CD Projekt and Studio Set off’s in style anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, is formally getting a second season.
Introduced on the Anime Expo in Los Angeles on Friday, Studio Set off confirmed Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is in manufacturing for Netflix and revealed the official brand for the challenge.
Kai Ikarashi, who was an artist on the unique Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, will make his directorial debut with Edgerunners 2.
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Ikarashi will probably be joined by showrunner and author Bartosz Sztybor, lead character designer Kanno Ichigo, and Masahiko Otsuka, who will probably be answerable for the screenplay adaptation.
“David’s story is likely to be over, however there’s lots extra to find in Evening Metropolis,” stated Sztybor. “And to once more have the legendary animation studio Set off alongside for the experience makes us at CD Projekt Pink so excited to introduce a uncooked, actual chronicle of redemption and revenge, one thing in contrast to what we’ve finished earlier than.
The Anime Expo panel concluded with an invite for attendees to a closed-door viewing of teaser footage later that night.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners was launched on Netflix in 2022 and was an enormous hit for each the streaming platform and CD Projekt, which partly attributed a rise in Cyberpunk 2077 gross sales to the success of the present.
The next yr, Anime streaming big Crunchyroll named Cyberpunk: Edgerunners its Anime of the Yr, beating established sequence similar to Demon Slayer and Assault on Titan.
