Announcing an original anime series – CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS!

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Do you think this anime series will now be canceled? Well, after the total failure, what has this game become?
 
Never really got into anime, but it will definitely be interesting to see what this project will have to offer.
 
Hmmm

I watched The Witcher on Netflix and I thought: "I wish this series was more like the game"

I am pretty much sure I will watch this anime thinking: "I wish the game was more like this series"
 
As someone who likes anime, it's still hard to get excited for this. The vast majority of anime ranges from trash to mediocrities anointed by Salieri himself.
 


We're excited to announce that together with an acclaimed Japan-based animation company, Studio Trigger, and the world's leading streaming entertainment service, Netflix, we're working on a new original anime series set in the same universe as Cyberpunk 2077!

CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells a standalone, 10-episode story 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.

Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare), creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designers Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Little Witch Academia), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

The series will premiere in 2022.

More details to come!
Oh heck, I really like Studio Trigger! Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia, and Promare are all excellent so I have high hopes! I only hope, since it is to be a Netflix series, the showrunners don't decide on an all English-speaking cast. A couple of original Netflix "anime" titles have used Japanese studios to make shows that don't include a Japanese voice track and they are all uniformly terrible.
 
I will keep an eye on this, love the idea. If they keep the level of the writing, it will be very interesting.
 
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