We’re heading back to Night City for another spin off from CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077.
Everything’s coming up cyberpunk lately, and the latest slice of culture from the neon-lit dystopia of the dark future is the news that we’re getting a sequel series to Netflix‘s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Not quite a second season, it seems. While Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is set in the same universe as its forebear, and takes place after the events depicted, it’s feeling more like another story in the same ‘verse rather than a direct follow-on. Hard to say for sure, though.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Trailer
What’s the plot?
All we have is the following:
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge. In a city that thrives in the spotlight of violence, one question remains: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?
Director Kai Ikarashi (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, SSSS.Gridman) brings a bold, cinematic vision to the series, supported by the lead character designer Kanno Ichigo (Promare, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners). They’re joined by returning collaborators Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare) and Hugo Award winner Bartosz Sztybor as showrunner, story writer, and producer.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is created in collaboration with CD PROJEKT RED and animation studio TRIGGER and is now in production with a planned release on Netflix in the future.
Who’s in it?
Oh, we are way too early for that, choombatta. Given this follows on from the events of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 1, there’s a chance that some characters may recur. And let’s face it, death is no barrier in a genre where brains get uploaded or copied all the damn time. We might even see season 1’s doomed hero, David (KENN/Zach Aguilar) again, or some version of him. But no hard casting data has dropped as yet.
When’s it out?
Again, way too early for a date.
What’s the vibe?
I’m so in the bag for this stuff, I liked the game before they fixed it. To be clear, I liked it a hell of a lot more after. So, while it instantly goes on my To Watch list, YMMV.