Cyberpunk: Edgerunners trailer shows off Trigger’s Netflix anime

Netflix has released a brand new trailer Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersThe next anime series, en route to studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, Promare), on Wednesday during the streamer’s ongoing Netflix Geeked Week event. It will be available on Netflix September 20, 222.

Based on CD Projekt Red’s 2020 action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners This is a standalone, 10-episode anime about a street child trying to survive in Night City. Night City is a futuristic city obsessed with body mod technology. With no other options, the kid chooses to become an “edgerunner,” or cyberpunk; a mercenary outlaw-for-hire willing to go to whatever lengths to get the job done.

The anime was first announced in 2020. It will be directed and produced by Hiroyuki Ichishi.Gurren Lagann, PromareYoh Yoshinari has also created character designs for the aforementioned characters (Little Witch Academia, Brand New Animal). “I’ve always loved cyberpunk as a genre, but always found it difficult to create as an original work,” Imaishi said during the anime’s announcement. “This is why I’m very excited to be working with CD Projekt Red on this project. It won’t be easy to please both game and anime fans, but I love a challenge.”