I wasn't convinced Cyberpunk: Edgerunners could have a sadder ending until I read its writer's other pitches—and boy did we get off easy

This article will contain spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is an excellent anime, and it's also very sad—its ending does a great job of reaching into your chest, busting past your ribs, grabbing your heart and ripping it out. It's a genuinely thoughtful examination of the cyberpunk genre's dystopia, the corrupt ideas of success and legacy we can get in a society that views people as disposable.

David's fate at the end of it (along with the unceremonious stomping of Rebecca mid heart-to-heart) is a prime example of that—there aren't any happy endings in Night City, just a staving off of entropy and cyberpsychosis, or a meaningless life in a dead-end gutter somewhere.

Basically, its ending is heartbreaking. But did you know it could be even worse? That's per an animecorner interview with the show's writer and producer, Bartosz Sztybor, who spoke to the publication about its potential endings:

"There was never a happy ending," Sztybor says, then follows up that light jab w...