Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Misses its Potential

Trigger is an animation studio known for its frenetic action scenes with the likes of Kill la Kill and Darling in the Franxx. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners doesn’t disappoint…when it has action scenes anyway. The anime is based on the video game of the same name, which I haven’t played.

The story follows a street kid named David who gets entangled in a cybernetic dystopia ran by feuding mega-corporations. He joins a group of black-market mercenaries, who are called edgerunners, to survive. He develops...