After I finished this short story, my opinion is this show wasn't made for people who liked Cyberpunk. I don't think is a bad anime but it just feels like it was made for people who really love anime. I personally thought this anime would be kinda more oriented on the style of Ghost in the Shell, instead it feels more like a general template for any anime.
- Step 1: Young Rebel lacking experience Main Character.
- Step 2: Low/cheap typical jokes of any possible funny situation.
- Step 3: Something happens to trigger the main character to start "evolving/improving".
(Come on, it's Night City, there is a million better ways to trigger this with more sense and better reaction from the main character lol, it felt like no effort to make a story at all)
- Step 4: Action happens and proceeds to happen what everyone expected it would happen.
I don't have any issue with animes that use this type of guides but for Cyberpunk it feels so forced and so off from how this futuristic rough universe is made and was designed. The game story isn't like the original one but it does make you feel the exact way the original wanted to. The cold and cruel enviorment around and the way people acted getting drag into the abisms of the city and seduced by the luxuries or temptations of the greed.
I didn't like it for me cause you can literally just pick this story, change Cyberpunk for any other type of universe like a Fantasy Magic/Knight world and swap the Cyberware for spells/powers and it wouldn't lose any sense cause it's just a template without depth or development in the characters.
I really feel like this was a missed chance to make a mature well aged story of Cyberpunk and it will not remain in peoples mind for to long, cause anyone who already saw anime before has already seen this story hundreds of times and this will just be another one.
My conclusion is if you like anime I recommend it, if you don't really have any interest or you are already bored of the anime stereotypes in general you will probably not like this.
- Step 1: Young Rebel lacking experience Main Character.
- Step 2: Low/cheap typical jokes of any possible funny situation.
- Step 3: Something happens to trigger the main character to start "evolving/improving".
(Come on, it's Night City, there is a million better ways to trigger this with more sense and better reaction from the main character lol, it felt like no effort to make a story at all)
- Step 4: Action happens and proceeds to happen what everyone expected it would happen.
I don't have any issue with animes that use this type of guides but for Cyberpunk it feels so forced and so off from how this futuristic rough universe is made and was designed. The game story isn't like the original one but it does make you feel the exact way the original wanted to. The cold and cruel enviorment around and the way people acted getting drag into the abisms of the city and seduced by the luxuries or temptations of the greed.
I didn't like it for me cause you can literally just pick this story, change Cyberpunk for any other type of universe like a Fantasy Magic/Knight world and swap the Cyberware for spells/powers and it wouldn't lose any sense cause it's just a template without depth or development in the characters.
I really feel like this was a missed chance to make a mature well aged story of Cyberpunk and it will not remain in peoples mind for to long, cause anyone who already saw anime before has already seen this story hundreds of times and this will just be another one.
My conclusion is if you like anime I recommend it, if you don't really have any interest or you are already bored of the anime stereotypes in general you will probably not like this.
