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We knew Netflix was heading again to Evening Metropolis, however we didn’t know {that a} season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was formally on the way in which. That adjustments at the moment with affirmation and a few new tidbits a couple of second season. Right here’s all the pieces that was simply introduced.
You could recall Netflix and CD PROJEKT RED teamed up for an enormous Geeked Week announcement again in September 2024. Particulars have been slim at the time with the streamer really treating the announcement as a glitch in its stream. “It seems Cyberpunk has hacked us,” Joe Manganiello, the host of Geeked Week, stated at the time as a teaser clip interrupted the sport they have been enjoying on stage. Manganiello went on to substantiate {that a} new animated undertaking is now in manufacturing. It was unclear at the time if the undertaking was one thing new totally or a renewal of kinds. I suppose we now have our reply.
The announcement comes from an Anime Expo 2025 panel (replay here) with the affirmation that season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is in manufacturing. The information got here close to the top of a deeply emotional and nostalgia-fueled panel that includes the English voice solid, author Bartosz Sztybor, and a shock look by director Hiroyuki Imaishi. Whereas the trailer was too graphic to point out at the panel itself (“so bloody,” the host joked), followers have been handled to a first-look poster and a style of what’s to come back: a darker, rawer, and extra grounded continuation of Evening Metropolis’s brutal universe.
Sztybor, who wrote Season 1 and returns to writing the sequel, defined the tonal shift, “Edgerunners was like a romanticized imaginative and prescient of being an Edgerunner. Right here, we’re exhibiting the reality.”
He emphasised that this season goals to go deeper emotionally, with extra violence and realism, traits that made the unique beloved and heartbreaking. And simply when followers thought they couldn’t cry more durable, Sztybor twisted the knife, saying, “I wasn’t glad with the unhappiness that I obtained from the viewers. So I need you to be much more unhappy now.”
One of the crucial thrilling reveals was that Kai Ikarashi, the episode director behind the fan-favorite Episode 6, is stepping up because the director for Season 2. Imaishi praised Ikarashi’s potential to dive even additional into the present’s emotional core: “He thought that Ikarashi-san was diving much more into the deep themes of Edgerunners than he even was initially going to do.”
Although David’s loss of life was reaffirmed (“David’s lifeless,” Sztybor stated bluntly), the group emphasised that Evening Metropolis has many tales left to inform. With a brand new artistic group of rising stars at Studio Set off and a assured, emotionally heavy script within the works, Season 2 guarantees to not solely broaden the universe however break our hearts over again. Hiroyuki Imaishi stated, “Edgerunners 2 goes to be created predominantly by a youthful, more energizing workers inside Set off… they’ll carry a brand new taste, a brand new more energizing take.”
The information was adopted up by a publish on the official Edgerunners social pages reading:
“Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is in manufacturing!
It presents a brand new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a uncooked chronicle of redemption and revenge.
When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you must go to make your story matter?
Poster art work by Ichigo Kanno from Set off Inc”
Along with the official renewal of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a manga prequel titled Insanity (targeted on Becca and Pilar) was additionally introduced; extra tales from the Edgerunners world are being explored in print, too.
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