{"id":608975,"date":"2026-09-23T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608975\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:14:10","slug":"cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-animes-new-video-teases-escape-from-arasaka-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608975\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 Anime’s New Video Teases Escape from Arasaka – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anime debuts on Netflix<\/a> on October 20<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/a> streamed a new “sneak peek” video, teasing an escape scene from an Arasaka building, from the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2<\/a> anime<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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\"edgerunners2\"Image via Netflix Anime X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 CD PROJEKT S.A.<\/p>\n

The staff describe the series:<\/p>\n

It presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077\u2014 a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge.<\/p>\n

When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?<\/p>\n

The casts include (Japanese\/English):<\/p>\n

Kai Ikarashi<\/a> (who was a storyboard artist, animation director, animator, and prop designer for the first series) is helming the new series in his directorial debut. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/a> producer and writer Bartosz Sztybor<\/a> is again working on the series, and Ichigo Kanno<\/a> (animation director and key animator on the first series) is the lead character designer. Masahiko Otsuka<\/a> is returning as the scriptwriter. The new series will stream on Netflix.<\/p>\n

The new anime’s opening theme song is The Cure<\/a>‘s 1978 song “10:15 Saturday Night,” and the ending theme song is Petite Meller<\/a>‘s “Watson.”\u00a0Rapper RICO NASTY wrote and performed<\/a> “YOU CAN’T RUN FROM ME” for the anime, and it appeared in the second teaser trailer. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The new anime will debut<\/a> on October 20 on Netflix. The first episode had a premiere screening at Anime Expo<\/a> on July 3.<\/p>\n

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime<\/a> series by Studio Trigger<\/a> based on CD PROJEKT RED<\/a>‘s Cyberpunk 2077 game, debuted on Netflix in September 2022. The game is itself based on Mike Pondsmith<\/a>‘s Cyberpunk tabletop RPG game series.<\/p>\n

Aniplex of America<\/a> will release<\/a> the series on a complete Blu-ray Disc set in North America on October 28. Anime Limited<\/a> and Plaion Pictures<\/a> will release the series on home video in Europe, and Sugoi Co<\/a> will release the series on home video in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

A prequel<\/a> manga titled Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Madness<\/a> from artist Asano<\/a> (BNA: Brand New Animal<\/a> manga) and writer Bartosz Sztybor (CD PROJEKT RED) launched on the Comic Alive+<\/a> website in December 2024, and is getting a release in seven languages aside from Japanese. Dark Horse<\/a> is releasing the series in English in print.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0Arasaka’s spelling corrected. Thanks, FilthyCasual.<\/p>\n

Source: Netflix’s YouTube<\/a> channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anime debuts on Netflix on October 20 Netflix streamed a new “sneak peek” video, teasing an escape scene…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-608975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}