Episode 13
Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners
Yeah we're late on checking out Cyberpunk Edgerunners, but we had to make an episode about it! It's too dope to not reach the south! Listen in on this weeks episode of Southern Senpais!
Transcript
Howdy.
Speaker:It's the Southern Sin Pie Show.
Speaker:We're small town southerners.
Speaker:Explore big time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.
Speaker:Here's your hosts, Nicholas and dj.
Speaker:What's going on y'all?
Speaker:This is Nicholas.
Speaker:I'm dj and we're two southern guys exploring Japanese culture together.
Speaker:What are we talking about today, dj?
Speaker:Today we're talking about cyberpunk edge runners.
Speaker:Cyberpunk Edge runners.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:You had recommended this anime?
Speaker:Somebody dmd us and I said, oh, okay.
Speaker:After they DMed us, I was like, oh, maybe we should check this one out.
Speaker:It came out last year.
Speaker:I didn't get a chance to see it when it came out.
Speaker:So this was like a good excuse to to watch it.
Speaker:To watch it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's on Netflix if you haven't seen it.
Speaker:And I thought it was I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker:What do we, it's very interesting to see First of all, studio Trigger.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Makes a lot of really great stuff.
Speaker:Makes it incredible amount of stuff.
Speaker:Yeah, I think that's what's really interesting about this one is
Speaker:that it's based off a video game.
Speaker:I haven't really seen a lot of animes based solely from a video game.
Speaker:There's no manga or anything, no, I, whenever you had recommended this to
Speaker:me I remember the video game and I remember like the big thing it wasn't
Speaker:me, it was the person who DMed us.
Speaker:And I was like, oh, we should do this.
Speaker:But and I remember Keanu Reeves was part of yeah, cyberpunk the cyber.
Speaker:But didn't it take a decade or eight years to come out?
Speaker:It took, yeah, it took forever.
Speaker:There's a whole bunch of production snags and then on top of that it was like when
Speaker:it came out it was like super buggy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But anyway when I started watching the anime, I was like, I think the anime's a
Speaker:is a prelude to the video game, actually.
Speaker:I was very surprised by how great this anime was.
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:Incredibly surprised.
Speaker:Oh my God, it's awesome.
Speaker:And I remember going to work and being like, I'm in cyberpunk.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:Because it's this is, The guy, the guys like going to work and, basically going
Speaker:to work, coming home going to school.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Trying to avoid things.
Speaker:Trying not to, trying to avoid the bullshit of the world.
Speaker:And people, just like anybody else, people shitting on 'em,
Speaker:people, this, that and the other.
Speaker:Yeah the SAR punk world was very interesting 'cause I, I didn't
Speaker:get a chance to, I didn't play the video game because when it came out,
Speaker:everyone said it sucked as, and then I, yeah, that's why I didn't play it.
Speaker:Yeah I didn't play it.
Speaker:But then But, and came out, I was like, oh, cool, whatever.
Speaker:But that's all stupid trigger was attached to it.
Speaker:I wanted to see it.
Speaker:I didn't get to check it out until recently and when I was watching it, I
Speaker:was surprised about the production value.
Speaker:The story was really good.
Speaker:Spoiler alert, for anyone watching, we are gonna talk about the things
Speaker:that happened in the anime, right?
Speaker:So it's an anime review.
Speaker:You should know this.
Speaker:You should know that we're gonna talk about what happens in it to review it.
Speaker:How do you review something without spoiling it?
Speaker:Yeah, I have I have no idea.
Speaker:So I think one of the things that was the most interesting was like how they
Speaker:develop the world, so they're already building off of an ip, but it feels
Speaker:like it's different because since the, I, since this I've seen the anime, I.
Speaker:I have gone back and taken a look at the actual video game, and it seems
Speaker:completely, it seems different, like a lot of the things, it's like there's
Speaker:still, you still have people who that suffer from cyber psychosis, so they
Speaker:go like crazy and stuff like that.
Speaker:And then you still have some of the same elements, but it feels like more in depth.
Speaker:It seems to have taken some inspiration from Star Wars as
Speaker:far as the building of the city.
Speaker:You think so?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And a an attack of the clones, You see there?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It was like a space city.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You see they look the same.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Knight City is is, I'm not gonna say it's a direct comparison, but they're, I
Speaker:could definitely see some similarities.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Same thing with if you looked at Samurai Jack and, you could also say that's
Speaker:how futuristic cities are, shown.
Speaker:But yeah, those are the two that I was like, oh, he is, it looks, it's
Speaker:a futuristic cyber looking city.
Speaker:One of my favorite parts about the city was like, the place where he lived,
Speaker:it was just so fucking disgusting.
Speaker:Yeah, it was nasty.
Speaker:They have and honestly, I, I see there's a lot of parallels between now and
Speaker:what happens in the, in their world.
Speaker:I can totally see landlords being like, oh, you didn't play rent.
Speaker:Sorry, you can't come inside.
Speaker:And he's like busting through the sides.
Speaker:Shoot, be like to get in.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Especially now with the economy and the way everything is, you have a mom
Speaker:that's basically never there because she's like busting her ass too, to
Speaker:keep him in this private school.
Speaker:The main character, so the main character's name is is David Martinez.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:David Martinez.
Speaker:A lot of you can tell when the production has a lot of international people in
Speaker:it working on it because the characters will obviously often be more diverse.
Speaker:Not that to be fair, a lot of anime characters seem just
Speaker:like white people, right?
Speaker:This, I think they're supposed to be Japanese, but they're
Speaker:not really drawn that way.
Speaker:They have these larger eyes and Yeah.
Speaker:Stuff like that.
Speaker:Plus the haircut's pretty sick.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's, he is pretty cool hair guy.
Speaker:His hairdo is pretty I don't see a lot, a whole lot of Japanese
Speaker:cartoons anime where the hair is.
Speaker:Like that?
Speaker:I think.
Speaker:I think You think it's because he's Hispanic or you think
Speaker:it's 'cause of the cyber world?
Speaker:I think it's a bit, it's, I think it's a binks of both.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Yeah, but I I have to say though that I really liked whenever he
Speaker:beat the shit out of that kid.
Speaker:Which one?
Speaker:You got more specific?
Speaker:The first kid.
Speaker:Oh, the first one.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So basically that gets him kicked out.
Speaker:He it starts off where, it's classic anime stuff.
Speaker:His life sucks.
Speaker:I think that's just like basic storytelling at this point, right?
Speaker:If your life doesn't suck.
Speaker:Sorry, I can't, like this protagonist, right?
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:Your life has to suck.
Speaker:I gotta see the struggle, right?
Speaker:So his life sucks.
Speaker:He's super poor and his mom works her ass off to.
Speaker:Make sure they have anything at all.
Speaker:She does all these shifts and it's still not enough.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it's still not enough.
Speaker:And 'cause he goes to the doc and he is Hey, I need to upgrade.
Speaker:And then he goes to school and it just, yeah.
Speaker:He upgrades his like, like learning gear.
Speaker:Because he tries to do it illegally because to actually
Speaker:pay for it would cost too much.
Speaker:And his mom's just oh, you should pay for it, da.
Speaker:He goes, we can't even wash our clothes.
Speaker:We can't even afford to get our clothes washed.
Speaker:And you expect me to do that.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:So then, It kinda wrecks the whole system, right?
Speaker:Yeah, the whole system.
Speaker:He wrecks the whole school system and then, then his mom has to pay for it.
Speaker:Which is also something they can't afford.
Speaker:So then she's he's oh, maybe she drive him home, scold him calling an idiot.
Speaker:Like he's he obviously is, and he's maybe I shouldn't go to school.
Speaker:Maybe it's just help go to work and pick up.
Speaker:Maybe I should try and find a job.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:To help out.
Speaker:Which is admirable.
Speaker:And then this car accident happens, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So some gang, they're not trying to shoot their car, but their car is,
Speaker:it's in the middle of them trying to shoot it just collateral damage, right?
Speaker:They end up being collateral damage and the car flips over.
Speaker:He gets stuck in the car.
Speaker:And then the ambulance shows up, right?
Speaker:'cause his mom is outside the car.
Speaker:The ambulance shows up, but they go, oh, sorry, she doesn't have good insurance.
Speaker:Just leave her to die.
Speaker:Just leave it to die, which is, I can totally see that happening, which is
Speaker:basically a really good allegory for our healthcare system here, which is if you
Speaker:don't have healthcare sy, if you don't have insurance or anything like that, like
Speaker:just a while ago I was trying to go get my Go see a doctor or something like that.
Speaker:And at first I didn't have the health insurance 'cause of a
Speaker:lapse or something like that.
Speaker:And they were like, sometimes it has those gaps in between
Speaker:when you renew it or something.
Speaker:And so they didn't want to see me.
Speaker:They were like, we don't accept anything.
Speaker:You're just gonna have to basically screw off.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you're like, I have insurance.
Speaker:It's just It's like I'm in like a gap.
Speaker:I already paid it.
Speaker:And then I came, I went back and had the insurance and had to pay
Speaker:like $15 or something like that.
Speaker:They're like, yeah, of course.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Go ahead.
Speaker:Go ahead.
Speaker:I, oh, they're super nice when have money.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So when he later on, when David decides to do like, All this crazy stuff for money.
Speaker:You totally get it.
Speaker:Money.
Speaker:Him not having money has not only killed his mom.
Speaker:I mean at first they're like, oh she's undergoing surgery, in, in
Speaker:some back water place because that's the only place they can afford.
Speaker:And then she ends up dying because he can't afford the,
Speaker:to keep her alive for too long.
Speaker:And then they give them, they give 'em this to earn canister,
Speaker:to be like, here you go.
Speaker:Here's your mom.
Speaker:Yeah, here's your mom.
Speaker:Dude, they already cremated her and everything.
Speaker:Oh, here you go.
Speaker:You have to pay us for this.
Speaker:Can that your mom is congratulations.
Speaker:And it's it's actually really sad.
Speaker:That's super sad.
Speaker:That's there was a story a while back where the city, I forget where it was, but
Speaker:the city bulldozed this person's house.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then the guy was like, yo, what's going on?
Speaker:And then the city tried to charge him for bulldozing his own house.
Speaker:They bulldozed it by accident and they tried to make it seem
Speaker:like he wanted that to happen.
Speaker:For some reason.
Speaker:But anyway, so the guy's just sitting there just, oh, also he gets made fun
Speaker:of at bullied at school by the other, so he's the only poor kid there.
Speaker:His mom pays all this money for him to go there was part
Speaker:of the reason why they're poor.
Speaker:And all the rich kids can afford to go there.
Speaker:So they all have these cybertron upgrades.
Speaker:And one of 'em beats the crap out of 'em with these cybertron upgrades and
Speaker:all just These are like your typical bullies that just want you to leave.
Speaker:Basically just 'cause he's poor and yeah.
Speaker:He tries to sell this like spine upgrade that can make you move really fast and it
Speaker:doesn't work at first, but then after his mom dies, he's I just have to chrome up.
Speaker:The thing is that he sits there and talks to the doc and the doc's
Speaker:oh, okay he wants to offer him like eight to $10,000 for the.
Speaker:For the Chrome upgrade.
Speaker:And he's this is premium tech.
Speaker:You're gonna gimme more than that.
Speaker:And then his mom dies.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:His military grade.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And his mom dies and the doc's ah, I'll give you like $6,000.
Speaker:He's you are gonna gimme 10 a couple days ago.
Speaker:And then he's just you know what?
Speaker:Screw it.
Speaker:Just, he like, he basically gives up on his former life, which is you know what?
Speaker:I'm just gonna get revenge on the guy who also the bully after the bully finds
Speaker:out that his mom dies, he calls him and then laughs about how his mom is dead.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:First of all, I guess you can't refuse at calls in the future.
Speaker:Why did you just, why did you pick up in the first place?
Speaker:Yeah why would you pick up, why would you pick up that call?
Speaker:It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker:And then the principal sees him beat up.
Speaker:So he gets the Chrome installment and he goes to school just to
Speaker:beat up that kid, which he does.
Speaker:Who bullied him and then instead of being like, he gets expelled, but then
Speaker:when they show it to the kid's parents, they're like, oh, we could use him for a
Speaker:secret experiment to, to, put him in this put him in this, super powerful suit.
Speaker:'cause he, because he seems, he he's resistant to Cyberonics.
Speaker:So in this world, if you have too many cyber Tronics,
Speaker:You go into cyber psychosis.
Speaker:Cyber psychosis, where basically you go insane.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it seems like he might be resistant to it, but then he's on the
Speaker:train and that's when he meets Lucy.
Speaker:And then so basically he, and he meets this super hot chick, right?
Speaker:And finds out, he's like a natural at it, and they go back to the hideout.
Speaker:He's like stealing like stuff out of people's necks, which
Speaker:is weird which is really weird.
Speaker:They like, in, in the future, they're inserting like chips into
Speaker:the next Elon Musk has already got the Neuralink installed.
Speaker:I if you had to get something plugged into your neck, what would be the power.
Speaker:I don't even know what it's for.
Speaker:Like they just have shit just in their necks.
Speaker:Is it, does it help you think, does it.
Speaker:They'd never say what it is.
Speaker:All you know is worth the money.
Speaker:It's ambiguous.
Speaker:They just, oh, I got his net chips.
Speaker:I did it.
Speaker:This, I got money.
Speaker:And the money is called Eddie's, right?
Speaker:They're called Eddie's, which kind of sounds like pills, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Or I thought of ed net.
Speaker:So why just Eddie's Ed?
Speaker:Ed Netty?
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:I get it.
Speaker:When.
Speaker:They Right in the future.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:In the future, the greatest cinematic work of Ed.
Speaker:Is number one.
Speaker:Is number one.
Speaker:In fact, they love Ed so much.
Speaker:They name their currency.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:After I get it, I understand early thousand shows.
Speaker:I get it, Eddy, but then he goes back to Maine.
Speaker:And he goes back to Lucy's place.
Speaker:Because he passes out 'cause he used it too much.
Speaker:Oh, that's right.
Speaker:They and they go on their BD date.
Speaker:Yeah he, so he passes out 'cause they use it too much.
Speaker:She tries to take him to the hospital.
Speaker:And then the hospital the ambulance person tries to rob him.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's oh, I found out he has this cool spine thing.
Speaker:I'm gonna steal it.
Speaker:This is basically Gotham on steroids.
Speaker:It's, yeah.
Speaker:Cyber Gotham on steroids.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Cyber Gotham on steroids.
Speaker:So then they They go back.
Speaker:So then like they escape somehow old his hospital bed's, like literally
Speaker:in the middle of the highway.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:She does this crazy ninja judo stuff where she kicks the door open and
Speaker:now they're on the super highway.
Speaker:And the only way is that she moves the car is by shaking
Speaker:her ass to the left or right.
Speaker:How wasn't mad at it, but Yeah.
Speaker:And then they get back to her place.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Pass out.
Speaker:They, they get to the hospital.
Speaker:No, that gets a doc, the guy who put it in.
Speaker:And then they give him the eddies that they earned that day from stealing.
Speaker:To give him his psychosis medicine, which I always wonder what that was,
Speaker:that stuff that prevents you from being, I don't know, it's the future
Speaker:fucking a serum syrup type of thing?
Speaker:Probably maple syrup.
Speaker:Frog.
Speaker:Maple syrup.
Speaker:So then they fucking that's when Lucy betrays him.
Speaker:She, he goes back to her place and it turns out that, They're,
Speaker:she's a cyberpunk edge runner.
Speaker:And they go around doing crazy jobs and the leader of this gang is
Speaker:called Maine and he's gonna kill him.
Speaker:But then he finds out the person who he was working with was his mom.
Speaker:And he gives him a chance to join the crew and be cool because originally
Speaker:the reason why he wants to kill him is that he has his equipment installed
Speaker:in his mine main was supposed to get his, the David's equipment.
Speaker:So then they go on a couple, they go on various missions, do you?
Speaker:I feel kinda like Rebecca does nothing but hit on him the whole time.
Speaker:There's like this, so just like this shorter cybernetic girl, all she does
Speaker:is hit on him and try to bang him the whole time and he just doesn't care.
Speaker:He's so infatuated with Lucy.
Speaker:Who he initially met that he just does not care at all.
Speaker:She also looks like she's 10 years old, and Lucy is supposed to be,
Speaker:I looked it up, Lucy's supposed to be like 20 years old, so Yeah.
Speaker:And David is like, what, 17, 18?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's like 17.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Rebecca, she's of age, but she's she looks like a kid.
Speaker:So it's yeah, I can see why you wouldn't.
Speaker:Anime logic.
Speaker:She's 400 years old, but she looks, eight years old for some reason, whatever.
Speaker:And then they have her brother dies.
Speaker:'cause it's 'cause they were messing with a cyber psychosis homeless guy.
Speaker:Because the dude was pee, was piss, he was just pee.
Speaker:And the, and then the guy was like, damn, you chromed out your dick.
Speaker:That must have hurt like shit.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Why would you do that?
Speaker:And then he's Hugging on him and suffer, and then the dude
Speaker:goes, it just blows his head off.
Speaker:And it's like, why are you, first of all, this man is peeing freely
Speaker:out in the street now, I don't know.
Speaker:I've never been to the cyberpunk future of 2077 in about 50 years.
Speaker:But what I do know is that what if God willing, if I'm still alive 50 years
Speaker:from now, I'm not gonna just gonna go up to a homeless man and start
Speaker:talking to him while he's pissing.
Speaker:Especially when he's just especially when he has someone
Speaker:who has chromed out their dick.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I feel like that person just needs to be left alone, just
Speaker:needs to be left alone in general.
Speaker:So he might've deserved it a little bit.
Speaker:Maybe a little, maybe just a tadd.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So then and then plus his, like sister Rebecca then inherited like his,
Speaker:like cybernetic hands or something.
Speaker:And then David doesn't want them.
Speaker:He was like, he, because Maine's here you go man.
Speaker:Here's some golden chromed out cybernetic hands.
Speaker:And he is nah, I'm good.
Speaker:He is seriously?
Speaker:He's these are super expensive.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And he was like, nah, I got my eye on something else.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:And he is got his eye on Maine's hands.
Speaker:Yeah, main's.
Speaker:Main's.
Speaker:Giant arms.
Speaker:They go on this one mission and Maine starts to go into cyber
Speaker:psychosis where he beats the crap out of one of the other people.
Speaker:One the other edge, I think it's Kiwi.
Speaker:Yeah, Kiwi.
Speaker:One of the other edge runners.
Speaker:And so then Lucy has to jack into Lucy has to step up and get into it.
Speaker:So basically they had to plug into steal Mr.
Speaker:Tanaka's information, which ironically was the father of
Speaker:the guy, of the kid he beat up.
Speaker:Also we're skipping over a major plot point, which is
Speaker:David gets laid before that.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And Maine, my man and Maine, he goes back and he sits up with Maine and Maine's
Speaker:Hey, man, you look a little different.
Speaker:You're normally a vibe killer.
Speaker:You're right.
Speaker:And now you're nice and chill.
Speaker:You got some pussy, didn't you Got laid?
Speaker:You got laid.
Speaker:And it's like, what?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:He's it's all good, man.
Speaker:Because initially they, him, David, and Maine have a conversation about, Hey man,
Speaker:I'm surprised you ain't hit that yet.
Speaker:Or I'm surprised ain't nothing going on with you guys yet.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And David's basically saying, there's nothing going on because she won't let me.
Speaker:He's it's not like I'm not trying.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I really think they, I guess we won't, I guess we could spoil the ending.
Speaker:I really don't.
Speaker:I guess so.
Speaker:So I.
Speaker:But the showdown with the student who David beat up his dad.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This dude had some crazy arsenal.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He has a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker:And then what ended up happening was is they were like, okay,
Speaker:we gotta take this dude's data.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And so Lucy Jackson to his data, and you also find out eventually that
Speaker:Lucy was part of this, like secret governor organization, because of
Speaker:course that was like trained for.
Speaker:To steal, net data.
Speaker:And they're exploring the old net, right?
Speaker:The old net searching for data, which I don't know why he would
Speaker:do that, but that they were trying to look for lost knowledge.
Speaker:So there was a guy that was like this legendary hacker, and in one day he
Speaker:like destroyed like 75% of the net.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then it, and it fragmented itself into a bunch of different local nets.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But I'm like, why?
Speaker:What do you think you're gonna get from.
Speaker:This lost.
Speaker:It wasn't like it.
Speaker:They made them seem like they were doing something malicious.
Speaker:But there's nothing really malicious about seeking like regular,
Speaker:their methods were malicious.
Speaker:They were killing children.
Speaker:That's pretty, that's, I wouldn't say that I'm pretty m say that,
Speaker:but that's pretty on par for anime.
Speaker:So then they actually tricked David into getting into the suit they wanted
Speaker:him to get into originally anyway.
Speaker:And David is already showing signs of like cyro psychosis.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:The thing is the first sign of cyber psychosis.
Speaker:So first of all, we can't overestimate or look over when Maine dies, right?
Speaker:Because Maine doesn't have to die, right?
Speaker:Maine has basically said, Hey, my old lady's dead.
Speaker:And yeah, his right hand.
Speaker:His right hand woman rather.
Speaker:She kinda looks like a man a little bit.
Speaker:She's supposed to be like a super strong, I don't, they're banging, so I guess he
Speaker:doesn't think so, but she kinda looks like, reminds me of pink, a little bit.
Speaker:Like a super buff pink.
Speaker:Yeah, like a pink would just like writ.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And so what ends up happening is shit goes wrong.
Speaker:Because of course it does, because it's anime.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:David and Lucy and David are in the car, and they're like, David's I gotta go.
Speaker:And she's no it's done.
Speaker:It's over with.
Speaker:They're surrounded.
Speaker:Let's get outta here.
Speaker:And he's no, that's not.
Speaker:It's not how that's messed up.
Speaker:That's not how things should go.
Speaker:And she's we can just run off.
Speaker:And he is look, I'll be right back.
Speaker:I'm coming back.
Speaker:'cause also, he's the only one with super speed.
Speaker:So he's he could possibly do that, right?
Speaker:And so they get there and he's come on, main, let's go this, that, and the other.
Speaker:Basically you find out, he's listen, my old lady's gone and I am crazy.
Speaker:And that was really my only reason for living, right?
Speaker:So now that she's gone, I'm tired of running.
Speaker:This is it for me.
Speaker:And he's okay, cool.
Speaker:That's it for me too.
Speaker:And he was like, nah, you should go on and live your life, but I get to die.
Speaker:If both of us die, it's not as cool, right?
Speaker:I have to be the one that die.
Speaker:It's don't take my shine, bro.
Speaker:Chill out with that.
Speaker:Let me get my moment.
Speaker:Let me go out in a blaze of glory, right?
Speaker:If you are here, you're just gonna be messing up my vibe, man.
Speaker:But so then what ends up happening is then they do a typical like time skip, right?
Speaker:We don't know exactly how we're making it sound really funny.
Speaker:His death was actually pretty tragic.
Speaker:No, it was his death.
Speaker:His death was pretty emotional.
Speaker:His death was really tragic.
Speaker:And also the thing was, is can you see a little glimpses of Maine's backstory?
Speaker:Like you have no idea where this guy is from or anything about him, right?
Speaker:But he's like a kid in the desert.
Speaker:For some reason and stuff like that.
Speaker:And then so you see that David gets out, but he also has something in his hands.
Speaker:And they just so happen to be Maine's hands because of what he wanted.
Speaker:'cause Maine was like, Hey, listen, if I flatlined, they're all yours.
Speaker:You just have, but of course, like he'd rather have Maine.
Speaker:He wouldn't rather have the fun.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But then there's the time, skip where.
Speaker:Then David becomes like super buff and he become super smacked out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What's crazy is I thought it was a couple of years, especially only a couple of
Speaker:months, Yeah, it's supposed to be like six months or something like that.
Speaker:And I'm like, dang, dude, this guy like grew in height.
Speaker:He grew in height and got on and put on 60 pounds.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Crazy.
Speaker:But then that's just the, that's just the the chrome.
Speaker:He had to so that way they would fit.
Speaker:So then they go on different missions.
Speaker:Rebecca's Lucy has quit.
Speaker:Because, and he's Lucy's like completely shaken up by the events and also
Speaker:even though her and David still live together or something like that.
Speaker:Also, Lucy is naked a lot more after the Times scare.
Speaker:Just apparently going crazy means that she just, I don't like clothes anymore.
Speaker:She just walks around just butt naked, just oh, I was traumatized.
Speaker:I will no longer wear clothes.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:Also.
Speaker:David doesn't look like he's got a dick.
Speaker:Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker:Does it just just flip out or would you get a cyber dick?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I think that might be the one thing I, it took so long, this.
Speaker:Respond.
Speaker:You thought about it?
Speaker:I did.
Speaker:Thought you thought about it because if you ask every guy,
Speaker:Hey, do you want a bigger dick?
Speaker:Do you want a better dick?
Speaker:There's no guy that's going to say no to be like, no.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I like I, I don't know man.
Speaker:I me and my guy, we've been so close for so long.
Speaker:I don't think, I don't think I could, I don't think I could betray him like that.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker:But he looked like Akin Doll down there.
Speaker:Now he could have just I'm pretty sure it's some sort of ah, it probably
Speaker:comes out of a casing or something.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:That's so weird.
Speaker:Anyway, so then they then they get this other job and basically, and he, anyway,
Speaker:like the thing is that his arm is shaking.
Speaker:'cause of the cyber psychosis.
Speaker:And that's when he gets, they go into this job to Tanaka dad, no, not Tanaka
Speaker:dad, but the group Tanaka dad was Tanaka, actually, his name's Tanaka.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:His name is Tanaka.
Speaker:That Tanaka was with, they trick him into stealing this truck that has the thing
Speaker:they wanted him to get in the first place.
Speaker:And they're like, oh, okay.
Speaker:The only way, and they send it in the military after them, like the only way
Speaker:you to survive is for you to put it on.
Speaker:And even Rebecca and everyone else is don't do it because you
Speaker:know it's gonna drive you insane.
Speaker:But he does it anyway to save him.
Speaker:And then Kiwi betrays them.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:The whole reason they even got us is 'cause Kiwi betrayed them for money.
Speaker:For money, but also because it's like, Hey, if I don't, I'm
Speaker:just as screwed as they are.
Speaker:But also for money.
Speaker:But also for money.
Speaker:And David at this point is basically I know I'm going to die doing this, right?
Speaker:Because I'm might as well just go all out.
Speaker:And then Lucy, she wants to save him.
Speaker:'cause she's oh, don't put on the machine 'cause I know it's gonna drive you crazy.
Speaker:So that brings her back out.
Speaker:They, and then they kidnap Lucy, they fake.
Speaker:It's Lucy and then Lucy actually is don't do it.
Speaker:Don't do it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then they A while back, they have to hack in because Maine punched out Kiwi.
Speaker:And so what ended up happening was is Lucy was like, tell David I need you to
Speaker:say that you believe in me to do this.
Speaker:And then that's how they get David to get into the suit
Speaker:because Lucy's I believe in you.
Speaker:And so then, He's because they faked him.
Speaker:Pretend that Lucy's telling him to get in the suit when she's not really.
Speaker:So then he gets in the suit they trick him to get inside.
Speaker:And then he realized that he was played, which also he's
Speaker:lost his like legs and his arms.
Speaker:He's basically only a torso now.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And a torso in the head.
Speaker:And they go to actually rescue Lucy and then a character
Speaker:from the actual game shows up.
Speaker:Adam Smasher.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And Adam Smasher.
Speaker:Does what Adam Smasher does.
Speaker:He just demolishes everybody and all this special, like when he goes super speed,
Speaker:he has this like super, like this, like the world kinda like changes, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And he goes like through these fades and then Adam Smasher can also do it too.
Speaker:It's super dope.
Speaker:Although I did not, Rebecca got stalked out.
Speaker:Yeah, dude.
Speaker:She got smashed every, basically, she was like, we're having a moment here.
Speaker:Bang.
Speaker:Basically everyone dies but Falco, Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And Lucy, yeah, Falcon and Lucy.
Speaker:And then the ending in which Lucy is going on and she finally makes it to
Speaker:the moon, but it doesn't matter because she's always wanted to go to the moon.
Speaker:That's been her lifelong dream.
Speaker:But now it doesn't matter.
Speaker:'cause she, the people that she likes is like, are like, go on.
Speaker:Which I thought was a, even though the anime was fantastic, like it's one
Speaker:of the, I think the last anime that I think was that good was like Lin Saga.
Speaker:Then the song was hype.
Speaker:This one was the hype.
Speaker:This one was also really fantastic, but also at the same time, the
Speaker:motivation, if you think about it, is really strange to go to the moon.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's it's not like the moon's inaccessible, it's basically a ticket.
Speaker:It's like a plane ticket because in one of the episodes previous.
Speaker:Because David is getting closer and closer to psychosis they show a commercial
Speaker:where it's oh, 250 k to go to the moon, and he's oh, it's only 250 k.
Speaker:Like, they can afford to go anytime they want to.
Speaker:So it's then why go now?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:At the end the ending was weird.
Speaker:There's a lot of people, there's a lot of people that don't
Speaker:particularly like the ending.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I didn't mind it.
Speaker:I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker:Yeah, David gave the rest of it is so good.
Speaker:Like you give it a pass.
Speaker:David was like I'm gonna give my life for you to, go complete your dream.
Speaker:Or, if everyone else is dead, what else does she have to do?
Speaker:But it's if I die and 12 other people die for you.
Speaker:You better at least go on the train.
Speaker:That's a least you could do is get 'em to get him the fucking
Speaker:train and go with the space.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I but the anime itself was phenomenal, man.
Speaker:And the fact that, yeah, they weaved in the love story.
Speaker:The animation's really great.
Speaker:The the story is really great.
Speaker:Who was your favorite character?
Speaker:Yeah, it was definitely it was definitely Lucy.
Speaker:Lucy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I would have to say, I don't know man.
Speaker:I think I am gonna say Maine, just because he's such a jerk
Speaker:what humanity was taken from him.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's such a, that's why Lucy was attracted to David to begin with.
Speaker:'cause everybody around him is just like soulless psychopaths.
Speaker:But that's the world that they live in.
Speaker:And Maine even explains that to David where he is that's just the way it is.
Speaker:I wish it was different, but it's not, but made, he's like a really solid leader.
Speaker:Too, like he, when he tests out David, he's not pushing him because
Speaker:he believes that he can't do it.
Speaker:He's pushing him because he knows that he can.
Speaker:There was this t there was this it reminded me of this TV show I
Speaker:forgot the name of it, but basically it's like a cop show, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And what happens is there's a cop trainer.
Speaker:And he's really hard on this one woman.
Speaker:And then what ends up happening is there's a, is there's a military
Speaker:veteran that comes in and he's really nice to this woman, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then the original woman is like, why are you being so nice to her?
Speaker:You were so mean to me.
Speaker:He was like, Because you're already a kind and caring individual.
Speaker:He said she came from Afghanistan.
Speaker:He said she's still fighting the battle in Afghanistan.
Speaker:He said the difference is you already know that the, that you're kind and.
Speaker:Whatever.
Speaker:She doesn't, she still thinks that the world is Afghanistan.
Speaker:He said, so I have to help her out.
Speaker:I had to show you that the world is a cruel place.
Speaker:I had to make you tough and I had to make her solve.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:So that's basically the narrative that there.
Speaker:So if you could, so what's your ranking then?
Speaker:Out of 10?
Speaker:I would give at it eight, 8.5.
Speaker:Whoa, that's high for you, Nicholas.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's really high.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's like.
Speaker:What is that?
Speaker:A point under Gundam?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Dang, bro, that's high for you.
Speaker:I would say no, actually, no.
Speaker:I'll go with that.
Speaker:I'll go with that.
Speaker:Solid eight, 8.5 solid.
Speaker:I'd say it's solid.
Speaker:Eight.
Speaker:You solid eight.
Speaker:I'm gonna go with 8.5.
Speaker:I thought it was really great.
Speaker:But hey guys, this has been Southern Simpi.
Speaker:I'm dj.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas, and we'll see you next time.
Speaker:We'll see y'all later.
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