“Edgerunner(s) is so good, but it’s not perfect” -Cr1TiKaL
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is one of the shows that is produced by western people. It is so damn good that I feel like I’m watching a different show. Even from within the powerhouse of animation by Studio Trigger. They have to make the show more of an animesque, so that non-anime viewers can watch their favorite game and so are anime fans can be the same way that they are.
Set in the same place as the game Cyberpunk 2077. A dystopian city where criminals are common at all times, doesn’t mean that all criminals are bad right? Wrong.
The people in Night City are talented, artistic, and special. What I mean in those terms is that they can be imaginative about what they can do to get to the top of Arasaka Tower. And those talented people that I was saying, they only have one way ticket to go at the top. And it will actually cost blood, sweat, and tears.
Here we start with our main character David Martinez, a delinquent kid that has nothing to do but live his life while his mom is overworking herself to death just to make her son have the life that she wants for him. When both of them were trying to get themselves back home, they got into a crossfire on the road leading David and his mom to be left at the side of the road. David was utterly fine, but his mom on the other hand seemed to be in a coma. Few hours later, death approached the mother’s life. Leaving him with the money that she saved and a gift that will change his life forever to rule the Night City.
Our main protagonist is subjectively aware that he can be more malfeasance than to other cyberterrorists. Their hostility can be manifest in their surroundings that people around him should not be trusted, not even his friends. The only person he can rely on is himself.
Edgerunners is full of mature scenes. It has blood, nudity, and gore, things that wouldn't be possible if it were a TV anime. But since the script was supported by the western. It is safe to assume that studio Trigger has the green lights to make the series what it is now.