A New Cyberpunk Anime is On the Method

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 mission. Prior to now, CDPR stated it’d be open and willing to do extra after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was so successful that it bought 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’s going to finally grow to be a full sequel…presumably proper after Witcher 4 is out the door. (That’s additionally getting another anime, funnily sufficient.)

Sadly, nothing else was stated concerning 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 prefer to maintain 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…nicely, just about simply her. As Polygon notes, the teaser additionally doesn’t point out Edgerunners’ animation studio Set off, simply that Netflix Animation will probably 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 information on Cyberpunk’s subsequent anime enterprise will come “quickly,” based on 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 carried out with that, you may sit up for the live-action Cyberpunk show and Lucy popping into Guilty Gear Strive a visitor fighter someday in 2025.

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