Approach again in 2022, when the primary season of Netflix’s unbelievable Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime premiered, CD Projekt Crimson stated that the present wouldn’t be getting a second season. Within the three years since then, nonetheless, each the developer and the animation crew at Studio Set off stated a number of instances that they’d be open to a brand new Cyberpunk anime. Now, we’re lastly getting one and it’ll, surprisingly, carry the Edgerunners identify.
On July 4, CD Projekt Crimson introduced that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is now in growth over at Studio Set off, and can characteristic a brand new, standalone story informed throughout 10 episodes. We don’t know a lot about it past that it will likely be some form of revenge story, because the official description calls it a “uncooked chronicle of redemption and revenge.”
“In a metropolis that thrives within the highlight of violence, one query stays: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you must go to make your story matter?”
The following day, the corporate launched a minute-long teaser that’s largely made up of footage from the primary season, exhibiting (spoilers) the unique Edgerunners crew’s deaths. We then see silhouettes of what appears to be the brand new forged, with a lingering shot on what appears to be like like a younger baby holding an outdated camcorder. I’ve seen some chatter suggesting that this lady could possibly be the daughter of season one stars David and Lucy, however that’s simply theorycrafting at this level.
Whereas we nonetheless don’t know a lot, it does sound like Edgerunners 2 goes to be a little bit of a bummer. At Anime Expo (thanks, Eurogamer), author Bartosz Sztybor stated that the second season will preserve all of the feel-it-in-your-bones melodrama of the primary season and of Cyberpunk 2077.
“However the different factor is that we’re an organization from Poland. I’m from Poland and other people in Poland are unhappy. They’re born unhappy, they die unhappy, so I simply needed to make the entire world unhappy.”
I’m all the time down for a visit again to Evening Metropolis, and if the season is really a stand-alone story that received’t trample everywhere in the first season’s excellent ending, then I’m all for an additional spherical of Edgerunners. I nonetheless take into account the primary collection to be among the finest sport diversifications on the market. Hey, perhaps if this present is out earlier than Cyberpunk 2 drops, we’ll get one other tie-in replace to Cyberpunk 2077, the sport CD Projekt Crimson can’t appear to cease tinkering with.