CD Projekt Red in the present day introduced an anime collection spun off from Cyberpunk 2077, named Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Coming to Netflix in 2022, it’s being made by Trigger, the Japanese animation studio identified for Kill La Kill and Little Witch Academia. Given the success of Netflix’s The Witcher, yeah, I’m not shocked.
Edgerunners isn’t a direct adaptation of CP2077, quite a brand new ten-episode collection set in the identical place Night City. CDPR say it’s “about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.”
Edgerunners shall be directed by Kill La Kill director Hiroyuki Imaishi, with character designs from Yoh Yoshinari and Yuto Kaneko of Little Witch Academia, and a rating is by Silent Hill’s Akira Yamaoka. See today’s announcement for extra of the individuals concerned. I don’t watch a lot anime however did see Kill La Kill, which is manner higher than I anticipated from an anime about schoolgirls in sentient garments preventing. I’m fairly interested in this.
“I’ve always loved cyberpunk as a genre, but always found it difficult to create as an original work,” director Imaishi mentioned. “This is why I’m very excited to be working with CD Projekt Red on this project. It won’t be easy to please both game and anime fans, but I love a challenge, and I’m looking forward to the production. We’ll do our best to meet and exceed expectations.”
Netflix’s Witcher collection was primarily based on the unique Witcher books, the identical supply materials as CDPR’s games, but it surely certain appears the recognition of the games helped give the Netflix collection an viewers out the gate. Netflix truly teaming up with CDPR for his or her subsequent game is smart, particularly giving Netflix’s fondness for algorithmic commissioning.
Cyberpunk 2077 is because of launch on November 19th.
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