The studio behind Kill la Kill and Promare produces a Cyberpunk 2077 anime for Netflix

Studio Trigger, the anime production company made up of former members of the legendary studio Gainax, is producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime for Netflix which is due to premiere in 2022. Called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime will be a autonomous story taking place in the world of the future action role-playing game in an open worldr CD Projekt Red.

Here's how CD Projekt Red describes it:

CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells an autonomous story in 10 episodes About a Street Child Trying to Survive in a City of the Future Obsessed with Technology and Body Modification Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner - a well-known mercenary outlaw under the name of cyberpunk.

Trigger, in addition to being founded by members who worked on a seminal anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion, is best known for its experimental artistic styles and very stylistic. His best known works include Kill la Kill, Darling in the Franxx, and most recently, the hugely successful animated film Promare.

Image: CD Projekt Red

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will have the best talent in the studio to lead the ship: Hiroyuki Imaishi - who worked on Gurren Lagann, as well as Kill la Kill and Promare - directs with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka, creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi and character creators Yoh Yoshinari and Yuto Kaneko (Yoshinari and Kaneko is best known for Little Witch Academia). The script is adapted by Yoshiki Usa and Masahiko Otsuka, longtime Trigger veterans who have worked on Promare and other projects. The original score will be composed by renowned Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill.

Cyberpunk 2077 will launch in November for all major platforms, after another delay announced earlier this month to give CD Projekt Red enough time to fine-tune experience and bug fixes before release.

When launched, it will likely be one of the biggest gaming events of the decade, coinciding with the launch of next-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony. So it's nice to see that the Cyberpunk 2077 universe will continue to expand in the future, and a new standalone series from a studio as esteemed as Trigger should be extremely exciting news for fans. anime from around the world.