The Netflix Anime X/Twitter account has revealed a visual featuring the cast of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, as well as the sequel anime’s fall 2026 release window. The identities of the new crew, which were unveiled one at a time over at the Cyberpunk Edgerunners and CD Projekt Red Japan X/Twitter accounts, are Weak Kingsley (standing), D (blue jacket), Roman Carax (the kid), and Talia Yang (masked, hair vents, ahoge).

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, also produced at TRIGGER like its predecessor, features Kai Ikarashi (Cyberpunk Edgerunners Episode 6 storyboard artist and animation director et al., Tengoku Daimakyo Episode 10 storyboard artist and director et al.). as director and Ichigo Kanno (Metallic Child animation trailer director) as lead character designer. Bartosz Sztybor (Cyberpunk Edgerunners narrative director) and TRIGGER CEO Masahiko Otsuka (Cyberpunk Edgerunners assistant director and co-scriptwriter, , (Promare and Gurren Lagann assistant director) are also part of the production. The show is described as featuring “a raw, realistic take on the most dangerous city of the dark future.”

The first Cyberpunk: Edgerunners series, which was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi (Promare, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann) with Yoh Yoshinari (BNA: Brand New Animal and Little Witch Academia director) and Yuuto Kaneko (BNA: Brand New Animal animation director) as character designers, was released on Netflix on September 13, 2022 with 10 episodes. Its story followed the rise and fall of street kid David (KENN) who joins a group of cyberpunks after a certain incident and an encounter with the netrunner Lucy (Aoi Yuki). The anime is inspired by the 2020 sci-fi open world RPG Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Projekt Red, which is in turn based on the tabletop RPG by Mike Pondsmith.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has inspired a prequel spin-off manga and video game collaborations with GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- and Wuthering Waves. An artbook, titled The Art of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, ended pre-orders earlier this month and will go on sale in late July.

Source: @NetflixAnime