History Anime / CyberpunkEdgerunners

** Not to mention much gorier than the game. While the game features plenty of [[AnArmAndALeg dismembering]] (specially if you use a blade melee weapon or explosives), there's not a lot of visible blood, unlike in the show. Also, when adding cybernetic implants, a fade to black cutscene will play and then V will walk out of the ripperdoc's office and immediately get back to his shenanigans. In the show however, David is shown to be in excruciating pain when installing them, and will also bleed through his clothes afterwards, showing a huge red stain along the spine of his coat (granted this may be related to his back-alley doctor, but V also visits some quite unsavory ripperdocs). Not to mention requiring heavy medication as he becomes accustomed to it at the risk of going into a coma, something Lucy points out is a rookie error. V is never shown to require any of that.

** The opening scene features a CyberPsycho going on a rampage on Arasaka plaza. The final showdown with Adam Smasher also happens on the exact same spot.

** The most unexpected and famous one is between the CyberPsycho and [[spoiler: Pilar]] since we don't even see the gun until after it happens.

* BulletTime: Courtesy of David's Sandevistan implant.

** Cormac, a fixer from the ''2077'' comics also appears in the Arasaka list.

* BoomHeadshot: Quite a few heads end up getting blown apart in the trailers alone.

** Doc mentions Adam Smasher to David while they discuss cyberware, and [[spoiler:the final episode has Smasher appear in person as the series' FinalBoss]].

** Wakako Okada hires David for a job and is one of the fixers in an Arasaka list along with Regina Jones and Dakota Smith.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game itself was already quite dark, but Edgerunners goes various steps further. Also counts as one for Hiroyuki Imaishi as this is his darkest and most serious work yet.

* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler:A seemingly straightforward gig for Faraday very quickly spirals out of control when Tanaka's driver receives an unexpected phone call from his boss. The following car hijacking, which the team is forced to do, results in the failure of the original objective, because Tanaka changes his driving routes, what forces Faraday to contract another gig with Maine's team. Which of course gets out of control vary fast. This sets in motion a sequence of events leading to a complete disaster: the fiasco of the entire contract, the deaths of two edgerunners and Faraday becoming the target of Arasaka's assassination attempts, which then leads in a straight line to tragedy at the end of the series.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Unbound by gameplay constraints, combat is significantly more lethal and more sudden than the game it's set in the universe of. As such, ''everyone'' looks more like a badass in this show. [[spoiler:Naturally, this includes Smasher, a notorious AntiClimaxBoss in the game, here living up to [[TheDreaded his status]] in full.]]
** As far as implants go, the Sandevistan (itself admittedly established in the series as being a military-grade model and thus cream of the crop in terms of function) is ''much'' more powerful here than it was in the game. While in the game, it slows down time to a great degree, it doesn't reach the level of power David has with it where he essentially becomes the Flash and can move faster than even speeding cars and explosions.

* AdaptationDeviation: In the universe of Cyberpunk, Brain Dances or [=BDs=] are [[TransferableMemory recorded neurological sensory input]] that can be edited, replayed and exported to be experienced by other people. Essentially this makes them a full-dive version of a video recording: The end user can control the [[RewindReplayRepeat playback position and speed]] but can't actively change or interact with the environment. In the anime Lucy and David use a Brain Dance of someone visiting the moon more like a multi-user virtual reality application, able to interact with the scene and each other.

** Not a person, but David's megablock apartment has exactly the same layout as V's from the game.

* HotterAndSexier: Compared to both the rest of the [[Franchise/Cyberpunk Cyberpunk franchise]] and the rest of [[Creator/StudioTrigger Trigger's works]]. The Cyberpunk franchise isn't prudish by any means, but Edgerunners delights in breasts and butts on another level.

* AdaptationDeviation: In the universe of Cyberpunk, Brain Dances or [=BDs=] are recorded neurological sensory input that can be edited, replayed and exported to be experienced by other people. Essentially this makes them a full-dive version of a video recording: The end user can control the [[RewindReplayRepeat playback position and speed]] but can't actively change or interact with the environment. In the anime Lucy and David use a Brain Dance of someone visiting the moon more like a multi-user virtual reality application, able to interact with the scene and each other.

* AdaptationDeviation: In the universe of Cyberpunk, Brain Dances or [=BDs=] are recorded neurological sensory input that can be edited, replayed and exported to be experienced by other people. Essentially this makes them a full-dive version of a video recording: The end user can control the playback position and speed but can't actively change or interact with the environment. In the anime Lucy and David use a Brain Dance of someone visiting the moon more like a multi-user virtual reality application, able to interact with the scene and each other.

* AdaptationDeviation: In the universe of Cyberpunk, Brain Dances or BDs are recorded neurological sensory input that can be edited, replayed and exported to be experienced by other people: essentially a full-dive version of a video recording, meaning that the end user can't actively change or interact with the environment. In the anime Lucy and David use a Braindance of someone visiting the moon more like a multiplayer virtual reality application, able to interact with the scene and each other.

* '''Music Videos''': [[https://youtu.be/h4VJGNNSQnw "I Really Want to Stay at Your House",]] ('''Warning: Contains spoilers''') [[https://youtu.be/BnnbP7pCIvQ "Let You Down"]]

* '''Music Videos''': [[https://youtu.be/h4VJGNNSQnw "I Really Want to Stay at Your House"]] ('''Warning: Contains spoilers''') [[https://youtu.be/BnnbP7pCIvQ "Let You Down"]]

** Katsuo Tanaka repeatedly taunts David by insinuating that his mother is doing "something shameful" to pay for a low-class kid like him to attend Arasaka Academy, though it's pretty clear from context that he's just [[YourMom implying she's a whore.]] [[spoiler:Turns out [[RightForTheWrongReasons Gloria was indeed doing something pretty dubious to pay for David's schooling, just not what Katsuo had in mind]] - she's supplementing her day job as an EMT by secretly swiping valuable cyber-organs from the accidents she's called in to deal with and [[OrganTheft selling them to mercenaries]] like Maine and his crew.]]]]

* RichesToRags: David's bio notes that he used to be enrolled in Arasaka Academy before a personal tragedy caused him to become an edgerunner. {{Subverted}} in that David clarifies to Lucy that he and his mother were never really that well off, but his fall from corporate private school student to streetkid merc is still a very significant one and one that leaves him strapped for cash.

** While under siege in an apartment building, Maine quips to Dorio that the cops seem to come out of nowhere to get them. A dig at the Cyberpunk 2077's oppressive police spawning system.

** In Episode 3, Dorio warns David to not trust anyone except himself and to not use the rest of the band as clutches. Then, David looks at Kiwi, who is smoking alone at the table. [[spoiler: Guess who ends up betraying them?]]

** A (salvaged) Basilisk Hovertank in 2077 was the Aldecados' trump card against Militech [[spoiler:in The Star ending route's "Forward to Death" story mission, where they use it to cutdown waves of heavily armed Militech soldiers and combat drones in order to help V access the lower levels of Arasaka Tower]]. But in the anime, [[spoiler:David effortlessly destroys one sent by Militech against him while using the cyberskeleton's GravityMaster capabilities.]]

** The Basilisk Hovertank in 2077 was the Aldecado's trump card against Militech in the ''Forward to Death'' story mission, where they use it to cutdown waves of heavily armed Militech soldiers and combat drones in order to help V access the lower levels of Arasaka Tower. But in the anime, [[spoiler:David effortlessly destroys one sent against him while using the cyberskeleton's GravityMaster capabilities.]]

* AerithAndBob: On one hand, you have David, Lucy, and Rebecca; on the other, you have Maine, Kiwi, and Dorio. Pilar is an uncommon name in most English-speaking countries but is a fairly normal Hispanic name... though an exclusively feminine one, and here Pilar is a man.

* BittersweetEnding: The series ends with [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies David]] and most of the crew dead, but David's efforts allow Falco and Lucy to escape with a bounty of eddies and Lucy herself achieving her dream of going to the moon and getting far away from Arasaka's clutches. This borders on being a DownerEnding for Lucy however, as the final shot shows that achieving her dream may not have been worth it for [[TheLostLenore what it cost her]].]]

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:More and more of the crew die as the series progresses.]]