Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool once more, is getting a sequel
It is past a cliche to level out that video games’ TV and movie variations persistently sucked for many years earlier than there have been any good ones, and admittedly, it is getting tougher to keep in mind that time. Among the finest examples of how issues have gotten higher lately is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners—or as I like to recollect it, the primary time I puzzled if I ought to reinstall Cyberpunk 2077 (an impulse senior editor Wes Fenlon shared in his impressions).
For those who too had been swept up in Studio Set off’s neon-lit dystopia, you will be blissful to be taught {that a} sequel sequence was introduced at at this time’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles, as a publish on X from the official Edgerunners account proclaims:
💥Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is in manufacturing! 💥It presents a brand new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a uncooked chronicle of redemption and revenge.❓When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do it’s important to go to make your story matter? 👀… pic.twitter.com/jTMA89N1zKJuly 4, 2025
A press launch from CD Projekt Crimson quoted showrunner Bartosz Sztybor as saying “David’s story could be over, however there’s loads extra to find in Night time Metropolis … [it’s] one thing in contrast to what we’ve executed earlier than.”
You possibly can watch the complete livestream on Twitch, the place the announcement adopted a “behind the scenes” panel that includes Sztybor, director Hiroyuki Imaishi, and voice actors Emi Lo and Zach Aguilar.
Throughout that stream, Imaishi revealed directorial duties could be handed to Kai Ikarashi, who labored within the artwork division on the unique Edgerunners and directed episode 6, “Woman On Fireplace.” Imaishi mentioned within the stream, “We have introduced in some contemporary faces and are working onerous to carry it to life, so I really hope you will sit up for it.”
Frankly, I’m trying ahead to it, although the present launch window as shared by CD Projekt Crimson is “the longer term,” which is terribly obscure. Time will inform if Edgerunners 2 can dwell as much as the primary season—which, if you have not watched it, continues to be floating round on Netflix.
If you’ll want to be hitting buttons to take pleasure in your self, you possibly can as a substitute revisit Cyberpunk 2077 itself; it has seen a ton of enhancements since launch and has been genuinely nice since Phantom Liberty got here out, and it is on sale now for simply $21 within the Steam Summer time Sale.