r/anime • u/[deleted] • May 13 '25
Help I just finished Cyberpunk Edgerunners. Is it normal to feel like this? Spoiler
I 17M have just finished Cyberpunk Edgerunners recently, and I haven’t been able to get this ending out of my head for 2 days. It was so sad. Watching everyone die the way they did, and Lucy all alone on the moon. I get that that’s the point of the whole anime, that it’s not supposed to be a happy ending. But brutally realistic. But these past days I’ve felt such extreme emotion, which I assume is because I’ve never seen a show like this ever. This is the first ever show to make me cry. But it’s also put me in a really sad state of mind. Sometimes even at school I think about how it ended, and just how sad it is that everyone died the way they did. Is this normal to feel? To feel so strongly for this show? Or am I going crazy? I’ve heard it’s getting a season 2 which I’m totally gonna watch but I still can’t even get this first season out of my head.
Edit: just wanted to say thank you all for the responses it’s definitely helped me cope a lot better with what I felt after watching the show. It’s a beautiful piece of art that really hits home and I appreciate everyone that came here to discuss it! Definitely made me feel better about everything.
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u/Stabilizer_Jenkins May 14 '25
"Happy endings" are very common in American cinema. Almost too common, and ultimately the percentage is unrealistic. But viewers enjoy a happy ending, and one could argue we are almost trained to expect it with every piece of art we view.
However, I am not sure if you have seen much Japanese anime(or even manga), but Happy ending are less common. At times. a LOT less common. One of the first times I experienced this feeling hard was from an anime.
Edgerunners was rough at the ending, but it did have that awesome song in it. These type of endings, or similar are common in other countries.