It's a string of scenes and ideas with montages and breakneck pace to make it smudge together.

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.

It's a string of scenes and ideas with montages and breakneck pace to make it smudge together.

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.