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We knew Netflix was heading again to Night City, however we didn’t know {that a} season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was formally on the best way. That adjustments at the moment with affirmation and a few new tidbits a few second season. Here’s every thing that was simply introduced.
You might recall Netflix and CD PROJEKT RED teamed up for an enormous Geeked Week announcement again in September 2024. Details have been slim on the time with the streamer truly treating the announcement as a glitch in its stream. “It appears Cyberpunk has hacked us,” Joe Manganiello, the host of Geeked Week, mentioned on the time as a teaser clip interrupted the sport they have been taking part in on stage. Manganiello went on to verify {that a} new animated undertaking is now in manufacturing. It was unclear on the time if the undertaking was one thing new fully or a renewal of types. I suppose we now have our reply.
The announcement comes from an Anime Expo 2025 panel (replay right 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 forged, author Bartosz Sztybor, and a shock look by director Hiroyuki Imaishi. While the trailer was too graphic to indicate on 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 Night City’s brutal universe.
Sztybor, who wrote Season 1 and returns to writing the sequel, defined the tonal shift, “Edgerunners was like a romanticized vision of being an Edgerunner. Here, we are showing the truth.”
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 satisfied with the sadness that I received from the audience. So I want you to be even more sad now.”
One of essentially the most 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 even more into the deep themes of Edgerunners than he even was initially going to do.”
Though David’s demise was reaffirmed (“David’s dead,” Sztybor mentioned bluntly), the crew emphasised that Night City has many tales left to inform. With a brand new artistic crew of rising stars at Studio Trigger and a assured, emotionally heavy script within the works, Season 2 guarantees to not solely develop the universe however break our hearts yet again. Hiroyuki Imaishi mentioned, “Edgerunners 2 is going to be created predominantly by a younger, fresher staff within Trigger… they’ll bring a new flavor, a new fresher take.”
The information was adopted up by a put up on the official Edgerunners social pages studying:
“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 need to go to make your story matter?
Poster art work by Ichigo Kanno from Trigger Inc”
In addition to the official renewal of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a manga prequel titled Madness (centered on Becca and Pilar) was additionally introduced; extra tales from the Edgerunners world are being explored in print, too.
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