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Friday Fun Thread for October 14, 2022

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Did anyone watch Edgerunners? First TV show I'd seen in a long time thanks to being sick for a few days (and it only being ~200min long).

Turned out to be enjoyable, despite disliking the whole cyberpunk genre. Part of that is just studio Trigger being bloody good at what they do, having a great variety of music that apparently came from the game OST, and seemingly minimal meddling from Netflix. They absolutely nailed the setting as far as I'm familiar with it, and faithfully adapted the cool aesthetic of the game despite a limited budget. The ending was... The only way it could have been.

Not something I'd want to watch all the time, and some of the plot was a bit dumb, but the characters were pretty good (I can see why everyone thinks the handy and smashable mesugaki is best girl).

If you need subs, it might be better to wait for a new fan version, because the official ones are weird. Not in a "anime girl says death to gamergate and the patriarchy" they/them Funimation localizer kind of way, just really loose and slangy to the point of being a rewrite on occasion. Mixing cringy CP "nova choom roblox chrome gonk" slang with calling people boomers is not a great combi.

Also, how has nobody ever done the cyberpunk hacker madly typing at two keyboards and a dozen screens thing, then cut to it being all stackexchange questions. I want some realism for once, damn it.

Loved Edgerunners! Plot was kinda sparse at times as you note, but I chalk it up to short runtime.

The slang they use in the subs is likely due to the thing being totally localized, may even have been designed english-first. It's all very true to the Night City setting; I think a lot of that gets lost in the Japanese translation, and so there might be weird disparities if you're watching japanese dub english sub.

I just watched English dub (basically never do in other anime) and found the vernacular to be a cool part of the worldbuilding. Maybe helps if you've played the game, though.

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