David isn't your normal anime protagonist. He didn't do the right thing. He just does what he wants.

I absolutely love the fact David wasted no time to confront this guy after getting the implant like, no Slice of Life anime standup trope bullshit. Just straight beat his punched him.

The ending says everything. His mother put all her blood, sweat and tears into making money for David’s education, only to die because she had nothing for her own healthcare. David pissed off at being pushed around by the bullies finally has enough and takes action, effectively ruining his chances at the education his mom died for. He gave up her dream and it hurts. Revenge didn’t change her fate. He just wants her back.

David was true EDGE RUNNER. What a legend.

The fact that david used a military grade implant to run home and do his clothes

Even his father thinks he deserved it. He was more interested in David.

The parallel between this scene of David first sticking up for himself and his death to Adam is beautiful. The "like I give a shit" line and the laughing as he's walking away, were both present after he lost to Adam. A testament to David never changing who he was.

Let me remind you this kid mocked David for "having organic knuckles", easily stopped his punch and then punched David dozens of times but couldn't severely injure him, but here he was sent flying with just one punch. Goes to show how much of a beast David truly was.

Kid: you know who my father is? Few episodes later: turn his father into a splash of meatballs. Imagine what that kid felt now 😂

I love this scene and I love how David broke his face and he definitely deserved it.

Let's all be honest Katsuo deserved it. Even when he made that phone call talking about David's mom like that...I was seeing red after that. Hell even his Dad said he deserved that too.

I was so proud of this scene, David stood up for himself against a spoiled privileged little brat. It’s crazy how David was the top student, I bet everyone else was just jealous that he was smarter than them😂

I love how David acts like an actual teenager. He got a military-grade implant and the first thing he does with it is beat up his bully, it's so delightfully selfish. No life-lesson, no "being the better person" bullshit, just breaks his fucking nose with no hesitation. David doesn't do what's morally just, David just does whatever the fuck he wants.

I *love* that moment right before David punches Katsuo. When David pauses and leans in like "yeah, this spot will do."

I really like the minor detail of the ai teacher’s eyes tracking David as he comes in, would be unsettling asf to see that when you come in late

This made me love David so god damn much. He didn’t make the most of Arasaka. But given how abusive the system is and how much it screwed her mom over in the end. Giving David a chance to bite back against anybody who would keep him down is so catharticly comforting.

1:18 Famous last words, huh.

Was really surprised that Katsuo didn't play any bigger part in this series than this. Not even after what happened to his father. Just getting beat up by david was all the importance he had in this series XD

This was so satisfying. No hesitation, no cliché tropes, he just gave him a beating. He did what he had to do. The beginning of a true Edgerunner.

Hearing “I really want to stay at your house” after watching Edgerunners invoked some unexplainable pain deep within my dark and empty soul

David will live in our hearts just like Johnny Silverhand and V. They are indeed true legends, they don't die.

この「知るかよクソ野郎」ってセリフが最終話で繰り返されるのエモい

1:23 damn when David lost it on the final episode and started laughing. I didnt realize that this is where he was laughing at

完膚なきまでの復讐ほど 気分爽快、ストレス解消 かつ自己の尊厳を回復させるものはない

i love how the anime does a slow mo and a real time animation of the sandevistan

I love how David shakes his hand and is clearly hurt after that punch. Even for a normal punch, it's very easy for an amateur to break a bone in their hand punching someone (so common it's called a "Boxer's Fracture"). Add to that the fact that he's easily punching at a much higher speed, and therefore with much higher force, than normal, he's lucky that he didn't break every bone in his hand and likely his arm, in the process.

This scene was so beautifully animated I love it

0:32 *STANDING HERE, I REALIZE* *YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME* *TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY*

Sandevistan literally should be the last upgrade you want for your body after all of the other heavy stuffs and here our boy just putting it on for his first upgrade 💀💀💀

I should thank to Katsuo. Because he gave David a new purpose, a pathway to become a legend. Anyway, Katsuo deserved it.

時を経てデイビッドが体格良くなったのを見た時なぜか寂しかった　お前も遠くに行っちまうのか…って

0:16 I love how the people walking out aren't fazed in the slightest. Almost like its a normal occurrence. XD

Makes me wish I had a Sandevistan implant. Making everything slow-mo while you're moving super fast sounds badass

カツオとおなじく「知るかよ、クソ野郎」とアダムスマッシャーにも言ってたけど、嬉しそうな気持ちが滲んでたなあ。

Talk Shit, Get Hit... That's one lesson I learned in life.

In breaking news a student at Arasaka Academy has been expelled for assaulting another student. David Martinez recently lost his mother in a drive by shooting conducted by the criminal gang known as the Animals and Katsuo Tanaka, another student and known bully, mocked his mother’s death and said that he should drop out and the same would not happen to him. Enraged, David equipped himself with a military grade sandevistan and severely assaulted Katsuo. The Academy Board expelled David a mere hour later and Katsuo is currently recovering in hospital. David Martinez has also refused an offer to return to the academy on the condition he apologise and has been reported to have become a mercenary.

David gets his salty run back you love to see it

サンデヴィスタンだけで裏社会に殴り込んだ頃のデイビッドいいよな

"How do I deal with bullying at school?" Google: Tell your teachers or parents Bing:

Holy shot, at 1:27 is the only time we see actual kids in the anime.

Two words: Fully deserved. I'm pretty sure viewers are definitely cheering for the bully to get a taste of his own medicine.

Paytime always hits different 🤣lol

the strength of the Sandevistan in David is the best and it did destroy his face haha. 👏👏 💀 👀

Man, when you think about it, Katsuo's probably so fucked after this. He's just become the laughing stock of the academy for getting beaten up by a poor kid, and then his dad dies, taking away his patronage at Arasaka. With a tarnished reputation and no one backing him, his chances of getting anywhere in the corp are pretty much zero. David just destroyed this kid's life, lol.

And thus David's ascent into the heights of True Badassery had begun.

1:18 Also David's last words

This is the punch that killed David. He would have never been on arasaka’s radar had he not thrown that punch.

This anime just casually came like a tornado, took our hearts and then left away

Looking back at this, I just realized the parallelism between this and the ending. David says the same last words to both his first and last enemies "like I give a shit"

まだ首細いデイビッド君…😭 カツオ君も強く生きてね…

Holy crap, the audio of the last few seconds- that subtle drip- drip- the bass response goes way down to make it so you can *feel* it in your head. That's wild.

0:57 bro got fucking folded like an omelet

ゲーム済でアニメ見ました。ゲームでもお馴染みのBGMやSEもあって最高でした！そして、やっぱサイバーサイコはやっべぇや！ってなりました。またゲームやります！！

David has one hell of a right hook

Still bleeding, right from Doc to that guy's face. David is a legend.

ゲーム分からなかったけどアニメだけ見ても話分かったし、バカ面白かった！最後の喪失感がえぐいけど何回もこのシーン見るほど中毒になった

I knew that David installing the Sandy sealed his fate, and was a bad decision overall but...like everyone, I was looking forward to THIS scene.

This is how you deal with school bully

I feel like David is mentaly saying sorry to his mother in that last scene. It really hurts.

Dude this series it's just a fucking masterpiece

残像拳を10倍界王拳でぶん殴る主人公の鑑

You gotta remember he’s moving at mach speed atleast so all that force would end up doing just as much if not more damage to somebody if they were to get hit at the momentum and speed so it wasn’t exaggerated that the dude went flying 🤣 you can even see another example of this when david bum rushed a fully chromed out tiger claws when he was about to stab lucy don’t know if this was a added detail or not but I love the mini realism to it

David got his get back

The beginning of a legend

"Do you know who my father is?" We sure know what happens to him.

David martinez da golpes como buen latinoamericano.

1:31 First thing to do with your Sandevistan Enter your house in a bright yellow blur of chaos and then sit on your couch in complete silence for 5 seconds

ここホントスカッとした、最高だぜデイビットマルチネス

カツオ序盤にしか出ないけどなんか好きなキャラ

Katsuo getting faceplanted into a wall was cool, but for me it's moment before where he just nonchalantly kicks his ass out of his seat and katsuo bounces off the floor like an idiot that is just chef's kiss perfection. Like no warning, no calling him out by name, David just made up his mind that this is going to happen, consequences be damned.

Before I watch the anime I thought David might just be a punk protagonist, but end up David is actually a nice kid that study well surprised me.

David may have changed entire trajectory of the story if he had not believed the fake call from Lucy and instead just left the cyberskeleton there for Millitech to grab and gotten the hell out of dodge.

David literally had no purpose goals or ambition kinda just did whatever he thought would push something forward never really cared or did anything for himself either. Kinda always just went with the flow

Katsuo got the "Fuck around and find out" treatment

The only true dumb mistake David did that sealed his and lucy's fate for the remainder of the series, it brought Arasaka's eye on him (which started considering him as a valuable test subject for the cyberskeleton) and that spilled on lucy, with Arasaka getting a hold of her and finding out she was once their property. Sometimes a somewhat childish decision ends up bringing dire consequences for you in the future.

最高にパンク！これぞパンク！己を削ってでも反抗せよ！

Je tiens à préciser que le travail de doublage pour la version française et une merveille dans le milieu de l'animation japonaise. Je félicite avec ma plus grande admiration l'équipe de Donald Reignoux pour le travail et le soin apportait à nos oreilles. Jamais une tel œuvre n'a été accomplie dans le doublage français de l'animation nipponne de Netflix. Je suis resté ébahi devant le travail, contemplatif devant ce chef-d'œuvre. Comme disait Karl Young, “L'homme mérite qu'il se soucie de lui-même, car il porte dans son âme les germes de son devenir.” Et je ne sais que dire à part bravo. Bravo à Netflix d'avoir fait confiance à Monsieur Reignoux, d'avoir fait confiance à son expertise et c'est années de connaissances dans le doublage. N'est-ce pas Wembo qui déclarait "Cultive ton présent avec sagesse et sans relâche, pour conjuguer ton avenir au futur plaisant." (À bon entendeur) Son travail dans les choix de doubleurs et équivalant au travail des équipes d'animation (que je salue bien bas) derrière ce projet titanesque. J'écris ces mots encore subjugués devant ce Travail, oui travail avec un grand T. Du début a la fin, je ne me suis jamais senti lacé. Ni par l'animation, ni par les voix et encore moins devant l'histoire. Jamais une tel œuvre n'a été apporté à mes oreilles et à mes yeux. À la fois hypnotique pour la vue et suave pour notre ouïe. Plus j'y repense et plus une idée me taraude l'esprit. Jamais une telle douceur ne m'a été délicieusement servie (telle la dernière pitance du damné). Et plus le temps passe, plus le gout de cet exquis millésime qui m'a été permis de savourer se bonifie et reste ancré dans mon palet. Je hais ce sentiment, ce sentiment d'en revoir, d'adieux. Après avoir sondé et contemplé cette œuvre, après m'être tarabiscoté la matière grise, pour là démystifier, pour tirer chaque message caché qui m'a tenu en alêne. Devoir lui dire "en revoir œuvre, je t'ai compris et tu m'as conquis. Hélas, nos chemins doivent se séparer." Me met un souffle au cœur, car je ne veux pas, mais je dois le lui dire. N'est-ce pas Voltaire qui exprimait ". On passe sa vie à espérer, et on meurt en espérant. Adieu, monsieur ; vous m’avez instruit, mais j’ai le cœur navré." Comme la citation que je viens de vous octroyer, il est temps pour nous de nous séparer. Ce message, c'est avec le cœur que je vous l'élucubre, mais bien plus. Une pointe de d'admiration, un soupçon de folie devant un mirage qui ne veut pas s'effacer et qui reste dans ma vision périphérique tel un spectre qui demeure dans un monde qui ne lui appartient plus… Spectre, ton heure et venue, merci pour tout, je te comprends et te pardonne. Prenons-nous la main une dernière fois et fessons de cet adieu le plus bel adieu que l'on puisse faire pour que n'y toi n'y moi n'ayons de regret. Tracnard et Zedro P.S : message rédigé à l'encre de Chine, juste avant que je ne courbe l'échine.

Awesome bro

改めて初期デイビッド見るとヒョロヒョロだなｗ

We want more Cyberpunk!!! a live action series about the corporate wars for example would make for a great story a longer running anime like Edgerunners would be much appreciated as well

Maybe one of the surprises of this year. Very good anime.

Revenge is a dish better served cold. Wouldn't you agree?

1:07 David in this moment be like: wanna cry ?

Brabo demais! O Especial🌟

Imagine if this anime had 2 more seasons with a nomad and corpo as the protagonists for each season and katsuo as the corpo protag

I love this show so much 😊

That was so satisfying to watch.

1:18 "Like I give a shit" Favorite line lmao. Also, at 1:25 When someone from the Movie Fandom who's either a wannabe film critic/reviewer or a sympathizer for both tells me it's wrong to enjoy movies without acknowledging the flaws XD

That arrogant gonk got what he deserved. Katsuo should have known better than to mock the death of someones parent. Even Katsuo's father pretty much said "Yeah, my dumbass son deserved that.".

The other two creeping away 😆

カツオとのリベンジマッチ期待してたけど無かったな〜

This scene SLAPS

Tanjiro had enough of Zenitsu's shit and stole thunder breathing just to spark him

"You're so fucking gone!" "So what you're saying is...I have nothing to lose by kicking you 20 more times."

If THAT is a "poor people's apartment", then damn, the dystopia is current NYC lmao, but we don't even have cool cyber implants so it's even worse of a dystopia

😅That was BADASS David is the beast😆👍

I like how he repeats the, "...like I give a shit" line when he's in the reverse situation vs Smasher

I really got to watch this series , heard good things and it broke UK top 10 charts .

this is zach aguilar's greatest work so far

It's satisfying when they replay the slow mode to normal mode