Cyberpunk: Edgerunner

 During my spare time last week, I finally gave Cyberpunk Edgerunner a watch. This particular series  gained a lot of hype in mid 2022s until early 2023. For an adaptation series based from a AAA game that had rather bad launch due to massive bug issues, this anime really live up to its hype and overall a bittersweet ride through its 10-Episodes run. Truly one of the better anime in recent time for this cyberpunk genre.

 Edgerunner is what happen if Eureka 7 is given a dystopian Cyberpunk treatment and there are no good endings for the protagonist. Faithfully going by the ethos of "Live Fast, Die Young", Cyberpunk: Edgerunner tells the story of a youth named David Martinez, who with his underprivileged background and series of unfortunate events decide to go for broke and plunge himself into Night City to carve himself a name as a Cyberpunk. Truly living up to the moniker of this Cyberpunk Spin-Off anime, the viewers will get a glimpse of a youth who constantly walks on Razor's edge in the Dystopian future city.

For its short single cour-run, Cyberpunk: Edgerunner able to convey its message straight to the point successfully. I feel this series particularly resonates very well with current youth generation who are facing the issue of massive disenfranchisement especially in developed nations with their share of the ongoing Societal issues. Considering I never played the Cyberpunk series before, I was unable to fully appreciate what the series could offer, but at very least Edgerunner successfully makes me very interested with the Video Game which is the main purpose of the series. Lastly Edgerunner heavily reminded me of Android: Netrunner which was a popular card game series that share similar dystopian setting with Cyberpunk but focus more on Hackers vs Mega Corporation side.