Edgerunners’ Anime From Trigger Actually Looks Sick

While Cyberpunk 2077 is still undergoing image rehabilitation after its disastrous launch, a new project may be able to help that along a little bit. Even before the game was released, CDPR was working with Netflix and anime studio Trigger on a series that now finally is coming to fruition.

That would be Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and after being teased for years, it finally debuted its first trailer for Netflix’s GeekedWeek. You can check it out below:

Trigger is the anime studio known for a number of high profile projects, most notably Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia. They were brought in for some Star Wars: Visions episodes for Disney Plus, and now they’re headed to Netflix for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

The show did not get a new description, so here’s the old one:

“The series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City — a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he stays alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.”

Standalone as in, this is not about V or Johnny Silverhand from the game, but it does take place in Night City, and I can’t imagine there are no crossovers with characters we met in the game. But one of the best characters in Cyberpunk 2077 is Night City itself, and I’m excited to see it come to life in this format.

The goal here is for Netflix to have another video game-based animated hit on its hands like the gold standard, Castlevania, which recently ended its run. Even though this does seem like a one-off story, if it does well enough, perhaps there are still more stories to be told in Night City like this when it wraps.

As for Cyberpunk 2077 the game, things are going relatively dark until marketing for the upcoming 2023 expansion spools up in the back half of this year. We may get a few more patches to the game before then, but most everything is being poured into the expansion itself, which will mark the first truly substantive addition to the game since launch, as other additions have been things like new clothes, weapons and apartments so far.

I’m excited for Edgerunners and I hope it goes well. It debuts in September 2022, so just a few more months to wait now.

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