new norm of good anime
Edgerunners is barely popular, let alone the new norm for anything. Sounds like you're just going schizo or you're just not used to zoomers overpraising everything. Nowadays people don't just say 'oh yeah this show was pretty good', they either have to say it's the worst shit imaginable or the best thing ever made, forever.
Edgerunners was alright. Some cool designs, easy to watch, good soundtrack, some good moments, very accurate to the game... It was too short and thus made it really hard for me to care about any of the characters, but other than that, there was nothing majorly wrong with it.
You're just saying 'uuh all of it's shit' without actually saying what's bad about any of it. It has a couple of bad animation moments, sure, but calling it badly animated, especially compared to most modern anime, is just disengenuous. Same thing with the OST. Lots of really good tracks. I didn't watch in dub, but I heard the dub is pretty good, too.
Again, sounds like you just got baited by zoomers into thinking it was some masterpiece and then got mad about it, and instead of recognizing it was just a 7/10 show, you throw and ESL tantrum and call it a 3/10.
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