Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Anime)

Rosa Walton (Let’s Eat Grandma) — I Really Want to Stay At Your House (from the Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)

 
I really enjoyed watching it. Trigger are incredible. I've heard people say it's one of the best (or even THE best) Trigger, but I cannot possibly agree. You can see they have been restricted in the story they wanted to tell. They really ran far with what they had, but they even struggled to have Rebecca included in the story. Which is a shame because their work surpasses the game in every way.

Regardless, they did very well, and I look forward to seeing where they go next.
 
Wouldn't say it was their best, necessarily, but I think it is my favourite Trigger series of the ones I've seen.

Even if they weren't given absolute free reign, it does at least feel like they were able to reach a reasonable understanding with the producers and embrace the project. It feels like something made with genuine enthusiasm, unlike some other co-productions which seem forced or unloved (hello Marvel anime).
 
Professor Irony said:
Having now finished the series, I think, for all it wasn't telling an especially complicated story, I did appreciate how it avoided a lot of the typical anime storytelling tropes.

Based on the first couple of episodes, I thought Tanaka and his son would be much more significant characters (had a small amount of money on Tanaka being David's biological father) and we'd get some kind of confrontation between them towards the end, perhaps culminating in David choosing to go back to school. I wouldn't have been against them doing that, but I'm also glad they didn't.

Given that Tanaka and Tanaka Jr. are pretty much out of picture by the half-way point, when it seems like David has suddenly (yet subtly!) become an adult, it seems as though the show is basically telling us that those childhood problems really don't matter anymore, and I found that lack of sentimentality quite refreshing.

While I kind of guessed it wasn't going to end happily the moment we saw David with his cyberised body, and even more so when he started shooting up the suppressants to maintain his sanity, I think it would have been easy for them to back down and find some way for him to escape Adam Smasher, perhaps at the expense of the Sandevistan. I did appreciate, however, that they stuck to their guns and allowed David to die at the end - it just felt right for the story.

But yeah. Given how well received the series seems to have been, I do hope Trigger will do something else in this universe. Doesn't need to be a sequel, but even a one shot film with a different cast would be a nice way to round off their involvement with the IP.
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I agree. David ended up being my favorite character in the series, and I think a lot of that comes down to how well he was written. I also really liked the David Martinez jacket. The yellow design already stands out, but the glowing collar is my favorite detail because it gives the jacket such a unique look. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing that style return if they ever make another Cyberpunk anime.
 

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Nothing beats good old Armitage The Third, though-it's got killer action scenes and a rocking ost even after all these years.
 
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