It also promotes V by proxy. V takes Adam Smasher down pretty consistently in the end game despite you know being on the verge of near death.

Smasher is actually scary in the anime. He is strong as hell. In the game, he is beyond lame

It was originally a tabletop RPG. If the GM puts Adam Smasher into a fight, you did something to REALLY piss them off.

It was so shocking/sad but at the same time great/realistic when there is the final fight and you think maybe Daivd got a chance, maybe at least he can put a up a fight... but no, he is just outclassed, his sacrifice gives the time for Lucy to escape but its so little time, he barely can do anything.

Its like CDPR failed to explain why Smasher got so weak by the end of CP2077. The reason is simple he was more focused on keeping his mind in his final confrontation with V than on the actual fight. Cyber psychosis was kicking in full gear. It was poorly indicated by how his dialogue was more and more degraded throughout the battle. We killing him was meant to be an act of mercy more than simply delineating a final bitch-slap. That part was scripted so badly it makes me think the good writers bailed right before the got to writing it.

Yeah, not only is it beautiful, but also serves narrative purpose

Who cares. That shit anime belongs to the trash.

It also plants emotional bomb. :D

Yea, the lyrics of the song right as he makes the promise are: "I was a liar, I was not worth of being trusted." The big sad.

I too love manipulative relationships.

Imagine getting upset at a cartoon 😂

@@SergyMilitaryRankingsoh look, generic trumpy account with a shitty opinion, how original

@@SergyMilitaryRankings Think you're a tough guy because you don't cry? Animation is literally art, art is designed to make you feel, and the feeling this art gives is ripping your heart out and setting it on fire in front of your eyes. I'm a US Marine and it made me cry. Get in touch with your feels and be truthful to yourself.

@@TresTrefusis saying you're a US marine is the equivalent of saying I'm a mall cop in the hood, probably seen an equal amount of combat 😂

@@SergyMilitaryRankings Nice, just let out a tear now and then, feel something. You'll feel better tough guy. I never said I saw combat. Thank God I didn't. I lost friends to it that did get deployed. I saw more come back f*cked beyond repair both physically and mentally because of it. If your measure of a Marine is whether or not you've seen combat you aren't one, have never been yourself and your opinion on the matter doesn't mean one single thing. Point was you can be a disciplined, mentally and physically strong male and have feelings. Nice try at deflecting into an insult though.

Nier Automata, Castlevania, Sonic, pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh all have anime.

There's like hundreds of these

@@SpikeTheWolf Thousands even.

@@kaiikiller4777 millions

Dark Souls is reportedly in the works according to leaks.

Took all the words right out my mouth

Same!!

I recommend watching Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's kinda like the Fight Club of anime. And it's the show that put the showmakers of Edgerunners on the map and is actually a bit better than Edgerunners in almost every possible way. It's a show that kinda shows what Edgerunners could've been if it had 27 episodes instead of only 10.

Same, not really into anime, but this show was fantastic! The last episode really hit me hard and made me emotional.

Only Adam Smasher was worth watching, everything sucks. The romance is shit. David dying was the best thing.

To be fair the game is now incredible

@@Enda680 Tbh it was always incredible imo. Its biggest issues was it couldnt handle the overwhelming hype that it had created and it was buggy for most people. The actual story, characters world where always very good. To this day night city is probably my favouriet game world it just feels so alive. Now this all comes from a guy that had 1 bug in his entire first playthrough so take this with a pinch of salt

Just like Arcane. Game - utter shite; Anime series: above average. imnsho of course. :D

seemed like just another derivative trope heavy anime just set in the game's world, even complete with a Harley Quinn ripoff Rebecca designed to look like a young little girl, typical of much Manga and anime.

@@vidmasterK1 "Seemed " is exactly right, since its nothing like...whatever the hell you're trying to describe at all. Yes its an anime, yes its set in the game world (with respect to the source material) That's the freaking point.

Only one season tho lol

@@michaelcastillo8884 short and sweet

​@LalienX you love pain huh

Hey, if you love these shows. Keep a look out for Lazarus a show by the Director of Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo and Director of John Wick are making it. There is also a trailer. Hopefully another great series like all those others!

i tried to rewatch death note...i cant... its boring when you know the outcome...especially good storys, i cant forget them fast enough.

No lie, I couldn't listen to "I wanna stay at your house" without tearing up for weeks after I finished watching. It's *super* rare for something fictional to affect me like that.

Time to buy a lottery ticket

Same 💀

no it's not nobody cares

@@Tribal_Sky75 I only really cared about my opinion and that’s why I shared it.

welcome to the new world in which every NPC thinks they're the MC - including you@@Tribal_Sky75

Is he gonna review Diablo 4?

If phantom liberty delivers people won’t care how shit the game was at launch.

@@isaacnelson813 game itself was actually good. For those of us that hard barely any bugs it was amazing. People said the same thing about witcher 3 when it came out initially.

@@lancelottrivino2273 Kinda, i didn't have many bugs at all, but it was clear that the game was unfinished. not saying i didn't enjoy the story, but i very quicky broke the balance of the game and it became trivially easy even on the hardest difficulty and it wasn't even a meta build.

@@isaacnelson813CDPR pulled a No Man's Sky and I'm completely ok with it

youd think with this David would have been able to see why getting too far into being chromed up would be bad right? nah he ends up fucking up himself and leaving lucy alone on the moon. His character fell off hard

@@lancelottrivino2273 100% with you. The guy got to see firsthand what happens to you and those you care about if you do it, and then he does it and fucks over people who truly cared about him. I was actually cheering for him to get offed by the end, after he got actual best girl deleted.

@@LethalShadow lmaooo Rebecca for the winnn

@@lancelottrivino2273 While i do agree with this mostly... I think the main reason David did what he did in the show was because everyone looked up to Maine as the leader of their crew; David was runner up for who they looked up to so he kind of felt like he HAD to take the reigns even if he knew the destructive path he was eventually going to inevitably succumb to

@@kendog0013 Agreed. This and David had nothing else going in his life. He didn't fit in in the corporate posh world.

Dam, you should probably watch more anime then.

anime original tho aint a lot nowadays@@SpikeTheWolf

@@shinkenrock there are some

@shinken1562 anime original? Dude there's tons of those regardless of year it was made. Also it doesn't make an anime better or worst being original or not.

@@SpikeTheWolf its so funny how you are trying to downplayed how good edgerunners was. Cry somewhere else and keep watching your shitty isekais kid.

My favorite moment..... is when you resume playing the game so you can turn that unstoppable force into a pile of dented tin cans with your Doom Slayer levels of rage and hatred

THIS! So many things were rushed. It didn't leave much for the viewers to make connections to almost all of the characters except for Lucy. If it had 26 episodes, it would've been a tier above its current self. Great show nonetheless. A bit overhyped though.

@ICCraider overhyped? I dont think see.

@@NyangisKhanand yet it won anime of the year so get fucked lmao

I would watch a sequel where lucy is the protagonist trying to destroy arasaka/kill arasaka members for revenge for david and her childhood

I understand your feeling bro because the story hit like a truck seriously

Only Adam Smasher was worth watching, everything sucks. The romance is shit. David dying was the best thing.

@@frozzytango9927 ok

Agreed! I thought that Joe forgot about the series. Good thing he didn't.

CDPR says it’s the game they wanted to release at launch so I think they can finally put it back at $60 when they make a “complete edition”

I would wait until the Phantom Liberty expansion releases. CDPR said there was going to be a massive update with it.

CDPR came up with the story Trigger came up with the plot and most other things.

yeah, it was like the strength of both cultures, both worlds, working together. and i think whenever the western side would have a hot take, the japanese side would actually step up and be like "no, bro, we're doing it like this."

@@DoktorL0ve "the loli stays" - based Trigger

Like "Super Crooks"! Great underrated anime Netflix also did

God damn

Because of a show? Alright 🙃

@@Based_Gigachad_001people just say anything lol

the animation is done by studio trigger... they r the by far the most creative in the game rn

@SenzuWrld OH I know! Been watching there stuff even before they formed Trigger. Gurren Lagann is my favorite anime and it was done by them way back.

I had no self-control. I watched it all at once😅

@@HiLightPHILm I watched the other half the next night so it didn't last long lol

For me, I kinda want Edgerunners to be an anthology series like True Detective or American Horror Story or Final Fantasy or Persona: where each season tells a different story with a different cast of characters.

You should check out all Trigger's work. They're all amazing

@@bakakubi Definitely So Excited for the Delisous in Dungeon anime they are working on!

What shows dude? Calm down kid.

The ending was 100% expected? The intro to the show even foreshadowed everything.

@@JuicedOnKidsit’s expected if you’re already a fan of Cyberpunk. As someone who played the video game, read the Fire Storm books and comic books, I’m not surprised by how the anime ended. I can definitely see how new fans didn’t expect the ending but to each their own I guess.

I’d recommend reading the book Neuromancer

David as a character falls off hard. He is constantly reminded about the effects of Cyberpsychosis and the concerns from his friends and the people he loves and still decides to mod himself to the point of self destruction. Lucy wouldn't have gotten caught in the first place had he not chromed up so hard. Maine warned him as well. He just didn't give a fuck. This straight A student missed the biggest no brainer choices and it ended up putting people in danger as well as himself. At the top of arasaka tower he explains that he wanted to live by his mothers dream and maines...but I doubt they wanted him to chrome up that much. Even Maine told him "you still have a chance"...implying not to fuck it up...what did David do 7 MONTHS after maine died? Before Maine died he was shorter than Lucy...NOW hes a ful 2 FT taller??? cuz of implants? worst character development possible.

I mean it is generic like the rest but doesn't mean that's a bad thing.