Netflix has announced the release date for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners with a flashy, action-packed trailer. It is a spin-off title of Cyberpunk 2077, which was based on Mike Pondsmith's popular role-playing video game franchise Cyberpunk. The anime is going to come out on Netflix on Sept 13 - in this article, Gurugamer is going to showcase everything you need to know about Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

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The series will be set in the same world as Cyberpunk 2077 game, but feature a new story and a new cast of characters. The trailer opens with the main characters David Martinez and Lucy discussing David's mother and his wishes for the future. Shortly afterward, it devolves into a rapid-fire series of gunfights, explosions, and sexual imagery.

It’s significantly more violent than the game ever gets. Besides some brief nudity, but also a whole lot of over-the-top violence and outright gore. Think more along the lines of Doom Eternal than Cyberpunk 2077.

 

About Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid - David - trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future, Night City. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is being produced by Japanese animation company Studio Trigger, producer of Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia anime series. It is founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ōtsuka

The story is written in a collaboration between Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red. The director of Edgerunners is Hiroyuki Imaishi, who directed Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann. The chief character designer is Yoh Yoshinari, who worked on Little Witch Academia and BNA: Brand New Animal. The anime is going to feature an original score by Akira Yamaoka, the composer of the Silent Hill series.

David Martinez

After experiencing a personal tragedy, David had the powerful Sandevistan speedware installed in his body. This led him to become one of Night City's edgerunners. It was Lucy who led him into the city's underworld, eventually teaming up with her and group of mercenaries.

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As a drink of his name exists in the Afterlife, it is suggested that David would have died as a legendary edgerunner before the events of Cyberpunk 2077.

Lucy

 

Lucy is a mysterious Netrunner from Night City. She is quite introverted and doesn't like to talk much about her past. Despite her innocent appearance, she won't hesitate to take a life in a heartbeat if she gets really angry. Lucy considers Night City a prison, and dreams of one day leaving it for the Moon.

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Lucy is part of a mercenary group led by Maine. One of its members, a netrunner by the name of Kiwi, is mentoring her.

Upon wanting to become one of NC's edgerunners, David Martinez was led by Lucy into the city's underworld, making him join her edgerunner group.

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