The anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is dropping this September 2022. With that announcement comes a beautiful new Not Safe for Work (NFSW) trailer, showing off the non-stop violent action and strobe-light-like visuals.
Content Warning: The following trailer contains scenes that have a strong strobing effect that may affect photosensitive viewers. The trailer also includes mature themes and explicit scenes. Viewer discretion is advised.
The Cyberpunk:Edgerunners spin-off anime is based on the world of CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 game. The trailer doesn’t reveal much of the plot at all, but we do have a little synopsis for it:
“The series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City — a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he stays alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.”
In the NSFW trailer for Edgerunners, we see tons of visuals that show smooth animation, bright flashy colors, violently explosive action, blood and gore, and lots of Cyberpunk guns, all accompanied by a punkish rendition of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.
This anime is made by Studio Trigger, a Japanese animation studio that has worked on notable series like Kill la Kill, Darling in the FranXX, Little Witch Academia, and BNA.
Hiroyuki Imaishi is directing the series alongside creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi, both of which have worked on Kill la Kill.
Edgerunners was announced back in 2020, right before the Cyberpunk 2077 game was released. Although the game was released to much criticism due to it being an unfinished buggy mess, hopes are high for Edgerunners considering the talented crew they have at the helm. The trailers seem to give us more hope that this anime would be a hit and would be loved by Cyberpunk fans. All that’s left to criticize is the anime’s story and plot, which we will get to do this September.
Cyberpunk 2077 will be streaming on Netflix.
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