David Bridges
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 Crimson on one other anime venture. Prior to now, CDPR mentioned it’d be open and prepared to do extra after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was so successful that it acquired most individuals to come back round on Cyberpunk 2077 and its redemption story. And it appears they’re able to make good on that need within the subsequent few years as CDPR begins “laying the groundwork” on what is going to ultimately turn out to be a full sequel…presumably proper after Witcher 4 is out the door. (That’s additionally getting one other anime, funnily sufficient.)
Sadly, nothing else was mentioned concerning the new Cyberpunk anime, past that it’ll as soon as once more be set within the recreation’s central location of Night time Metropolis. (It’s not even clear if it’ll be a present or a film, a la Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.) Beforehand, CDPR said it’d prefer to hold Edgerunners as a one-season present and inform completely 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 shall 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 accordance with the teaser’s YouTube abstract. Within the meantime, Edgerunners remains to be on Netflix ready to be binged and rewatched till we study extra. And when you’re accomplished with that, you may sit up for the live-action Cyberpunk present and Lucy popping into Responsible Gear Try a visitor fighter someday in 2025.
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