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

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Author: Nick Statt

Image: CD Projekt Red
Studio Trigger, the anime production company made up of former members of the legendary studio Gainax, is producing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime for Netflix set to premiere in 2022. Called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime will be a standalone story set in the world of developer CD Projekt Red’s upcoming open-world action roleplaying game.

Here’s how CD Projekt Red describes it:

CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

Trigger, besides being founded by members that worked on seminal anime like Neon...

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