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I'm very harsh on shows with shitty plots or any woke shit. My gf has to endure me constantly pausing and shitting on the shows. I haven't even watched the new LOTR because I know I won't even be able to make it through an episode.
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If you don't like anime, I don't blame you. A lot of anime is written "by the numbers" to appeal to fetishes and tropes to hit minimum guaranteed sales targets. Most shows are written not to be great, but to just not fail so the studio can pay its bills. This results in a lot of generic garbage with lolis and waifus and copy/pastes of the dominant tropes. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners looks like anime, but the characters and plot aren't "anime".
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I started to shit on Edgerunners because shows these days made me so cynical. Basically I started to point out that Lucy suddenly liking the MC was unearned fan service bullshit. "she wouldn't like him so much". Mere seconds later the show fully explained why Lucy was "liking" the MC. Shit got real. The plot was solid all the way through. You can actually use your brain when watching this show and the show respects its internal logic.
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Written by Japanese, of course, you have to go all the way to Japan to not have your shit ruined by Hollywood's libtard writing cabal.
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This show is a very manly ultra-violence badass show, yet my (japanese) GF absolutely loved the show, was seriously upset by the (non-happy) ending, and downloaded the OST so now that's what plays when I'm with her in the car.
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Full disclosure, I pirated the show and I don't care if I spoil anything.
The timeskip did not do the show any favors. It felt unearned to see the main character where he was compared to the prior episode. Points lost for that, a transitionary episode showing some growth would have helped immensely. Especially since he is immediately slaughtering innocents because he's going cyberpsycho, when before he'd been handling his upgrades with aplomb. It's narrative whiplash and it was lazy.
The show gets points for Adam Smasher being portrayed well and lore accurately, he has always been the most interesting character in the franchise and he was used well (unlike in the game). Bonus points for Rebecca being an overall good character, unlike the other female supporting cast who were just aggressively retarded.
It loses points for Pondsmiths ridiculous faux African slang being everywhere. This can't be helped, but it also doesn't get less obnoxious to keep hearing it. If anyone ever calls me "choom" in real life they're going to be told to take the cock out of their mouth before they try talking to an adult.
Cyberpsychosis was handled... strangely. At least if you've read the old books. The premise here is that you give up your humanity bit by bit the more cyberware you install, and you only have so much to go around before you stop viewing OTHERS as people, since you can't disassociate yourself as a person. In the books it's basically opposite, you lose your ability to relate to humans because you cease to see yourself as one.
It can also be solved if caught early by just chipping some cyberware out again. It was an analogy for drugs back when the setting was first written. If you stop it sucks, but it sucks less than being dead.
The way it was portrayed in the show it is as if some cyberware just makes you go nuts by itself and you're fucked the moment you slot it. That is quite a departure from the old lore even if Pondsmith did approve it (because let's face it he loves money).
Good music, amazing animation. As for my critical opinion, I like what Pax has to say https://youtu.be/tKM_JM4Jc9g
Ive heard the show was good, but I havent seen it. I have CP 2077, of course, and played through it once, at first release, but haven't really picked it back up again. Supposedly the recent patches greatly improves the game, but I haven't been interested in starting a new play through.
The first 3 episodes all happen in one day, then episode 4 is an entire montage and skips over the interesting shit of David learning the ropes for more montages.
Remember the first part of 2077 where it skips that massive part in-between arriving at the city and the job to get the Arasaka chip? That happens here and you say it's good?
Did you also forget that the diversity panel wanted to kick out Rebecca because "Loli isn't applicable for Cyberpunk." Cyberdong advertisements are but loli enhancements are where we draw the line. And she turned into the most popular character of the show but Trigger had to say she stays in or she'd be out.
And the god damn ending. That stupid song with David going full Gary-Stu? It's never explained why Cyberpsychosis is a thing, it's just something that happens. In Shadowrun, Essence is directly tied to cyber enhancement. How much Essence you lose is directly tied to how many body parts you replace. Here, Cyberpsychosis just happens. No in show reason as to why people just go crazy.
In short, I watched this with a bunch of guys and I was wondering why I wasn't liking it. And it's everything but the animation and character designs that were all Trigger. The story is breakneck pace, the tone is inconsistent, the characters are killed off so quickly and in gory fashion to provoke response like GoT. The music is modern day pop garbage, like the stuff you'd find on stations in 2077.
So yeah, this show is bad. Do yourself a favor and get the Laughing Man OVA of GITS Stand Alone Complex, that's 3 hours as well and does such a better characterization and slower pace compared to Edgerunners.
It's 3 seasons worth of material fit into 10 episodes that couldn't even do that right.
I still wish they would make a DLC of THAT. Considering the three different lifepaths which magically end up at the same place but obviously started from different origins, we would get three wildly varied storylines. I'm not sure CDPR has it in them.
Hard disagree. You wanted this show to be something else. It wasn't. It was very good at what it wanted to be. It just wasn't what you wanted it to be.
Now go pirate the good fansub of Kill La Kill
Studio Trigger will never sell out to wokie bullshit.
Gurren Lagan, Kill la Kill, Darling in the Franxx, and somewhat SSSS.Gridman are all good.
she's nothing like harley quinn, she's a tsundere