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We knew Netflix was heading again to Night time Metropolis, however we didn’t know {that a} season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was formally on the best way. That modifications at this time with affirmation and a few new tidbits a couple of second season. Right here’s every part that was simply introduced.
You might recall Netflix and CD PROJEKT RED teamed up for a big Geeked Week announcement again in September 2024. Particulars have been slim on 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, mentioned on the time as a teaser clip interrupted the sport they have been taking part in on stage. Manganiello went on to substantiate {that a} new animated challenge is now in manufacturing. It was unclear on the time if the challenge was one thing new solely or a renewal of types. 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 tip 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 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 return: a darker, rawer, and extra grounded continuation of Night time 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 disappointment that I acquired from the viewers. So I would like you to be much more unhappy now.”
Probably 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 capability 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 demise was reaffirmed (“David’s useless,” Sztybor mentioned bluntly), the workforce emphasised that Night time Metropolis has many tales left to inform. With a brand new inventive workforce of rising stars at Studio Set off and a assured, emotionally heavy script within the works, Season 2 guarantees to not solely develop the universe however break our hearts another time. Hiroyuki Imaishi mentioned, “Edgerunners 2 goes to be created predominantly by a youthful, more energizing employees inside Set off… they’ll convey 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 need to 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 (centered on Becca and Pilar) was additionally introduced; extra tales from the Edgerunners world are being explored in print, too.
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