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Writer's pictureNicole S. Castro

Netflix original anime 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' reveals teaser for September 2022 premiere

Updated: Jul 3, 2022

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners serves as a spinoff to the Cyberpunk 2077 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt.


By: Nicole S. Castro on June 09, 2022 at 10:38 PHT

Streaming platform Netflix has released teaser promotions for an upcoming original anime titled Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, slated to premiere in September 2022. It is co-produced by CD Projekt Red and Studio Trigger.


The big reveal was made during Netflix's international online event Geeked Week which runs from June 7 to 11, 2022.

©Netflix, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners PROJECT

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners serves as a spinoff to the Cyberpunk 2077 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt.


As with the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, the story of Edgerunners takes place in Night City where technology and human body modification (called cyberware) have become commonplace. The anime centers on a boy named David who lives as an outlaw mercenary for its protagonist. In the official teaser below, he meets a mysterious girl named Lucy.



Edgerunners is slated for 10 episodes. The anime is directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi (Promare), co-directed by Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann), with character designs by Yoh Yoshinari (Neon Genesis Evangelion).




In the video below, the CD Projekt Red team discuss how the anime adaptation will focus on the more social elements of the Cyberpunk universe. This paves way to more powerful storylines that could not be covered in Cyberpunk 2077 which had to focus on the gameplay.


Staff

  • Original idea: Mike Pondsmith

  • Created by: Rafal Jaki

  • Executive producers: Rafal Jaki, Dylan Thomas, Taiki Sakurai, Yoshiki Usa

  • Producers: Saya Elder, Bartosz Sztybor, Satoru Homma

  • Animation producers: Shunsuke Shida, Naoko Tsutsumi

  • Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi

  • Screen story: Bartosz Sztybor

  • Script: Masahiko Otsuka, Yoshiki Usa

  • Creative support: Hiromi Wakabayashi

  • Character designer: Yoh Yoshinari

  • Assistant character designers: Yuto Kaneko, Yusuke Yoshigaki

  • Background director: Masanobu Nomura

  • Color design: Yukiko Kakita

  • Composite director: Tetsuya Kawata

  • Editor: Masato Yoshitake

  • Sound director: Hiroki Urakari

  • Sound effects: Hiroki Nozaki, Airi Kobayashi

  • Original score: Akira Yamaoka

  • Opening animation director: Hiroyuki Imaishi

  • Assistant director: Yoshiyuki Kaneko

  • Animation studio: Trigger

  • Production: CD Projekt Red




Source: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners official website, Comic Natalie

 

NICOLE S. CASTRO

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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.



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