The Rebecca Must Stay! | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners [WeeaBoots #50] 

Whatever Trigger got paid for this they deserve so much more for somehow managing to make people feel optimistic and excited about Cyberpunk 2077 again.

Glad Mike Pondsmith was stoked on the show. He is still very passionate about the world he's created and not a lot of authors can say the same.

David wasn't interested in fighting smasher. Especially when he's at deaths door. He was focused purely on Lucy. He said as much to Lucy when he saved her. He fought and got her back and then held smasher back until she and Falco got away. Once they were out of sight it was mission complete for David. Thus, he earned Smasher's respect. That alone is worthy of legendary status because Smasher doesn't give a fuck about anyone or anything. He couldn't save himself so he saved who he could. He went out giving Smasher the middle finger in corpo plaza after wiping out hordes of militech squads, 3 maxtac AV's, arasaka agents. He was a one man army on the edge of cyberpsychosis. THAT is why he's a legend. Its also why Rebecca is a legend.

Big choom dimension

WAKE UP CHOOOOOOOOOOOMS

in PNP Adam Smasher is basically one of those encounters you punish your players with for getting too big for their britches. He is absolutely killable though. It's just very very hard to do unless your crew goes in loaded out to fight basically Metal Gear Rex and not some well-balanced loadout for dealing with a variety of threats- and you're likely not going to know you're fighting him until you suddenly do. David should've been able to put damage on Smasher though.

fun fact this was written along side the game and there are more than a few references to the characters in the game itself, besides Rebecca who was entirely triggers idea

Ah yes Weeaboots: Choomba Edition

Lucy could have easily been a manic pixie dream girl copy and paste character. But she was so much more. More reserved and tragic than she could have been.

I'm usually really good about keeping myself together during stuff but something about the final episode here just set off the water works and even now about 20 minutes after finishing it I'm still trying and failing to keep it all in and I don't know exactly why. Looking forward to hear what you all have to say about it.

Amazing, one of, if not Trigger’s best. It also did what both Arcane and the Netflix Tekken failed to do and made my wanna buy and play the game.

Shadowrun has ghouls and vampires and cyberzombies and similar things as its 'no humanity' analogues to cyberpsycosis, problem is they're not just one thing easy to point to. Maybe the 40k thing Kris was thinking of was Dreadnoughts.

Devilman Crybaby was 10 episodes, not to make you even more depressed.

I would say it's fair to call this an adaptation, but an adaptation of the Cyberpunk setting. It's using almost entirely original characters, telling its own story, but building that story almost entirely from the themes that make Cyberpunk special. If someone wants to learn about Cyberpunk, this show will immerse you in its core principles for hours. Just beating you over the head with themes until you feel all the God damn feelings.

It really was just perfectly executed, just fantastic. I don't really have any complaints about it other than maybe it could have been 2 episodes longer. Just a bit more of Rebecca would have been nice.

Honestly thought that Imaishi and Yoshinari were starting to stagnate creatively after Promare and BNA. Glad they were able to execute something different and that it was done so well. Honestly my favorite Trigger product (that's not the SSSS series) since Little Witch Academia.

The opening was pretty interesting, since it just shows you exactly how David's story is going to go. Better to burn bright than to fade away, huh? Edit: Also, when did Mike Pondsmith say the game didn't get his vision? From what I remember, he really liked it.

This anime getting me to actually try (and enjoying so far) the 2077 game is a testament to how hard of a 10/10 it is

Feel, emotional exausted, deleting the fact that Devilman Crybaby is 10 episodes and tricking himself into thinking is 6 episodes.

This was a good podcast but maybe don't say outright false facts. CD Project Red paid for the whole thing, wrote the script, and hired Trigger to do the animation. But CDPR relied on Trigger's expertise and allowed Trigger to rewrite for anime. Then Trigger and CDPR went back and forth for every part of preproduction so the end result was an amalgamation of both teams. CDPR was completely in control of pre-production and had the final say on everything. That's why there is so much that isn't typical for anime. Trigger then took over for production. After all was done then Netflix bought it at cost. CDPR are the only ones who have control of the IP and are the ones who get to decide on a second season. Also Mike Pondsmith has been very supportive of the game and has never said that the game didn't fulfill his vision. He of course was disappointed about the poor launch, but he's never talked bad about CDPR. I get it that the internet loves to bash on CDPR, but this anime is CDPRs project and would have never come out if it were not for them.

This show is good, and also just makes v a goddamn god and savant.

The ending has some Cowboy Bebop vibes.

So trying to watch this in Japanese subbed was a nightmare when they removed the subs and made you rely on reading the poorly typo laced phone calls text, I just thought they were speaking way more gangster-like and dumb over the phone Edit: (I meant to add this after I watched the dub about a week ago) So the words being doubled up isn’t a typo, as the English cast tried to make it sound fine in conversation but it comes off as too forced, making me think it WAS a typo and the English cast just went with it anyway

IIRC Adam Smasher is pretty beastly but then that's most of the NPCs in Cyberpunk 2020 (it was the 90s, the era of *metaplot*). He also looks like a ninja turtle in the old art.

Bro expecting David or any of this crew to take down Smasher or making a dent on the socio-economic structure of NUSA is like expecting the Rogue One crew to take out Darth Vader and poison Palpatine's morning coffee.

Anyone else notice that every single episode title is a song reference

To live through this show in fast-forward, but also in reverse, I have listened to this podcast three times. The first two were before I watched it. That may not be cyberpunk, but it just might be hip-hop.

Imagine Bethesda taking a hint and somehow actually doing the same thing for Fallout or TES

For what i have read, netflix didnt have much to do with edgerunners. Cd projekt were the ones who funded it and then, during production they contacted netflix for promotion, distribution etc.

RIP to everyone killed by the chrome for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the chrome

25:00 - I know I can't for the life of me find ARCANE, Squid Game, Sweet Home, or any number of other series Netflix has, on ANY physical release!! I've had to resort to other 'peers' to get them myself, though I have Netflix & would eagerly buy a blu-ray release of this & the above shows!! 🤞🤓

Gigaboots rules

It was Bartmoss, the first netrunner who tore down the entire world wide web.

They also kept translating "choom" as "chum"..

I think they patched the subtitles because I watched this today and they were fine.

...Is this the first perfect 10??? Also, please tell me, is there any skinning? I can barely endure gore, but skinning is an absolute NO for me.

Maine being black is fine..cause he's an original character. Not sure what the joke was about.

You use the wrong subtitles? Or did they add proper subtitles later?

nice boots

Yoooo what if they made the subtitles for the dub a buggy mess on purpose?

How do you spell the name of the guy who took down the internet? H. barsmoch?

Edgerunners inc is a sourcebook for CP2020 and an in game recruitment agency for well …… Edgerunners😅There’s nothing more edgy than recruitment agencies!

The way you pronounced the Polish names offends me, my family, our entire culture and all of our ancestors. But I don't blame you tho, good cast.

I guess I'm the only one who absolutely hated the show