Netflix has just released the first trailer for its anime series based on Cyberpunk 2077. Whatever complaints you may have about the game, you may want to leave them at the door.
This is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a standalone 10-part anime series in which CDPR developers are serious, but where the animation itself is handled by Studio Trigger, whom you may know from things like Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia.
This looks cooler than anything I’ve done in the video game:
Here is the official description and list of participants, courtesy of Netflix:
The series tells a stand-alone story of 10 episodes about a street child who tries to survive in the Night City – a city of the future, obsessed with technology and body modifications. With everything he could lose, he survived, becoming a fugitive, a mercenary bandit, also known as cyberpunk. CD PROJEKT RED, the company behind the video game Cyberpunk 2077, produced the series with Rafal Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher: Ronin) as a showrunner and executive producer, with Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder as producers. . The CD PROJEKT RED team is working on this new series from 2018. The famous Japanese animation company Studio Trigger will serve as the animation studio of the series and will breathe life into the world of Cyberpunk with its distinctive, lifestyle. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series with creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designer and animation director Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witches Academy, BNA: Brand New Animal) and the adapted screenplay. of Yoshiki Usa (GRIDMAN UNIVERSE, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: The Elder). The original music will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).
The series will start in September.
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