Get Ready, Choom: A New Cyberpunk Anime is On the Way

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It’s official: we’re getting different anime successful the Cyberpunk universe.

During Netflix’s Geeked Week, the streamer had a abbreviated tease confirming it was teaming with CD Projekt Red connected different anime project. Before now, CDPR said it’d beryllium open and willing to bash much aft Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was specified a occurrence that it got astir radical to travel astir on Cyberpunk 2077 and its redemption story. And it seems they’re acceptable to marque bully connected that tendency successful the adjacent fewer years arsenic CDPR starts “laying the groundwork” connected what volition yet go a afloat sequel…presumably close aft Witcher 4 is retired the door. (That’s besides getting another anime, funnily enough.)

Unfortunately, thing other was said astir the caller Cyberpunk anime, beyond that it’ll erstwhile again beryllium acceptable successful the game’s cardinal determination of Night City. (It’s not adjacent wide if it’ll beryllium a amusement oregon a movie, a la Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.) Previously, CDPR stated it’d similar to support Edgerunners as a one-season show and archer antithetic stories, which whitethorn enactment the kibosh connected immoderate hopes to spot much of Lucy and…well, beauteous overmuch conscionable her. As Polygon notes, the teaser besides doesn’t mention Edgerunners’ animation workplace Trigger, conscionable that Netflix Animation volition beryllium involved. The streamer’s in-house workplace co-produces and develops shows and films (either internally oregon externally) similar Blue Eye Samurai and The Sea Beast.

More info connected Cyberpunk’s adjacent anime task volition travel “soon,” according to the teaser’s YouTube summary. In the meantime, Edgerunners is inactive connected Netflix waiting to beryllium binged and rewatched until we larn more. And erstwhile you’re done with that, you tin look guardant to the live-action Cyberpunk show and Lucy popping into Guilty Gear Strive a impermanent combatant sometime successful 2025.

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