Netflix has revealed first character particulars and a fall launch window for its anime sequel collection, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.
Netflix, CD Projekt Pink, and Studio Set off took to X/Twitter to roll out details about the brand new solid of characters coming to Season 2 of the Cyberpunk 2077 anime spin-off. It got here with the promise of a fall 2026 launch window, narrowing down its premiere timeline as followers await a extra particular launch date.
In the meantime, the announcement got here with a sneak peek at 4 new characters: Weak Kingsley, D, Roman Carax, and Talia Yang. The brand new gang graces the duvet of the primary Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 poster, which you’ll be able to see beneath.
Netflix revealed details about the 4 new Night time Metropolis names throughout social media and in collaboration with numerous content material creators. As shared through Crunchyroll, Weak Kingsley is described as a veteran Edgerunner who “now lives within the shadow of his former glory.” D is a Snake Nation Netrunner on the lookout for revenge as he “hunts the killer who worn out his clan.”
Roman Carax is the youngest of the group and is described as a “cinephile in quest of actual tales in a metropolis that deserted cinema for braindances.” Lastly, there’s Talia Yang, a person with corpo and Maelstrom ties whose “coronary heart belongs to chrome and violence.”
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is directed by Kai Ikarashi, with character designs dealt with by Kanno Ichigo. Unique writers Bartosz Sztybor and Masahiko Otsuka are additionally again to work on Netflix and Set off’s sequel present.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 was formally introduced in July of final yr with a quick teaser trailer (above), which, in the event you look carefully, appears to function among the characters featured in right this moment’s poster. A new teaser trailer shall be revealed tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET, however do not count on a agency launch date for at the least a short time longer.
“Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 presents a brand new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a uncooked chronicle of redemption and revenge,” an official description for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 says. “In a metropolis that thrives within the highlight of violence, one query stays: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do it’s a must to go to make your story matter?”
See you tomorrow! 👋
— Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (@edgerunners) June 28, 2026
We do not know a lot concerning the plot of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, however given the occasions of Season 1, most followers are already anticipating the worst for this new solid of misfits. For extra on the world of Cyberpunk 2077, you’ll be able to examine how the present’s first season almost included endings that have been by some means worse than the one we acquired.
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