No implants!? Cybernetic eyes & brain?

@@derekjermain Well, even with that Maine considered him "organic", like he has less implants than at the end. That's what I meant.

tbh, that was the best form of David, as soon as I saw that in part two of the anime he was full of chrome, I knew that we were not going to have the innocent and rebellious david from before, this shit it got even worse and sadder

The ending got me 😔. You know what's a unique thing about this anime? The sadness that lies in-between the lines. If you compare this to an older movie with a similar ending, the Titatnic move for example, you will find that they displayed the ending in a sad way using sad music and what not. Here, the music in the background never changed of being the hype music of Cyberpunk yet it didn't affect the emotional damage, a true masterpiece! In the Titanic movie, however, the sadness in the ending isn't hidden between the lines, it is instead represented very clearly.

@@derekjermain Him and his sandavistan is still kinda organic compared to whatever the fuck he turned himself into post Maine death

Goat

Well atleast david became a legend

and Rebecca, she was such a sweetheart:(

@@hoteldiablo999 indeed 😭😭😭😭

Literally binged the entire season in 1 sitting, I got gripped hard by it ngl. This is what I always wanted, feels like the anime did so much to flesh out the massive setting that is cyberpunk. I really hope trigger comes back to do more animated cyberpunk. I literally have the game redownloading to play the new edgerunner patch as well.

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Chivalry is not dead

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Exactly.

That's one way looking at it but that's your opinion

that "i want to go to the moon" was a wish from lucy but for david was the promise he make "i will make U go to the moon"

Should have gotton another babe theres billions out there you know

And the last bit of the damn movie makes it all the worse. Lucy accomplishing her dream without david, then seeing flashbacks of david on the moon, then fucking enjoyed the heat of the sun or some shit? I was so triggered. Like what we doing stocism shit here? Even though your love one is dead you still find meaninf. Fuck damn im so angry i couldn’t even. So sad depressed and even triggered. I would die to see david and lucy reunite for fuck sake they coulda just put him on a damn wheelchair or some shit. Sooo frustrated since the first half of the show was probably like 12/10 fuck damn.

Wrong game as well, only the bugs are correct.

@@yfw123 i don't get you people, so you don't like the game boo hoo maybe dont play it then? Instead of spending every minute spamming comments against anyone who dared to like something you didn't

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@@a_1389 there just 🤡

This fucking quote hit me so damn hard since I really wished that David and Lucy would be getting an happier ending. Same for Dorio and Maine. The city of dreams... Yeah right... 🥲

Fr I died a little inside when he disappeared

They did an incredible job. It’s no small feat for a show to have an emotional impact on you after you finished it. Props to them

For me, Rebecca's death hits the hardest. Actually got me crying when I saw her corpse all broken

@@articspetsnaz2833 same...

Oh yeah? More painful than cancer or torture huh??

Almost makes you want to burn it all down. Everyone works so hard to live only to be crushed by Night City in the end. It's infuriating.

@@SonofOrion42 Spoken like Johnny Silverhand

we really have a city to burn

@@SonofOrion42 "Wake the fuck up Samurai we have a city to burn "

@@cortachurros4268 Again!

It is because the show does a good job of giving you hope while simultaneously showing you the reality that there isn't.

The intro pretty much foreshadowed the ending david walking with a crased look 9n his face and getting shot in the head is exactly what happened

@@Tywil714 thats what made it great. Even the BD producer made him relive it. David was getting manipulated from the start.

@@Tyrantofthewind Lucy ironically became the hope though. Everyone else died and David specifically so that she could go out and see her dream, breaking through the cycle of a cyberpunk, completing their dreams and living the normal lives they always wanted. There were sacrifices but there was a light on the end of the tunnel. Lucy right now stands as the hope for the cyberpunks that if you try hard enough, there's always a way I haven't watched this anime but from all the clips and stuff I've heard, that's what I get

I think it's fitting that it felt fast....just like how David lived.

that sentence is absolutely right

Here's the thing: Johnny, David and Lucy all prove this quote wrong. For Johnny, he was remembered as a rockerboy instead of a terrorist (before you say anything, do you really think Johnny was the only person Arasaka hushed up?). David is remembered in game as a legend, he even has a drink in the Afterlife. As for Lucy, she remembers the David before the cyberware, not when he was a legend. The point is, I think the whole point of Cyberpunk is that we shouldn't rush our lives. Living in the moment can be fun, but it only lasts for a moment.

@@duncanw5644 I guess you could say that the David before Cyberware was her legend, seeing as that is the version of him that she remembered.

@@duncanw5644 Bingo. Cyberpunk is a world of Style Over Substance, but Maximum Mike really wants to drive it home to people that Substance Over Style is what really matters.

@@HuevoBendito hit the nail right on the head, a city so full of bright and amazing things that can give us the rush whenever we want, but in the end what trully matters is living being the best "us" we can be

The moment I saw Smasher in show, I knew it wont end well. Sadge.

It’s Night City choom no other way it could end unless your V who makes mince meat of Adam Smasher

@@K6mil the way they animated him sitting there menacingly, I knew the show had no happy endings

And that is the hard part to pull off in these sort of limited stories. CDPR and Trigger made a masterpiece.

i knew too, especially knowing Edgerunners takes place before the game, there was no way Smasher was going to be defeated. Even before that, I knew David wasn't going to make it. It's Night City after all, but seeing him become who he was in the show and his relationship with Lucy, I really felt like there could be a small chance there was a positive ending... how naive I was to believe that. So fucking sad, but goddamn what a great fucking ending and of course, a great anime.

The end credits make it even more depressing, but better, with her trying to cope in the immediate aftermath of his death just to breakdown, only to then look up to the moon with the realization that she has to go to fulfill David's dying wish

At which point david is still DEAD, and she will start going into depression and god knows what comes next. Bro she loved him more than her life

Funfact- V gets David's jacket in the game which means Lucy didn't even get to keep his jacket.

​@@AXCBERSo she's the one giving V the jacket, I don't know why and what for, probably to leave the memories of the past about the David and start a new life, Falco says in the game that "we" lay low, but watched V and decided to make a gift from one cyberpunk to another cyberpunk, it's unlikely Falco could find information about V, so at the moment of receiving David's jacket, the probability is that Lucy herself gives it to us through Falco, she also found information about V, because she's netrunner

😂 yea, i felt like they forgot that effect mock up 🙃

@@jazendanke3609I actually think the abruptness is a good reminder that Night City is a horrible place and that people can be taken from you in a flash.

This episode is depression on "STEROIDS".

You can see the pain in her face

I was expecting a sad ending, the game itself ends bad for the protagonist in some way, and trigger studios aren't new to animating stories with sad endings, still it was a nice story, great animations, great music, and it truly captured the cyberpunk vibe that the game had but with a slight anime twist, also Im more sad Rebecca died, she was my favorite in the show, she really cared for everyone in the show despite her wild nature, her death was abrupt but she had the most balls in the show, she was really brave against Adam Smasher as if he was nothing although a futile effort, Rebecca was like an aggressive loli version of Jackie who also died for their partners

Literally fly me to the moon

If theres happy ending to cyberpunk franchise i would be surprised.

Well I haven’t seen the series nor played the game but I saw in this clip lol hey kissed so could of they made a kid?

@@Anonymous-jj9yu if she is, she’s better off leaving night city to give that kid a chance

@@neofulcrum5013 she’s in space In the end is she not

The part where she sees David and dissapears, she has cyberpsychosis, she eventually joins David

Yeah. Even the trailers are like, “The only thing that matters for a cyberpunk is how spectacular their death is.”

No. Her dream wasn't that for a long time. Before she met David? Sure. Afterwards it washe for David to live and for them to be happy together. Her dream was not achieved. It's funny in a twisted way, he died to achieve her old dream but her current dream was for him to live.

@@lad7436 there's no curse more twisted than love.

@@lad7436 this is precisely why you gotta listen to your girl thoroughly

@@lad7436 very well put

Are you dreaming bud? Did you even watch the show? She loves david more than her own self. She was ready to sacrifice absolutely anything just to live a long lige with him. She almost loved him as much as his mom did. And now he’s just dead. The last bit where lucy was on the moon was absolutely confusing for me. Like what the fuck did the writers want us to feel? They were one of the best love stories i have seen in anime history for the frist half of the show then everything starting going to absolutely poop in a shithole. I just fucking cant

Same here. Wish they could’ve had a different ending, instead of this fuckin depression

Totally agree. If he and Lucy just didn't get more involved with Faraday, they could just live quietly and peacefully.

The moment I saw smasher, I knew he wasn't making it out alive...

the moment i saw them talking about Smasher, and remembered that this anime happened before the game. I was like "oh shit... they are gonna die"

True

Happy ending for Smasher, he actually got to enjoy himself a little bit.

I didn't play the game nor read any of the lore so I didn't know how fucked they were...

Gainax and the successor Trigger always the best, but often not enough budget

I thought the animation was pretty janky in some spots, and the subtitles were AWFUL, but yeah it was much better than I expected! 8/10!

They even used a lot of in-game music, equipment/weapons and locations… they didn’t have to but it’s pure joy for those of us who played the game extensively and can recognise them

Even better than the game no bugs this time

@@EmilyKimMartin hahahahaha you should have seen the jank on ps&g

Evangelion? Darling in the franXX?

Wait darling in the franxx?

Code geass r2.

@@alphalightning00frost67 eva no, this is the first anime i watch and go "wait that's the ending?? " it's so unfulfilling and empty yet fit the theme so well

Akame ga kill

Broke my damn heart too, and damn i’ll stay away from sad endinf stuff from now on, especially if its really good

​@LinhNguyen-zg9kn I think I enjoy this sad ending stuff but not in the way people normally say their having enjoyment. It really gets you thinking of what went wrong and what could have been different. Very bittersweet.

yeah I started hugging the screen crying too.

That’s how it’s actually portrayed in the tabletop game, it’s nightmarish

@@Jramssy you should also go look up the old anime AD police, setting the same universe as the classic bubblegum crisis. In particular the third episode, "The man who bites his tounge", although the first two episodes deal with different versions of cyber-psychosis as well.

It's sad because it was originally a mechanic for the videogame but was removed, the more cyberware V installed would take away their humanity, and increase the chance to go psycho, hell the first cgi trailer from 2013 was all about a cyber psycho

@@help533 that makes look V as God-merc, and hell he is, having in mind you can defeat Adam Smasher in a 1 vs 1.

@@RagaGearforever5 1 v 1?, did u forget all the arasakas troop and robot joining mid fight

fuck i never thought of that, i figured he'd still be alive in someway, never really thought about the damn construct angle (dunno how) fully expecting him to appear in another cyberpunk story somewhere, maybe his construct (or plot twist the one we killed was a construct) will end up fighting Morgan Blackhand, feel like we cheaply took that rivalry away a bit tbh.

@Mr. Hole supposedly there is...they're going to open it up just in time to reintroduce the Bozos. There goes the neighborhood.

That's definitely respect. He was willing to spare Johnny who he hated just so he could be soul killed by Arasaka.

Like giving your opponent the honor and privilege to die. Or maybe because he felt like, David could really impose as a futuristic threat if they did create a construct of him. Awesome take on it man! Thanks for sharing!

@@FoxYinnyy I don't think Adam Smasher viewed anyone as a threat. The closest he considered anyone to even rivaling him was Blackhand. It's kinda like the Relationship Madara had with Hashirama when it came to beef. Blackhand wanted no smoke because he felt that was a waste of time, and Smasher always wanted smoke with Morgan cause he kept blowing him off

Castlevania is great and its in netflix too. And has 0 censrship lile this :3

Now watch Arcane

at the very least there was dim hope and uptone by trigger, unlike devilman...

Netflix is just a distributor

Was this done by the same company as Devilman? Reminded me of Devilman right away

frrrrr i was in shock

It was too sudden. Too fvking sudden, I'm still in shock

She cared so much about David :(

@@AB-ln2py yeah, i think that's why i love her the most, she was a little crazy but had a big heart

totally wasn't needed imo Rebecca should of been the one that David promised to get Lucy away since it would have been more emotional smh

On est ensemble à ce moment là j ai ressenti un vide dans mon cœur

Same😭

@@n2kkilla But for sure the best thing would be if Studio TRIGGER would make more of these, i dont care if its 20 episode mini series just give me more of this xdd

@@Hexyteron for real men i really do think they were rushed and needed to compressed out of time or budget maybe fck if this was 13 episodes i think they could have cramped it all up.

At least we avenge them in the game. I personally killed Adam smasher with rebbacas shotgun.

This is cyberpunk, never expect for happy ending even if you got a slight hope there's always a big concequence with it just like the game's stories

“What you did to me, I know. Said what you had to say. But a thing of beauty I know. Will never fade away.

俺もアニメで嗚咽しながら泣いたの初めてだよ。デイビットがサイバーサイコになりかけてレベッカに笑ってアラサカタワーのてっぺんに行くよ！母さん！って言ってるシーンからずーっと泣いてた。 そしてトドメの太陽アッツって言ってる当時のデイビットの幻覚を見て微笑み返してそれが幻覚だと知って切ない顔するこのルーシーの顔でずーっと放心状態。 ただただ涙がずーっと出てる状態。

Wrong city.wrong people

Nah it got corrupted for saving in a restricted zone

Now he's enjoying life outside. Just like everyone else.

@@thefatman8119 He wasn't using a pre-patch PS4 was he? Or...just a PS4?

i doubt he saved before getting into the exoskeleton lmao

@@snowtenkey118 nah he accidentally saved midway lol

Lucy's original dream was to go to the moon alone and get a fresh start, away from arasaka and night city. That's exactly what David gave her. It just costed her heart and his life. And a shit ton of eddies.

Think you interpreted the situation very wrong. Lucy's dream was always to essentially get away from night city and start over, even before she met David. He died for the dream that she always had.

Thank you

@@Swift_LN The price of freedom is steep.

@@u.r.t.v.unit6672 Boy oh boy...

Same dude. I finished this a couple days ago and can't stop thinking of this show and when I do i just end up crying. Idk why this story hit me so hard

Yeah but fuck damn lucy loved him more than absolutely anything in that damn world, but fuck damn david and the authors let us down so damn much.the first half of the show was like 18/10 but it just started going to shit from there. Im just so fucking sad bro so sad

The first half of the show made me so happy and hopeful, the last half? Sadness and frustration damn. It was a good show for sure, i just wish the ending would somehow be lil better

​@@LinhNguyen-zg9knYou mean happier? Stop using the word "better" just because you didn't like it.

@@LinhNguyen-zg9kn it's not because it's depressing and sad that it's bad you know, it just shows how Night City can destroy the life of anyone at any given time, there couldn't have been a happier ending it always ends brutally in the world of Cyberpunk unfortunately. I wish David lived too of course because that destroyed me x)

I didn't cry at any point in the series up until this point.

And use Johnny’s gun

I'll use Rebecca's gun to do it

Or Becca’s Guts

@@hawtdilf Or both.

Every day is a good day to smash Smasher. What a great villain

to be fair, Blackhand's fate when going against Smasher is unknown, there are reports of someone fitting his description appearing by the time the game takes place in, but even then, he was at the Arasaka Tower in 2023 when it got nuked and survived, so

@@andreadebernardis4390 yeah i know that, thats why i didn't mention that he died, but reports say they were evenly matched.. V on the other hand, annihilated the fuck outta Smasher

@@bastiisalive well I like to think it was an even fight even in that case, with V dying and whatnot, thus giving them quite a handful of difficulties on top of Smasher already being strong, but that's mostly cause I'm a sucker for Adam Smasher as a character, so I guess I'm biased

And he/she didn't need a Mech Suit to Subdue that metal Devil

@@summer7034 Ow. Damn.... V is a beast.

In the Cyberpunk universe after that event, she most likely had mad depression and lonliness.

The ending made me so sad for that exact reason. All she wanted was for David to live...

We NEED a quest in canon where we hand off David’s jacket to her! It’s a nice cosmetic to have, but it feels wrong that we have it when SHE deserved that last bit of memento of him the most!

They both technically got what they wanted in the end. At first I thought the ending was just bad but I realize that David's main goal was to reach the top of the city in terms of power and respect. Every time he looks at his mothers ashes he remembers what his mom wanted for him before she died, and even though he is hurting himself and pushing away others, he wanted to make her dream come true at any cost. As proof there was that one scene where David is standing on the highest floor of the tallest building in his exoskeleton feeling fulfilled in his moms dream. Even though both David and Lucy were both pushing towards their goals and finally achieved them, they found new meaning in each other along the way, and realized that the love they had was more important than what both of them initially cared about, but by the time they realized that, they were already too deep into their main objective to live that way. David as well as Lucy had already gotten too deep into cyber technology side effects and organized crime by the time Lucy and David wanted to truly be together. In the end, to make the best of a bad situation, David completed his mothers dream and fulfilled his promise for Lucy's dream to go to the moon by freeing her from the life of crime they put themselves into. If David never got involved, Lucy would have been tied down her whole life as a tool, never being able to achieve her dream, and at the same time, if Lucy never got involved, David would have been suffering his whole life trying to live up to his dead moms impossible dream.

@@CristanioPeweyyy was not the 1st time she was alone, remember her childhood

well... he didnt really went toe to toe with adam. Adam crashed him with no chance at all. like boy wasnt even close

David got the happy ending, sure. But Lucy on the other hand...

@@forgot-to-log-out Nah david did his best against adam and even saved his lover. Absolute legend.

@@Sleepai Imagine going through immense cyberpsychosis and still going head on with Adam Smasher. He died with no regrets! David handled Cyberpsychosis pretty well.

@@forgot-to-log-out Even so,kid was handling Cyberpsychosis and Adam Smasher while still knowing he was going to die and faced death right in the face.No mercy.He died like a true cyberpunk and didn't end up being a soulless construct.

Yea knew it would happen too. Especially half way through the show. But that's what makes it good. You care and want the best for the characters. Wish things turned out differently for them. You root for the remaining characters to go on living their best lives for the characters who've fallen. But yea I agree it sucks to see characters suffer the loss of others like that.

Same

Same dude. What kind of life would it be without each other. 😭

@@dragonrider1736 yeah.

Hope Lucy is the next DLC. I hope she becomes a villian due to her trauma from David's death and we have to bring her back to sanity or something like that idk.

So like an anthology series. Like Infinity Train.

@@stephenking5852 ya exactly kind like the so and so Star Wars anime show they have on Disney plus or that love death robots show, but obviously it wouldn’t be different studios making them, since trigger did a great job

Unfortunately Phantom Liberty will be the only DLC but they have said their interested in making more cyberpunk related content

@@Death_true Think we may get a cyberpunk telltale game imo.

@@Death_true Was it confirmed to be the only one? I heard them saying it's the only one planned as of now, doesn't say they won't make another (especially if Phantom Liberty hits good, but still not a guarantee)

Other thing that I love about it is that it's a short story. I find characters to be more impactful personally when they are built well from a short amount of time rather than a longer amount of time.

Im sure Adam smasher was just a little rusty in the game. I mean if he beat one man army David, there's no way a dying V can stand up to him right?

But Adam knew about the weakness of the cyberskeleton so dunno

@@ruiborges6539 A little rusty? The anime takes place one year before the game.

@@venveng Exactly, he got a little rusty in that one year

welcome to studio trigger babey

This ending mirrors Akame ga kills anime ending where everybody including the protagonist dies and the Girl who was the Deuteragonist survives and lives out her dreams while remembering every she cared about died

Very BITTERsweet. Uppercased Bitter on purpose. I think that both hadn't realized what they both wanted. Both loved each other and wanted to live a peaceful life if possible, but misunderstood their ultimate goal. David wanted to fulfill Lucy's wish while Lucy wanted to save David. They never had come to the thought that they both just wanted to live with each other.

It was brutal, yes, but instant, she's the one who didn't suffer a painfull death of all the crew

@@edwrd_s4926 Pretty sure her brother didn't suffer as well, you know with the whole head blown off

It built up Adam Smasher as a force to be reckoned with.

I'm so mad they killed Becca. Objectively best character

@@edwrd_s4926 bruh pilar got blew his head off edit: that's also instant death and painless

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And the ripper handing him his final meds saying he won’t be back to see him because he knew at David was past the point of no return. He even says “a tale for another dreamer” when David leaves. The second I seen smasher appear I knew there was no happy ending. The corps always win

Impossible. Johnny died half a century ago and If you're talking about Johnny the construct, still no since Johnny wakes up a year later when David died.

I mean... I described the afterlife as some kinda dreamed fiction place, so it ain’t supposed to be taken too srsly in logic and practicality Just figured something like Johnny watched from above seeing David go through hell and back in the city he hates, became a legend and saved the woman he loves 😌

That ending piss me the fuck off,they did david dirty

@@anthonymojica1673 no they followed the game with the story of starting as a streetkid, making it up top to the big leagues then dies to it just like the game, despite having choices to go into a corpo lifepath but its a trap (arasaka academy-forced to use the suit) and going nomad, lucy talked alot like judy with leaving the city and all. Thats just how it goes in nightcity no happy endings

@@toiam8350 damn,you make a good ass point,but still tho,this shit was kinda sad,I wanted to see more David and Lucy moments,(even tho Lucy can be harsh sometimes to him, but still).I was kinda hoping in the end,they leave night city,get married,and have kids,but then again,this is night city's,I woke up at 12 accidentally and I was hyped to watch it,to find out we got this piece of shit ending!

More random than sad for me

Me too! am sad but It was a very stupid decision for me.

rebecca deserved it.

Rebecca was like Jackie from the videogame, and sadly she was exactly like Jackie in a manner that she also dies for her partner

She should have survived and been the one David promised to take Lucy away because she was the one who he asked personally to make sure he doesn't go psycho until he made sure Lucy was safe would of been way better ending and more emotional since she cared for him so much

Well we can blow up Smasher and nuke the tower again..

Yeah unlike DBZ shit where death means nothing at all and there’s no stakes. Though plot armor isn’t always that bad sometimes it’s needed to keep the story consistent as long as it’s not overdone.

Holy shit your right damn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Rip my man Saul

is it too much to ask for a cyberpunk romance anime

​@@sp7814 pfp mood

Same.