Netflix's Autoplay Means You Likely Missed A Cool Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Secret

Her moon, her man indeed.

If you watched Netflix’s new anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, chances are you’re still coping with its emotionally devastating ending and have brought it up to your therapist unprompted on more than one occasion. But the pain doesn’t stop there, friends. There’s a high probability Netflix’s aggressive autoplay feature, which will queue up something new for you to watch while your blurry vision regains focus from all the crying, could have caused you to miss a really cool reference hidden within the anime’s closing credits.

If you’ve been living under a rock with no wi-fi connection, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is game developer CD Projekt Red and anime studio powerhouse Trigger’s 10-episode show which premiered on the streamer on September 13. It follows a street kid named David Martinez who, after the untimely death of his mother, dives head-first into Night City’s criminal underworld with the help of his crew of edgerunners and his highly volatile military tech.

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Yesterday, Rafal Jaki, the executive producer and showrunner for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners posted a tweet congratulating a Redditor from the r/Edgerunner subreddit for finding an easter egg relating to the mysterious cybergirl Lucy and her fascination with the moon. While Trigger and “going to space” aren’t strangers to one another, this time around, its affinity for the cosmos runs deeper than just aesthetics.

According to Reddit user YorBoyChris, the brief clips of Lucy juxtaposed with shots of the moon during the anime’s closing theme song, “Let You Down,” is a reference to The Moon tarot card as it appears in Cyberpunk 2077, where it’s one of many tarot cards you can find throughout Night City as part of the Fool on the Hill sidequest.

For those unfamiliar with this tarot card’s meaning, it basically boils down to things not always being what they appear to be and letting your gut feeling guide you through this mess of a world. A message which is the entire thesis of Lucy’s character within Cyberpunk’s mythos, given her desire to escape Night City, a town she sees as a “cage of light.” Also, as a side note, if you draw The Moon tarot card upright, it symbolizes “illusion, fear, and anxiety,” according to Biddy Tarot. Drawing it reversed, however, means “the release of fear, repressed emotion, and inner confusion.” I don’t know about you, but that adds a whole new layer to the euphemistic phrase, “the moon looks beautiful tonight.”