Netflix unveiled a brand new trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the upcoming anime collection from studio Set off (Kill la Kill, Promare), on Wednesday throughout the streamer’s ongoing Netflix Geeked Week occasion. The collection will premiere on Netflix in September 2022.
Primarily based on CD Projekt Crimson’s 2020 motion role-playing recreation Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a 10-episode standalone anime that follows the story of a road child attempting to outlive in Night time Metropolis, a futuristic metropolis obsessive about physique modification know-how. With no different choices, the child chooses to turn out to be an “edgerunner,” or cyberpunk; a mercenary outlaw-for-hire prepared to go to no matter lengths to get the job executed.
First introduced in 2020, the anime will probably be directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Promare) and have character designs by Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Model New Animal). “I’ve at all times beloved cyberpunk as a style, however at all times discovered it tough to create as an unique work,” Imaishi stated throughout the anime’s announcement. “Because of this I’m very excited to be working with CD Projekt Crimson on this venture. It received’t be simple to please each recreation and anime followers, however I really like a problem.”
