In the Fall of 2022, Netflix and CD Projekt Red releasedCyberpunk: Edgerunners, an animated prequel toCyberpunk 2077that became one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits. During Geeked Week 2024, the two studios revealed they’re getting back together to make another animated project set in theCyberpunkuniverse.
Netflix’s new Cyberpunk project won’t be Edgerunners Season 2
The announcement came as a brief but stylish trailer that barely reveals anything about this new project. All we know with any certainty is that this newCyberpunkproject will again play out in the mechanized jungle that is Night City. The trailer’s description also confirms that Netflix Animation will be involved, proving that this will be an animated production.
I’m not surprised that Netflix is bringing us moreCyberpunkanimation.Cyberpunk: Edgerunnerswas an earth-shattering success, so much so that Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.6 and 2.0 Patchesadded a plethora of Easter Eggs and references to it. I’ve binged the series three times since 2022, and I’m still reduced to a sobbing mess by the time I reach the last episode.
Unfortunately, whatever this new Cyberpunk series (or film) ends up being, it won’t be a continuation ofCyberpunk Edgerunners. CDPR confirmed long ago that they hadno plans to produce a second season ofCyberpunk Edgerunners, and I, for one, am perfectly okay with that. David Martinez and his crew’s adventures ended on a heartbreaking but satisfying note, and it’d be wrong to take that sense of closure away by trying to continue the story.
While we won’t getCyberpunk EdgerunnersSeason 2, we’ve known that CDPR has been planning to make other animated projects set inCyberpunk2077’s world. Hopefully, this new entry will be just as nova asCyberpunk Edgerunnerswas.
