Netflix and CD Projekt Red are making another Cyberpunk anime

In the Fall of 2022, Netflix and CD Projekt Red released Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, an animated prequel to Cyberpunk 2077 that 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 the Cyberpunk universe.

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 new Cyberpunk project 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 more Cyberpunk animation. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was an earth-shattering success, so much so that Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.6 and 2.0 Patches added 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 of Cyberpunk Edgerunners. CDPR confirmed long ago that they had no plans to produce a second season of Cyberpunk 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 get Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2, we’ve known that CDPR has been planning to make other animated projects set in Cyberpunk 2077’s world. Hopefully, this new entry will be just as nova as Cyberpunk Edgerunners was.