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@matana the writers knew how to make the viewer feel like shit, but for me that feeling wasn't deep sadness or melancholy. it was frustration and annoyance. i wasn't crying, i threw my hands up in the air and thought "what a fucking waste." it's the exact same feeling i get thinking about the last of us 2, hence the comparison.

@matana any good story has tragedy. it makes it relatable and does give that gut punch. everyone's life has tragedy and they can feel that connection through the story.

in my opinion, the problem with edgerunners is that the tragedy of the ending feels contrived. with the producer actually saying that was his intention, that's a pretty big confirmation for me. you can have stuff like david's mom dying and that one guy going cyberpsycho. those fit really well. everything past that point (basically the second half of the anime) is just so forced to specifically put you in a depression hole all so this guy can be like "oh yeah it makes me happy when people are just as sad as i am." i think that's why a lot of people might like it too. they are sad, so seeing other people who are sad makes them comfortable. maybe it's more of a translation error or something but i think "comfortable" is the way most people feel. saying you feel happy that other people are just as sad as you is sociopathic.

i had wondered if the writers had just sped things up and crunched it down because they were given a pretty strict episode limit. that could still be part of the issue, but now it seems pretty clear that the story was always supposed to be something that only served to make you feel like shit. i want a story that makes me feel like shit at some points, but also has reprieve from that. i want the parts that make me feel like shit to actually make sense. the writing of edgerunners is just not good, even if this depression stuff is what they were going for they really should have worked it in far better.

nabokov's quote here is a little interesting to me, because he mentions that at its lowest level it becomes ennui/boredom. i think edgerunners' story goes so far into "toska" that i just find it completely boring. it's just not interesting to see these unrealistic characters being forced into the shittiest possible situations. and do note there is a clear difference between demonstrating the ennui a character feels (such as samurai jack in the final season) and actually causing the viewer to feel that way towards your story.