The writer and producer of sci-fi anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners said he doesn’t want to write a jolly story for the series, because “when people are sad”, it makes him “a bit happy”.
Edgerunners is an animated spin-off of CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, which first debuted in 2022. Following acclaim, a second season is now in production for Netflix.
News of this next season arrived during Anime Expo, along with a new trailer. “Night City lives on,” reads the official blurb. You can check out the trailer below.
At the same event, a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners panel was held, where writer Bartosz Sztybor was asked about the human stories told within Edgerunners’ dystopian world. Here, the show’s writer replied that this type of narrative is incredibly important for CDPR, and the team always wants to “write stories that are character driven”.