Do we like Edgerunners Season 1 or 2 more?
the series is overrated and mid
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>>292184048Lucy > Talia, therefore S1 > S2
>>292184048Season 1>>>>>>season 2, but I liked both.
>>292184048I could go into detail, but what tanked S2 for me is the lack of realism.In S1, you had the feeling that what happened to the main characters also could happen to you, if you were unlucky enough to be born dirt poor in a dystopian world. It felt real.S2 relied on gimmicks and quasi-supernatural stuff, which had to be justified by endless technobabble. It looked like a poor man's GitS. No realism, no immersion.I don't think S2 was a bad show, I enjoyed it. But S1 is vastly superior.
>im going to rape you boyWhat did adam smasher meant by that?
>>292184048I liked 2 more than 1. But maybe 1 is better. I don't care, I prefer happier endings. In season 3 I want to see everyone alive, healthy, married and with kids.
>>292184048Season 2 has very messy storytelling. It's just on the verge of becoming a trainwreck but it's held barely together by some strong isolated moments. Season 1 by comparison is a much tighter an focused script, even though it could have been fleshed out even better by having a couple more episodes. Season 2 chose to double down on S1's mistakes instead, and ended up with 4 main characters with the same 10 episode count.
>>292184048I like S2 more but S1 is superior from a craft perspective. The art, animation, and direction all have higher peaks and greater consistency, even though S2 has some wonderful sequences and has visual style unique to itself compared to S1. The episode scripts/storyboards in S1 are more tightly structured. It's a well executed, textbook tragedy. S2 is a weird art film that ends with a boy yelling with innocent excitement.
I think both seasons feel rushed in areas, but I found myself liking Season 2 more, which surprised me because I’m a huge Imaishi fan. It’s a personal thing, but I guess I didn’t like how restrained the first season felt visually, everything was too smooth and consistent for a Trigger work. The second season goes crazy with different visual effects and styles, which I loved. Season 2’s plot was a lot messier, but it worked for me and I think it’s high points hit harder than the first season. I was able to predict the whole plot of season 1 after watching the first episode, and I think that made it hard for me to get emotionally invested. I think I’m more gracious to Season 2 because it’s Kai Ikarashi’s first time in the director’s chair for a full series, whereas Imaishi had been working in anime for nearly 30 years when he directed season 1, and it ended up being (in my opinion) possibly his weakest directorial work.
>>292184764based lucychad
