Line #13 Trivia/CyberpunkEdgerunners


1	* ApprovalOfGod: Mike Pondsmith, creator of the original ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' setting, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/xe923t/re_edgerunners_they_fucking_nailed_it/ was very happy]] with how the series turned out.
2	* AscendedFanon: Sort of. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Edgerunners/comments/z9hre7/we_made_cyberpunk_edgerunners_ask_us_anything/iyguz64/?context=3 In a Reddit AMA with]] Creator/HiroyukiImaishi, [[Fanfic/GroupChat Kiwi's nipples]] do ''not'' [[MemeticMutation dispense fruity, refreshing Gatorade...]] but they ''do'' [[BizarreAlienBiology shoot out spider silk.]]
3	* {{Blooper}}: The song "Major Crimes" by the band Music/{{HEALTH}} is listed in the credits of episodes where it appears as "Health" by Major Crimes (a band that does not exist).
4	* BreakawayPopHit: "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" (originally included in the ''Videogame/Cyberpunk2077'' soundtrack) has shot into Spotify's top 50, while the OP and ED were Spotify's #3 and #4 most played anime op/ed songs for July 1-Sept 30, 2022. Very impressive, considering they were only available to be in that chart for two weeks, with everyone else in the top 10 having the whole season.
5	* CelebrityVoiceActor: The English dub features Creator/GiancarloEsposito as Faraday as well as Creator/MatthewMercer as Falco
6	* CreatorCouple: Creator/ArturoCastaneda, who voices Katsuo Tanaka in the Latin American Spanish dub, is the boyfriend of Jessica Angeles, the dub's director.
7	* CreatorsOddball: The show is one for Creator/HiroyukiImaishi. While he is no stranger to having dark moments in his anime, this is easily his darkest and most serious work yet, having very little of the over the top humor and absurdity that is usually present in his anime (and what humor and absurdity is there is more subdued compared to his other works) and in contrast to the optimistic, happy endings his works tend to have, [[spoiler:it ends on a Main/{{bittersweet\|Ending}}, borderline DownerEnding with [[EverybodyDiesEnding everyone but Lucy and Falco being dead]]]].
8	* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: While the majority of the English cast is LA-based (with the exceptions of Creator/IanJamesCorlett, who is Canadian by birth and thus a dual-citizen; and Creator/EmiLo, a New York native who is based in Texas), the dub also features UK-based actors Creator/SamuelBarnett and Alec Newman reprising their roles as [[spoiler:the Delamain AI and Adam Smasher, respectively,]] recording their lines at [[Creator/SideUK Side UK]]. Creator/GiancarloEsposito also recorded all of his dialogue for Faraday at Southern Sound Services in Louisiana.
9	* ExecutiveMeddling: [[https://www.thegamer.com/cyberpunk-edgerunners-rebecca-age-character-design/ In an official CD Projekt live stream one of the studio's producers revealed that they had requested Studio Trigger to cut Rebecca's character]], stating that "She's a {{loli\|conAndShotacon}}. Lolis don't exist in Night City. It doesn't fit the ''Cyberpunk 2077'' aesthetic". However, Studio Trigger insisted the character stay in the story with her design intact. CD Projekt relented, allowing the character to stay. [[https://twitter.com/GwentBro/status/1571159352848924672 Further reasoning from the lead writer]] reveals that this is only part of the issue that came up with Rebecca; she was [[CanonForeigner an add-on]] from Trigger's end that was not planned or written for in-advance, which led to a variety of concerns including potentially bloating up the cast. However, Trigger eased these concerns with their own ideas on the matter, and CD Projekt allowed Rebecca to stay, even agreeing in the end that keeping her was the right call.
10	* InternationalCoproduction: The show was co-produced between Creator/StudioTrigger based in Japan, and Creator/CDProjektRed based in Poland.
11	* MilestoneCelebration: The show is meant to commemorate Creator/StudioTrigger's 10th anniversary.
12	* NewbieBoom:
13	** The show’s popularity has been credited with introducing new fans to the [[VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077 video game]] and [[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} tabletop RPG]] it spun off from. The game would especially enjoy a massive resurgence in popularity due to the anime, quickly becoming the [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/09/25/cyberpunk-2077-becomes-steams-top-selling-game-22-months-after-launch/ top selling game on Steam 22 months after its launch]].
14	** Music/FranzFerdinand got a boost in exposure thanks to "This Fffire" being used as the opening for the show.
15	* PlayingAgainstType:
16	** Lucy's English VA Creator/EmiLo, who typically voices characters with a soft or high pitch, utilizes a deep and low contralto for Lucy.
17	** Likewise for her Japanese voice actress Creator/AoiYuuki, who's usually known for voicing young girls or characters with softer voices.
18	** Creator/AlexCazares as Rebecca, a LadySwearsALot in contrast to her [[Anime/SmilePreCure other]] [[VideoGame/ShadowVerse roles]] as characters who are kind and not too boastful.
19	** Giancarlo Esposito has been typecast as {{Diabolical Mastermind}}s on top of their respective food chain feared for their competence. Faraday, [[PlayingWithCharacterType despite initially seeming to be this]], is eventually revealed to be, at best, an overambitious upstart who proves to be a very incompetent schemer who simply makes everyone hate him.
20	* PrequelInAnotherMedium: To ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' which in turn is a SequelInAnotherMedium to [[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} the tabletop games]].
21	* RealSongThemeTune: The main opening theme is a remix of Music/FranzFerdinand's "This Fffire".
22	* RoleReprise: Returning from the game are [[spoiler:Creator/AlecNewman as Adam Smasher, Ren Hanami as Wakako Okada and Creator/SamuelBarnett as Delamain in the English dub.]]
23	* SleeperHit: Compared to [[ChristmasRushed the reputation]] of ''Videogame/Cyberpunk2077'' at launch, the anime has been showered with praise upon release for not only its faithfulness to the game and the experience of the original tabletop game, but being a damn good, heartfelt anime with an impressive range of talent both with its cast and crew. At launch, it jumped into the top 5 of Netflix's most-watched shows of the week.
24	* ThrowItIn: When Creator/AleksLe recorded the RapidFireFisticuffs scene for the English dub, he decided to give a ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''-style take. [[https://twitter.com/AleksLeVO/status/1569774698476752897 This was kept for the finished scene.]]
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
26	** The [[https://preview.redd.it/1ysgubvw03751.jpg?auto=webp&s=7c0619f06925c24e7fe961fc35c02151b40998ea original teaser poster had a very different design]] for David compared to the final one. While on the topic of designs, Lucy also underwent a [[https://twitter.com/Daily__TRIGGER/status/1543424521956466689?s=20&t=rqmpOCaH-bYXf5lHvRbCdg wide variety]] of different designs before the production team settled on her final design.
27	** One of the character posters showed Kiwi walking with a cybernetically-enhanced hyena (which in and of itself was likely a reference to Voodoo Boys concept art from ''Videogame/Cyberpunk2077''), but no such animal makes an appearance in the anime.
28	** As aforementioned in ExecutiveMeddling, Rebecca was not originally written or planned for the show and was a late addition to the cast by TRIGGER.
29	** [[https://twitter.com/GwentBro/status/1574806686962941955 Concept art of David posted by Rafal Jaki]] revealed several different ways they could've gone with his design, including shorter hair, a hoodie under his EMT jacket, dog tags, and even a jacket with the 'SAMURAI' oni painted over the back of it a la V's jacket from ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''.
30	** 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 [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: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.
31	* WordOfGod:
32	** [[https://twitter.com/GwentBro/status/1571815037278224385 One of the lead producers at CD Projekt]] confirmed Lucy's full name as Lucyna Kushinada and that she's [[ButNotTooForeign half-Polish, half-Japanese]].

Context Trivia / CyberpunkEdgerunners