Audience reviews
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Salvaged
Not recommended.
Please remember: this is my personal opinion and if you enjoyed it, I'm glad. I'm not taking that away from you
First off great opening song, great ending song
Starts off really strong, world building is good for first few episodes, nice plot layout for the first episode, however It's like they built the whole anime around the last two episodes and first two and it shows.
It's mostly episodic, very little plot carries over.
The animation for most of the action scenes is very stilted and poor. Usually only one thing going on at a time, and the action scenes were not very well thought out, except the last two episodes
What does cyberpunk EdgeRunners do good? Dialogue is pretty good. Unnecessary vulgarities are a bit jarring. Nothing against profanity, it just seemed for…
Read at the sourcePursueth
I like how we're all gaslighting each other into thinking this is some sort of masterpiece when, in reality, it's just a semi-decent adaptation of a broken video game with some cool action here and there.
Story: 4/10
Art: 9/10
Score: 8/10
Characters: 4/10
Enjoyment: 7/10
Overall: 6.5/10
I haven’t played Cyberpunk 2077, but what a series this turned out to be. With all its ups and downs, I felt it still managed to be consistent even towards the end (which is funny because Trigger). But it never reached the mark I expected it to, especially with how praised it is. Cyberpunk: Edgrunners is a dystopian show that follows every known trope in the genre to a T. The first episode you see the terrible conditions of the main character, you see the corruption surrounding the world he inhabits, a ra…
Read at the sourceBlackSword
This is one of the worst anime I've seen in my entire life. Had I been able to follow the three episode rule, I would have dropped this faster than a girl in an NTR manga drops her virtue. Japanese animation meets Western tropes was a massive mistake and this is the triumphant example.
Let's get this out of the way: I had to watch the whole thing because it was a group watch, and the group was morbidly curious to see how this awful trainwreck would go. The strongest praise was "it was ok" while about 3/4s of the group joined me in various levels of boredom and exasperation.
The writing is awful, for starters. The protagonist, David, is an idiot. This youth, whose mother busts her ass to get him into a top school, successfully fries his very expensive school's very expensive infrastructur…
Read at the sourceWrokk
This anime was super overhyped.
Studio trigger did what studio trigger always does....some of the coolest animation you have ever seen with a story that is just....boring.
Music:8/10
The music was pretty good. It was as intense as it needed to be and felt great with the cyberpunk vibe
Animation 10/10 It's studio trigger. The blood, the violence, the colors, the lights. It was all awesome
Story: 2/10
The story was basically the first, fast and furious movie but more boring somehow. And at the end you're feeling like the whole thing was pretty pointless because it just kind of ends. Overall, no emotional connection to the characters whatsoever built upon the story, the world building is great, but the storyboarding overall is terrible
Read at the sourceCecylb
TLDR: it's a nothing cake. A very disappointing eye candy. Setting is borrowed, characters are dull and expendable, plot is going nowhere. Your typical story about self-insert dude and cool and handsome girl taking him into a "whole new world", I see such every season, each time new wrap. And it only has 10 episodes, which in my experience is a new low.
My ratings:
Animation - 8/10, it is trigger, so it looks decent
Story - 0/10, none
Characters - 3/10, some interesting designs, but no personality whatsoever
Soundtrack - 3/10, was decent in the beginning, went bad
Enjoyment - 1/10, pretty much I wish I didn't waste my time on this
Characters:
As I said, all of them are expendable. Since someone dies in almost every episode, there is no need to put a lot of thoughts in it. There are no…
Read at the sourceCyrose
I came across a video on TikTok in which a cute futuristic girl had a gunfight. That's how I ended up watching Cyberpunk, for a girl, that hasn't even in the series (Sasha).
I also haven't played the video game Cyberpunk, however I believe everyone have heard of it because of its backlash broke the whole YouTube and it was all around on the internet. Although I haven't played the game, from the reason I mentioned earlier, I somewhat familiar of the concept of the Cyberworld. If there is any chance you might not, which would surprise me I'll try to summarize it's theme without spoil any juicy stuff..
Cyberpunk is about humans modification by super high-tech "bio-chips". Just imagine a super computer in your body, now add future weapons and armored body parts and you had yourself on clock.…
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At first, I thought this show could’ve benefited from an extra episode or two. Then, by the halfway point, I figured it could’ve benefited from having no episodes at all. I spoil a tiny bit in this review, but just a little bit from the first two episodes.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners takes place in a world where everything is monetized to hell, bastardizing every social interaction and invading even the most private space, leaving crime as the only true avenue left for survival for many. It almost made me believe it was set in the modern day. Unfortunately, any meaningful criticism of capitalism stops right there, making this show a complete failure in the realm of the cyberpunk genre, whose entire purpose is to critique capitalism.
Visually, this is Trigger’s least interesting production. Th…
Read at the sourceAngryAlchemist
Every now and then, an anime will come along that walks across a tightrope. And, depending on which angle you view it from, it either falls off spectacularly, or miraculously makes it to the other side. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is one of those anime. And that’s because, at the end of the day, what you take from it will be highly dependent on how much you can connect with a work that is fundamentally struggling to maintain equilibrium. Or rather, wasn’t even trying to maintain it in the first place. Either because of its short ten episode run time, its roots as a spin-off to a game which is already a spin-off of a novel, or because of its various Triggerisms, Edgerunners isn’t really trying to be a complete package. It’s trying to get in, get out, and leave you with the message carried by its…
Read at the sourceKraanerg
Ok, this is my honest response to the tremendous hype I noticed within a week. I grew up buried under sci-fi books, comics and such; so at some point I had an interest in the Cyberpunk original RPG franchise, though never had a chance to explore when I was still obsessed with crazy techno-paraphernalia. And I'm not a gamer or anything, I have no idea how's that Cyberpunk 2077. Before start bashing on this atrocity called Cyberpunk: EDGYrunners, I'll point some remarkable titles I'll use as basis for you to compare with and notice is not even a question of taste. I'm certain a good number of people who are rating this 8 or 9, within a few years, if going further into the genre or consuming more of any other media than Netflix produced and season anime, will change their minds. I'll not incl…
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The initial response from the community regarding this show was nothing but praise and lots of 10s flying around. On the other hand my reaction to it was complete apathy since I was looking at the whole thing from a neutral perspective. Once you do that most shows are nothing special and Edgerunners is no exception. Let’s get this out of the way right away. The reasons so many people liked it are:
1) It did not suck like the videogame it was based on (the bar was set very low)
2) Anything by studio Trigger is always praised and is well animated (the studio’s fame played a part)
3) It has an ‘underdog in a ghetto going up the ladder’ type of story that appeals to most young people (especially those living in large cities).
4) The ending is tragic (most people are used to happy endings).
A…
Read at the sourcePostMAL
Honestly, this says a lot about the current state of the Thai animations' industry: they preferred to follow the easy path and deliver a completely soulless product, obviously made with the sole purpose of attracting attention to the game and raising the fandom's spirit. I really like Trigger, but it wasn't this time that they delivered a high-quality product.
- The fight scenes rarely show the real capacity of the studio, and they obviously tried to be appealing with the amount of blood that is gushed on screen, trying to give a ''mature'' tone to the series (not to mention the huge amount of mild nudity that it contains).
- The world building has been poorly explored, and the characters don't have any charisma or any trace of humanity. The plot is often predictable, and poorly establis…
Read at the sourceKesterDraconis
I specifically want my money back for the Netflix subscription from the writers, and I'm giving this series the first one-star review I've ever made on this website.
This show is like a drop tower that doesn't go up slowly, or a rollercoaster that starts at the top and then goes to nothing but a straight path till it slowly, slowly, slowly slows down, without any breaks until it finally stops, and by that point, you don't care anymore, are bored/emotionally disconnected, and want a refund. It promised so much more, was actually kinda fun at first, and then wasted your time at the end - the most important part of a story.
What would otherwise be a great series is marred by horrible writing and an unfulfilling and largely uninteresting ending for the characters. People may like it now but…
Read at the sourceEuthymia_Gerv
Much like the game this is based on/inspired by, this anime is severely overhyped and disappointing. People must not be watching very good anime if they think this is the best one ever made.
It was serviceable I guess. If you have a few hours to kill and just want to turn your brain off and watch something with the blank stare of a fried netrunner, then this anime is for you!
The story is pretty bland, the visuals seem low-budget, the music kinda sucked. I mean you get the "wow pretty glowy city!" thing for about 5 minutes the first time you see it. It's also the one good thing people can agree on about the game, but just a pretty city (especially at night) can only take you so far. Other than that, it's your basic MC gets overpowered and falls in love with the princess story.
The ani…
Read at the sourceStrix101
Welp,this anime is severely overrated. Honestly this is my first review just by how baffled i am that this anime is in the same patamar as MADE IN ABYSS while Deca-dence a pretty good anime sits like far below this.
The animation is great some of Trigger's best animation work,animations flow fluidly on each other and even in areas where they take crutches(Like the last fights) it still works really well
The score is OK,its nothing memorable the OP's song is pretty good if they hadnt cut the actual song out and just left the midway points.
But the story is extremely run of the mill predictable with a shallow romance and a really boring MC,the characters are mostly one note and single personality with little more than what you expect from them and 0 to very little actual growth troughou…
Read at the sourceBlissfulKingdom
Akame ga Kill! wanna be. A completely pointless story doesn't catch the watcher at all.
Before the halfway point into the show, I literally could already tell how the show was gonna end.
with only 10 episodes, they want you to be invested into these characters that they don't even give you a chance to like or just think about. (besides REBECCA I love her)
there were lots of cool visuals and shots that i love but also sometimes felt hard to make out what i was looking at in a few shots and some that had me wondering why we are staring at a fan for 10 seconds.
besides that i actually enjoyed the outer shell of the show and PLUS+1 for Boobs 😂
I watched it dubbed and the voice actors were actually really good.
Story: 2/10
Music: 8/10
Animation: 8/10 ( good gore scenes tho )
Characters: 5/…
Read at the sourceJizzyBizzy
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is easily one of the greatest anime ever made.
I knew this was gonna be good – it just had to be! An anime made by my favourite studio set in a sci-fi urban setting in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe??? Sign me up! Obviously I had high expectations, but this surpassed all of them easily. I’ve been waiting for this for two years straight but I had no idea that it was actually all gonna pay off like that. Let me explain why it’s so great and why you should go watch it immediately (after it gets dark)
Animation and art style – 10/10
This is simply the most gorgeous anime ever produced. I’ve never seen any piece of media look this good. Every single frame in the show is wallpaper-worthy. Not most frames, all of them. That’s because the backgrounds are meticulously crafted…
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Ah....TRIGGER...and Cyberpunk...two things that should...and for the most part, were awesome as fuck being smashed into each other. The setting of the Cyberpunk game, both its city and its lore/history, the visual aspect, the sounds of the weapons, the music of the game, it's all spectacular wrapped all together with the TRIGGER wrapping paper. However, as of late, the whole TRIGGER formula has, at least in my opinion, become a little stale. No not their visual and audio prowess, both of those are still fundamentally the best in anime. I mean more so that pretty much every TRIGGER product, well save for Kiznaiver and Little Witch Academia, start to end the same way. The beginning and middle show so much promise, usually showing us, the viewers a spectacular series of events that help mold…
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I never played Cyberpunk 2077 so I have an unbiased opinion about the franchise going into this show.
Character: 5/10
With as short and as bloody as this show is, it's hard to make people you care deeply about aside from 1 or 2 main characters and the rest are just along for the ride. If we had 12 episodes with more time to feel for the cast, I feel like the emotional payoffs would be much higher.
Art: 10/10
I don't need to explain to much into this, Studio Trigger puts their souls into anything they create. The visuals are colorful and the action is hot.
Story: 3/10
Without spoiling it, I will say it started off pretty strong until about the half-way point of the show. After a certain point, the main character and a couple of other characters just seems to behave unlike they would bas…
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8/10
Ok, we get it gamers, you hate the game and hence you gotta hate the anime (without even watching it) you have proved your point, please leave the anime alone now.
The edge runners series is not the first western game anime, we had Halo before, and this one has done a better job of capturing the initial aesthetic and vibe of the actual game properly. Hence, it does feel like an extension of night city not just another reimagination of it.
The cyberpunk genre fits the medium of anime quite well, Some of the greatest 90 s anime were cyberpunk stories but the genre has gone quite under with some newer notable exceptions being this and akudama drive.
plot(8/10)
Tried to go for a more game-type plot with choices in front of the character, the difference is, we don't choose he does. It…
Read at the sourceReplicantFromRio
One of the best animr ever. It's intense, full of action and emotion. The anime is an adrenaline injection and the same time there are emotional parts that made me cry. The animation is a masterpiece, studio trigger is incredible.
The story is very surprising, you don't expect some things are going to happen with the main characters.
Cyberpunk is a very unique genre of science fiction, and I have to say, this anime has all elements of a very good cyberpunk story. We have the social critics, the femme fatale persona, the nihilist characters, the rock music, thr hight tech - low life ambience etc.
The characters are not easy stereotypes, the are people like us, with flows and strengths. But it's a cyberpunk story, it's very difficult to resist the temptations.
I think people will love it,…
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