I'm about halfway through and I'm not really impressed, it's directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi so it looking bad was pretty much impossible from the start but imo, it's the worst looking thing he's directed. In large part because the animation is kinda rough most of the time with movement just looking extremely lackluster and nothing all that exciting happens on screen very often to boot. I'm starting to warm up to the cast but episode one was a pretty lame start to the story. I feel like I could end up thinking it's pretty good by the end but as of right now, I think it's pretty mediocre. As a side note that I'm gonna sound like a faggot for saying, I think the dub is actually pretty good and I prefer it to the sub.
Don't know for people that never played the game, but the anime does a pretty good job at representing the cyberpunk world and it's themes, animation is pretty good and it is what you would expect from Studio Trigger's cartoon-y animation. The characters are mostly pretty good they are lackluster in depth but they all still shine on their own from their expression and energy. The story is pretty good, it is predictable but they do a good job in story-telling.
I actually liked the tourism episodes minus the second one, they're glorified ads, yes, but they still had a ton of character and personality. The newer episodes are better though.
It's not as good after Third Stage because a lot of the drama goes away and Fourth Stage is just race after race without as much context, meaning, or stakes (with a few exceptions IIRC). They aren't bad by any means, but it isn't the same as the earlier seasons.
Finally, another Back Arrow comrade. Zetsu Daidan was one of the most based characters of that season, & I'll stand by that.
Watched it while the site was down and it was fucking great, wasn't too long nor "deep" but it was a fun ride and the ending got me in the feels. Awesome music as well, I was delighted to see my nigga Akira Yamaoka worked on it, dude's a legend.
My man
only got four episodes left. will watch the rest today i think.
It definitely gets wild, have fun with it.
Reddit and publishers always have to overhype everything in existence. I also wouldn't mind them turning Edgerunners into an anthology type series, there's a ton you could do with the setting and I feel Trigger and CDPR did great with this.
I misread Higehiro as Higurashi and was all like "DOO EET IT'S OCTOBER" and now I'm sad.
Why do this to yourself?
If I can lash out at frustration over reading this and wasting my life away, while having a movie like this be my favorite, then I deserve the right to waste my life away watching those two in question.
