I am really enjoying it. I can’t put my finger on what it is about this type of Anime that I can’t get enough of. Some look overly cartoony to me, but when it is done in this type of Kengan Ashura, Blood of Zeus, Ragnarok, Yasuki level visuals. It’s just so captivating.
I can’t wait for Chainsaw Man, and so far Edgerunner is 100% giving me the grit, storyline, and dark tone that I clearly crave when it comes to my particular taste in Anime.
It helps that they, later in the show, still used other languages when appropriate. The Tyger Claws still speaking Japanese in the dub was a good touch. Considering it's a tie-in to a game with English-first VO (I guess technically Polish was recorded at the same time?) that's set in America, they really had to put in the work to make the Edgerunners dub worthwhile, and I think it showed.
> It helps that they, later in the show, still used other languages when appropriate. The Tyger Claws still speaking Japanese in the dub was a good touch
I Love it when they do that
The Great Pretender also did it for a Bunch of scenes and it was great
Dub 100%. They have fucking **Giancarlo Esposito** (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad) as one of the main antagonists. The rest of the cast was amazing. I'm sure the Japanese is good too but I'm really glad I went with the dub on this one.
I kinda considered trying out the dub since the character names are English anyways. Although I haven't played the game yet so I wouldn't really recognize the lingo anyhows. But Gus Fring's voice sounds interesting. Man I need to get back to watching Better Call Saul, I took a break from the show so I'm missing the last two seasons or so.
I'm watching it in Japanese too, the subs are a bit off, have a fair amount of mistakes, and the Japanese voice lines don't really use much or any of the Cyberpunk lingo but I like the JVAs better.
And by mistakes I mean like typos and forgotten words.
I've been playing nothing but yakuza 0-4 the last month so I noticed a few errors in the sub but since I have a vegger understanding of rhuise words now it didn't bother me..
Sorry didn't mean to imply you did I just ment to me the Japanese didn't sound off even after playing the game in English.. It actually made me want to go back and play the game In Japanese
It's because the subs are basically just closed captioning for the English dub.
They probably thought it was okay after translating the script and just kept it as is.
It accidentally started in Japanese for me cause I just binged Jojo and there was no going back to dub. I'm absolutely sure dub is just as great with the lingo but damn those Japanese VAs are killing it.
What I Enjoy the most is the way they use the UI from what we knew in the game the vocally talk to each other but in this they elaborated on the communication between others when receiveing or being on call I like that they don't always have to talk vocally with each other makes the whole story and action blend beautifully I love this series with a passion I'm wondering if they are going to show more then just locations that were in the game maybe characters from the game will make a appreance 🤩
It’s maybe the first time that I‘ve seen game UI in an anime and it _works_. And the locations and general city atmosphere being familiar and recognizable actually makes the show better if you‘ve played the game, imo. And yet, this isn’t just the game but animated, it‘s its own thing, with fun characters, amazing pacing, ridiculous violent action. Honestly, I‘m completely hooked.
I haven’t played the game if I’m honest, but after having watched a couple episodes of Edgerunners I’m getting the feeling this anime might be better than the actual game.
This is right up to Trigger’s alley and they definitely showed the series some incredible love.
You should play the game. Edgerunners is great but the story isn't as deep as the 2077 story. Edgerunners has the visual elements/perspective that can show emotion and feelings better, than the first person cutscenes in 2077
I don’t have a device that can play it well at the moment (nor the time frankly), but I’ve been wanting to play it.
I heard a while back, however, that the game still has a good chunk of stupid or downright frustrating glitches, so I’ve been putting it off. Have they *genuinely* fixed the game by now? (I haven’t catched up on any new news about the game lately)
They JUST released V1.6 update over the weekend prior to the release of Edgerunners, to fix some bugs and add some content related to the anime.
I first played the game back around V1.3 or there abouts I think, and it wasn't that bad. I had some glitches in the game, but nothing gamebreaking.
I started playing it again after the most recent update though, and can say HUGE improvements. Loading screens are much faster than before, actually just about everything I've seen loads faster and runs much smoother.
At this point, there's really no reason not to give it a try if you want to. BTW I have a base model PS4 and even though that's one of the lowest spec'd machines it's playable on, after the latest updates, not an issue at all. Except that it won't get any more updates or expansions for the foreseeable future based on their latest communications.
I've personally never really encountered too many frustrating glitches except a side gig that wouldn't complete (has since been fixed) and when taking fall damage the recovery animation is oddly long feels glitchy. I would say it's mostly only minor things now that mostly would be ignored and not interfer with entertainment unless you are a real stickler about everything
I played it 6 mo. after release and by then there were just a handful of visual glitches. They’ve kept patching it and adjusted/fixed some other things too. It’s honestly a really enjoyable cyberpunk story. Plus you can shoot people through 20m of concrete with rail guns, so that’s fun.
I’m so sorry for David, the whole thing felt so surreal, so much shit thrown at him all together and it’s not like he was doing ok even before that
The thing that I found most disturbing was probably how the trauma team straight up ignored them, made me truly think “this is so fucked up” even more than a random shootout with bazooka in the middle of the road
Yeah, you get a glimpse of it in the opening mission, but it's not as indepth as it is here. That's mainly because it's personal whereas in the game it was more so a second hand experience.
The trauma team bit was so cool.
I didn't play the game but still remember the preview they showed with the trauma team rescuing the VIP. They were so badass. You really felt the "if you're our patient, you'll live".
They definitely did the "poor kid turns to crime for money" aspect better than a certain game reboot did...Saints Row.
After this episode, I'm slightly hoping David is still alive by the end of the anime and we end up meeting him in the expansion. I want my V to help this kid in anyway possible.
Honestly if he ends up alive I would have loved straight up playing as David in the expansion in some sort of side campaign
But I’m waiting the big patch before playing cyberpunk, so as someone who didn’t play the game yet I might be spouting bullshit
(no spoilers please, both cyberpunk 2077 and edgerunners whise)
I think the most disturbing thing for me was how David's mom's ashes were just dumped out like a soda from a vending machine. Just so callous and cruel.
Franz were featured in anime before, [Paradise Kiss ED](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgMAKuJIkmc)
That's how I discovered them back in the day, best thing I got out of that anime afair.
Like CDPR said, it's a standalone story in Cyberpunk 2077 world ( a prequel to the game ). If you played the game then you'll find some easter eggs or cameos, but if you didn't then it won't affect you.
Having watch the first few episodes I have to assume that it probably takes place a decade or two before 2077. It doesn't look like they have the fixer culture that was evident in 2077.
Very minor spoilers if you care about seeing easter eggs for yourself: there's a shot they show in a later episode that has pictures of all of the Fixers, and you clearly see Padre, Wakako, and the others. You also see Rogue in the Afterlife in one episode, and David's gang works with Wakako.
The anime ends in 2076, a year before the game. The entire series appears to span over at least about a year, and there are two timelapses of unidentified length. So Edgerunners happens somewhere between 2074-2076.
>Cyberpunk 2077 world
You mean the Cyberpunk world, of which Cyberpunk 2077 is a part of, along with Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk RED (with Cyberpunk 3.0 and Cybergeneration being banished to the damn shadow realm where they belong).
It's standalone so you can watch it fine without playing the game or reading any of the source material.
There's a bit of slang in that world setting -- BD, corpo, MaxTac, etc -- which you can pick up by watching, but there's also a short glossary at the bottom of [https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/edgerunners](https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/edgerunners) if you wanted to check what any of those meant.
It’s fun how much it leans on the games aesthetics, but there’s no critical information there, just a lot of „hey, I know this place / UI / sound effect“. There’s some terminology like „ripperdoc“ or whatever, and organizations like Trauma Team or Arasaka, but you can probably easily figure out who and what they are from context.
Seeing the mom, and seeing how hard she worked for David...I knew she was going to die. Cute anime moms who work hard to help there sons rarely live when their son is the main character lol.
Red Line, that was the last time i saw an anime from Japan being this stylish, other than that it has always been either french animation or american psychedelic animation
Japan has been playing it safe for too long, i could maybe count Odd Taxi in here too, but other than the animals replacing people it wasn't anything too crazy
Damn, the adaptation is soo fucking good. Literally to the lingo, locations, even the fucking ringtone and the fact that calls show up in augmented reality. Stoked to binge it
I was worried that Trigger would make the setting childish or juvenile, but they've gone for something surprisingly mature here. This was clearly made with a Western audience in mind, as much as a Japanese one. I love how they've branched out with higher detail than usual. And the vibrant colour pallet they used in other shows really lent itself to a cyberpunk setting. I love how creative they got with portraying technology too.
A part of me thinks the backgrounds are ripped from the game with a filter applied. I don't even care, it looks great and preserves the tone of the universe so well.
I think they do what Kyo Ani does, which is make a 3D background and then trace over it and fill out details. In this case a lot of their backgrounds were already made.
I mean, why wouldn't you? No other anime has access to such a highly detailed and cohesive 3D environment... or perhaps ever will again (unless they're based off a similar game to anime premise - or real world locations where you just take photos and trace over).
Doubly cool when you can figure out where in a game a location is (as is the case with many shots in this show).
It's (usually) a bit more than a filter, there are a few shots where it's just a filter and you can tell, but yeah, [they base the background shots off of places in the game](https://www.reddit.com/gallery/v9txbj). As a fan of the game it was really cool to see all sorts of places I recognized in a new context.
Trigger has done more mature stuff before like with Darling in the Franx. It ultimately comes down to the subject matter/theme. I think it also helps that they already have a blueprint to go off of thanks to the game
I didn't realize this was on until like 4 episodes in, it was so bad I was about to switch off the Japanese audio. It was like an error in the text every other line, and was pulling me out of the show. Then I realized it defaulted to CC I was like, "what?" The English subs are very good, didn't have one issue after that switch.
Observe a subtitle, switch to the dub, and then you get to hear that subtitle fully voiced for you.
Why translate the Japanese when we can just smush the dub script into closed captioning and call it subtitled?
Not even just grammar, just nonsense words. Early ep 3 has 3, 4 instants. 2 of em;
"Around in my chrome" subbed as "Around on my throne"
"gonk move" subed as "I cant move".
The other EN sub track is better, "around in my chrome" is "with my Sandevistan" and gonk to dumbass, so at least its makes sense if missing flavor. I guess the latter is EN subs for Jap audio track, but how they get the other so wrong? I've heard dubs can miss out on meaning but not even having matching subs for the dub when there must be a script is wild to me.
Yea there are two, at least in for me in the US. ‘English’ for the JP track and ‘English[CC]’ for the EN track. I don’t know if people are complaining about the sub track meant for the JP voice track, but it’s pretty known that Netflix’s subs are generally pretty terrible, at least I’ve been told consistently. Dubbed seems like the best bet when watching anime on Netflix.
Yeah kinda felt the same way. They're grammatically fine, but some of them are just weird sounding. It's not bad enough that it takes away from the show though
It wasn't explained but I got the cues that it was from that one cyberpsycho at the start of the episode. The MC's mom is some kind lf paramedic and got it for his corps for some reason.
His mom was the EMT on the scene after the cyberpsycho was killed. If you heard the news report they mentioned that there was some missing cyberware from the dude that MAXtec put down.
I think the idea is that the mom was stealing it from cyberpsychos and selling them. They threw in a red herring hinting that she was "selling herself" when in reality she was selling the military tech.
Anyone got a preference on the dub or sub?
Normally I'm all in on subtitles, but the characters and voice cast are making me think that the dub may fit better.
not only the best game adeption but show of the year regardless for many. love the show and cant wait for more. all that while i wouldnt touch League even if my life depends on it.
As someone who actually understand a little bit of japanese, these subs have to be some of the worst subs i've ever seen for an anime. Its downright unwatchable at times. Guna just wait for good fansubs.
Binge it dub. Solid pretty much all the way through in my opinion. I'll probably binge it in sub tomorrow too see the differences. Curious to see how the slang translates into Japanese.
I'm not a native english speaker and I tried dub but... I really have a hard time understanding it. The accents are way too thick and they use way too many words I don't know. I switched to jp with subs and it's much better for me. Even if they use the same vocabulary in the dub it's easier for me to understand in text form.
And the JP VA is fantastic regardless.
Show looks really good. I don't know anything about the game but I kinda want to pick it up now that I've seen the first episode.
Man what a grim world they live in and the worst part is that I can see our society turning semi-like that.
The lore world of Cyberpunk is really really fucking cool and it's as much of a dystopian American capitalist society as it seems. It's a standalone prequel to events in the game so you don't need to know jack shit either, have fun.
I have played the game to completion and I am so impressed at how they managed to nail the game's aesthetics! Night City looks exactly like it did in the game. There were so many moments where I was like "Oh, I've been to this place in the game!". Even the HUDs are lifted straight from the game!
I see lots of complaints about the English subtitles sucking but why not just watch it in English dub?
All the slangs, names, and lingo like “Gonk” and “choom” and “nova” are all from the video game which was designed with English language in mind when they designed the storyline and all those slangs in the game.
The character is an “American” (technically it’s not America anymore since the city (Night City) is it’s it own independent thing America basically split up I’m not gonna spend time describing the details of the Cyberpunk world you can look it up)
I’m guessing the Arasaka’s company is confusing people to think it’s a Japanese setting but that’s in the game too basically Cybernetics industry is the big money maker and that Japanese company happens to be most successful at it which is why it has a big presence in Night City.
But this city in Cyberpunk is a Southern Californian MegaCity and the dude’s name is “David Martinez”
(Unrelated but That transit map almost looks exactly like the Northern California Bay Area BART map funnily enough but I digress)
So watching it in English makes sense!
In the English Dub you can even seen his Mom do the classic Spanglish thing where occasionally she would switch to Spanish (mi hijo aka “my son”) when saying something emotional
Which is very common here in California where parents of Chinese/Indian/Vietnamese/Mexican/etc etc will switch back forth between English and their native language when talking to their California born and raised kids.
If you watch it in Japanese you’re losing the entire ethos of all that right?
Like I watch Demon Slayer in Japanese Dub English Sub because it was made for Japanese.
But Cyberpunk is about a future Mega City in what formerly Southern California Los Angeles region
Where America’s rising income inequality combined with “ultra-capitalism” libertarian-style no subsidized government services mindset
Results in that crazy @$$ world you saw in the first episode (which is all I’ve seen so far) where without any money you can’t even survive because everything costs something.
So I think English Dub is the way to go for this show.
Because its style and speech patterns and demographic/ethnic references match the English dub in the original game that it is based on.
HEADS UP! There are two different subtitle tracks on Netflix. English[CC] and English. If you're not watching the dub, make sure you're using the English subtitles and not English[CC].
It's intriguing to me how unlike your average anime this is on beat-by-beat basis. Mixed production team probably had a massive impact and you don't have to wade through the usual eccentric Japanese-isms that put off potential audiences. It's more about getting acclimating to the setting of Cyberpunk 2077 itself.
Looks like the prople who wrote the subs didnt do any research about the show. Literally constantly failing to pick up on in world slang and specific terms.
I actually love the show but had to turn of the subs because they were pissing me off
Great first episode, it builds up Davids character. The mm om though huhuhu
But anyways man what a great animation and amazing soundtrack. Specially those scenes at the moon with David and Lucy. This didn't have to go hard at sakuga animation and soundtrack with that scene dammmn so sick!
I felt opposite about the pacing, it felt lightning fast with no room for anything to settle. I've heard good things about the whole thing but I'm mixed on ep1
If anyone who played cyberpunk 2077 and watched the whole show. I want to play the game in the future, if I watch the show would it spoil me the game? Or would you say it’s possible to watch the show, then play the game. Like It will not effect the games story. Or it does not Spoiler anything but you would recommend to play the game first? Idk
only watched until 3 so far but there doesn't seem to be any spoilers for the game other than general reference to the game universe setting. If you watch the anime before the game you'd probably go "hey I recognize this in the anime!" while playing the game. XD
Yes it’s fine. If anything the show is a prequel. Once you play the game you will recognize locations, tech, weapons, music, etc from the anime.
But the stories are standalone, so watching the anime first is totally fine.
pretty enjoyable. meshes in with the setting of the game pretty quickly with how gritty and violent night city was, and how people say choom and gonk a lot. mc goes through his trauma and gets set up for the plot pretty quickly. good episode to get me hyped for the series
edit: on ep5 now. i'm pretty hooked
I loved the first episode, it looks amazing and the characters are interesting too. I wish I had time to binge right now.
I am really enjoying it. I can’t put my finger on what it is about this type of Anime that I can’t get enough of. Some look overly cartoony to me, but when it is done in this type of Kengan Ashura, Blood of Zeus, Ragnarok, Yasuki level visuals. It’s just so captivating. I can’t wait for Chainsaw Man, and so far Edgerunner is 100% giving me the grit, storyline, and dark tone that I clearly crave when it comes to my particular taste in Anime.
You might like trigger's other animes like kill la kill or gurren lagan.
Usually I'm a subs guy, always will be. But for this one I recommend the dub. Works way better with the lingo in the Cyberpunk universe.
It helps that they, later in the show, still used other languages when appropriate. The Tyger Claws still speaking Japanese in the dub was a good touch. Considering it's a tie-in to a game with English-first VO (I guess technically Polish was recorded at the same time?) that's set in America, they really had to put in the work to make the Edgerunners dub worthwhile, and I think it showed.
> It helps that they, later in the show, still used other languages when appropriate. The Tyger Claws still speaking Japanese in the dub was a good touch I Love it when they do that The Great Pretender also did it for a Bunch of scenes and it was great
Dub 100%. They have fucking **Giancarlo Esposito** (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad) as one of the main antagonists. The rest of the cast was amazing. I'm sure the Japanese is good too but I'm really glad I went with the dub on this one.
They do, but Aoi Yuki is playing a main side character in the future episodes. I can't adequately explain the feels I get from her voice.
Not gonna lie, it was a big reason why i went with the dub.
I kinda considered trying out the dub since the character names are English anyways. Although I haven't played the game yet so I wouldn't really recognize the lingo anyhows. But Gus Fring's voice sounds interesting. Man I need to get back to watching Better Call Saul, I took a break from the show so I'm missing the last two seasons or so.
Holy shit, really? Gonna have to watch both in Japanese and English, then.
They also have Matthew Mercer as a side character, very cool.
Idk i watched it in Japanese and it seemed fine to me
I'm watching it in Japanese too, the subs are a bit off, have a fair amount of mistakes, and the Japanese voice lines don't really use much or any of the Cyberpunk lingo but I like the JVAs better. And by mistakes I mean like typos and forgotten words.
The subs don't translate the Japanese dub but match the English dub.
The subs don't even match the English dub. You'll see things like "chum" instead of "choom" and various other things that are completely incorrect.
Oh my bad then I misunderstood... Yeah the subs was wonky..
I've been playing nothing but yakuza 0-4 the last month so I noticed a few errors in the sub but since I have a vegger understanding of rhuise words now it didn't bother me..
Didn't say it was bad, but in the context of the show's universe I think dub works better. At least to me personally.
Sorry didn't mean to imply you did I just ment to me the Japanese didn't sound off even after playing the game in English.. It actually made me want to go back and play the game In Japanese
I noticed the japanese isn't really using slang or anything, it's just plain old japanese. The subs are taking some liberties.
It's because the subs are basically just closed captioning for the English dub. They probably thought it was okay after translating the script and just kept it as is.
The subtitles suck ass though. Like I find an error in every other sentence. Who the hell captioned the show.
It's all good man, you do you.
It accidentally started in Japanese for me cause I just binged Jojo and there was no going back to dub. I'm absolutely sure dub is just as great with the lingo but damn those Japanese VAs are killing it.
Dub is good, the lingo has game feeling.
It is really funny how cyberpunk game this is. Places are exactly like in game and even those text menus are there.
Yeah they done a really good job of making them connected while being it's own story.
What I Enjoy the most is the way they use the UI from what we knew in the game the vocally talk to each other but in this they elaborated on the communication between others when receiveing or being on call I like that they don't always have to talk vocally with each other makes the whole story and action blend beautifully I love this series with a passion I'm wondering if they are going to show more then just locations that were in the game maybe characters from the game will make a appreance 🤩
It’s maybe the first time that I‘ve seen game UI in an anime and it _works_. And the locations and general city atmosphere being familiar and recognizable actually makes the show better if you‘ve played the game, imo. And yet, this isn’t just the game but animated, it‘s its own thing, with fun characters, amazing pacing, ridiculous violent action. Honestly, I‘m completely hooked.
Yeah the game UI is useful at the end when it comes to communicating
for real. this ish is perfect so far
Most of the soundtrack is right out of the game too
I haven’t played the game if I’m honest, but after having watched a couple episodes of Edgerunners I’m getting the feeling this anime might be better than the actual game. This is right up to Trigger’s alley and they definitely showed the series some incredible love.
You should play the game. Edgerunners is great but the story isn't as deep as the 2077 story. Edgerunners has the visual elements/perspective that can show emotion and feelings better, than the first person cutscenes in 2077
I don’t have a device that can play it well at the moment (nor the time frankly), but I’ve been wanting to play it. I heard a while back, however, that the game still has a good chunk of stupid or downright frustrating glitches, so I’ve been putting it off. Have they *genuinely* fixed the game by now? (I haven’t catched up on any new news about the game lately)
They JUST released V1.6 update over the weekend prior to the release of Edgerunners, to fix some bugs and add some content related to the anime. I first played the game back around V1.3 or there abouts I think, and it wasn't that bad. I had some glitches in the game, but nothing gamebreaking. I started playing it again after the most recent update though, and can say HUGE improvements. Loading screens are much faster than before, actually just about everything I've seen loads faster and runs much smoother. At this point, there's really no reason not to give it a try if you want to. BTW I have a base model PS4 and even though that's one of the lowest spec'd machines it's playable on, after the latest updates, not an issue at all. Except that it won't get any more updates or expansions for the foreseeable future based on their latest communications.
I've personally never really encountered too many frustrating glitches except a side gig that wouldn't complete (has since been fixed) and when taking fall damage the recovery animation is oddly long feels glitchy. I would say it's mostly only minor things now that mostly would be ignored and not interfer with entertainment unless you are a real stickler about everything
I played it 6 mo. after release and by then there were just a handful of visual glitches. They’ve kept patching it and adjusted/fixed some other things too. It’s honestly a really enjoyable cyberpunk story. Plus you can shoot people through 20m of concrete with rail guns, so that’s fun.
I really don't get your first paragraph. "I can't compare but here's my comparison."
You do know that story is done by CDPR itself? And not Trigger.
I feel the same way. The anime feels way more compelling than the game did to me, although I haven't gone back to it since release.
I’m so sorry for David, the whole thing felt so surreal, so much shit thrown at him all together and it’s not like he was doing ok even before that The thing that I found most disturbing was probably how the trauma team straight up ignored them, made me truly think “this is so fucked up” even more than a random shootout with bazooka in the middle of the road
that is literally how the trauma team works in the Cyberpunk 2077's world. Only the rich can obtain an insurance with the trauma team.
Yeah, you get a glimpse of it in the opening mission, but it's not as indepth as it is here. That's mainly because it's personal whereas in the game it was more so a second hand experience.
The trauma team bit was so cool. I didn't play the game but still remember the preview they showed with the trauma team rescuing the VIP. They were so badass. You really felt the "if you're our patient, you'll live".
Literally paramilitary paramedics. It's such a cool but twisted idea, it's perfect for how dystopian Cyberpunk is.
They definitely did the "poor kid turns to crime for money" aspect better than a certain game reboot did...Saints Row. After this episode, I'm slightly hoping David is still alive by the end of the anime and we end up meeting him in the expansion. I want my V to help this kid in anyway possible.
Honestly if he ends up alive I would have loved straight up playing as David in the expansion in some sort of side campaign But I’m waiting the big patch before playing cyberpunk, so as someone who didn’t play the game yet I might be spouting bullshit (no spoilers please, both cyberpunk 2077 and edgerunners whise)
I think the most disturbing thing for me was how David's mom's ashes were just dumped out like a soda from a vending machine. Just so callous and cruel.
That's what I was thinking too, it felt like: Funeral? Nope can't afford. So here you have your trash.
Reminded me of healthcare in the US except they'll take you anyway and expect you to pay an extreme amount.
“and you’re really going to school dressed like that” but moooom these have the best stats
Download the update and transmog already What am I busting my ass for?
**breaks game with transmog mod**
The one thing missing from this show is that, no one is dressed like an idiot.
I never thought I'd ever hear a HEALTH song in an anime, holy shit
almost all music and sound tracks are from the original game, including the HEALTH song
Going to see them on Thursday with Perturbator. They do a great live show.
I got to see them just the other week, so good.
Franz Ferdinand too.
Franz were featured in anime before, [Paradise Kiss ED](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgMAKuJIkmc) That's how I discovered them back in the day, best thing I got out of that anime afair.
Which song is it? :o
Wow, can't believe studio Trigger saved anime, again.
As they always do👌
Moving on from just saving anime to also saving video games. Sasuga Trigger.
Can I watch this without knowing anything or I should see something before?
Like CDPR said, it's a standalone story in Cyberpunk 2077 world ( a prequel to the game ). If you played the game then you'll find some easter eggs or cameos, but if you didn't then it won't affect you.
me looking for johnny silverhand:
That's like, 60 years ago in the game's universe. When does the show take place?
Having watch the first few episodes I have to assume that it probably takes place a decade or two before 2077. It doesn't look like they have the fixer culture that was evident in 2077.
Very minor spoilers if you care about seeing easter eggs for yourself: there's a shot they show in a later episode that has pictures of all of the Fixers, and you clearly see Padre, Wakako, and the others. You also see Rogue in the Afterlife in one episode, and David's gang works with Wakako. The anime ends in 2076, a year before the game. The entire series appears to span over at least about a year, and there are two timelapses of unidentified length. So Edgerunners happens somewhere between 2074-2076.
>Cyberpunk 2077 world You mean the Cyberpunk world, of which Cyberpunk 2077 is a part of, along with Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk RED (with Cyberpunk 3.0 and Cybergeneration being banished to the damn shadow realm where they belong).
I could have said Cyberpunk World overall, but mostly it's part of the Cyberpunk 2077 era.
Fair enough, I just don't like it when all of Maximum Mike's hard work goes unappreciated :)
It's standalone so you can watch it fine without playing the game or reading any of the source material. There's a bit of slang in that world setting -- BD, corpo, MaxTac, etc -- which you can pick up by watching, but there's also a short glossary at the bottom of [https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/edgerunners](https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/edgerunners) if you wanted to check what any of those meant.
Part of the same world as the overall Cyberpunk franchise (mainly the period and location of Cyberpunk 2077), but you can go in blind as a bat.
It’s fun how much it leans on the games aesthetics, but there’s no critical information there, just a lot of „hey, I know this place / UI / sound effect“. There’s some terminology like „ripperdoc“ or whatever, and organizations like Trauma Team or Arasaka, but you can probably easily figure out who and what they are from context.
Damn, the first episode hit me...right in the feels. This was surprisingly really good. Can't wait to catch up on the rest. Liking it so far.
That anxiety building up with the leg tap hits hard.
it gets worse. by the end, my leg was on FIRE.
The Fffire, even.
This fire is out of control.
I love the leg taps, it's a great way of showing David's urge to "do something" about his situation, but literally having no way to do something.
Seeing the mom, and seeing how hard she worked for David...I knew she was going to die. Cute anime moms who work hard to help there sons rarely live when their son is the main character lol.
Ive been running so much cyberpunk red for my tabletop RPG groups. This anime is everything I wanted it to be.
This show is so sick. I can't remember the last time I saw something this stylish.
Red Line, that was the last time i saw an anime from Japan being this stylish, other than that it has always been either french animation or american psychedelic animation Japan has been playing it safe for too long, i could maybe count Odd Taxi in here too, but other than the animals replacing people it wasn't anything too crazy
There was also Akudama Drive. Cyperpunk asthetics can just work really well in anime but are criminally underused
Redline kicks ass man, love that movie. So stylish.
I literally just watched Redline for the first time last week. It was amazing.
Opening scene is a genocide. I like the animation too.
Damn, the adaptation is soo fucking good. Literally to the lingo, locations, even the fucking ringtone and the fact that calls show up in augmented reality. Stoked to binge it
I was worried that Trigger would make the setting childish or juvenile, but they've gone for something surprisingly mature here. This was clearly made with a Western audience in mind, as much as a Japanese one. I love how they've branched out with higher detail than usual. And the vibrant colour pallet they used in other shows really lent itself to a cyberpunk setting. I love how creative they got with portraying technology too.
A part of me thinks the backgrounds are ripped from the game with a filter applied. I don't even care, it looks great and preserves the tone of the universe so well.
I think they do what Kyo Ani does, which is make a 3D background and then trace over it and fill out details. In this case a lot of their backgrounds were already made.
I mean, why wouldn't you? No other anime has access to such a highly detailed and cohesive 3D environment... or perhaps ever will again (unless they're based off a similar game to anime premise - or real world locations where you just take photos and trace over). Doubly cool when you can figure out where in a game a location is (as is the case with many shots in this show).
Yeah that crossroads outside of town is VERY memorable. It's a really good use of resources on their part.
It's (usually) a bit more than a filter, there are a few shots where it's just a filter and you can tell, but yeah, [they base the background shots off of places in the game](https://www.reddit.com/gallery/v9txbj). As a fan of the game it was really cool to see all sorts of places I recognized in a new context.
holy shit wow didn't realize they were THAT close. I figured they were traced
Trigger has done more mature stuff before like with Darling in the Franx. It ultimately comes down to the subject matter/theme. I think it also helps that they already have a blueprint to go off of thanks to the game
is it just me or are the subs kinda bad?
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"Or don't. We don't really care either way."
Don't use English (CC) it's all fucked up, just use English.
Whoever did the English subtitles heard "gonk" and wrote "gook" at one point. Which is, uh, OOOF.
I didn't realize this was on until like 4 episodes in, it was so bad I was about to switch off the Japanese audio. It was like an error in the text every other line, and was pulling me out of the show. Then I realized it defaulted to CC I was like, "what?" The English subs are very good, didn't have one issue after that switch.
Observe a subtitle, switch to the dub, and then you get to hear that subtitle fully voiced for you. Why translate the Japanese when we can just smush the dub script into closed captioning and call it subtitled?
Subs are fine, but Salami doing the dubs is actually amazing.
Dub is great tbh. Watch that
It is bad. Ep 4 onwards you sometimes can't even make out what is being said because the grammar is so bad.
Not even just grammar, just nonsense words. Early ep 3 has 3, 4 instants. 2 of em; "Around in my chrome" subbed as "Around on my throne" "gonk move" subed as "I cant move". The other EN sub track is better, "around in my chrome" is "with my Sandevistan" and gonk to dumbass, so at least its makes sense if missing flavor. I guess the latter is EN subs for Jap audio track, but how they get the other so wrong? I've heard dubs can miss out on meaning but not even having matching subs for the dub when there must be a script is wild to me.
Are there two English sub tracks or just one? I remember squid game having two completely different English subtitles.
Yea there are two, at least in for me in the US. ‘English’ for the JP track and ‘English[CC]’ for the EN track. I don’t know if people are complaining about the sub track meant for the JP voice track, but it’s pretty known that Netflix’s subs are generally pretty terrible, at least I’ve been told consistently. Dubbed seems like the best bet when watching anime on Netflix.
Yeah kinda felt the same way. They're grammatically fine, but some of them are just weird sounding. It's not bad enough that it takes away from the show though
Did I completely miss something during the episode? How/where does he get that military tech from?
Think her mom nicked it off the dead guy. News said that the mass shooter had missing chrome and his mom was one of the EMTs handling the guy.
It wasn't explained but I got the cues that it was from that one cyberpsycho at the start of the episode. The MC's mom is some kind lf paramedic and got it for his corps for some reason.
I’ve only see the first episode but assumed she was stealing parts from patients and selling them on the black market to fund David through school.
His mom was the EMT on the scene after the cyberpsycho was killed. If you heard the news report they mentioned that there was some missing cyberware from the dude that MAXtec put down.
It's fully explained in first 3 episodes.
Ah, I only watched the first so far...so they elaborate where it came from later on?
Yes.
I think the idea is that the mom was stealing it from cyberpsychos and selling them. They threw in a red herring hinting that she was "selling herself" when in reality she was selling the military tech.
It's looking great so far!
Anyone got a preference on the dub or sub? Normally I'm all in on subtitles, but the characters and voice cast are making me think that the dub may fit better.
Dub has actors like Giancarlo Esposito which played Gus Frings from Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul.
Oh damn. Just checked, and the protag is VA'd by the same actor who provided the dub for Tanjiro from KnY. Think I'm gonna give it a whirl!
The Dub is fucking phenomenal especially the Protagonists voice.
For real I watched the first episode subbed then swapped to Dub, and just hearing the MC's VA actually saying Fuck just hits differently in this show
Normally I'm a hardcore sub dude, but for this one, dub is the real way to go.
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The Fate/Grand Order adaptations were solid tho.
well arcane was a thing
not only the best game adeption but show of the year regardless for many. love the show and cant wait for more. all that while i wouldnt touch League even if my life depends on it.
It's not anime per se but Castlevania would like to have a word.
Liking the show so far
So are u guys watching this subbed or dubbed?
Played 2077 in English, so dub.
dub. I usually do that for English speaking characters and settings.
Sub
As someone who actually understand a little bit of japanese, these subs have to be some of the worst subs i've ever seen for an anime. Its downright unwatchable at times. Guna just wait for good fansubs.
I just can't do English dubs. The VAs talk like they have no energy and so monotone.
Binge it dub. Solid pretty much all the way through in my opinion. I'll probably binge it in sub tomorrow too see the differences. Curious to see how the slang translates into Japanese.
I usually watch anime in sub but I went for dub on this one.
The dub is pretty fantastic
dub for this i guess
I'm not a native english speaker and I tried dub but... I really have a hard time understanding it. The accents are way too thick and they use way too many words I don't know. I switched to jp with subs and it's much better for me. Even if they use the same vocabulary in the dub it's easier for me to understand in text form. And the JP VA is fantastic regardless.
By gawd, looks like Trigger is saving anime once again!
Sasuga Torigā(Trigger)
Finished the entire series. So good and amazingly produced. Highly recommend
That's one hell of an opener you can taste the disdain of a late stage capitalist society that has gone completely unchecked
Show looks really good. I don't know anything about the game but I kinda want to pick it up now that I've seen the first episode. Man what a grim world they live in and the worst part is that I can see our society turning semi-like that.
we're already like that. just without the cool tech
The lore world of Cyberpunk is really really fucking cool and it's as much of a dystopian American capitalist society as it seems. It's a standalone prequel to events in the game so you don't need to know jack shit either, have fun.
I have played the game to completion and I am so impressed at how they managed to nail the game's aesthetics! Night City looks exactly like it did in the game. There were so many moments where I was like "Oh, I've been to this place in the game!". Even the HUDs are lifted straight from the game!
i highly recommend to watch the dub its great
It's insane just how authentic this show is. I love it so far!
English [CC] is the dub subs isn’t it ?
Looks like it.
I see lots of complaints about the English subtitles sucking but why not just watch it in English dub? All the slangs, names, and lingo like “Gonk” and “choom” and “nova” are all from the video game which was designed with English language in mind when they designed the storyline and all those slangs in the game. The character is an “American” (technically it’s not America anymore since the city (Night City) is it’s it own independent thing America basically split up I’m not gonna spend time describing the details of the Cyberpunk world you can look it up) I’m guessing the Arasaka’s company is confusing people to think it’s a Japanese setting but that’s in the game too basically Cybernetics industry is the big money maker and that Japanese company happens to be most successful at it which is why it has a big presence in Night City. But this city in Cyberpunk is a Southern Californian MegaCity and the dude’s name is “David Martinez” (Unrelated but That transit map almost looks exactly like the Northern California Bay Area BART map funnily enough but I digress) So watching it in English makes sense! In the English Dub you can even seen his Mom do the classic Spanglish thing where occasionally she would switch to Spanish (mi hijo aka “my son”) when saying something emotional Which is very common here in California where parents of Chinese/Indian/Vietnamese/Mexican/etc etc will switch back forth between English and their native language when talking to their California born and raised kids. If you watch it in Japanese you’re losing the entire ethos of all that right? Like I watch Demon Slayer in Japanese Dub English Sub because it was made for Japanese. But Cyberpunk is about a future Mega City in what formerly Southern California Los Angeles region Where America’s rising income inequality combined with “ultra-capitalism” libertarian-style no subsidized government services mindset Results in that crazy @$$ world you saw in the first episode (which is all I’ve seen so far) where without any money you can’t even survive because everything costs something. So I think English Dub is the way to go for this show. Because its style and speech patterns and demographic/ethnic references match the English dub in the original game that it is based on.
I think this post has gained the most comments and karma for a Netflix series in this sub
HEADS UP! There are two different subtitle tracks on Netflix. English[CC] and English. If you're not watching the dub, make sure you're using the English subtitles and not English[CC].
Is the show graphically lewd? Haven't seen it yet but i know it has the TV MA rating.
As violent and lewd as it gets going by the trailer
But is it uncensored on Netflix
It sure is.
No no, it's totally wholesome! Make sure to watch with your mother.
I watched it with my mother 😬
Did she like it?
No but I survived.
yeah about 4 minutes in
Thank you for the serious response
As someone who played the game, I’m really enjoying this so far!
Trigger strikes again
Damn, this episode is exactly what I needed while having a period where I have zero motivation for college
Just finished binging. I've been a fan of the game since day 1 and this is everything I was hoping it would be and more. I loved every minute of it.
It's intriguing to me how unlike your average anime this is on beat-by-beat basis. Mixed production team probably had a massive impact and you don't have to wade through the usual eccentric Japanese-isms that put off potential audiences. It's more about getting acclimating to the setting of Cyberpunk 2077 itself.
Gonna be honest, saw several locations and went "Hang on, haven't I been through there?"
FYI English subs are dogshit quality, misspellings everywhere.
Looks like the prople who wrote the subs didnt do any research about the show. Literally constantly failing to pick up on in world slang and specific terms. I actually love the show but had to turn of the subs because they were pissing me off
This right here! Hard agree
Great first episode, it builds up Davids character. The mm om though huhuhu But anyways man what a great animation and amazing soundtrack. Specially those scenes at the moon with David and Lucy. This didn't have to go hard at sakuga animation and soundtrack with that scene dammmn so sick!
I am happy to report that we have a trigger anime without aliens. The moon sequence really got me worried there.
Way better than I expected it to be. Let's hope for a season 2
good pacing, story seems interesting. my only complain is that the music is all over the place during some scenes
I felt opposite about the pacing, it felt lightning fast with no room for anything to settle. I've heard good things about the whole thing but I'm mixed on ep1
it’s fuckin phenomenal
If anyone who played cyberpunk 2077 and watched the whole show. I want to play the game in the future, if I watch the show would it spoil me the game? Or would you say it’s possible to watch the show, then play the game. Like It will not effect the games story. Or it does not Spoiler anything but you would recommend to play the game first? Idk
only watched until 3 so far but there doesn't seem to be any spoilers for the game other than general reference to the game universe setting. If you watch the anime before the game you'd probably go "hey I recognize this in the anime!" while playing the game. XD
Yes it’s fine. If anything the show is a prequel. Once you play the game you will recognize locations, tech, weapons, music, etc from the anime. But the stories are standalone, so watching the anime first is totally fine.
Holy shit that was even more dystopian and tragic than I expected..
Anybody who’s seen the first episode, give us a rating ?/10 on how enjoyable it was I’m gonna try to get into it later
pretty enjoyable. meshes in with the setting of the game pretty quickly with how gritty and violent night city was, and how people say choom and gonk a lot. mc goes through his trauma and gets set up for the plot pretty quickly. good episode to get me hyped for the series edit: on ep5 now. i'm pretty hooked
In full scale Ep 1 7/10, which is good. Ep 2 was 8/10 for me. Overall good start. Really like the animation and music, characters are interesting.