Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Cyberpunk 2077, anime, Netflix, Studio Trigger

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a standalone anime Netflix spinoff called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Developer CD Projekt Red declared a partnership with Kill atomic number 57 Kill's Studio Trigger and Netflix during today's Dark City Wire introduction, saying that the project has been worked happening "in secret." Put together to premiere in 2022, the anime series will comprise placed in Cyberpunk 2077's Night City merely will focus on new stories and characters through its 10-instalment lam.

A press release briefly describes the story of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, saying IT's "about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body change-haunted city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by decent an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk."

Hacker: Edgerunners' Japan-supported producer Saya Elder further explained the squad was never interested in making a brimfull recreation of the story in Cyberpunk 2077. Rather, they want the anime to be a gateway for those unfamiliar with the game and cyberpunk genre.

Hacker: Edgerunners has been worked on since 2018, with CD Projekt Marxist overseeing the Zanzibar copal as a manufacturer. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Kill la Kill, Promare) is directing with Masahiko Otsuka (Promare, Gurren Lagann) serving as assistant director and Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill) set Eastern Samoa the creative director. Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academe, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Little Witch Academia) are the character designers, with Yoshiki US Army (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill) set to make up the altered screenplay. As an interesting surprise, Inexplicit Hill composer Akira Yamaoka will be composition the original score for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

CD Projekt Red head and Cyberpunk 2077 game director Adam Badowski commented on the squad's collaboration with Studio Trigger and the decision to move forward with an animated Netflix spinoff:

We are so excited to at last discover that we are working on an anime in the Cyberpunk world. We've devoured fair about all the cyberpunk fiction on that point 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.

The Night Urban center Wire event also served as a agency to fork over more Cyberpunk 2077 news digression from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, including or s gameplay and a new trailer.

This isn't the first time a CD Projekt Carmine property is coming to Netflix, atomic number 3 an adaptation of The Witcher franchise came last year, and it is even receiving an anime rendition of its own.