>It presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge.

>>280245737 (OP)
cool.

>>280245737 (OP)
>Trigger and Imaishi are still on it
Holy shit we won

>>280245785
trigger sux

>>280245737 (OP)
>Cyberpunk Nightcrawler
Pretty interesting

>>280245737 (OP)
This is not coming out for like another 2 years, right?

>>280245737 (OP)
This CONFIRMS Rebecca is alive! Based we won!

>>280245737 (OP)
>Director: Kai Ikarashi

Can't wait, tbqh. Edgerunners threads were some of the most fun I've had on this board this decade.

>>280245737 (OP)
Not anime because this is a western IP like Animatrix or Scott Pilgrim

>>280245854
that's what makes it good

>>280245840
>Director of the best episode
Hell yeah

>>280245842
Cringe

>>280245737 (OP)
This time CD Project Red isn't on it right?
It was thanks to them it was a tragedy, so this one might end differently

>>280245737 (OP)
>It presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077
Probably for the best, the first one's story was over and even if this one is shit it would not tarnish the original and will allow for possible future projects to course correct.

>>280245854
How come you guys never show up for Witch Blade?

>>280245737 (OP)
Never got around to watching the first season, is it really as good as people say it is?

>>280245737 (OP)
Trigger kino... I kneel!!!!

>>280245999
>literal who shit

>>280245737 (OP)
Kinda strange I just watched and finished it last week and I just started the game

Fuck Rebecca

>>280246002
It's good. The biggest issue is that it's so short that some side characters don't really get much character focus or development but it's certainly worth watching.

>>280245829
oh yeah minimum

>10 episodes
Fucking again with those pacing issues

>>280245854
You will never be Japanese

>>280246080
Smash Rebecca

An entire season in episode 6 style is crazy

>>280246166
Cope. Japs think of Scott Pilgrim as anime too so this doesn't prove anything.

>>280246220
>EOP weeb decides what is anime or not
Ironic

>>280246220
>Japs know less about anime than me

>>280245737 (OP)
>trigger
Literally the best news possible. Absolutely based.
>>280246002
Yes. Easily one of the best anime of the last decade.

>>280246220
Japanese people are watching Netflix. Only children in Japan watch anime

>>280246244
>>280246261
This but unironically.

>>280246280
Japan who is the who made it in the first place doesn't care what you think.

>>280246320
>Japan who is the who

Gainax/Triggerbros we are so fucking back

So that's what Yoshinari's been working on... slop... ITS SO UNFAIR

>280246377
>Is that typo!? Your argument is invalid!
Here final (You)

>>280245957
Uhh

>Everything i dont like is slop

>>280245785
This, I was expecting a western studio this time around like the ones that do those Witcher animated movies. This is great.

What the fuck is this HAHAHAHHAHA

>>280245737 (OP)
awesome, however I still won't play the game

>>280246506
Why do japs think anitubers are respected journalists?

When's another season of Gridman, Trigger?

>>280245806
Seethe

>>280246506
what? these guys have been part of the anime industry in some capacity for like their entire lives. only makes sense for them to actually start being part of stuff.

>>280246531
joey is japanese

>>280246536
who cares about gridman, where's kiznaiver?!

Oh shit! Ikarashi is the director not Imaishi. This might be kino afterall

>>280246436
>be prepared for sadness
Kek, that one anti tragedy anon is not going to like this

>>280246560
>these guys have been part of the anime industry in some capacity for like their entire lives.
They have literally zero credits and are just shills

>>280246002
Genuinely one of the best anime ever made

>>280245842
I've missed out on them and I've been regretting it hard. Probably the most this board's been active about a show in years. I won't miss out on it this time

>>280246567
Crazy how he hasnt been given a director seat until now

>>280246589
i think you're just a contrarian retard that sees a youtuber and immediately thinks it's a bad thing

>>280246436
>it's le cyberpunk have to be misery again
When will we get some Cyberpunk story with some uplifting endings like Deus Ex?

>>280246210
Is this my fault???....
DIS MAH FAULT

>>280246668
it's obviously a fake out and this time it will have a happy ending

>>280245854
YWNBJ

>>280246624
No they literally have no influence in the industry on top of being shitty youtubers. He was just hired there as an interviewer. That faggot Connor was hosting that shitty Bamco stream and Gigguk is "making" an isekai anime from an upstart studio

>>280246002
no, but it's still good

>>280246698
The fact that you know all about them means you are a psycho hate watcher of their careers. They are succeeding and you're stuck on 4chan seething like a toddler.

>>280245737 (OP)
Is this from the trigger panel at AX? I thought it wasn’t happening until like 9 EST

>>280246668
>some uplifting endings like Deus Ex

would be funny if they delayed the game's next update to tie into the news...

>>280246668
what kind of ending did you get man

>>280246746
>imagine unironically simping for those faggots

You need to leave

this will probably be better than the first season now that they are more familiar with the setting and probably given a bigger budget.

>>280246746
>point out basic bitch shit from news feed
>y-y-you're a psycho hate watcher

I've never watched Trash Taste but those guys were infamous for having being retards with shitty takes before they got popular.

>>280246777
Apparently the trailer is dropping during the trigger panel

The cyberpunk collab with wuthering waves makes a lot more sense now.

>>280246668
this happens to any kind of genre fiction that establishes too much of a perceived (regardless of truth) identity for itself. see also: cosmic horror

CHOOOMS

>>280246859
Cool, hopefully we don’t have to wait too long for it to come out. Trigger has a bad habit of announcing things way too long in advance.

>>280245737 (OP)
Is this David and Lucy's kid? Remember Trigger wanted to have Lucy pregnant

>bleach in 2026
>new gits in 2026
>new cyberpunk in 2026
oh...so 2025 was the filler year...

>>280246925
>bleach in 2026
You're suppose to hype people for next year

>>280246697
cope

>>280245737 (OP)
Please have a weekly release this time.

>>280247017
best i can do is dump it all on netflix at once and kill any hype or discussion

>>280247017
This

>>280246919
>Trigger wanted to have Lucy pregnant
I can only find fan theories, nothing tangible about this. Did Trigger really?

>>280245806
Trigger animators and directors with external, competent writers are great though.

So we're finally here, at the long awaited Ikarashi directorial debut... I would have preferred an original show, but in this day and age o can't be too picky. I wonder if he was already too busy to at least direct an episode of PSG2.

>>280247056
Yeah, in a stream they did ages ago about Edreunners

>>280246800
I hope that update is nothing special, I uninstalled the game a while ago after getting all the Phantom Liberty endings. Pretty kino, but fuck the NUSA.

>>280246668
>Why are there no winners amongst the common man in the hypercapitalist corporate dystopia setting?
It's literally the foundational underlying theme of the entire genre.

I hope they give us news on Dungeon Meshi season 2 too

>>280246841
It's also Ikrashi Director Debut and dude is savant. More money, time and like you send familiarity. Masterpiece incoming.

>>280246919
Think being on the moon would fuck up a fetus?

Trigger is about to teach Khara how to tell a good story in 10 episodes again.

I will not give up hope

>>280247109
>>280247056
>>280247173
I mean they could still make her pregnant and she only found out after she returned from the moon

>>280247062
Edgerunners was mostly written internally. The only other Trigger show with less external input was Luluco.

New manga adaptation when

We are fucking back bros

>>280247109
Can you source the stream/post what they exactly said?

>>280247173
Maybe, maybe not. We know 0g is bad for fetus development but we don't know how little is enough. Could be 0.6, 0.3 or as little as 0.1. Blame NASA for abandoning the ISS centrifugal module.

>>280245842
Edgerunners threads were surprisingly fun for an anime that was on Netflix. In fact, I would not have watched the show had it not been for the fact that I was seeing threads for an "original Netflix anime" and they weren't filled with shitposting.

Must have been the Trigger effect.

>>280247173
They show what would happen in another series

>>280247255
Edgerunner threads were terrible for the first week because tourists and crossboarders invaded for a good bit. It improved after

>>280246002
It is so good that it singlehandedly made people retroactively think the game had been fine the whole time when it had a horrible reputation from its launch

>>280247277
planetes was good

Bartosz Sztybor, writer and producer of CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS: "I'm from Poland. People in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad...

...When people are sad, I'm a bit happy."

Do polands are just a bunch of assholes?

>>280247290
and to the game's credit, people who played on PC and next gen consoles were fine, just the majority of people playing on old consoles really got shafted.

>>280246668
Do you...not realize the kind of setting Cyberpunk is and why having a happy ending is kind of difficult to pull off?

The main issues of Edgerunners were the pacing (desperately needed 2 more episodes) and the animation being unable to keep up all the way through. Hopefully with this being Ikarashi's debut there will be more outside help since he was notorious for doing favors animating shit all over the industry.

>>280245737 (OP)
Why is no one mentioning that KAI IKARASHI IS DIRECTING IT (DEBUT AS SERIES DIRECTOR) AND ICHIGO KANNO IS DESIGNING THE CHARACTERS?

>>280247317
when you're neighbors are russia and germany, sure.

>>280247245
Look for it in the Edgerunners subreddit. It was mostly Trigger talking about how bleak the ending was and they had different ideas for the ending

>>280247350
Are you not reading the thread?>>280245877

I come from the future. They will ruin it by making the main characters homosexual.

>>280247191
David pretty much chromed his whole body, including his dick probably (Mr. Studds are a pretty popular brand) but maybe his original dick and balls are stored somewhere. If that's the case, then Lucy can in-vitro the sperm.

>>280247317
I don't know know but this is a consistent pattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW50-YruRuA&ab_channel=HowtoPolish

>>280247150
It really isn't, if anything the foundational theme is that even if you cannot save the world you CAN save yourself.

>releases news on July 4
>is about dystopian society ruled by corporations

Bravo trigger

>>280245737 (OP)
Reposting but
>spikehair hoodie top left
>firly-ish masked on the top right
>bandana middle left?
>cowboy hat bottom left
>some weird balding guy maybe in there
>probably some oldie bottom right
>king cloak with blood on center left
>kid with a camera on the middle
Media kid with a bunch of solos could be kinda cool, showing how in the end shit like media coverage of scandals can be too costly and never change enough. Top right gives me kiwi vibes but hard to tell anything else, but if they are going for the more "civilian" side of the setting that could be cool.

>>280247375
But the MC is a girl so people will like it

Is this a shota?

>>280246668
tbf JC and to a lesser extent Jensen are like Jesus equivalent in that universe. They're no common people like Cyberpunk protags.

>made to design a black person
>bigger nigger gorilla BUT CYBORG
why is trigger the best designers ever? even if its just barret all over again they even did this for kill la kill

>>280246220
>Japs think of Scott Pilgrim as anime too
Because it is.

>>280247447
Plot synopsis seems to imply that he’s an aspiring journalist/documentarian

>>280247392
The only people that come close to winning in the Sprawl trilogy are those that eat shit and embrace the corporate dream, anyone that fights for morality and anything beyond self-service is completely destroyed by the Man.

>>280247495
then it's literally nightcrawler cyberpunk edition

>>280247495
City of God but Cyberpunk? Kino

>>280247512
Didn't Case marry, have kids and live happily ever after? He did alright, many people can't even seem to manage that even IRL.

>>280245737 (OP)
I'm so happy bros.
Will we get Rebecca 2 though

Wait, they already have a trailer? Could this be coming next year, before Dungeon Meshi 2?

>>280247592
Yes, and this time she won't get cucked

One of the characters will be a black woman and /a/ will never shut the fuck up about it

>>280247610
>before Dungeon Meshi 2?
Impossible, Trigger only does one project per year. This sis most certainly coming in 2027

>>280247615
How was the initial reaction to David being the main character back when CE1 released?

>>280247647
>Trigger only does one project per year.
Didn't DM S1 and the Gridman movie both come out in 2023?

>>280247647
DM2 wouldn't be next year. If they already have a PV for this it's definitely coming first

>>280247615
Do people know the creator of Cyberpunk is a black dude?

>new story
All I wanted, desu. The team having the restraint to not go with a standard sequel / Lucy spin-off is already promising.
Although, I'd be shocked if they don't somehow put a reference somewhere. Who's gonna be the inevitable S1 guest? Rebecca?

>>280247694
He's one of the good ones and his self-insert in the story is a white guy

>>280247715
so? that doesn't mean he's some self hating coon who isn't proud he's black.

>>280247694
Most people don’t know, and when presented with this information, they immediately use the age old cope as seen here >>280247715

>>280246210
We're so fucking back man.

>>280247568
He married and had 4 kids, the happily ever after bit is dubious though.

I can't wait for my HEROES to appear again.

>>280247657
No one really cared because he's living in what's basically LA fifty years in the future. It makes sense.

>>280247685
Gridman Universe came out in 2023 March. DM in 2024

Trailer soon

>>280245737 (OP)
It will be a dogshit sequel, dont you worry.

>>280246668
>A happy ending? For folks like us?
>Wrong city, wrong people.

>>280246886
Cyberpunk is also shackled by the fact that all media for it is ancillary, and can’t have *too happy* an ending. You can’t canonize random side characters triumphing over the big bads super often, because that’s reserved for the player to do in a tabletop session, or to a lesser extent via the video game. You can definitely have maybe a small scale happy ending for these characters, but once they climb too high and start roping in the corps and people like Smasher, they’re done for.

Maybe it's finally time for Trigger to do multiple projects every year. I don't see Amemiya staying inactive until 2028, and Yoshinari hasn't done much since Edgerunners either.

>>280247947
There's also the Star Wars short this year

>>280247936
metaplot and canon settings were a horrible mistake

>>280247704
FALCO BITCH

>>280246668
>some uplifting endings like Deus Ex

>>280248002
This is the most logical choice

Fuck Lucy

>>280245737 (OP)
The main characters are all dead.

>>280248048
>It presents a new standalone story

>2025
>still no Lucy gf
How are you holding up chooms

>>280248230
I need a hot 10/10 Russian gf with mental issues so bad bros…

>>280246560
>joey is japanese
That's the most anti jap looking guy I have ever seen

>>280248350
His dad is 100% Japanese and his mom is middle eastern or something

>>280245737 (OP)
Why though

I wanted it to be about the daily life of a fixer.

Was David just a hack pussy? I managed fo storm Arasaka Tower completely on my own on the hardest difficulty

I hope it doesnt the anthology virus where only the first season is good

>>280248424
David had some protag energy but not plot armor. Arasaka Tower dives is made by someone entirely made of anti cyberpsychosis gamer juice.

>>280248063
Who cares then? Have you read any of the comics? They are dog shit. All these standlone items from the universe go no where and mean nothing. And yeah I know its part of the themes but it's gotten old. The first season was an outlier agaisnt the norm and I dont have any hopes they will strike twice.

>>280248452
S2 is also True Detective kino, you just have to be in a different mood than S1. 3/4 are still dogshit though.

>>280248002

>>280248496
S2 was rushjob that's only enjoyable ironically
>Casper knew this

>>280245737 (OP)
Without a loli, I have no interest. Becca was the entire reason to watch the first season.

>Trigger making a second season out of anything
Hold the fuck up, something ain't right here.

>>280248273
>Russian
She's a KURWA, not a BLYAT

Ehh, seems like a cashgrab, I'll be avoiding.

>>280248424
>>280248459
Tying back to this comment >>280247936, David might’ve been the protag of Edgerunners, but the main character of the cyberpunk universe are the player characters in a tabletop session. V is essentially an iteration of that. He’s *the* guy.

>>280245806
Ur MOM SUX

>>280248610
It'd be a cashgrab if David somehow returned but I welcome the anthology approach, which they seem to be doing

>>280248595
It seems it will have a shota at least >>280247447 maybe he has a sister or something

I've missed you chooms

>>280248605
bro... your dynazenon...
bro... your psg...
bro... your dungeon meshi...

>>280248616
>but the main character of the cyberpunk universe are the player characters in a tabletop session.
I'd just like to add, the cyberpunk system is fucking deadly, people there can be two tapped real goddamn easy at times so even they are not really "main characters" so much as they are very much characters where the narrative focus is on them. A good few AR bursts kill Solos pretty quick in the lower levels.

>>280245737 (OP)
This is not anime. It's made by Polish people, with Japanese only animating some of it.

>>280248605
The rule was broken some time ago. Now anything goes........ except for BNA S2. Nobody cared for that shit

>>280248424
Man, why does cdpr shill base fem V so much, I wouldn't mind if she didn't look like shit.

>>280245854
Script and animation was done by Trigger, COPE

>>280248699
Male V is too tied to release marketing

>>280248699
The general consensus seems to be that she has the superior VA, male V is kind of just generic

>>280246436
I still haven't gotten over the first one

>>280248719
Late game Male V was great imo
The desperation and "tiredness" in his voice were really well done

>>280248719
In classic fashion general consensus is wrong again

>>280248424
Your Vincent had maxed-out stats, non-commercial cyberpsycho-tier gear, and respawns (because let’s be real, you savescummed). David had Lucy, a dream, and a death wish but still made Smasher work for it.

>>280248754
This. His final convo with Johnny in the Metaverse was done insanely well

>>280247173
Being on the moon? Probably not. But doesn't Lucy have a fuckton of cyberware upgrades? Can she even get pregnant

>>280246506
I recognize the guy on the right. Left looks like some kind of weedlmao tier retard.

>>280248643
If he doesn't have a sister or other cute loli that shares a significant amount of screen time I have no interest. They should know already how to make cute appealing characters.

>>280246498
Technically that's a korean studio

>>280246002
no

>>280248719
Lolno. FemV is alright, but falls flat when they try and sound badass.

>>280248954
What would be the point if he inevitably dies at the end?

>>280248710
In Phantom Liberty, the credits show Fem V regardless of what you chose. I think they genuinely hate the guy option lol

>>280248831
Her cyber womb can spin to provide sufficient simulated gravity for fetus development

>>280246668
Eden:It's an endless world adaptation fucking never

>>280248783
Never played the game, is Smasher as based in the main line as he is in the anime or is he like General Grievous?

>>280249004
According to the VA of male V, originally there wasn't even supposed to be a option to choose your gender. The default was just Valerie, who was her own character like Geralt.

>>280249047
Originally Smasher was pretty weak but they made him harder in the latest patch

>>280247447
Could be a girl

>>280246886
Gunnm has a pretty optimistic ending before Last Order fucks everything

>>280249096
The earliest builds of the game that leaked had male V in them. Sounds like that VA is lying or cdpr told him to lie for some reason.

why is it season 2 when its standalone with a new cast

>>280249315
It's the same studio.

I love Kiwi

>>280249279
Yeah I think I was mistaken sorry, maybe I was mixing it up with the info that the romance options were going to be available to both genders but got locked behind male or female v to pretend there was replayability.

>>280249409
Oh, ok

>>280249372
Hey, me too

>>280248605
Luluco retard

>>280245842
Trauma Team posting was fun

>>280249526
Also Delicious in Dungeon and technically Panty and Stocking

>>280248380
>>280248350
Unironically, yeah, even Aki despite being filipina looks more Asian than him

>>280248350
https://youtu.be/oIm187CICQM?si=FS3W8FFWkrN2mtAA

>>280248608
We need a PERKELE next.

Will it be better than Arcane s2?

any vets from the season one threads still here?

I was the original creator of this image

>>280248610
I don't think it's a cashgrab but it does strike me as uninspired. Could still be good

>>280245737 (OP)
>This got revealed at an AX panel
The one I decide to skip gets the actual cool reveal.

>>280250461
The trailer is still dropping in 2 hours

>>280248608
>>280248273
Isn't that scammer artist who did the Edgerunners video clip a Russian? And the videoclip itself has his OC in it.
Vid in question, unless I got the wrong person or internet lore wrong.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ

>new story in the cyberpunk universe
Does anyone care about the universe?

>>280250516
Everyone but you.

>>280245737 (OP)
So, did anyone properly make subtitles for the japanese audio or the releases still using dubtitles for the first season?

>>280247694
>>280247741
>>280247747
You guys unironically don't know anything about Mike Pondsmith, the guy would 100% be called a coon or anti-SJW black guy back in the day lol

>>280250455
Hello, yes.

Using this thread to post a Becca graffiti I found at a restroom.

>>280250483
I thought it was still tomorrow? Will it be panel-exclusive?

>>280245737 (OP)
Judging by the description and kid with a camera, I'm going to venture the protagonist will be a media class. Someone trying to break the biggest stories while wrestling with the ethics and probably stepping on some corpo toes.

>>280246668
>uplifting endings like Deus Ex
nigga WHAT

>>280250591
Found the only "fixed" subtitles release and looks like it's still bad.
https://nyaa.si/view/1667707

>>280246668
>I want safe sanitized genre fictions where all the ugliness is censured and its just beautiful people wearing fashionable clothes having a good time
normalfag

>>280246668
>Laughs in Chadhand

>>280250853
Ikarashi did say tonight at the trigger panel

>>280251238
Doesn't giving him cybernetics kind of ruin the whole point of his character? I thought he was supposed to be a pure and plain human being whose so good that he can solo even cybernetically enchanced people

>>280246436
>>280247317
Kek, this fucking guy. Preparing my anus.

>>280250455
Of course.

>>280250591
The English subs for JP audio are NOT the same as the dub dialogue. DKB's release has like 4-5 eng sub tracks to pick from, and only one uses the dub dialogue.

>>280251362
Being a legend with just a blackhand with a smartgun makes you a legend worth remembering. Average gonk is twelve times more chromed and infinitely less interesting or capable.

>>280251378
>DKB's release has like 4-5 eng sub tracks to pick from, and only one uses the dub dialogue.
For the record, the other three all use the English subs for JP audio with different stylings, not different translations, so >>280251019's complaints about wording will still exist.

>>280250591
>>280251019

>mfw I picked up Japanese in march the same year and was good enough by release to understand most of the dialogue myself

It's not just Cyberpunk, you miss out on so many cultural references sometimes it's not even funny and sometimes the translations are flat out wrong, like I was rewatching GTO and character saying "please eat me as a sidedish" was translated to "Please eat with me" (for anyone that saw the show, it's one of the Toroko commercials, she even appears on a fucking riceball) or another one from City Hunter where "peeping tom" was translated to protruding toothed turtle because one way to say voyeur is with 出歯亀 but if you read it literally it can also in fact refer to a turtle with a protruding tooth. This I'd forgive anyone for, had it not been for the scene that the character that was being addressed to was in fact lurking in the bushes stalking someone.

>>280249555
Pretty sure Trauma Team is a subscription based service for this exact reason. Yes, I am autistic.

>>280249372
>>280249487
you schmucks and your traitorous hag wife...

>>280246002
Absolutely not. It's irredeemable miserywank garbage. It could have been enjoyable, but the writers killed off every member of the cast except Lucy.

Do not make the mistake of watching the show, it'll make you feel like shit and hate the writers. And if you're anything like me, you already have more than enough things to hate.

>>280251820
most people aren't overflowing with hate like you tho

>>280251820
>miserywank
Easier to just say grimdark, fucking zoomer

>>280251820
Its fun to feel bad. Honestly I like when creators hate their audience and spit malice at me directly as well. Slay

>>280251820

Probably baiting you's but the ending turned a solid 8 into a legitimate 10 for me, I am beyond tired of any Mary Sue / Gary Stue infinite plot armor bullshit story where there are no stakes cause you just know everything is gonna be alright, which is funny cause that's exactly what I was expecting desu so I was wonderfully surprised. Don't assume your personal issues apply to everyone.

>>280251820
Not you again...

>>280251871
I'm not overflowing with hate, in fact I feel hatred towards quite the normal amount of things. It's just that even that amount is enough for me.
>>280251919
I don't get you emotional masochists, I don't like being made to feel awful. It's quite unpleasant and I'd rather do without it.

>>280250516
The lore is semi-interesting. The overall "feel" or energy of the franchise is probably it's biggest draw. It leans pretty heavily into "punk" aspect of the genre (radical, violent, high energy individualism in the face of a totally corrupt society) and CDPR did a great job translating this aesthetic into the 21st century.

There are elements of tragedy and horror the franchise consistently returns to but I suspect the high-octane, stylish and violent exterior is a major appeal for more than a few of it's fans.

>>280252018
I on the other hand prefer stories where the good guys get their triumph and bad guys their comeuppance. I don't think any less of you if you enjoy miserywank (ok maybe a little bit), but since not everyone is an emotional masochist who enjoys seeing the failure and death of characters they empathise with, I think it's a good idea to warn people in advance of what they're getting into.

>>280252112
>the normal amount of things
list them all

>emotional masochist
that's a tautology. all masochism is emotional. eroticism of physical pain is called Algolagnia

>>280252225
Politicians, ntr/cheating/tragedy/used goods in stories, the taste of alcohol, loud minorities that can't assimilate to the country and 4chan moderation. And a few other things.

>>280252078
Oh god, you're right.

>>280251820
So did you eventually watch it?

>>280252307
Of course not, I'm not nearly masochistic enough to put myself through something like that.

>>280252112

>I don't get you emotional masochists, I don't like being made to feel awful.

>>280252395
That's fine, not everyone is capable of feeling empathy. There's a term for their kind.

>>280245806
Your tears are delicious.

>>280247447
Can't wait to see him get so chromed up he makes Smasher look like a twig.

>>280247383
slavic languages are so goddamn ugly

>>280251820
I wouldn't go that far but your heart is in the right place. The death spam at the end wasn't emotional, if anything it only made me mad. Tragedy is fine when it means something but this just felt like suffering for the sake of it

>>280252191

It's not about preference but good writing, more often than not the worst piles of dung come from the happy endings because they sabotage the entire plot to get there, this assuming there was something there to begin with and wasn't a protagonist wank fest from the start.

Only 4 titles in my top 10 have sad endings, the rest are all happy or at the very least bittersweet, I'm not biased towards misery necessarily but it's an absolute breath of fresh air when done correctly.

If you go back to Cyberpunk and have Lucy & David live happily ever after, you ruin the show period, it was simply not meant to be from the start and in retrospect it makes sense when you look at David thinking he was special in regards to cyberuse, it's why I was expecting the show to double down on him being a unicorn that can just scale to infinity without side effects but when those started showing up I was happy cause I knew it won't end good (and hence saving the plot).

Also pretty pathetic to give trigger warnings, it's a show it's not real life and if you get emotional trauma from pixels on a screen you need to be sent to Siberia in a gulag for a few months maybe it'll get fixed (therapy is a meme don't fall for it)

>>280245840
This right here should have sent everyone into an orgiastic frenzy considering how unique and impactful Ikarashi's episodes have been, but...
>>280247350
>Why is nobody mentioning
This is the same board that doesn't seem to care that PanSto S2 is mere days away, the same board with a never ending isekai and DB general, the same board that had trouble telling apart Hideaki Anno from his talented protege in order to figure out who to slander while Gquuuuuux was airing, the same board that shat all over Edgerunners in 2022 for the dumbest reasons possible and called its popularity a forced shilling, the same board that invented affronts to language and good sense like "native isekai" and "forced animation", etc. etc.
Need I go on?
Pearls before swine, just sit tight and wait for kino to be served. I know a large contigent on this board will be duly filtered when this airs, and then pretend they got it from the very beginning 10 years after.

>>280250455
Some of the most fun I've had on /a/ since Kemono friends

>>280252709
>I wouldn't go that far but your heart is in the right place.
Thanks anon, I do try.
>The death spam at the end wasn't emotional, if anything it only made me mad. Tragedy is fine when it means something but this just felt like suffering for the sake of it
Personally I feel the same way towards all tragedy. Not all character deaths destroy a story, but in most cases they do make the story worse and I maintain that people don't enjoy stories because of the tragedy, but despite it. And that's the crux of the matter for me, it's not necessarily the deaths themselves that make me hate the story, it's the fact that the writers made a conscious decision to make the story worse that pushes me over the edge.

I submit to you that most people, when asked if they would enjoy the story of Cyberpunk more, or less, if Becca had survived the encounter with Smasher, would say "more", if they're being honest. And that's the point, the writers decided to write a story that could have been better if the most liked characters had survived.

>>280252890
>if Becca had survived the encounter with Smasher, would say "more", if they're being honest.
Falco survived you misandrist

>>280252798
Do you not recognize this troll from the thread a few weeks ago?
Here, read how he baited people into replying for hours on end and save yourself the energy. It looks like he's been doing his schtick in Made in Abyss threads too lol
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/279634285/#279635247

Lucy meets a new lover on the moon. He fucks her. She fucks him, but she doesn't love him. She's only sleeping with him to cope. She's still choked up about David. He promises to avenge David for her. He gets killed by Smasher. Becca comes out of nowhere and saves the day.

Trailer in seven minutes?

>>280252798
>It's not about preference but good writing, more often than not the worst piles of dung come from the happy endings because they sabotage the entire plot to get there, this assuming there was something there to begin with and wasn't a protagonist wank fest from the start.
I disagree, a happy ending is a sign of good writing and a tragic/sad/downer ending is a sign of bad writing.

>Only 4 titles in my top 10 have sad endings, the rest are all happy or at the very least bittersweet, I'm not biased towards misery necessarily but it's an absolute breath of fresh air when done correctly.
None of the titles in my top 10 have a sad or bittersweet ending. There is no correct way to do a sad ending, they are all garbage.

>If you go back to Cyberpunk and have Lucy & David live happily ever after, you ruin the show period, it was simply not meant to be from the start and in retrospect it makes sense when you look at David thinking he was special in regards to cyberuse, it's why I was expecting the show to double down on him being a unicorn that can just scale to infinity without side effects but when those started showing up I was happy cause I knew it won't end good (and hence saving the plot).
If they went back to Cyberpunk and had Lucy & David live happily ever after, I could actually enjoy the story and could consider it something worth watching. The plot was not saved, it was ruined.

>Also pretty pathetic to give trigger warnings, it's a show it's not real life and if you get emotional trauma from pixels on a screen you need to be sent to Siberia in a gulag for a few months maybe it'll get fixed (therapy is a meme don't fall for it)
I disagree, it's a good practice. If I had had anon warn me of the tragic shows that I ended up watching, they would have turned my life for the better. Slightly, perhaps, but still.

How heavy on the romance will this one be? Are Cyberpunk very heavy on romance, by the way?

>>280253083
In the game? There are multiple roman options

>>280247111
IMO, if it didn't lock you out of so much content, the best ending for the Phantom Liberty shitshow is letting Space Force One crash. Fuck Songbird, fuck Myers, and fuck the NUSA.

>>280252890

>if Becca had survived the encounter with Smasher, would say "more", if they're being honest.

Can't imagine how an unhinged borderline psycho like her would stay put / evasive or even run away in the Smasher encounter, pure character assassination unless you leave it ambiguous whether she look lethal damage or not (and do what with that, Becca sequel? I'm up for it but it's not a good enough reason)

>Do you not recognize this troll from the thread a few weeks ago?

It's the first time I read /a/ in months and first time I serious-post in years so I have no idea what is happening, I was just here for the Edgerunners at release but was only lurking. But now that I read >There is no correct way to do a sad ending, they are all garbage. further below I am convinced you are right and will stop bothering, it's too bad I had so many more things to say but good faith is in short supply these days. Thanks for the warning though.

>>280245737 (OP)
>>280247350
>>280245840
>kai ikarashi
>ichigo kanno
LET'S FUCKING GO!

>>280252972

Forgot the (you) for >>280253116 post related. Here's a Becca as penance.

>>280253138
>Director of the best episode of Edgerunners and the worst episode of Heavenly Delusion

>>280245806
this, only american ironic weebs like it

>>280253183
The worst episode of a 10/10 show is still like 7/10

>>280252018
>, I am beyond tired of any Mary Sue / Gary Stue infinite plot armor bullshit stor

standard polandball tales are all tragedies. slavs are hardgore n cynical.

>>280253183
>>280253199
>>280253138
Ikarashi wasnt the director for that edgerunner episode, he was the storyboarder but his episodes always look like it was directed by him.

Same as Gridman Ep9 and Dynazenon ep 10. It's their respective best ep but he was a storyboarder. Not the director.

Heavenly Delusion was his first director role. And i'm afraid he might go off the rails like he did in HD.

>>280252191
nobody in edgerunners was a "good guy"
that was the whole fucking point
everything was a moral grey area

>>280253183
>>280253199
>>280253311
it was so funny. Heavenly Delusion is a much serious show than gridman and dynazenon yet it was directed so cartoonishly.

I hope he learnt something from HD. He needs some self control

>>280245737 (OP)
they better space out better the plot since the last season was really noticeable the lack of two more episodes
>>280246590
>>280245842
the board had like 10 continuous threads of it for over a month after it's release

>>280251238
FAThand*

I remember sakugafags on twitter were hyping up this shot and it end up being a fucking STILLS hahahah

i hope theres no batch release. I hope they release them 2 or 3ep per week and not the entire thing

>>280246220
it proves you are faggot and a newbie who hasn't even been on this board for 2 years

>>280253340
Still responding to bait when you're old enough to know better?

>>280253116
>Can't imagine how an unhinged borderline psycho like her would stay put / evasive or even run away in the Smasher encounter, pure character assassination unless you leave it ambiguous whether she look lethal damage or not (and do what with that, Becca sequel? I'm up for it but it's not a good enough reason)
A good writer could have made it happen. I'm not a stickler for details, but there was absolutely an option, there always is. The writers just decided not to do it. That isn't good writing. Speaking of "good writing", usually when people say that a story had good writing they can't really even explain why the writing was good. Sometimes it's even contradictory - the kind of person that says that a tragic cyberpunk story had good writing because it was loyal to the source material and it was appropriate to the setting is happy to also say that a magical girl anime that had a tragic ending was a sign of good writing because it was a deconstruction of the genre and subverted the watcher's expectations.

For me, it's much more simple than that. I read/watch/experience stories to enjoy my time with them. If I'm entertained, it was a good story. A story that evokes negative emotions such as anger and sadness are not good stories, since I don't enjoy those emotions. I'm already intimately familiar with them and need not explore them in the world of fiction.

I was being provocative when I said that there is no way to do a sad ending and that they're all garbage, but fundamentally I still believe that I'm correct in my assertion that most people enjoy stories more when their favourite characters survive. A sad ending that's pushed in the realm of bittersweet would definitely resonate a lot more with people, and that's what makes sad endings bad. You ruin some of the enjoyment people could have had with your story when you make the ending a tragedy.

So trigger has 6 directors now
>Otsuka
Ino Battle
>Imaishi
Kill la Kill
Luluco
Promare
Edgerrunners S1
Star Wars Vision
Panty and Stocking 2
>Amemiya
Inferno Cop
Ninja Slayer
SSSS.Gridman
SSSS.Dynazenon
>Yoh Yoshinari
Little Witch Academia
BNA
>Miyajima
Dungeon Meshi (Manga Adaptation)
>Ikarashi
Edgerunners 2

Expand your studio already.

>>280253580
Amemiya really made 2 shitpost before actually making a proper show. Yoshinari is unironically the worst one here.

>>280253340
That's entirely beside the point. Regardless of how evil a protagonist is, I still want them to win. Even if Light was a "bad guy", I still hated the ending of Death Note. Similarly, my character in 2077 was objectively a "bad guy". And unsurprisingly, I absolutely hated all the endings of the game. Even the most optimistic of them all, the Avocado ending, was brought down by the completely pointless sacrifice of half of the sworn family and the ticking time bomb in V's head.

>>280253643
I actually really liked that about the game, all the endings are bittersweet (you will still die in most of them and the one where you don't is where you burn bridges with the friends you've made) and it's left up to the player to decide which ending is for them.

>>280253612
You don't understand either of them

>>280253721
LWA was mid at best and BNA was absolute garbage.

>>280245737 (OP)
Damn, I can't wait for threads to be 99% off-topic blogposting, the Cyberpunk thread experience!

>>280253721
I like infernocop, gridman and dynazenon. I dont like any of yoshinaris shows

>>280253612
>shitposter
That's how you know he's good. There's some inane quality to a dedicated shitposter that allows them to produce something that's incredibly appealing and captivating. Look at shit like the Rehersal or even something as retarded as Fishtank to see what I mean.

>>280253719
>and the one where you don't is where you burn bridges with the friends you've made
Don't fucking remind me, that shit was absolutely infuriating. You go into a coma and all of your "friends" unceremoniously drop your ass like a used condom. Some fucking friends. And then there's some inexplicable fucking magic cancer that makes you a cripple. Nigger what the fuck, I suffered through the absolute garbage storyline of PL and they hit me with that shit? Worst fucking gaming experience I've had in my entire life.

I would have been fine with a lot of the endings being "bittersweet" or even "tragic". What gets me that they're ALL like that, there's no happy ending to be had, just different flavours of shit. I would have been content spending extra 100 hours to reach a perfect conclusion to the story, but nope, can't have that. You gotta suffer because that's what mature stories are like don't you know.

>>280253536

Fine I'll bite but mostly because I have a friend that also seems to hate any sort of bad/sad ending and your reasoning reminds me of him so it's not unreasonable to believe you are being genuine.

Good writing means no inconsistencies, no contrivances, no plot holes, no shortcuts, no cheapness of any kind. Good writing doesn't mean "it makes me feel better" because my real life is shit, it means it delivers on the promise it made with the given story and plot and in Edgerunner's case, there was absolutely nothing there that implied things will turn out allright in the long term. Could you have done a happy Cyberpunk story? Sure you could, but this thread is about "edgerunners", the Cyberpunk equivalent to real world PMC or cartel work and if you want to find out what can happen there when things go wrong and you get caught, I'd say visit liveleak but it no longer exists though /gif/ has threads from time to time.

I also enjoy my time with anything I watch be it sad or happy so long as it has good writing and if I'm being pretentious, something else to pull me in like the setting, the sakuga or just the overall mood. Whatever you feel about negative emotions is a YOU problem, you can call me a psychopath for enjoying tragedies but I relate to them in my own way.

Now to go back to the part where I said you remind me of my friend, he's bit of a pussy emotionally and would feel down or even flat out depressed from things that to me are non issues, and I'm talking about real life issues here not animu, things that also happened to me. Not all people are made equval, in spite of what your communist teachers taught you in school American-kun.

>>280253879
He is being genuine but he's unreasonable

Gridman bros, the future is looking bleak for us.
They should collab with studio KAI to amke a sequel

Where's the fucking trailer goddamn

>>280253580
whoops, forgot kiznaiver

Otsuka
Ino Battle

>Imaishi
Kill la Kill
Luluco
Promare
Edgerrunners S1
Star Wars Vision
Panty and Stocking 2

>Amemiya
Inferno Cop
Ninja Slayer
SSSS.Gridman
SSSS.Dynazenon

>Yoh Yoshinari
Little Witch Academia
BNA

>Miyajima
Dungeon Meshi (Manga Adaptation)

>Ikarashi
Edgerunners 2

>Hiroshi Kobayashi
Kiznaiver

so 7

>>280253879
Different anon but I would argue the writing in edgerunners WAS bad. The last 3 episodes were so convoluted and sloppy.

>>280253977
you remembered Inou battle but somehow forgot Kiznaiver, incredible

>>280253977
>Otsuka
Ino Battle (LN Adaptation)

>Imaishi
Kill la Kill
Luluco
Promare
Edgerunners S1
Star Wars Vision
Panty and Stocking 2

>Amemiya
Inferno Cop
Ninja Slayer
SSSS.Gridman
SSSS.Dynazenon

>Yoh Yoshinari
Little Witch Academia
BNA

>Miyajima
Dungeon Meshi (Manga Adaptation)

>Ikarashi
Edgerunners 2

>Hiroshi Kobayashi
Kiznaiver

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1751689239112062.webm

>>280253977
You also forgot Gridman Universe

>>280254025
Kiznaiver was a weird show, bro. It has a plot of an action series yet it's a psychology series. I didn't like it.

>>280254090
Nah, i didn't. Just didn't put it, like the LWA OVAs

I am ready chooms

>When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?
that's not ominous at all

>>280253879
>Good writing means no inconsistencies, no contrivances, no plot holes, no shortcuts, no cheapness of any kind.
I can agree with this.
> "edgerunners", the Cyberpunk equivalent to real world PMC or cartel work and if you want to find out what can happen there when things go wrong and you get caught, I'd say visit liveleak but it no longer exists though /gif/ has threads from time to time.
See, that's where I have an objection. Why would you want that? I have no problem watching drone drop videos from Ukraine, but that's entirely because I don't know those people. If I spent months learning about their hopes, dreams and relationships, I would start having a problem watching drone drop videos. So why would I want to?
>Whatever you feel about negative emotions is a YOU problem, you can call me a psychopath for enjoying tragedies but I relate to them in my own way.
No, not a psychopath. A sadist or a masochist, more like, depending on whether you feel sad or glad when you see the characters suffer.
>Now to go back to the part where I said you remind me of my friend, he's bit of a pussy emotionally and would feel down or even flat out depressed from things that to me are non issues, and I'm talking about real life issues here not animu, things that also happened to me. Not all people are made equval, in spite of what your communist teachers taught you in school American-kun.
For me it's more frustration and anger at the writers for depriving me of the enjoyment I could have had from the story, but the sadness and depression is also definitely there.

Maybe you can enjoy a story just because of the writing, but for me the writing is a means to an end, to deliver a good story. A good story that is enjoyable, and to be enjoyable, the story has to be happy.

Also I'm not American, sorry to disappoint.

>>280254041
Where is Turning Girls

>>280250646
>no responses
kek, pondsmith just calls it how he sees it, unironically based and actually capable of critical thought that extends beyond superficial characteristics.

>>280254207
Aaaaah yes it's "critical thought" if it just so happens to align with your political views...how curious!

They have what looks like a kid in the poster dead and center, how long until they make shota of him? A few hours after the trailer releases?

>>280254164
>journos are absolute scum of the earth
BASED TRIGGER DOES IT AGAIN

>>280252798
>It's not about preference but good writing, more often than not the worst piles of dung come from the happy endings
Really? My experience is the exact opposite as far as the manga / anime / LN sphere is concerned, the worst, most repugnant writing comes from sometimes bad but most especially from "bittersweet" endings where the author is too cowardly and uncommitted to actually stick to something.

The protagonist grows in skill and ability, he learns lessons of wisdom, he earns to loyalty of true friends and allies, finds the villain's motivations, the source of his power, his weaknesses, then heads into the climax strong and prepared. Suddenly every character turns into a 2 IQ retard with none of the competence built up over the story, they forget all they've learned along the way and what they're capable of, the author opens his ass wide and shits out 37 different secret new skills for the antagonist and then the story ends on a "bittersweet" note despite the protagonists being 9000% prepared for everything that could possibly happen, in the most incoherent and nonsensical way possible, because the author thought that sadness was "deep" but forgot about it until it was time to write the ending.

That's how bad and bittersweet endings usually go. If anything, Edgerunners is an absolute rarity in that it manages to have a tragic ending while being well written at the same time.

>>280254207
And what do (You) propose my political views are? Please, tell me, I'm all ears. Lmfao

Screw it here

>Otsuka
Turning Girls
Ino Battle (LN Adaptation)
Star Wars Vision

>Imaishi
Kill la Kill
Luluco
Promare
Edgerunners S1
Star Wars Vision
Panty and Stocking 2

>Amemiya
Inferno Cop
Ninja Slayer
Boys Invent Great Hero
SSSS.Gridman
SSSS.Dynazenon
Gridman Universe

>Yoh Yoshinari
LWA OVAs
Little Witch Academia
BNA

>Miyajima
Dungeon Meshi (Manga Adaptation)

>Ikarashi
Edgerunners 2

>Hiroshi Kobayashi
Kiznaiver


I'm not putting in their Video Game Openings

>>280254241
>>280254215

>>280254221
We're going to get actual /ss/ this time and not
>he's 17 years and 360 days old you fempedo groomer fuck!!!!!!

>>280254175
>Also I'm not American, sorry to disappoint.
Explains why you have a child’s outlook on story

They're showing the trailer right now

>>280254344
where?

>>280254354
At the expo, some fag is streaming it on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YO5FkCUBg

I want more originals from trigger, man. I dont mind Cyberpunk since it's still new content. Please dont adapt manga anymore.

There's a weird rumor that Trigger might be adapting a shonen jump manga. The manga sells like shit (the worst one there) but for some weird reason, it has MASSIVE protection in the magazine.

The official twitter account only follows other shonen jump account and all of a sudden, it also follows trigger.

lol it was literally nothing

>>280254373
Mashle?

>>280254398
Already has an anime adaptation

Holy shit they said this season is inspired by the wire and armitage III

>>280254326
I don't take any offense to that. In fact, I find a lot of things that people consider normal adult things absolutely reprehensible. If that makes me childish, so be it.

>>280254416
At least mention the manga they're rumored to adapt by name if you're going to make a whole post alluding to it.

>>280254398
This manga, kiyoshikun.

Mashle already has a full adaptation by A1

It's a new cast
Mc is a kid

So, this is a continuation with Lucy going for revenge, or an unrelated story with a new cast?

>>280254455
>Mashle already has a full adaptation by A1
they still haven't done the last season

>>280254479
David and Lucy's kid

>>280254373
>There's a weird rumor that Trigger might be adapting a shonen jump manga.
Haha no way

>>280254370
Bro was filming it like he was sneaking into Trump's secret White House orgy rituals

>>280254479
Seems to be new cast. Best you'll get is a cameo. Trigger doesn't seem to like rehashing things too much.

>>280254498
David only shot silicon with that thing when he went full borg, I doubt he had a kid.

>>280254175

>If I spent months learning about their hopes, dreams and relationships, I would start having a problem watching drone drop videos. So why would I want to?

That's why I said not everyone is made equal, in your shoes I would want to watch those videos even more SPECIFICALLY because I knew them on a personal level, it would bring a level of relatability and empathy for their plight that is simply not possible when they are just literal whos from a continent away (well in my case the Ukros are close, like we're neighbours close) but since it's real life there would be limits, I could watch them die just fine so long as the footage wasn't agonizing prolonged detailed gore (so think any cartel execution) cause by that point it serves no purpose beyond morbid curiosity (that I've had enough of as a kid)

The gist of it is that I'm not running away from reality, I try to skirt it as much as possible and cheat out the system as much as possible (but without hurting others) like not being a wagie (for one) but what you describe is akin to closing your eyes at the first sight of discomfort, which is exactly what my friend does and that's exactly why I said you remind me of him. I guess we're just different on a philosophical level.

>depending on whether you feel sad or glad when you see the characters suffer

It's directly proportional to what I am seeing and how convincing it is, how much does the character in question deserve it etc. In David's case I didn't feel much during most of his edgerunning because he did this to himself and he knew very well what he was getting into, apart from his mom dying there was nothing to feel sorry for cause he had it coming. Maine dying and his shellshocking as a result is also something worth mentioning but also directly tied to "he had it coming".

cont.

>Biting it
I shiggydiggy, just cut your losses

https://x.com/MDMA_Enjoyer/status/1941356955664285941

Here is the "trailer"

>>280245840
I didnt think i could be more hyped than the announcement of the series being directed by Imaishi
Ikarashi is one of the most imaginary artist out there, his contribution in trigger series is so easy to spot, hes capable of moulding psychological drama in any scenario and i think theres no better series than cyberpunk to let him shine. From the point of view of personal preference it has the potential of being their best seried yet

>>280254663

I never feel glad but when I do feel sad it doesn't make me feel sad in a way a closed one dying would feel, you're not supposed to be this heavily engaged into any medium that the barrier between reality and fiction starts breaking on the inside, if that happens then it's a YOU problem, if you feel like averting your eyes from anything even slightly negative even if the impact is nowhere near close to something happening to you in real life again it's a YOU problem, it doesn't make any story objectively bad.

When the last human on earth that's like me disappears you will no longer have an audience for sad stories and ergo you could make the argument that objectively now they've become bad, until then... YOU problem, and nothing wrong with that by the way so long as you admit it's just subjective bias.

It's a loli protagonist.

>>280254751
worthless lol

>>280254778
Could be a shota

>>280254778
they really saw how people gooned to becca and said bet

>>280254790
Definitely polish though

>>280254778

It's definitely Lucy and David's kid. They made a point to show the kids eyes which were Lucy's green eyes when they flashed the light on them in the trailer

I suppose they'll have to have cp2 basic setting and plot nailed down and the anime will take that into account continuity wise.

I hope the s2 gets like 100% more animation budget, s1 relied on triggers "its intentionally bad" in situations where plot is meant to be serious.
Then other issues was the pacing, things that needed more airtime didnt get it and some plot sequences felt bad but that might be remedied by the polish writers simply making a different kinda script.
its still prob 10 eps on netflix so that limits things.

>>280254832
omfg imagine

>>280254832
If that were true then this would mean the season takes place in like the late 2080s or early 2090s, which might be way beyond the timeline CD Projekt intends for Project Orion

>>280254844
s2 may still take place in Night City considering that the teaser says "But Night City Lives On" while Orion will take place in Chicago. Could be that the show starts in Night City and they have some kind of job that takes them to a specific part of Chicago so they don't need to flesh out all of the setting, just a small part that can easily be added on top of whatever they end up producing

>>280254832
Retard

>>280254927

I don't think they would care that much. 10 years is perfect if they didn't want to muddle the timeline too much. They don't seem to fear it since David grew up too so I can see a timeskip happening

>>280254952

No u

I'm leaning towards androgynous/feminine shota because of the clothes. Also may be a child that was experimented on, was left for dead then fixed with scrap chrome or that fled an abusive life like we see in 2077 with the parents chroming their kids up for sports. I expect to see a lot of pooner shit

>>280254832
Lucy's eye color is light purple tho

>>280254751
>David is dead
Jesus christ this is cringy

>>280246002
>as good as people say it is?
No. But it's still good.

>>280254663
I have to say that I find your responses refreshing. Most people I talk to about this topic usually start squirming, talking about catharsis and whatnot, saying that nobody really enjoys seeing their favourite characters die, but the cleansing effect of being made to feel terrible and then getting over it makes it worthwhile. Or something to that effect. It's still an alien concept to me, like wanting to break your arm because of the relief when it finally heals and you can use it again.

But you fully embrace the suffering. It's like you're an actual emotional masocist, you want to delve in the suck itself. You're entirely right, you are different on a philosophical level.

>>280254772
I don't think I've ever said it's not a me problem. Obviously some people enjoy these kinds of stories, although in most of those cases I maintain that they enjoy the stories despite the tragedy, not because of it, but they still do enjoy the stories. I don't. Or more like I can't.

I have also previously said that I have way too much emotion in regards to these characters, I get too attached and then feel miserable when something happens to them. Again, a me problem.

The point is that even though the tragedy in stories is not as close as someone close to you dying in real life, I believe it's fundamentally the same emotion, just less intense. Like a papercut as opposed to having boiling water poured on you. But that doesn't mean I'd enjoy getting a papercut, and I don't understand people that run around gathering papercuts.

>>280255007
>because of the clothes
Cyberpunk girls can wear shorts and jackets, that's literally V's fit

>>280248424
V is just built different. A Night City legend.

>>280248484
>who cares
rest of the anons in this thread
don't let the door hit you on your wait out doomer-kun

>>280254832
>>Lucy and David's kid
>David kills himself trying to get Lucy to the moon and start a new life
>her kid/both of them end(s) up in night city
Yikes cringe, s1 had a good bittersweet ending
To ruin Lucy's chance at freedom by bring her back to the city that took it all from her is just cruel so I doubt that kid has anything to with David and licy

>>280248719
Reddit is not the general consensus. Lmfao.

>>280255119
We know from Phantom Liberty that Lucy did return to Earth

I wonder if they'll be able to fix the VAs
English voice acting is what you'd expect of cdpr directing cp. Different people have different accents depending on their background and so on.
Jap voices just sound like every other anime ever made. I switched to eng dub immediately.

>>280255072
I think it's gonna be one of these so they can have a new lovable mascot like Rebecca

>>280255024

It usually shifts to green in wide eye shots

>>280255119

I bet the kid is going to go into the city much to Lucy's discretion and she meets a team and goes down a path similar to david

>>280255192
People visit graves, they don't move next to them to see their loved ones. Lol.

Somebody post the youtube link of the chuck mcgill Trigger ending rant

So which song from 2077 could make for a good fit as the main theme for season two, like what "I Really Want to Stay At Your House" was to S1?

>>280254794
Stop speaking like a zoomer nigger, you fucking faggot.

>>280255007
It would be so fucking kino if it turned out to be a reverse trap/boyish young girl with a camera

>>280255258
Zoomer is newspeak slang you fucking retard

>>280255262
To me it makes the most sense that this is the case. Not that there isn't anything wrong with having two loli type characters in a row, but we already had a Becca. I think they need a shota character now and nothing caters to pooners/women like a broken effeminate shota. Could even appeal to guys with traumatic childhoods.

>>280246002
Depends where you drop it. At six, it's a great show, after that, it's shit.

>>280255311
"Newspeak" is newspeak, faggot.

>female protag
i think they missing the point why the first was so successful

>>280255326
It's nuspeak nigga

Watch this shit end like that "Civil War" movie that bombed at the box office

>>280255342
it's nigger, lil bro

>>280255326
newspeak comes from 1984 which was written in 1949

>>280255343
cp anime is fundamentally just a marketing tool for cp the game and the overall franchise
if the marketing tool wasn't good enough cdpr wouldnt bother releasing it

>>280255319
Yeah le classic broken child that tries to act tough for the world around them despite all the trauma they've lived through. Someone sees through the hard exterior, breaks through and then shit hits the fan. Seems to be the most universally appealing and self insert character in a show that promises to be even more tragic than the original. If it ends up being a girl, they'll have some self insert male character that protects her or something along those lines.

>>280254181
I'd forgotten that this exists.

>>280255375

>>280255319
Wasn't David originally supposed to be a shota?
It somewhat limits the types of stories you can tell

>>280255371
>nuspeak : newspeak
>1984 : actually written 1949
Okay any other bass-ackwards facts you wanna tell me about?

>>280255404
NTA, however I always laugh at calling it cp'77.

>>280246002
>is it really as good as people say it is?
Typical al Trigger inconsistency
Half the episodes are bad but they put effort into like 2 or 3 eps in hope that you will just forgive and forget the rest

>>280255404
>>280255473
how much do you people talk about child porn in your day to day lives for this to be an issue

>>280255415
Depends on the type of story you want to tell, the CDPR producer who came up with the story kept boasting about how it will be much darker than the first season, "child is put in horrible situations and probably dies at the end" is certainly one way to execute that goal.

>>280246668
Wrong genre.
Wrong city.

>>280255451
the ministry of truth manufactures lies
the holy roman empire wasn't holy, roman, or an empire
the nationalist socialist german workers party was staunchly anti-socialist and anti-workers rights and did not have the best interests of the nation at heart

>>280255510
Didn't they say that the inspirations were The Wire TV show and the Armitage III OVA series?

>>280255065

>But you fully embrace the suffering. It's like you're an actual emotional masocist, you want to delve in the suck itself.

I'm not actively seeking it but if the story demands it then I have to oblige. My absolute favorite show is Tsuioku-hen (the Rurouni Kenshin prequel OVA) and it's great for every reason you can like something for like sound, art direction, sakuga, setting, but the story particularly is absolutely mandatory to be sad with the way it's set up from the start as well as the character in question and the time period (assassin in the Bakkumatsu) otherwise you simply cheapen it to the point it just becomes generic samurai slop.

I'm guessing you haven't seen it cause going by what you described so far you would have clocked out in the first 2 minutes but it is a perfect example of someone that had it coming. The story is about an orphan that gets rescued from bandits right before he was about to be killed (everyone he was with was dead already and he was surrounded by corpses) and his rescuer, a master swordsman, seeing his devotion (he was told to go to the nearest village and just live there but instead he found the kid digging the graves for everyone himself) decided to bring him under his wing and train the kid and the most important factor of that training was "do not get involved with the outside world, swordfighting doesn't save lives" and naturally what does the kid do once he's all grown up and an expert? Goes against his master's advice and joins the revolution... and that's how the tragedy begins.

Someone described Edgerunners as bittersweet euphoric depression but I think this applies to Tsuioku-hen infinitely more, minus the bittersweet part. There's something in the way the tragedy is delivered and how the protagonist just pushes further after the fact that's simply unmatched by anything else, it could have been turned into a happy story with a generic revenge plot but then it would just be like any other show.

>>280247447
Like Dororo, shota (female)

>>280255505
I don't care and don't talk about or this series more often than when threads pop up. However normalfags associate it with noncing which makes it funny to me the series being associated with that. It's a shit game that is fun to laugh at and the series was good until it wasn't.

>>280254832
Interesting
>At the 2023 Anime Expo in Paris, the executive producers talked about two alternate endings that had been floated for the series. One ending would have had Lucy be pregnant with David's child after he dies, which was discarded because it would have been a bit too uplifting for Cyberpunk. The other ending would have ended with David brainwashed under Arasaka's control as basically a war machine instead of going out on his own terms, but this was also discarded for being too bleak and also just not very satisfying.

>>280255451
Night City has daytime scenes
Isn't that scandalous? Cyberpunk takes place IN THE RAIN! AT NIGHT! UNDER NEON LIGHTS!

>>280255566
ah, you're mentally ill
kys

>>280255583
Yes, you should kill yourself.

>>280255553
nta, never heard of The Armitage III OVA series, looks good, where did you hear that this was the inspiration? It could very well be the story of a male detective that serves protector role who takes a young girl that's been treated like shit her whole life under his wing. Still allows people to self insert and is prime for tragedy, would also explain the camera

>>280248754
Similar thing happened with Shepard across Mass Effect. Jennifer Hale utterly outsines male Shep voice in ME1 and 2, but Male Shep grows and really gives a great performance in 3, despite how abysmal it ended.

>>280255612
They mentioned in the panel.

>>280249138
>>280249047
Yeha, original Smasher was capped at being Level 35 when players could get to level 50 and most were 40+ by the time they got around to storming Arasaka tower. So he was pretty much a chump.
He was made much harder but, since he is a literal NPC in a game, can still be cheesed.

>>280255612
They mentioned it during the panel, I think the main inspiration they're taking from is going to be the whole "mc discovers a conspiracy and has to find a way to warn everyone about it in an apathetic corrupt world"

>>280248681
BNA got a second season?
Or do you mean its second batch of episodes, which were still part of its first (and I thought only) season?

>>280255580

Notice ending. It can be a beginning to a story

>>280255654
>>280255682
Yeah, well then that makes the potential plot a lot clearer and the child's role almost certain. Looking at the poster, I don't see any obvious female supporting characters, do I'm inclined to believe it's actually a young girl now.

>>280255505
It used to be ingrained in 4chan culture. Seems like nobody remembers pedobear these days.

>>280255729
Could be a woman with some form of facial chrome.

I hope Becca Falco and Kiwi make a cameo

>>280255765
female tyger claw wearing a mask

>>280255808
>Becca
There's not much left of her to make a cameo.

>>280246891
We are back together, gang

>>280255765
Thinking that's going to be an arasaka ninja. They didn't really touch on that in edgerunners.

>No sticky

>>280246778
>>280248015
>>280250990
>JC becomes cyberpunk jesus and leading the world into new era
>Not uplifting

>>280255868
Since when do season renewals get stickies?

>>280246668
David and Lucy both achieved their dreams, what more can you expect?

>>280255859
hm, that makes a lot more sense than tyger claw taking everything into account.

>>280255859
These two the protagonist detective duo, the blood soaked silhouette of the mentor figure suggests they are killed, the dark figures on the outskirts the characters that are part of the conspiracy they're unravelling. Fits what was said at panel. The yellow crosshair showing that they want to assassinate the kid, the arasaka ninja being tasked with that? Seems likely, thoughts?

>>280255558
Well you kind of suggested that you would be actively seeking it when you said that you want to know the intimate details of the people involved in drone drop videos. That's something that would make the experience better for you and worse for me.

I haven't seen the anime adaptation of rurouni kenshin, but I did read the manga. The flashback arc was my least favourite of the entire thing, but when I finished it I didn't feel like ripping apart the books I'd purchased (unlike when I read gunslinger girl). Maybe that story wasn't there or I've forgotten it. Regardless, I would have been more than fine with generic samurai slop.

If you describe Edgerunners as bittersweet euphoric depression, then there are two adjectives there that immediately turn me off. I do kind of agree that there is something in the way teagedy is delivered, but all of it reduces my enjoyment of the story regardless how well written it is. I'm the kind of person who would have enjoyed Romeo and Juliet more if they had eloped and lived happily ever after somewhere far away, even if the tragedy of their love is the entire point. And I definitely would have enjoyed Gladiator more if John Gladiator hadn't died in the end and had the murderers of his family executed after claiming the Roman throne.

Judging by how you describe the show, I would have enjoyed the happy story with a generic revenge plot variant infinitely more, even if it would then be just like every other story. Why shouldn't the character get his revenge? Why should the master be correct in his ridiculous statement that swordfighting doesn't save lives? Why would I be happy about seeing a character fail to get their just revenge?

https://youtu.be/2sfQMaRXv94?si=IblTSR_woGK82co8

>>280255194
Lucy, Dorio, and Kiwi all sound the fucking same in English. They're way easier to distinguish by ear in Japanese.

>>280255972
potentially alluding to a botched assassination that kills their mentor. Look at the splatter of blood next to the kid, the red footsteps walking away soaking the silhouette of their partner. The kid's shocked expression

How was the panel? Did they give out trigger dollars this year?

>>280254778
She'll die brutally in the end and you'll all clap.

>>280254778
Yeah I figured. the way the eyes come to a point in the corners on the poster looked very feminine design-wise

>>280254832
That would be too based

>>280256160
Nah, I imagine she ends up doing the opposite of David and becoming the evil that she/he wants to expose and running a gang of edgerunners. She doesn't save anyone in the end.

>>280256160
This is exactly why I skipped edgerunners 1 and why I'm waiting until 2 has finished airing and I can read plot spoilers before I pick it up.

>>280256160
She's going to be a lone survivor. Seeing all your friends and family die is worse than dying yourself.

>>280254164
I feel like someone once pointed out that a journalist-scoop story is hard to make work in Cyberpunk, because citizens would be like "Wooow, you're telling me the corpos are up to shady shit? In Night City? Stop the presses." Actually, I think it was someone criticizing the plot of the Let You Down music video.

Rebecca died a virgin

>>280256290
maine clapped those cheeks

>>280256265
The Let You Down music video was a little goofy. Felt like shoehorning an OC into the world

>>280256290
No one dies a virgin because Night City fucks everyone.

>>280256290
I thought she had a few lines with Kiwi, who was explicitly a prostie, that implied Rebecca knew her way around.

>>280255580
>The other ending would have ended with David brainwashed under Arasaka's control as basically a war machine instead of going out on his own terms, but this was also discarded for being too bleak and also just not very satisfying.
The actual Polish ending for the people who think a couple people dying is supposed to be the worst tragedy ever kek

>>280256290
>Mox tattoo
>virgin

>>280256290
I thought rebecca was a prostitute. She jacked that guy's cock when they were stealing his car. She was a whore that fell in love with good boy David

>>280255984

>Well you kind of suggested that you would be actively seeking it when you said that you want to know the intimate details of the people involved in drone drop videos

No I didn't mean it like that, I would watch / seek the footage after the fact (knowing them) not the other way around, which is also active seeking of sorts I guess but I wouldn't do it just to hunt sadness, it's a special kind of feel.

>but I did read the manga. The flashback arc was my least favourite of the entire thing

Honestly if I had to rate it on the manga pages alone it wouldn't make the cut, it's the entire audio-visual experience of the OVA that sells the story for me, with of course knowing the entire picture of Rurouni Kenshin helping, it's just too bad the RK show is just shounen aimed at children. Not surprised at all you didn't like it, it would be hard to recommend even to people that I know are not as sensitive cause it requires a particular brand of autism.

>And I definitely would have enjoyed Gladiator more if John Gladiator hadn't died in the end

I get it, can't attack this line of thinking at all cause in the end everyone wants to win, even if it means seeing others win, just that if you look by volume alone I think the good prevailing / positive vibes outnumber the bad by 10 to 1 at least and even from your shoes, if I was the same in only seeking good vibes, I'd be just as exhausted by generic trash only I'd have a smaller pool to choose from.

>Why should the master be correct in his ridiculous statement that swordfighting doesn't save lives?

Careful now, this leads to the nuke "50k people to save millions" talk and if you read any history it's not so simple. Naturally the statement can be 100% true if you tried to protect a loved one from an aggressor but we both know that's not what he meant if you read the manga.

>>280255972
The yellow crosshair just looks like your typical Kanada lens flare meant to look cool, interesting interpretation but I don't know if you should read too much into it. Did they say who drew this?

>>280256265
Depends on what kind of shady shit they're pulling, if say the NUSA's whole thing with Songbird and her constantly making contact with and drawing from the Blackwall AI got leaked then that would probably set off alarm bells for literally everyone.

>>280256414
Could be they're finding out that a rogue AI is creating advanced android bodies for AI from beyond the backwall to begin inhabiting the cyberpunk world.

CDPR kept edging me with all these hints about the rogue AIs finally busting through the Blackwall during CP77 and Phantom Liberty and then it never happened.

>>280256400
Ichigo Kanno, they mentioned the artist on the announcement tweet

>>280256400
Yeah that's definitely a lens flare. On the other hand, journalists are always targets for assassination anyways. That's like their primary role in literature.

>>280256382
So what’s with Becca’s green skin? Is it just like extreme skin dyeing? Some sort of implant? I always kinda read it like some sort of leopard man thing where she did it just to stand out, maybe during her prostitute days

>>280256447
there was sections that hinted at what would happen without the entire world being destroyed, in vanilla with Alt and in dlc with the mega robot

>>280256447
That's for the sequel baby

>>280256447
That would have had too much impact and would drown out the rest of the story. Rogue AI is a danger on an apocalyptic scale.

>>280255765
I hope she's best girl, I love face masks so much bros.

>>280256382
>No I didn't mean it like that, I would watch / seek the footage after the fact (knowing them) not the other way around, which is also active seeking of sorts I guess but I wouldn't do it just to hunt sadness, it's a special kind of feel.
Well I don't really get that feel, since I'd personally prefer not knowing anything about the people involved in those videos. How would it improve my life if I learned that some random dude in a drone drop video joined the army in hopes of earning enough money to pay for his daughter's life saving operation, and then got labeled MIA instead of KIA by his country just so they wouldn't have to pay death benefits and the daughter died as a result? Shit's fucking miserable, miss me with that thanks.

>it's just too bad the RK show is just shounen aimed at children.
That doesn't make it bad.

>if you look by volume alone I think the good prevailing / positive vibes outnumber the bad by 10 to 1 at least and even from your shoes, if I was the same in only seeking good vibes, I'd be just as exhausted by generic trash only I'd have a smaller pool to choose from.
And I'm glad it's like that, because that which you label "generic trash" is my entire pool. I'm not opposed to there being tragic stories, I just think the people who enjoy those are a bit weird and I like making fun of them.

>Naturally the statement can be 100% true if you tried to protect a loved one from an aggressor but we both know that's not what he meant if you read the manga.
I don't remember much of the mango, it's been so long. But I'm still going to say that the master's statement is 100% false. It's a very human desire to punish wrongdoers, and getting revenge is justified. Even if you go looking for fights, it's better than the alternative being that whoever wronged you walks free. Modern people are just content outsourcing this part to the government, but the underlying expectation there is that the wrongdoers get their comeuppance.

>>280245737 (OP)
I know /a/ will be filtered soooo fucking hard by the artstyle and call it ugly
Feel free to link back to this post in two years when it does happen

Bazz is come back

>>280256670
cp anime was incredibly popular on /a/
the ones shitting on the artstyle is like /v/ grifters who take 1 second clip and spam it for 200 times

>>280255972
>kids as detectives
The anime is supposed to be realistic dystopia and kids are not developed enough to be detectives. If you use some plot device like cyber upgrades I don't think that good writing would come out of it.

who is it?

>>280256799
No, this new season has a different character designer with an idiosyncratic style even for Trigger's standards
It will definitely trigger (heh) a lot of raging from board regulars with limited tastes

>>280256805
More likely an aspiring journalist or social media influencer than a full on genuis detective

>>280256834
well I wouldnt know since only example is a early teaser poster which doesnt indicate what the artstyle in the actual show will be

>>280256805
Who needs development when you can get a few implants?

>>280256666

>then got labeled MIA instead of KIA by his country just so they wouldn't have to pay death benefits

Exactly this sentence right here, not averting your gaze from shit like this could be eye-opening in ways that make you understand the world better and act accordingly, specifically with war footage it wants to make you stay as far away as possible and not fall for any propaganda or glory-hunting bullshit, particularly nowdays when you might end up a meme on /pol/ thanks to ultra-HD drone footage. If you feel like you have enough life-experience and that you've seen enough I understand your reluctance to indulge, my "criticism" (if you can call it that) was directed at anyone that does this from the get-go, I don't think it's healthy.

>That doesn't make it bad.

No but I'm 35 years old, I can't do it anymore though luckily I've seen / read RK while I was a teen so for this one it's not an issue, though even as a kid I preferred the OVA for its seriousness.

>because that which you label "generic trash" is my entire pool

Don't misunderstand me, I don't consider a standard good triumphs over evil story generic trash, my all time favorite anything is LOTR mind you, just that the good guys winning being the preferable outcome for most people results in more media being made, which means more slop being made.

>It's a very human desire to punish wrongdoers, and getting revenge is justified

That's why I said this doesn't apply to the manga, he wouldn't be punishing wrongdoers cause the bandits that wronged him already died back when he was a kid and don't tell me you can 100% objectively decide who's good and who's evil between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Imperialists, that's who was Kenshin saving with his sword by joining the revolution, creating a new world by liberating it from the "evil" Tokugawa Shogunate.

>>280256842
yeah or they could work for real detectives, taking photos and gathering info etc. I think that putting detectives into the cyberpunk anime would be really good idea

>>280245877
Is this the single best anime episode in the last decade?

>>280256902
I suppose the teens would say that one frieren ep is better

>>280256805
probably a journalist that stumbles upon some huge conspiracy by accident, continues following the older detective investigating the case, grows on him, before somebody tragically dies

>>280256877
you're supposed to learn that from season 1

>>280256877
That was kind of the point wasn't it. David loses himself by using the implants to protect his family and Lucy had them forced on her but only tries to get away from them and be human, which is why she survives.

apparently the guy directing s2 is the one that directed ep 6 so theres some basis to expect him to be decent

>>280256884
There's a difference in averting your gaze and delving deeper than usual. I feel like when you put it that way it's more like you feel that you have a duty to witness a tragedy, not because you find it enjoyable. I understand that aspect when it comes to real life shit, but with fiction it's just additional baggage and no joy.

>No but I'm 35 years old
Then you're my junior. And it's the other way around for me, although I never liked tragic stories, I could tolerate them; now I outright hate them.

>Don't misunderstand me, I don't consider a standard good triumphs over evil story generic trash, my all time favorite anything is LOTR mind you, just that the good guys winning being the preferable outcome for most people results in more media being made, which means more slop being made.
Good. We share at least one story in our top 10. Why are you opposed to slop? Just because it's not original doesn't mean it's bad. I'd even take the generic korean school bullying revenge story over any tearjerking miserywank.

And I wouldn't really care who the good and evil are in a scenario of Shogunate versus the Imperials, I just want the MC to survive. Maybe even learn from his mistakes. Maybe save another kid from the clutches of bandits.

>>280257193
Not that guy, but just because something has a sour end doesn't make it suffering porn. Especially if the character has an arc that makes the bad ending feel earned. And David did.

>>280257225
I disagree, it absolutely does.

>>280257225
You guys really don't know how to leave bait alone huh

>>280256265
medias & rockerboys and more specifically the way they're handled in the setting are just relics of the idealized media image 60s & early 70s but with a 'punk' coat of paint.

>>280257225
>replying to the dude who has been pissing and shitting himself over bad endings for weeks in dozens of threads

>>280257250
>>280257260
I'm drunk and just got here. Forgive me.

>>280257225
This is who you're trying to get through to by the way >>280254709

And reminder that he admitted he didn't even watch Edgerunners, just read a synopsis and then decided to squat in every thread forever because he hates bad endings

>>280257329
That is all accurate.

>>280257329
when do we start euthanizing toddlers whose brain scans indicate mentall illness

I hope it's shit and we finally expose trigger and cdpr as frauds

>>280257329
>>280257352
I don't even know why Edgerunners is supposed to have a bad ending. David basically knew he was going to die the second he got the Sandy. He got Lucy out and that was all he wanted. Becca was on a death drive once her brother died. Everyone got to the end that they wanted. Lucy finally got someone that loved her enough to giver his life for her.

>>280257392
Well, seeing as the first anime and the video game were both quite terrible I think it's a foregone conclusion.

>>280245840
>the director is just some key animator with no directing experience other than some random episode here and there
This is going to be bad.

>>280247615
>/a/ will never shut the fuck up about it
Nah, /a/ doesn't care for Netflix shows. Otherwise where are my weekly Great Pretender threads?

>>280247979
They'll never let go of Lio, huh.

>>280253612
Otsuka is. But he has more of a support role, the most he did by himself was the Star Wars short (which was pretty bland)

>>280253977
Kobayashi was never part of Trigger, just a close collaborator. Now he directed G-Witch so it's safe to say he won't come back.

>>280248783
Anon if you die during don't fear the reaper the game ends as it credit roll. (Sure if you suck so back you can try to do save exploits but I doubt most people did).

>>280257193

>I understand that aspect when it comes to real life shit, but with fiction it's just additional baggage and no joy.

We'd just circle back around that different psychologies problem, and although maybe calling a sad story "joyful" is both wrong and a stretch, it can be compelling, if it's compelling in some way I can have "fun" with it and ergo it becomes worth watching.

>Why are you opposed to slop? Just because it's not original doesn't mean it's bad.

If I can accurately predict what happens next and every trope used I've already seen countless times, it becomes a total waste of time to indulge further and I'm not capable of watching anything just for the eye-candy alone so that's crossed out.

>And I wouldn't really care who the good and evil are in a scenario of Shogunate versus the Imperials, I just want the MC to survive.

Now I'm going back to thinking that maybe you were in fact trolling during all this time... you pick on Hiko Seijuro's view of "swords don't save lives", in a context where in fact it doesn't, and when having your memory refreshed as to why it doesn't you now claim it doesn't matter who is the evil here, which completely nullifies your initial complaint. And it's RK, he does survive otherwise the series wouldn't exist, and he did learn from his mistakes or did you forget the entire shtick of the story was that he's never killing anyone ever again and even his sword is reverse bladed?

>>280257411
So because he knew he was going to die, that makes his death ok? Becca being on death drive means it's ok she died? Lucy having someone die for her makes his death ok?

Those are all terrible endings to their character arcs. No satisfaction, no resolution, just a pathetic end. That's fucking awful my dude.

>>280245877
>Keep edgerunning, Deibido
;_;

Won't engage with the bait now that I know better. But the sad thing is that there are actually people that think like this.

>>280257478
there's an autosave right as you enter the building and another right after you get out of the elevator

>>280257505
>No satisfaction, no resolution, just a pathetic end.
That's the point, anon. Their life was shit from the start with no way out. Game's rigged

>>280257491
I guess we did circle back to the initial problem. You like suffering, I don't. Even if it's "compelling" or "well written".

>If I can accurately predict what happens next and every trope used I've already seen countless times, it becomes a total waste of time to indulge further and I'm not capable of watching anything just for the eye-candy alone so that's crossed out.
I feel like there's a bit of a contradiction here. Earlier you said that logical consistency, lack of plot holes and shortcuts makes a story have good writing. Well, if it has all that, then it's bound to be predictable. In fact, wouldn't you say that the deaths of the characters in edgerunners was entirely predictable? If so, then perhaps the writers could have improved the story by subverting your expectations and had everyone live happily ever after.

>Now I'm going back to thinking that maybe you were in fact trolling during all this time... you pick on Hiko Seijuro's view of "swords don't save lives", in a context where in fact it doesn't, and when having your memory refreshed as to why it doesn't you now claim it doesn't matter who is the evil here, which completely nullifies your initial complaint. And it's RK, he does survive otherwise the series wouldn't exist, and he did learn from his mistakes or did you forget the entire shtick of the story was that he's never killing anyone ever again and even his sword is reverse bladed?
I haven't seen the anime, and it didn't click until just now that the kid you were referring to was the MC. But I did in fact not forget that he doesn't kill anyone, that always did annoy me.

>>280257727
And what exactly is so fun about watching that game be played then?

>>280248681
>except for BNA S2. Nobody cared for that shit
Which is sad. It was such a laid-back show, despite its plot being about medical corpos experimentation.

>>280253777
>BNA was absolute garbage
Fuck you.

>>280254116
Bet you shat on Casshern Sins too lel.

>>280257733
>>280257775
Why do you still eat meat? You're willingly making animals suffer for your own pleasure, you twisted sadist.

>>280257782
I want you to explain the plot of BNA to me and lay out the central conflict, how the protags solve it, and what each episode did to move towards that ending.

>>280257790
Because living inherently causes suffering, it is unavoidable. That's not a reason to avoid the suffefing that you don't have to suffer.

Chiming in to say that if you haven't watched the Rurouni Kenshin OVA, at least the first episode is a must-see.

>>280257733

>Well, if it has all that, then it's bound to be predictable

You can't imagine a way to subvert expectations or deliver something fresh without breaking any of those rules?

>I haven't seen the anime, and it didn't click until just now that the kid you were referring to was the MC. But I did in fact not forget that he doesn't kill anyone, that always did annoy me

You don't have to see the anime, it's all in the manga. This is the part where I'd start regretting I engaged you at all but luckily there's an audience that maybe learned something from all of this (not to mention if I make at least 1 guy watch the OVA as a result of this I'd call it a win)

>>280254373
>There's a weird rumor that Trigger might be adapting a shonen jump manga. The manga sells like shit (the worst one there) but for some weird reason, it has MASSIVE protection in the magazine.
That would be so wild, like Production I.G getting subcontracted to work on Kaijuu No. 8. Or worse.

>>280257896
Of course I can imagine a way to subvert expectations and deliver something fresh, it's pretty simple. But to make it enjoyable is another question entirely.

I don't really know why you'd suddenly start regretting engaging with me, my memory of RK is hazy and I never had as strong a connection with it as you did. Especially the flashback arc, which I didn't like. So what exactly do you want from me? I can tell you that I liked the ending in that one, if that makes it better.

>>280257965

You either trolled like the other anon warned me about or were confidently speaking from a position you shouldn't have, which is something I very much dislike. How can you properly defend a position if you don't remember even the most basic of elements? Coulda just ignored my example if you didn't remember details, I was off-topic anyway since we're in an Edgerunners thread.

>>280254663
>*the footage wasn't agonizing prolonged detailed suffering
I still think about that video of a guy drowning in small river for time to time.

>>280257849
Have you ever heard of Wikipedia?

>>280258199
I watched BNA. But I want you to explain it as a person without looking at Wikipedia.

>>280258040
Oh now I get what you were annoyed with. The bad guys/good guys dichotomy was with the assumption that the bandits were alive. In a scenario where there is no good guy, I don't particularly care who wins. Does this satisfy you?

>>280245737 (OP)
Ahahaha

>>280257775
The journey and what can still achieve on the way

>>280246002
Not really,it has one good episode and rest is subpar bullshit.

>>280258279

You don't have to care, I used that OVA as an example of a good sad story that has to be sad specifically because it takes place in a morally gray era where there is no real good or evil choice, lest you not play to begin with (I really do love "The only winning move is not to play" quote) but then we wouldn't have a story to begin with had the MC not made that choice.

It's fine if you don't like sad endings, I'm just shocked why is it accompanied by the mental illness of wanting to be in every thread hating on them, what do you hope to accomplish?

>>280258244
Why would I waste all that time? If you have problems with the show succinctly explain them without make write walls of text first.

>>280258494
It's Promare but with furries. Simple enough?

>>280258463
One reason is that I have the opportunity to warn other people that could be upset with the tragedy in a show. I've already helped a lot of people with my efforts. The second is that if you're all busy arguing with me then you aren't discussing a garbage show.

>>280258648

It's so insane to me that someone that made it to /a/ and stayed will be influenced by a rando's feelz based opinion when there's so many posts stating the contrary, however I've seen stranger things on the internet so far so whatever, maybe I'm out of touch.

Particularly funny we used to have baww threads on /a/ cca 2007-2009, going from that to trigger-warning knights is depressingly impressive.

The blu ray for S1 finally comes out next month too.

>>280246506
Is that guy the faggot from trash taste?

>>280246271
Did u start watching anime last year?

>>280253777
BNA is criminally underrated and it's much darker than what appears at first glance, including cults, xenophobia, human experimentation, child trafficking, loneliness and more than i'm probably forgetting.

I'm glad they are letting Trigger cook again.

>>280246506
>If you only knew how bad things really are