to no weight.

If you liked the first season, you will probably ultimately like the second, however don't expect a whole lot going into this season. Without the doom time line and the overarching story, we get a very messy follow up that takes too long to find its ultimate footing.

This show starts off slow. I will be the first to admit, the first few episodes I had to kinda force myself through. The characters come off as very cookie cutter, and honestly kind of annoying at first

That being said, this show defiantly finds its stride as it progresses. Characters become more likeable, and in all honesty the show just gets better as it goes along.

Is it a perfect show? No not by any means, but it does pick up after after around episode 4-6.

Now I find my self getting excited for each new episode.

The animation is fine, nothing too crazy, but certainly not ... bad. The story is where this anime seems to find some pacing problems. Looking at this series of 20 episodes, this number probably could have been cut down a bit and certainly stumbles until it finds its stride.

The sound is fine, again nothing out of this world, but not terrible. The characters especially Jahy can be a hard sell the first few episodes, but as previously mentioned find fall into place as we learn more about them.

I do really like the character design, the main character does have an interesting dynamic being able to morph from a child to an adult and comes with the different iterations of that.

All and all it is a fun show to watch and is overall enjoyable. I find my self getting excited as new episodes air.

Overall Score: Good 7/10