Netflix unveiled a brand new trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the upcoming anime collection from studio Set off (Kill la Kill, Promare), on Wednesday through the streamer’s ongoing Netflix Geeked Week occasion. The collection will premiere on Netflix in September 2022.
Based mostly on CD Projekt Purple’s 2020 motion role-playing recreation Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a 10-episode standalone anime that follows the story of a avenue child making an attempt to outlive in Evening Metropolis, a futuristic metropolis obsessive about physique modification know-how. With no different choices, the child chooses to change into an “edgerunner,” or cyberpunk; a mercenary outlaw-for-hire keen to go to no matter lengths to get the job performed.
First introduced in 2020, the anime might 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 troublesome to create as an unique work,” Imaishi mentioned through the anime’s announcement. “That is why I’m very excited to be working with CD Projekt Purple on this venture. It gained’t be straightforward to please each recreation and anime followers, however I like a problem.”
