Netflix Anime ‘Cyberpunk Edgerunners’: Coming to Netflix in September 2022

Netflix has released a trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a new anime that is a spin-off of the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Despite being in...

Netflix has released a trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a new anime that is a spin-off of the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Despite being incredibly colourful, the teaser incorporates harsh metal music and gives off a grim vibe. Characters engage in some hardcore anime violence in the trailer.

"Remember how Maelstrom gang was the only gang in Night City with an extreme threat level in Cyberpunk 2077? Well, the threat gets bigger. Check out a #GeekedWeek exclusive clip from CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS, premiering September, 2022," 

Netflix has stated this. You may see the video below:

Remember how Maelstrom gang was the only gang in Night City with an extreme threat level in Cyberpunk 2077?

Well, the threat gets bigger. Check out a #GeekedWeek exclusive clip from CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS, premiering September, 2022. pic.twitter.com/pntz8jgVrt

— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) June 8, 2022

The Maelstrom gang, one of many in Night City portrayed in Cyberpunk 2077, is featured in this footage. Edgerunners is a cyberpunk story about people who live on the cutting edge of technology "tells a 10-episode stand-alone story of a street kid attempting to make it in a futuristic city fascinated with technology and body modification. He chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner, a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk, despite having everything to lose."

Studio TRIGGER and CD Projekt are collaborating on the 10-episode anime. Masahiko Otsuka (Promare) will serve as assistant director while Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann) will serve as director. Yoh Yoshinari (BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Kill la Kill) will design the characters, with Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill) as the creative director (Little Witch Academia). Akira Yamaoka, who is well known for composing multiple Silent Hills video games, will compose the soundtrack. The screenplay will be written by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN) and Masahiko Otsuka (Promare).

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In September 2022, Netflix will release Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.