Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — everything we know about the Netflix anime

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners is what happens when a super-hyped video game reaches summit excitement: it gets a Netflix show before the game fifty-fifty comes out.

Revealed at the terminate of the Cyberpunk 2077 Nighttime City Wire stream, Edgerunners was a surprise to all involved. Cyberpunk 2077, for those who don't know, is an upcoming futuristic action-take a chance game that volition feature an immersive open up world and star Keanu Reeves as a key graphic symbol. And soon, information technology'll have a companion anime series that further fleshes out the world of Night City.

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CD Projekt Red announced that it's developing Cyberpunk: Edgerunners in partnership with Netflix and Studio Trigger. Trigger has a strong portfolio of anime projects, including Darling and the Franxx, Trivial Witch Academia, Kill La Kill and Promare.

Here's everything nosotros've learned nearly Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and so far.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners release engagement

The 10-episode run of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will hit Netflix in 2022.

Hopefully by and so, the oft-delayed Cyberpunk 2077 volition have come out, and it will accept met and perchance exceeded the hype. If the show comes out to an audience that doesn't meet a need for it — say this game is more than Anthem than The Last of Us 2 — information technology might have a hard time thriving at Netflix.

For those keeping track, Cyberpunk 2077 itself is ready to drop on PS4, PC and Xbox One on November. 19, to requite us something to be thankful for. On the same stream where Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was announced, nosotros found out complimentary PS5 and Xbox Series X versions volition be bachelor for those who buy the current-gen editions.

That being said, given the success of Netflix's The Witcher, the Cyberpunk prove has to resonate with an audience across but gamers in order to be a hit.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners teaser trailer

In the teaser trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, nosotros met Saya Elder, the Japan-based producer of the series. She described herself as a "fixer" — a term from Cyberpunk 2077 itself.

The prune doesn't testify off any show footage of the prove, but it takes you lot on a walking tour of Japan at night, setting the mood for the foreboding show.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners story

In the trailer, Elder says "We were certain we didn't want to brand a recreation of the game." Instead, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners "is a standalone story set in the aforementioned universe," with the Night Urban center location. The characters and story will be completely unique.

She described the show as near a gateway drug for the game, as it could bring in members of Netflix's audience who aren't as familiar or dialed in with gaming.

Trigger studio director Imaishi said "We are making the anime that both Cyberpunk fans and those who are not and then familiar with the game can enjoy.

The trailer closes on a still of a grapheme that is presumably the hero of the serial, who stands back to the states, with a glowing fist. Polygon reports the "street child" protagonist at the middle of the show volition spend the series becoming an Edgerunner, "an outlaw mercenary."

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