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 challenge. Prior to now, CDPR stated it’d be open and willing 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 finally change 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 stated concerning the new Cyberpunk anime, past that it’ll as soon as once more be set within the sport’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 wish 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…properly, 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 exhibits 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,” based on the teaser’s YouTube abstract. Within the meantime, Edgerunners continues to be on Netflix ready to be binged and rewatched till we study extra. And when you’re executed 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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