After a 4-year wait, Netflix pronounces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is coming this fall

As reported by Polygon, we now have a launch window for the second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. We’ll lastly see extra episodes of the explosively standard anime adaptation of Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop setting and CD Projekt’s 2020 RPG someday this fall.

I needed to do a double take once I seen it has been an entire yr since Edgerunners season two was first introduced, however Netflix has lastly begun spinning up the advertising machine for the extremely anticipated continuation. The collection is taking an anthology strategy, following a brand new forged of characters after the occasions of the primary season.

Edgerunners performed a giant half in Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc: I’ve lengthy maintained that, earlier than the sport’s 2.0 replace really remodeled its methods for the higher in 2023, the common goodwill across the Edgerunners anime led gamers to strategy the sport with a extra open thoughts⁠

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The facility of anime is bigger than that of memes about bugs and console framerates, apparently. CDPR had already carried out some tweaking and bug fixing by the point of Edgerunners’ 2022 launch, but it surely was sheer good vibes that received individuals to appreciate Cyberpunk 2077 was all the time good.

I am curious to see when this new story will likely be set. I am much less conversant in the place R. Talsorian Video games has taken issues in sourcebooks, however this may very well be the primary new story within the chronology since Cyberpunk 2077. The Phantom Liberty growth takes place contemporaneously with the primary sport, however does have one potential ending set a few years sooner or later.

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Edgerunners’ first season, in the meantime, happened earlier than Cyberpunk 2077 and is referenced ingame⁠—it is equally possible that Edgerunners season two will likely be a pre- or interquel of some kind. CD Projekt, in the meantime, is firmly in a Witcher epoch: The Witcher 4 is on its manner quickly, and we most likely cannot count on Cyberpunk 2 any before 2030.