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"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" is a Netflix Original Anime Series set in the Cyberpunk 2077 game universe. Under uneasy circumstances, the main character David has to suddenly drop out of his corpo school to become an edgerunner. The story vaguely rings back to the game story. Also main characters follow the archetypes of game characters albeit not very close. Same locations like Afterlife, the Mox club, Embers. So yeah.. Cyberpunk, Netflix... These two are no strangers to disappoint their fans. However I found the series suprisingly good. First of all its the visual. MY GOD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. The colors are bizzare, glitchy, sometimes even absurd to the point when you pause and spend few seconds trying to understand what are you looking at. I'm serious - hats off, I'm bowing before the art director, designers, the people who actually drew it, all the crew. Y'all freaking nailed it! The atmosphere on point, exactly the way I imagined Night City would feel. The characters are also bizzare yet inviting and develop really well that you instantly care for them. So yeah against all odds the show was epic, I loved it. Well done.

After watching the pilot episode I thought "okay this seems like a pretty lame setup.. how are they gonna milk it for THAT many seasons"? It seemed like high probability this is going to be unnecessarily drawn out. But due to overwhelmingly positive reviews I watched it anyway.

It was indeed drawn out and lame-ish. Its nicely acted and everything but a very big part of the show is just people being miserable in their grief. Tears, rage and self destruction are shown in a very non inventive way and it's kinda daunting to watch. Tere isnt any viewer engagement built up so youre just an observer. Bottom line is you wanna see "something like this" but actually interesting and emotionally engaging at the same time, go see "Bordertown"

Let me first say that this series definitely stands out from the average netflix content. It's very ambitious albeit sometimes shoots itself in the foot. The pacing is irritatingly inconsistent between the parts and the story kinda lacked that feeling of progression. There's also like a LOT very long dialogues which are quite dry on content and feel like fillers. Overall it feels chaotic and a tad unfinished, inconsistent, unpolished. However there is some interesting camera work especially around the part where OA is blind. You can notice how camera centers on OA most of the time and you can't really see whats around her. It gives that mild anxiety of having to navigate without seeing. Also the sound design was amazing. I'd say this show you need to watch with proper headphones or surround system on high enough volume to experience it. This show is very similar to Dark (2017) and Steins;Gate (2011) however its story and idea is still in early stages of.. conceivement(is that even a word?). Bottom line is, this is above average netflix series with a lot of potential, however it feels like creators should spend another few years polishing their story, idea and the message they want to broadcast. I hope they do and end up creating something truly brilliant.