A New Cyberpunk Anime is On the Approach

It’s official: we’re getting one other anime within the Cyberpunk universe.

Throughout Netflix’s Geeked Week, the streamer had a brief tease confirming it was teaming with CD Projekt Pink on one other anime mission. Prior to now, CDPR mentioned it’d be open and willing to do extra after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was so successful that it obtained most individuals to come back round on Cyberpunk 2077 and its redemption story. And it appears they’re able to make good on that want within the subsequent few years as CDPR begins “laying the groundwork” on what is going to finally turn into a full sequel…presumably proper after Witcher 4 is out the door. (That’s additionally getting another anime, funnily sufficient.)

Sadly, nothing else was mentioned in regards to the new Cyberpunk anime, past that it’ll as soon as once more be set within the recreation’s central location of Evening Metropolis. (It’s not even clear if it’ll be a present or a film, a la Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.) Beforehand, CDPR acknowledged it’d wish to hold Edgerunners as a one-season show and inform totally different tales, which can put the kibosh on any hopes to see extra of Lucy and…effectively, just about simply her. As Polygon notes, the teaser additionally doesn’t point out Edgerunners’ animation studio Set off, simply that Netflix Animation might be concerned. The streamer’s in-house studio co-produces and develops reveals and movies (both internally or externally) like Blue Eye Samurai and The Sea Beast.

Extra data on Cyberpunk’s subsequent anime enterprise will come “quickly,” in response to the teaser’s YouTube abstract. Within the meantime, Edgerunners continues to be on Netflix ready to be binged and rewatched till we be taught extra. And when you’re carried out with that, you possibly can stay up for the live-action Cyberpunk show and Lucy popping into Guilty Gear Strive a visitor fighter someday in 2025.

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