Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, an anime set in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077, has been announced for release on Netflix in 2022.
Announced during today’s Night City Wire broadcast, Edgerunners will be set in the game’s Night City, but will focus on different characters, and with a different story.
According to a press release, Edgerunners “tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.”
CD Projekt Red will act as producer on the series, with Studio Trigger working as the animation studio, and Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) directing. Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka will compose the score.
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Cyberpunk 2077 game director Adam Badowski has said: “We are so excited to finally reveal that we are working on an anime in the Cyberpunk world. We’ve devoured just about all the cyberpunk fiction there is to watch, read, and play; it’s a genre that leaves so much room for creativity, and has had such a strong influence on us. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is our love letter to cyberpunk as a whole, and to stories told in animated form.”
Studio Trigger CEO Masahiko Otsuka added: “We at TRIGGER are thrilled to work with CD Projekt Red to create a brand-new story set in the world of the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a huge challenge to adapt this universe into an anime, but we are eager to face it head-on. I’ve always loved cyberpunk as a genre, but always found it difficult to create as an original work. This is why I’m very excited to be working with CD Projekt Red on this project. It won’t be easy to please both game and anime fans, but I love a challenge, and I’m looking forward to the production. We’ll do our best to meet and exceed expectations.”
Edgerunners was far from the only thing shown – here’s everything shown at the Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Live livestream.
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Be sure to check out our Cyberpunk 2077 preorder guide for a breakdown of the different editions and prices.
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