CD Projekt Crimson is returning to the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners universe with a brand new stand-alone entry, which the sport developer introduced alongside the anime collection’ showrunner throughout a panel at Anime Expo on Friday.
The online game developer will as soon as once more associate with the animation studio Set off for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which, like its predecessor, will stream on Netflix. An official emblem and poster artwork have been shared as a part of CD PROJEKT RED’s “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Behind the Scenes With its Creators,” with a promise that later within the day, Set off would tease new footage for the collection on the Peacock Theater as a part of its personal panel.
The collection will function a brand new 10-episode stand-alone story set on the planet of Cyberpunk 2077, and asks the query: in a metropolis that thrives within the highlight of violence and when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes will you go to in an effort to make your story matter? Described as a uncooked chronicle of redemption and revenge, Edgerunners 2 will, in keeping with the collection’ story author and producer Bartosz Sztybor, not solely be a sadder and darker take, however “extra bloody, and extra uncooked.”
“Evening Metropolis has plenty of tales to inform. I’ve a dream that it gained’t finish with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. There’s extra tales, extra characters,” he added about his choice to pursue one other collection. “I wasn’t happy with the disappointment I acquired from the viewers so I need you to be much more unhappy now.”
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will characteristic a brand new story and recent characters, and whereas the collection doesn’t at the moment have a launch date, it is going to be directed by Kai Ikarashi. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners director Hiroyuki Imaishi made a particular look in the course of the panel to cross the baton for Ikarashi’s directorial debut on the collection, after working collectively on the 2022 entry. Voice actors Emi Lo (Lucy Kushinada) and Zach Aguilar (David Martinez) additionally appeared on the panel, which noticed solid and creatives take followers behind the scenes of the 2022 anime.
Sztybor and Ikarashi will probably be joined on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 by lead character designer Kanno Ichigo and Masahiko Otsuka, who will probably be answerable for the screenplay adaptation.
“[Cyberpunk: Edgerunner’s] David [Martinez’s] story may be over, however there’s lots extra to find in Evening Metropolis. And to once more have the legendary animation studio Set off alongside for the experience makes us at CD Projekt Crimson so excited to introduce a uncooked, actual chronicle of redemption and revenge, one thing in contrast to what we’ve carried out earlier than,” Sztybor mentioned in a press release.