Cyberpunk Edgerunners: A 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 Masterpiece

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  @le3299ify · 3 years ago

  What I love about this anime is how it got cyberpunk so right. In cyberpunk the biggest villian should always be the setting.

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• ZE

  @zelorig8887 · 3 years ago

  When i first finished Cyberpunk back when it came out, the ending crushed me. But Edgerunners crushed me even more.<br>It&apos;s pointless, yet perfect

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• RM

  @rmg480 · 3 years ago (edited)

  David Martinez is the perfect impersonation of being &quot;special&quot;, but just not quite enough.<br>Having always been smarter than most people around me, and having grown in a country with low standards in regards to education and professional growth, I always felt special and dreamt really big, and not only that, but people kept encouraging me saying that I was special and that I was made for big things. <br><br>Only life began to show me that yes, I was special, but just not quite special enough to achieve those big dreams, and just as well got trapped into killing myself in a futile attempt to achieve those dreams, at points even disregarding my own health and wishes to continue moving forward. <br>This anime really hit a lot of points really close to home.

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• AN

  @antoniohenrique7449 · 3 years ago

  When I first played cyberpunk I&apos;ve got this feel that the city of night city was like a character in the history. All people in it want to escape it or live in it to achieve its ambitions, most of them diyng trying.

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• BN

  @BNLNRD · 3 years ago

  Finished the show yesterday and it&apos;s still haunting me. Can we just talk about the design of the cyber skeleton?? David became more powerful than he ever was, but they made sure to not make him look like a mech, or a high tech cyborg, he was just a torso strapped to a tank. No arms, legs, far from actually having agency. And the insane amounts of meds being pumped into him, making him vomit blood constantly, just to make him last a little while longer. What a truly hellish way to go.

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• PY

  @Pyriana · 3 years ago

  I half expected her to take off her helmet, and was terrified she was going to.

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• KA

  @kaybrown1056 · 3 years ago

  I missed the commercial angle of the final scene, I took it as Lucy&apos;s dream being tainted because she had shared it with David and then lost him. She saw his memory because now the dream was to be there WITH him. &nbsp;She has her emotional moment, realizes her dream is over now and she kept David from dying in vain and she needs to find the next thing to live for, opens her arms to the sunlight and tries to embrace being there like he would have wanted her to. Like they did in the dream.

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• SP

  @SpoderOG · 3 years ago

  Imo, the point of edgerunners is a cautionary tale about not saving yourself, <br>David kept focusing on saving other people’s dreams that he forgot to save himself,<br>to the point he lost his humanity to cyberpsychosis, he lost himself.<br>Even the in game when u put on the BD for the edgerunner mission<br>It literally states that it was a cautionary tale, one that David didn’t listen, “will you?”<br>That’s the whole theme of night city. <br>You won’t be able to save other people, if you don’t first save yourself.<br><br>It’s a tragedy because he couldn’t see himself in the picture with Lucy<br>He only saw a fragment of Lucy’s dream.<br>Lucy’s new dream was to be together with David on the moon.<br>He had to save himself to achieve Lucy’s dream, in which he failed to do<br>In which he failed to see.<br>Because he never intended to save himself anyways,<br>His whole reason to live was for other people.<br>And if you only live for other people, then can you even say you’re living when you’re not living for yourself?

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• KI

  @kingofchris · 3 years ago

  When I saw the final scene I thought, &quot;how bad is your world that such empty and gray place where you can&apos;t even walk without a suit, where there&apos;s no shades, colors, animals, beautiful landscapes, smells, etc etc is a better place to be, where you are with no one, just you and your self and the quiteness of the space)... ONE OF THE SADEST ENDING OF ALL TIMES...

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• GG

  @GG-lv8uv · 3 years ago

  My take away was that it represents the human condition of watching someone fail, and still choosing to continue down the same path with a mantra of &quot;But I&apos;m different.&quot; In my opinion showing the end of Maine&apos;s story was proof of that. They told us how David would end up through him. It represents a cycle, and the insanity of not learning from others mistakes, but having to fail yourself to finally learn that lesson. It&apos;s self destruction, stubbornness, and naivety wrapped up into one beautifully told story, in a way mocking so many &apos;special hero&apos; stories that we hear so often. Some people complained it was too predictable, but honestly I think that was the point. It&apos;s the reason I&apos;ve watched it twice now, and it still elicits strong emotions. David truly believed he was different until the very end, but as the viewers we see that in a way, he never was. He was just another edgerunner swallowed up by Night City, a blip on the radar of a desolate neon hellscape where no one lives long enough to learn that lesson. I&apos;m also a huge sucker for pyrrhic victories, which they captured amazingly in those final scenes.

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• DI

  @diego2112gaming · 3 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Why didn&apos;t Maine or David just cut down on the chrome?&quot;<br>Because ultimately, it&apos;s not the implants that are responsible for cyberpsychosis. They&apos;re the convenient excuse. Throughout the game (and confirmed-ish by Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the TTRPG the game is based on), you find out that cyberpsychosis is more akin to PTSD than anything else, is fully treatable, and there are even recovery &quot;retreats&quot; for the well off.<br><br>Johnny blamed a lot of his issues on &quot;the Hand,&quot; a lot of cyberpsychos you see in game (and the one at the start of the anime) are vets, psychotic breaks tend to occur after major trauma.<br><br>With David, he has a flashback to the BD, and tops an innocent, that starts to compound his trauma issues (after losing his mom, Maine, etc). Then Lucy gets kidnapped. You&apos;ll note that, even having the cyberskeleton, after he gets her <b>back,</b> without immunoblockers, he&apos;s lucid, aware, and out of psychosis.<br><br>The chrome is just a way to pin it on something, and deny the need of mental health, much like capitalistic societies continue to find excuses to deny the needs of mental health today. Layers within layers.

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• DA

  @Dantalu5 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSK5bYPBcmw&amp;t=1378">22:58</a> btw. if you played the game (a lot) you find out this is a Scav clinic.. his mother would&apos;ve survived but landed in a clinic in which she was slaughtered for her chrome.

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