Breaking Down Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Breathtaking Animation | Animation Spotlight
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Canipa breaks down the creation of Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red's unexpected masterpiece. (Spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
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Sources and Further Reading:
Interview with Rafal Jaki - • Cyberpunk Edgerunner's...
Inside Look on Edgerunners - • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners...
Interview with Masahiko Otsuka - • The Anime Man Talks Cy...
NHK program on Studio Trigger - www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sp...
Neo Yokio Interview - www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazin...
Persona 5: The Animation Interview - anitrendz.net/news/2018/08/21...
Danganronpa: The Animation Interview - animeanime.jp/article/2013/07...
Shibuya footage sourced from www.motionplaces.com
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Intro:
Animated by Christian Maize (@CookieficationJ)
Music by Steven Kelly (@Sarifus)
Produced for The Canipa Effect
Anime series featured in this video (chronologically):
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Neo Yokio
Patlabor 2: The Movie
B: Succession
FLCL Progressive
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost
Aoashi
The Deer King
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Instigate
Fena Pirate Princess
Ghost in the Shell
Noblesse
B: The Beginning
Star Wars: Visions
Haikyuu!!
Tales of Zestiria the X
Persona 5: The Animation
SSSS.Dynazenon
GRIDMAN UNIVERSE
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Kill la Kill
SSSS.Gridman
Little Witch Academia
Space Patrol Luluco
BNA - Brand New Animal
Danganronpa: The Animation
Castlevania
Dragon's Dogma
Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild
Music:
00:00 - The Rebel Path - P.T. Adamczyk (Cyberpunk 2077)
01:12 - The Canipa Effect Intro - Steven Kelly
01:27 - Patridiots - Marcin Przybyłowicz (Cyberpunk 2077)
04:30 - V - Marcin Przybyłowicz (Cyberpunk 2077)
06:18 - Rite Of Passage - P.T. Adamczyk (Cyberpunk 2077)
08:31 - Cyberwildlife Park - Marcin Przybyłowicz (Cyberpunk 2077)
10:39 - Bells of Laguna Bend - Paul Leonard-Morgan (Cyberpunk 2077)
13:28 - I Really Want to Stay at Your House - Rosa Walton (Cyberpunk 2077)
All footage is used for the purpose of review and is fair use. 
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Getting out of the studio's way and letting them work is so understated. I'm currently animating on a show where production keeps rewriting the goddamn episodes WHILE WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF ANIMATING SAID EPISODE and it's a nightmare. Most changes don't even improve the show, they just... change it. Get your pre-production done first and then leave us alone goddamn it.
Trigger doing what they do best. The show definitely made Night City a super interesting setting to consider.
I like your pfp
It always was. Edgerunners just threw the setting into the spotlight
Also CDPR letting Trigger focus on what they do best
You saying Night City as a setting was uninteresting before this anime? Gotta disagree there
Arcane, Castlevania and Edgerunners now are the undisputed BAR of what an adaptation of a video game should look like, sound like and be written like, these shows have annihilate anything done, be film or show, Edgerunners is my favorite show this year and as how I see the year going to end I don't think anything will come close even to beat it, and this is the same year amazing shows like Spy x Family, My Dress Up Darling, Chainsaw Man and many other excellent shows have premiere. This show is for me, Trigger Masterpiece.
I'm sad that nobody ever mentions Dota 2: Dragon's Blood (3 seasons so far) as a good example of a game adaptation, animated by Studio Mir and splendidly voice acted, in my opinion it blows Castlevania out of the water.
The Trigger magic really is real. They took a game that had a horrible reputation and created a stellar production based on it that reinvigorated everyone's interest in said notorious game.
>Edgerunner was amazing
>Damn I might want to give the game another shot
>Logs in for the first time after 7 months
>Game still shit
>Day ruined
Game still had a good reputation, it was in the top 10 most sold games on Steam for a couple of times a year after release and before the animation. The game itself has a world with great characters and story, the only problem with the game was the bugs not the ideas for the game itself.
Yea Studio Trigger is my favorite.
@@TeoTH80 for the last 5-6 days its the only game ive been playing. bought it on ps4 when it dropped and never really played it until now. It's an amazing game, lore, and setting. sorry youre experiencing issues but the game is not shit..... this game is amazing and needs to stop being shit on i understand people are still angry but i love this genre and im tired of people calling this game shit... im excited for the expansion and upcoming sequel
Spot on video, Edgerunners really was the saving grace for CDPR and further showcased the strength the Trigger staff have as animators!
Definitely see a lot of Promare in TRIGGER's take on Night City. Imaishi's crew were made for this project.
2 years of preproduction, seems like the same process Arcane had... there is a pattern here that obliviously is going to get ignore by most studios and productions companies
This series surprised me with how good it was. I’m not a big Trigger fan but even I will admit they outdid themselves with this series. One of their best works and I put it up there with Little Witch Academia.
I'd say Cyberpunk is Trigger's best work, hands down. While they've always had stellar animation, the stories have always been fairly lackluster or fell flat at key moments. LWA (especially the OVA) is definitely the closest in second though.
Cyberpsychosis is heartbreaking in Cyberpunk 2077 too. "Family Matters" gig in Rancho Coronado proves that the most.
Personally, CDPR & TRIGGER should really continue on making anime project together regardless how many years it would take from TRIGGER's own piled up projects. They are clearly are a match in heaven. It would be interesting what TRIGGER could come up with a dark fantasy genre like Witcher anime or continue on with Cyberpunk 20XX anime anthology.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is now probably my favorite anime by Trigger. The animation is 300/10 perfect. Props to everyone who worked on this 👏
It's like akira, the animation quality is ahead of its time. Very 90s with modern color palette
are you joking? the animation is not even close to being akira quality, its incredibly cheap, full with shitty glitch effects that can be done in mobile video editor and the overuse of minute long still shots made me question where did they spend 2 years of production
@@randomannoyance what was your problem?
@@nyx2859 explained in my first comment. this anime had nothing that made akira legendary
@@randomannoyance won't argue with ezquart subscribers
@@nyx2859 i hate them too
This is going to be an amazing Netflix case study to continue to produce more team-ups with JP directors/companies. It's a win-win for everyone.
Kai Ikarashi! I gotta remember his name. The SSSS episodes were amazing.
And thank you for mentioning all of the other staff members to keep check on.
Great Video.
Sounds like for Edgerunners, Trigger finally felt it was time to try the Gurren Lagann trick again, and jump-start rookies. During Gurren Lagann, they gave character stuff to mecha guys and vice versa, and central stuff to newbies, leaving the experienced people to do the other stuff, fostering an entire generation of animators who became Trigger, and now those former rookies are the seasoned veterans, they’re the experts now, so its time to let the rookies take charge once again
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a Trigger anime from start to end and of the best works they ever did, which is a hard thing to say considering their beautiful anime and movies until now
Thanks for the breakdown. Maine's cyberpsychosis is one of the best moments in anime of the year, and I'm glad how you highlighted the important role of color and the distortion of animation as a look into Maine's mind.
Cyberpunk 2077 got 100k concurrent players on steam after the release of edgerunners. Power of anime.
what? the peak is 830k and thats on the first day of release, after the release of anime the max it got is 140k
@@randomannoyance my bad😋
This video might be "late", but god damn it's a good one. I reckon this is a must-cover production story after hearing bits & pieces from here and there.
Also I wanna especially thank you for slightly showing the Musashi Samurai Legend opening. I had just realized maybe that piece was my very first time encountering Kanada Yoshinori & Imaishi Hiroyuki's works before I've even heard of them. What a whiplash of emotions finding that out.
Your take on P5 the Animation is correct. That is honestly why I like the Daybreakers OVA a lot more than the animated series. Daybreakers follows the same principle as Edgerunners. It takes one side-quest and evolves it to something bigger, with original character designs. The cast & crew of P5 are barely even in the OVA (and weirdly enough that makes it better).
dorio best character
Great video as always!
I love these animation spotlight videos so so much!
Great video as always, Canipa! You do such a nice job of calling out so many worthwhile elements of a production and celebrating the creators and teams.
Commenting for the algorithm, really cool info you shared here. I ALWAYS enjoy some behind the scenes and trivia stuff ❤
Been watching you for years and I still feel you are criminally underrated, all your videos are bangers
Goated project 🙌✨🔥
13:59 it's also about Japanese studios respecting western people.
Certainly. People take it for granted, but it is not always that actually happens because the Japanese society operate with other (endogamic and sometimes racist) mentality.
Great video!
Amazing show!! Trigger is just legendary.
Seriously I can't stop thinking about Cyberpunk Edgerunners!!
nice information about the creators
the best anime game adoptions dont have to be accurate and rushed they just should have the freedom whatever they want just like with making a remix out of the original song and the anime studio itself should have people who have the talent and effort to make it special
That's crazy I just binged the show today and then this video was posted
Whew just watching a video about the making of a show - get that song playing at the end, feels hit hard.
Trigger is GOAT, fite me. This show worked because Trigger knows what they've got as far as staffing. they have excellent partnerships as well. IG is a name, they outsource heavily, they use contractors and don't raise up their own teams - KyoAni and Trigger stand apart in their nurturing and growth.
If you want a story that hits as hard as the action, Trigger is just about the only option.
You should have more subs pal. Been a fan for years.
awesome sauce
I remember getting to see episode 1 of edgerunners at anime expo and i knew it was going to be something really special, im really glad we finally got a game "adaptation" that actually did the source material justice. I really hope this paves the way for the future of adaptations
This anime is literally why I finally bought the game and so far I'm having a blast. Night City is unbelievably immersive. It's just a wonder of lore on top of lore and I hope we get either a sequel or spinoff anime series to follow up Edgerunners
Great video, did not know much of the info here. Also a shoutout to Ilya Kuvshinov who did animation for the Let you down music video
Edgerunners was freaking incredible and I'm not even really much of an anime fan.
I do think a great Production IG project would of been cool, but as you said it would be a gamble. Trigger works really well here. That's not to say they can't hire IG in the future for some new idea or something since they can't always hire Trigger.
Neat.
I think the point yo mentioned about story following the game is not really a game adaptation thing but more a symptom of a wider issue in the stories of anime adapattions in general which is that they try to compress the stories way too much, there've been cases of Light Novel adaptations cramming 4 to 5 books into merely 12 episodes with exceptional cases like 86 only adapting 1 volume in that amount of episodes standing out for it's quality for the simple fact the story gets some room to breathe, I think more faithful adaptations would greatly benefit from not trying to cram an 60 hour into a 4 hour anime and consider that it doesn't have to end at the game's end, because a partial adaptation that is executed in a way that the part of the story being adapted can shine will be better than a completed one that loses a lot of what made people like the source material.
One of the things that I loved about this show is how it feels like an anime but also like a western series,feels refreshing while also being the anime the I know and love. This show is easily top5 of this year and one of the best Trigger as ever done.
Also just when I thought I had gotten over the depression I Really Want To Stay At Your House brings me you just had to play it at the end to remember me…F*** you. Take my like.
Edgerunners was one of the best anime I've seen in a while, and convinced me to buy the game after years of indecision.
Absolutely not a single regret, even though I got T-posed on a few times.
they just need to make an anime where ikarashi just directs it to completion, hes too goated for story
It's honestly the perfect anime to me. I couldn't have cared less when it was announced but after the first episode I was hooked.
Why it all works? They made great characters and used the lore to make them more concrete. There wasn't a single ounce of wasted material; it was eminently watchable.
I feel really lucky I got to experience this show. What is that ending animation that he's talking about?
Wait! So the glitches are not a reference for the bugs?
No, lol. They were working on the preproduction before the game was out.
I was wondering why you didn’t have a video on edgerunners!
It would be cool if the channel makes a video about Promare
Shout out to all the music used from the game's soundtrack.
My expectation was high, but holy shit [reversing the meme]
Best, Netflix anime
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need more industry people to see prod ig as basic bitch choice. but honestly Fena was so underrated, shit was gas and it had all the essence of an original anime series
I feel the same about TRIGGER though, whenever new people to anime start getting more hardcore,they almost always start sucking TRIGGER's cock super hard, then they watch over 3 of the studio's production and realize it's all the same, but worse.
Is there any way that you would make a updated SAO animation spotlight ?
Production IG is still capable of excellent work nowadays, the most quality consistent of all the studios ( since at last 30 years…) . We see what will happening for Trigger in 10 years…( hoping that the studio doesn’t become a new Gainax…)
WAIT I HAD NO CLUE YONEYAMAI ANIMATED THE ED FOR EDGERUNNERS SHES ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS
I wish if you could do an review on the latest Pokemon Journeys episode someday. Its all over the news ^^
Great spotlight as always Canipa. 9:51, I will have to disagree with that. Not undermining the animators, but the game data shards and conversation logs definitely and investigating the scene definitely doesn't make it seem like just a sidequest but also brings to light the seriousness of the condition caused by a shitty society as well.
I still cannot believe that no one says anything about the "I'm special, I'm built different" narrative 😭 it's the reason why I couldn't take the show seriously. I know it's common in anime, the special protagonist trope... But they shouldn't have used the exact words at least. It just felt like "I'm not like the other girls"
I don't know if you finished the anime, but the ending basically stomped that ideology. He only thinks he's built different but Night City says otherwise.
Nah... This anime is anti trope in the best possible ways. Gotta watch it first.
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Nova, i guess!
About chase - that totally by lore, canonising bugs in game)
yo
aw man, i spy some Little Witch Academia... i need more of that franchise :(
I just hope this show gets a bluray 🙏🏿 release, Netflix gets iffy with some show releases
THE LOLI MUST STAY.
kinda wish cdpr had more hand into the ending, it kinda fell into the same style trigger usually does, tho they didnt fall as hard this time around, it wasnt nearly as good as ep 6
Why is it that the shows with the best production pipelines, are the ones I'm not interested in?
I see Rebecca I click
Best girl in cyberpunk period.
This makes me realize how many people have slept on Trigger, go watch Gurren Lagann people
I think you missed the wave
Not a huge fan of the series but this is a good production with a japanese studio for sure, TRIGGER really was the only studio that could do things this good for THAT story.
I don't think Edge runner is over the top anime. It is quite mediocre with script and animation. They are many parts that can be improved.
Breathtaking animation and a whole lot of wasted potential. Just like Fena...
The animations, visual designs and music/sounds were really amazing!
The story and characters very quite disappointing to me (and my friend) since they just felt so flat and boring.
In a way it's very similar to the original game: other than a few stand-out characters even the main crew has a flat personality, but they were still a joy to be around. The interactions were just fun and enjoyable. They shouldn't be seen in a vacuum.
@@deldarel Really? I heard that Cyberpunks story is pretty ritch.
I have the game just didn't play it yet.
Thank you for your take on it, that's really interesting.
Sadly a bad game will remain bad even if the anime is stellar.
Episode 6 was both my favorite and least favorite. The story and action was amazing. But something about the animation style change really threw me off.
Rebecca is Harley Quinn
Don't dare insult Rebecca. She has way more personality and agency than Harley Quinn has ever had.
masterpiece HAHAHAHAHA, 6/10 AT BEST imo.
The animation and art design were great though.
These TRIGGER ball fondlers are everywhere it seems.
What's a 10/10 to you then?
@@Samuel-ko9uv Rakugo Shinjuu Shouwa Genroku Futatabi-Hen, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Spirited Away, Psycho-Pass S1, Ping-Pong, ...
9s - Kiseijuu, Fate/Zero, Chainsaw Man, Evangelion, Vagabond, Real, Berserk, Oyasumi Pun-Pun, FMA, Mob Psycho, GitS, ...
@@Samuel-ko9uv theres like 5 animes this year being far better in every single aspect
@@MaxIronsThird Stop the hate cap bruh... 2th CB, Pun Pun, Vagabond, Real don't even have anime yet, in which I also want it. GiTS anime best ones are the older ones, while the recent ones are flat average.
Meanwhile, modern Berserk anime are an abomination that should be purged from existence (the classic & movies are 7/10 at best). This is coming from hardcore Berserk fan.
As far as Cyberpunk genre fan POV goes, Cyberpunk Edgerunners is indeed the best one in recent years for at least almost a decade.
@@crozraven oops, got caught up thinking about actual great things, didn't realise i started not making any distinction between Manga and Anime.
have you heard of Psycho-Pass? S1 was amazing, other seasons were shit though.
Also why does shit need to be new to matter?
Arcane is better
In terms of animation quality, story and characters, yes. Undoubtedly. They had many more resources and almost double the run time. However, in terms of inventive animation and pacing, Edgerunners is better IMHO.
Mid Show and trigger is overrated
Nice Bait
cope and seethe and mald and fard + L + ratio + you like harem slice of life shit shows
@@1wayroad935 he's right tho. trigger doesnt have a single high quality anime story wise. all of them are perfectly directed at consumers without a brain
@@randomannoyance kill la kill, brand new animal
@@randomannoyance Ratio tho