A day after revealing that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is finally coming this fall, Netflix has dropped the first real trailer for the anime’s second season. It has all the gnarly neon action I was hoping for, plus enough shocked-looking, crying, or mid-cyberpsychosis main characters to have me thinking we’re in for another bummer of an ending—but at least we’ll have fun along the way.
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This may be “Teaser 2,” but Teaser 1 was entirely composed of shots from Edgerunners’ first season, so I don’t know if that counts. The action on display has the same vibrant, gory, kinetic quality that set the original Edgerunners apart, and I love the touch of having 4:3, scanline-laden footage from the character Roman, who looks set to film much of the series’ events on a little retro-futuristic camcorder.
The trailer is pure vibes, but Edgerunners 2’s official website has more context for everything going on. “Weak, a washed-up cyberpunk legend, is now forced to live without chrome as he searches for a sense of purpose in a world that’s passed him by,” reads the site’s story synopsis. “Meanwhile, the deadly nomad D sets out on a path to revenge that brings him close to corpo secrets never meant to be found.”
Alongside those two, there’s also Talia, a member of Cyberpunk 2077’s Maelstrom gang—basically nasty cyborg orcs. In the proud tradition of orc sexual dimorphism, she appears to be some kind of sexy waif in contrast to the real freaky boys like Royce we saw in-game. Rounding out the revealed cast is Roman, the aforementioned boy wonder video journalist. I’m sure nothing bad will happen to him.
It’s nice to get pulled back into this world, especially with such a long wait in the cards for Cyberpunk 2, CD Projekt Red’s next game in the setting. This Edgerunners 2 build-up is making me want to reinstall 2077 and finally replay it for the first time since reviewing Phantom Liberty, though I’m holding out hope CDPR might have a free DLC tie-in in the works—there’s precedent in both Cyberpunk itself and The Witcher 3.
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