My thoughts on Edgerunners season 2

Cyberpunk Edgerunners is an absolutely amazing Netflix original anime that was released in 2022. After 4 long years, a second season was announced and released in 2026 just this Tuesday. I watched the first half (5 episodes) of it, and I would like to compare it to the first half of the first season. Both seasons have nothing to do with each other,r but they are set in the same city. The second season was set after the first, but nothing in Night City has really changed. Arasaka is still on top,p and every day citizens have it horrible. Each season takes a different approach to the storyline. In the first season, it follows David Martinez and only David Martinez, while in the second season there are many different overlapping storylines with many different characters. The first half of the first season is David losing his mother and joining a group of edgerunners with his new cybernetic implant. David is a newbie, mostly being in the background supporting the others in his group that he looks up to. At the end of the first half, they get cornered, and he has to watch his mentors die in front of him while he escapes with his life. The first half of the second season is much less focused on what it wants to accomplish; it is split into different overlapping storylines between 4 different characters. One of the characters that the story follows is Roma,n who is a child who loves filming that he sells to make his money. Roman finds D, a man who is seeking out the people that massacred his bandlands village. Roman loves filming him because he is very interested, and it gives him something good to film. The other half of the story follows King, a former edgerunner who went cyberpsycho but is now a sad old man. He finds out he has a child that has installed many implants and is slowly turning psycho just as he did. The second season has much less direction in its first half, but I hope that I will understand how it all makes sense when all the different characters come together.