It was already making its way with a lot of hype and some great trailers, and when it finally premiered on Netflix ‘Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ has proven to be one of the best anime series on the platform and that even surpasses the original video game on which it is based in many aspects.
In fact, the success of the series has given a second breath of vitality to the video game with a flood of players encouraging themselves to return to ‘Cyberpunk 2077’, so with such a reception it seemed that the renewal of the anime was sung.
Well we got a disappointment
Studio Trigger It’s not much of second seasons, and although many of us saw the bad news coming, there was still a ray of hope. In the end the thing has not strained and since CD Project have confirmed to Famitsu that ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ was always conceived as a self-contained, limited story.
“We always approach ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ as an independent work, so there are no background plans for a second season,” Satoru Honma, the head of the studio in Japan, said in a recent interview. “Even if we did make more anime in the future, I don’t know if it would be a season 2 or something completely different.”
So Honma does not completely close the door for us to see more anime inspired by ‘Cyberpunk 2077’because he recognizes that the experiment with Trigger has gone very, very well.
“I would personally like to continue working with more Japanese studios to produce more anime in the future, in part because we have received such a positive response,” Honma also explained. “People say that anime has given CDPR a second chance. very grateful to Trigger for giving us this opportunity to enjoy the story of V and Johnny Silverhand after watching the anime.”