The embargo has ended, what you think of the show? Personally I think it was fantastic, great art, great music and a touching story. The election of Studio Trigger to animate the show was a match make in heaven, the fast pased, frenetic action and gore was all Edgerunner needed to tell its story. Very recommended, I ever re-suscribed to Netflix just to watch the anime, if you didn't watch it yet, now is your time.

EDIT: Yes, the embargo is just one thing I said, spoilermen always appear when a thread like this is created, I can't do anything to stop them so I wait some time after I watched the show to avoid spoilers for people who still haven't watch it, one week after the release the most probably is that people who want or was waiting to see the show already did, so now is safer than before.

The story was a bit meh. But I loved the medium, the story delivery and the art. The music flat out slapped. The show made me want to play the game again. I have not because I'm awaiting DLC, but I found myself craving it.

Didnt know there was an embargo. Maybe why no one responded.

I did find that the story treaded familiar ground and resorted to familiar tropes but I still loved it. The world was interesting and the music was great. I wasnt a fan of the main character who was too passive but I suppose that was intentional based on that character's flaw.

The concept of cyberpsychosis is very interesting and hopefully it can be explored in more detail in following seasons. Would also like the next seasons to focus on other lifepaths like corpo or nomad.

Honestly, I was a bit sad that Cyberpsychosis wasn't an issue for the PC in the game. There's no downside to completely chroming out in the game. I often thought there should have been.

I enjoyed the show, episode 6 was my favorite. It ended more or less how I figured it would. There was maybe too much recycled animations, but I can live with that. I really liked you-know-who's appearance and lines in the final episode. As far as future anime productions, I'd personally prefer to see some stories set from the 2020 era to the 'present' 2077 covering some of the more interesting events in those time periods, rather than re-hashing more stories like V's and David's or following the same characters whose story arcs were mostly wrapped up already.

Actually, in the game there is NO cyberpsychosis. There is the whole questline where you must kill cyberpsychos and investigate what caused their cyberpsychosis - and every time you'll learn that it was drugs, or defective implants, or some trauma, or the guy was a psycho long before installing chrome. So, basically, the conclusion is that there are many different unrelated causes for people to go nuts in Night City, but they are just blamed on cyberpsychosis.

Yeah I discussed this on reddit. I think one issue is that in the game, your character is already on borrowed time in a sense so adding the limitation of cyberpsychosis isnt that big of a deterrent.

Another issue is probably that the new update to the world redefines the cause of cyberpychosis. I do think V should still be very vulnerable to the psychosis or at least add a new harder difficulty in the dlc that puts a soft limit to how much you can chrome with negative effects should you go over your allotment.

As a long time anime watcher, I have to say the anime is good overall. Mind you, nothing spectacular, but certainly not cringe worthy and mostly sane when it comes to its plot (within the expectations of the Cyberpunk 2077 universe at least).

If anything, the anime made me crave going back to... the Witcher series. And I'm a hard-core SF fan, just not of corporate dystopias it seems. Night City is a city like no other, but it also ruins lives like no other and when the day's done everyone ends up wanting to get away from it all... or dead.

Perhaps it would have been more worthwhile to span it over two seasons, stretch out the story of the first 6 episodes and leaving it at that for now? Might at least have given some the impression of a "good ending". Then season 2 could have finished it in the same way sometime later, with a bit more of a back story into some of the secondary characters. But I can easily see that as being the initial plan and having been dialed back due to costing concerns, so it is what it is.

Naaa, the embargo is just one thing I said, it's internet and spoilers can't be avoided, I wanted to post it the same day the series was released but if somebody post a spoiler I don't have control over that, most people who wanted to watch the show already did so it's safer now. That aside, yes, I would love to see an story based on the corpos, the anime show a little bit of that, not all the corpos are souless monsters drive by stocks, but also employees with a life and families, the anime show some of that and I loved every minute of that.
The nomas on the other hand, the game take care of that life path more than the others, show you the beauty of beeing a nomad, maybe in another season of the anime they can show the struggles, already want moreeeee. To little of the cyberpsychosis and MaxTak, I wanted more of that, maybe in the upcoming expansion they will show some more, in the trailer it seems like MaxTak drop in a scene.

Yeah, you see it how it would end, it's a pretty straight forward story, but despite I knew how it would end, I didn't wanted it end that way, that ending broke my heart.
There is so much on the horizon, the comics tell other stories that are based on the cyberpunk universe, it gives some details of things that happen on 2020, I can recommend all the comics so far.

I didn't know there was an embargo... Anyway, I've already posted my impression of the series on that other thread, so I'll just paste it here:

"The world building is top tier, which is the credit of Mike Pondsmith. The aestetical style is clearly Cyberpunk 2077, and some of the music is amazing.

HOWEVER, I found the story dumb as shit, and the use of cameos was utterly incompetent, because if you don't know who you are looking at, you're left a little confused about the purpose of the vignette.

So basically, the series has the the same problem as the vast majority of anime... Incompetent story, amazing world building, insufficient budget for proper animation."

EDIT: A clarification, dialogue scenes/establishing shots, where static images just scroll right or left for TEN seconds, while maybe a light sign flickers in the background, to trick you into beliving something more is happening... that is NOT "proper" animation.

I've always been a huge fan of the cyberpunk aesthetic, especially the design and the music. The story was nothing spectacular but I definitely think it worked well as a structure to hang all the cool world building and visuals, and especially the music on. I had a good time watching it for sure.

How exactly is this "incompetent"? You can't know the cameo if you don't know the cameo.

Seems the embargo qualifier is some kind of Ruvika's joke.
Otherwise, it would be disturbing and I'd not be surprised considering facts here along this year...

About the animation: Is a good case the "super garment" (to avoid any spoiler and/or provide references)?
Was basically my imagination filling the whole visual hole there, because the animation did not show "its features" to my eyes...

In general my opinion about Edgerunners: A slideshow.
But days ago I watched a couple of recent episodes of One Piece and noticed the same: "very long static shots of nothing relevant" while voices and sounds evoked my imagination to create the scene in my head...
so I decided to keep the opinion to myself.

But now you express that situation which I completely agree. Thanks for it!

I felt the show was a tad too unreasonably violent for my liking. Maybe that's because I haven't played the game or I because didn't pay enough attention, but I wish they had justified a bit more the bloodshed and trigger-happy (pun not intended) nature of the city's subcultures. Overall the show could have benefited a lot from a slower pace, but I think they succeeded in drawing people into the cyberpunk 2077's universe thanks to the art direction and animation, and despite how underwhelming the last act of the story felt (that plot device of "I can't tell you because reasons" was too bad).