Studio Set off and Netflix have launched (opens in new tab) the intro sequence for upcoming anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, primarily based on Cyberpunk 2077 (opens in new tab)‘s Evening Metropolis universe and co-produced by the group at CD Projekt Crimson. The intro is fairly well-composed, with a pleasant visible type that understands the loud yellow/magenta/blue shade scheme used all through Cyberpunk 2077’s advertising and marketing and emblem palette.
It suits what we beforehand wrote concerning the chaos of final month’s trailer for Edgerunners, which we predict typically “appears actually good.” (opens in new tab)
Individually, I am most happy that creator Mike Pondsmith (opens in new tab) will get entrance billing for creating the world all the way in which again within the 90s.
The track for the intro would possibly shock some: It is Franz Ferdinand’s hit “This Fireplace,” which I believe I final heard in 2008 or so and was actually shocked to listen to over an anime intro. (No joke: I went in search of the opposite browser tab the track should have been enjoying in.)
Here is the official description, per Netflix: “The sequence tells a standalone, 10-episode story a couple of avenue child making an attempt to outlive in Evening Metropolis — a expertise and physique modification-obsessed metropolis of the long run. Having every little thing to lose, he stays alive by turning into an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw often known as a cyberpunk.”
The anime is made by Studio Set off, a wildly common animation group whose hit works embody Kill la Kill and Darling within the Franxx, in addition to Netflix’s personal BNA and Little Witch Academia. Within the videogames world, Studio Set off has labored on animation in video games like Indivisible (opens in new tab), Fireplace Elmblem Fates, and the intro video for Shantae and the Seven Sirens.
