How To Watch ‘Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ Episodes Early Today, Pre-Netflix Release

Even Cyberpunk 2077 skeptics have to admit that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the new Netflix anime from Trigger, looks pretty awesome. It debuts tomorrow, officially, but you can actually watch it a day early in just a few hours.

How? CDPR itself will be streaming the first three episodes of the anime today, starting at 1 PM ET on its own Twitch channel here.

It is not just encouraging co-streaming if you’re a streamer yourself, but also offering assets like overlays if you go to this page here and scroll down. Music, background images and more from the show are also there.

There will be ten episodes in season 1 of Edgerunners, and if it’s a hit, probably further seasons to follow. Netflix has done good work with other video game animes like Castlevania, and that’s what fans are hoping to see here, and Trigger has a storied history of producing great series. The clips and trailers shown so far have all been excellent.

While the events of the show do not intersect with the game directly, and you do not need to have played the game to watch the anime, CDPR has made some minor crossovers in that there is a new Edgerunners patch that went live this week in Cyberpunk 2077 itself, which has you have a text conversation with one of the characters, and get a few items from the show. CDPR also says that if you watch the anime, you should be able to figure out where new hidden weapons are all over the Night City map in the game itself, based on where they appear in the show.

The show, though it does not show any game characters in the trailers, will have some game characters featured, though likely not V and Johnny themselves. Arasaka is a key presence in the show, and we’ll have to figure out how exactly everything connects today and tomorrow.

I may just wait and watch on Netflix all in one go tomorrow, as I don’t know if I can tune in exactly at 1 PM ET today to catch the live airing of the first episodes. But if you can, that’s a way to get a head start on the series, and if you want to co-stream the episodes with your live reaction for your viewers, I do think that’s what CDPR is attempting to get people to do to help market the series. I think they have a lot of confidence that people are going to like it.

I will have full thoughts on the series probably Wednesday or Thursday when I am able to watch all of it. I wonder if it will manage to climb Netflix’s top 10 chart for any length of time, or if a Cyberpunk anime will remain a relatively niche interest.

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