{"id":31154,"date":"2026-06-28T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/edgerunners-2-reveals-its-new-crew-fall-release\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:41:58","slug":"edgerunners-2-reveals-its-new-crew-fall-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/edgerunners-2-reveals-its-new-crew-fall-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgerunners 2 Reveals Its New Crew, Fall Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The Netflix Anime X\/Twitter account has revealed a visual featuring the cast of <em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2<\/em>, as well as the sequel anime\u2019s fall 2026 release window. The identities of the new crew, which were unveiled one at a time over at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edgerunners\/status\/2071171753724846181\"><em>Cyberpunk Edgerunners<\/em><\/a> 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).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image source: @NetflixAnime<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2<\/em>, also produced at <strong>TRIGGER <\/strong>like its predecessor, features\u00a0Kai Ikarashi\u00a0(<em>Cyberpunk Edgerunners<\/em> Episode 6 storyboard artist and animation director et al., <em>Tengoku Daimakyo<\/em> Episode 10 storyboard artist and director et al.). as director and <strong>Ichigo Kanno<\/strong> (<em>Metallic Child<\/em> animation trailer director) as lead character designer. <strong>Bartosz Sztybor<\/strong> (<em>Cyberpunk Edgerunners<\/em> narrative director) and TRIGGER CEO <strong>Masahiko Otsuka<\/strong> (<em>Cyberpunk Edgerunners<\/em> assistant director and co-scriptwriter, , (<em>Promare <\/em>and <em>Gurren Lagann <\/em>assistant director) are also part of the production. The show is described as featuring \u201ca raw, realistic take on the most dangerous city of the dark future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The first\u00a0<em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em> series, which was directed by <strong>H<\/strong><strong>iroyuki Imaishi<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Promare<\/em><em>, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann<\/em>) with\u00a0<strong>Yoh Yoshinari<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>BNA: Brand New Animal<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Little Witch Academia\u00a0<\/em>director) and\u00a0<strong>Yuuto Kaneko<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>BNA: Brand New Animal\u00a0<\/em>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 (<strong>KENN<\/strong>) who joins a group of cyberpunks after a certain incident and an encounter with\u00a0the netrunner Lucy (<strong>Aoi Yuki<\/strong>). The anime is inspired by the 2020 sci-fi open world RPG <em>Cyberpunk 2077\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a0<strong>CD Projekt Red<\/strong>, which is in turn based on the tabletop RPG by\u00a0<strong>Mike Pondsmith<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners <\/em>has inspired a prequel spin-off manga and video game collaborations with <em>GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-<\/em> and <em>Wuthering Waves<\/em>. An artbook, titled <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.st-trigger.co.jp\/news\/2080\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Art of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em><\/a>, ended pre-orders earlier this month and will go on sale in late July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NetflixAnime\/status\/2071171751292072246\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-1tl8opc\">@NetflixAnime<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netflix Anime X\/Twitter account has revealed a visual featuring the cast of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, as well as the sequel anime\u2019s fall 2026 release window. 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