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Yo, been a while since I did a review but I feel like writing a bit about this one. I won't lie, I was behind the curve with this and kind of missed when it was popular but still that probably helped me and didn't bias me too much. I should also say I have not conenction to the game so some things were definetly lost on me.

Anyway let's get into it.

Edgerunners has a really cool setting ,as does the game, cyberpunk world where the line between flesh and metal is blurring and the world is pretty darn harsh. We meet David, an outcast kid in a highly prestigious school and causing issues. Things escalate pretty quickly and when his Mum dies I thought, "damn this show might really catch me, a hellish unforgiving world? Sounds great."

We also meet Lucy, a pretty cool netrunner who seemingly grows attached to David and they share the classic moment on the Moon together, this moment is very imapctful but it also creates the ending that is so good.

The story goes on and we meet new characters, see a betrayal and start to grow David's relationships. Maine is a tough leader but seems to be a good guy and Becca is a loose cannon that you can't not love. The first 5 episodes or so with this team are actually quite enjoyable and while I wasn't itching to watch the next, I did enjoy both the action and watching David and Lucy grow closer and develop together, and you see that they are becoming each others one weakness very quickly.

After the sad and sudden Cyberpsychosis takes Maine and Dorio the show lost me a bit. I thought damn that was a tough loss and it was well-done, really hit home. But you boot up the next epsiode and everything changes, and this is where my issue lies.

I think this Anime should have been 12 episodes, with the 2 episodes covering this time skip, showing how David slowly installs more and more metal, making him think he is extra special and becoming the new leader of the group while Lucy becomes more and more focused on protecting David from the Shadows, both pushin each other away while trying to protect them. I think 2 epsiodes here would have perfectly rounded the show but instead we have to just accept what has happened, suddenyl we don't get to see the David we knew but instead some hulking figure who I could just never really accept, and Lucy becomes so much less relevant in the episodes, popping in here and now but other than for the relationship, there is little about her actions.

So, while the characters development is correct and I can't fault the way they change,other than I feel Lucy would have stopped David way earlier, as we don't get to watch that change it feels weird, similar to how, and I'm sorry to mention another anime, but in AOT, Eren's sudden change, while understandable and correct, felt sudden as we didn't watch the fall to madness.

These episodes with the new team just didn't grab me, it all just felt wrong. The fights were still good and I enjoyed the Sandevistan scene where it actually shows how it looks from another persons perspective, I think they only did taht once? Which is weird. __Becca is a sick character though I can't lie.
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Anyway, up until the last episode the show is as i said "Good". I enjoyed it but had I never seen another epsiode I wouldn't have been too bothered But the Last Episode does very well as it creates emotion.

First of all i wanna say why the hell they gonna kill Becca 5 minutes before the end, did her so dirty.

Lucy and David's seens, bordering Cyberpsychosis and only Lucy saving him is the relationship we knew and loved, but as we figure is inevitable he eventually loses it and dies fighting Adam Smasher, a sad but expected death. The entire action sequence of this episode is great and I did enjoy it a lot.

Lucy makes it out which suprised me and these last few minutes is where the show gets amazing.

We see Lucy made it to the moon, alone a incredibly sad revelation and one that hurts to see, they show the paralell of where they sat in epsiode 2, now empty which hurts even more and then we see Lucy walking around and rememebring David's bright smile from that day.

This is where it really goddamn hurts, seeing THAT David, the one we learnt to love who smiled despite his pain, was in love(?) with a girl he just met, thought he was special and could take on the world even though he just lost the one person that mattered to him. It really hurts to see her remembering that boy that she oh so wanted to go to the Moon with just after meeting him as well and then in a blink he's gone, and while it's just an anime, you can see in her eyes the pain that we are already feeling.

This scene out of the entire show, is why It got so much attention, the show is needed for it to work, you don't have to enjoy and love it but that ending will always hurt because it's so well done.

That's why I say it was a good show with a great, no, an AMAZING ending. I enjoyed the show but wasn't captivated by it, but the ending has me sat here feeling empty, and only a few anime's have done that tbh.

Anyway, that's just my thoughts - if you want to watch it, I say go for it - it has cool ideas and I may play the game just to beat up Adam Smasher for my boy.

Onto something new I guess.

See ya