Ahead of its release this September, Netflix released the Cyberpunk Edgerunners opening credits on its official YouTube channel. The anime’s opening was released following the Studio Trigger panel at Anime Expo 2022.
The colorful and stylish Cyberpunk Edgerunners opening credits feature the song “This Fffire” by the Scottish rock band, Franz Ferdinand. Edgerunners’ opening credits also revealed the show’s main staff.
Animated by Studio Trigger (of Kill la Kill and SSSS.Gridman fame), Cyberpunk Edgerunners is directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, with Yoh Yoshinari handling character design and animation director.
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Hiromi Wakabayashi is the creative director, Masahiko Otsuka and Yoshiki Usa are the writers, Yuto Kaneko and Yusuke Yoshigaki are assistant character designers and Akira Yamaoka is the music composer.
Joining the Studio Trigger staff is the showrunner, Rafał Jaki.
Before the release of the opening credits, CD Projekt RED released the official teaser for the anime. While short, the teaser gave fans several glimpses at the next Studio Trigger project.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners Story, Release Date
In the opening credits’ description, Netflix revealed some information about the upcoming Cyberpunk anime. For starters, the show will be 10 episodes long. It will also follow the story of a street kid trying to survive Night City by becoming an edgerunner which is “a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.”
The Edgerunners anime is based on the Cyberpunk 2077 open-world RPG video game. The game meanwhile is based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game.
While Edgerunners is set in the same universe as Cyberpunk 2077, the show will feature a standalone story so that viewers who have yet to play the game will be able to follow it.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners will premiere on Netflix in September 2022. The anime was announced back in 2020 during the lead-up to the release of CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077.
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