Produced by ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ creator CD Projekt Red and Japanese animation house Studio Trigger, the anime series about a reckless street kid turned mercenary outlaw hits the streamer next month.
Netflix has just released a NSFW trailer and images for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, an anime series set in the same universe as the game Cyberpunk 2077.
From the game’s creator, CD Projekt Red, and Japanese animation house Studio Trigger, the 10 episode series debuts on the streamer September 13.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells the story of the brilliant Lucy, a skilled netrunner and an important member of Maine's mercenary crew. Despite her highly sought-after technical abilities, she wants nothing more than to escape Night City and her dangerous past; she’s a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants. Having everything to lose, she chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.
CD Projekt Red, the company behind the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, has been developing the series since 2018, and will produce with a creative team that includes talent from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Cyberpunk 2077. Studio Trigger brings its signature style as the animation studio on the series.
Rafał Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher: Ronin) serves as Showrunner and Executive Producer, with Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder serving as producers. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) directs, working creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill); character designer and animation director Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal); from the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: Visions “The Elder”). The original score is composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).
Take a few moments to enter the NSFW world of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners:
Source: Netflix
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
