Followers of Netflix’s well-liked Cyberpunk 2077 anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners frightened about having their hearts damaged another time in a second season can now have their hearts damaged in an altogether completely different method. CD Projekt Pink has confirmed that there are not any plans for a second season.
In an interview with Famitsu, which was translated by Video Video games Chronicle, CD Projekt Pink group supervisor Satoru Honma stated there have been no plans to choose up the story of Edgerunners with a second season.
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“I personally want to proceed to work with Japanese studios to supply extra anime sooner or later, partly as a result of we’ve got acquired excellent suggestions,” Honma instructed Famitsu. “Nonetheless, simply to be clear, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was deliberate as a standalone work, so there’s no such factor as ‘we are literally engaged on Season 2 within the background.’”
If there have been to be a continuation of the anime sooner or later sooner or later, Honma stated it wouldn’t be one thing like a “season 2” for Edgerunners however “one thing utterly completely different.” This revelation ought to come as no shock to viewers who completed the anime and now burst into tears each time the Rosa Walton and Hallie Coggins tune “I Actually Wish to Keep at Your Home” performs. Regardless of the no-sequel anime information, Edgerunners’ crucial reception has spilled over into 2077, giving the long-troubled recreation a second life with a humongous increase in concurrent gamers on Steam.
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“Abroad folks say that the anime has given CDPR a second likelihood. We’re grateful to [Studio] Set off for giving us the prospect to benefit from the story of V and Johnny Silverhand after watching the anime,” Satoru stated.
Aside from sci-fi mecha anime SSSS.Dynazenon, Set off hardly ever makes follow-up seasons for its anime no matter how immensely well-liked they’re. Although there are not any plans for a second season of Edgerunners, Honma stated he’d personally wish to proceed producing anime sooner or later with Japanese studios due to the constructive suggestions Edgerunners acquired. Personally, I’d vouch for a Witcher anime by animation studio Mappa given its work on epics with Assault on Titan’s remaining season and the second season of Vinland Saga. That stated, Mappa seems fully occupied at the moment so, no rush.
If this information has you down within the dumps, you may take solace in realizing that this blackwall-esque revelation doesn’t imply the tip of the cyber rainbow for future tasks searching for to develop 2077’s universe. Exterior of Phantom Liberty, the primary main enlargement for 2077 popping out subsequent 12 months (which’ll skip last-gen consoles), a brand new novel known as Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence is about to launch in August 2023. Equally to Edgerunners, No Coincidence follows a newly fashioned ragtag group of misfits who’re tasked with smuggling an artifact from a Militech convoy.
If ready till subsequent 12 months proves an excessive amount of for you, you may at all times take a look at comics for the sport which might be set to launch subsequent month, or play the unique Cyberpunk tabletop video games from R. Talsorian Video games.
