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At the end of Netflix’s anime preview panel at Anime NYC, fans got to return to Night City with an all‑new exclusive look at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2. Not Season 2—it’s a standalone sequel. Now taking the complete anthology route, the CD Projekt Red and Studio Trigger collaboration introduces a new slew of characters operating within a grisly, neon‑soaked brutal world as colorful and vivid as it is extremely bloody.
Straw Hat Goofy literally ran across the stage screaming, “I just went to the edge!” as the crowd erupted over new information for Edgerunners 2, the first installment since the original ended in 2022. At Anime Expo this past July, fans there got to see the first episode in completion. Anime NYC, was treated to the first seven minutes of the new season, which is as dazzling and ultraviolent as before.
The series opens with a new character named Roman Carax (Momoka Terasawa sub / Valeria Rodriguez dub), a 12‑year‑old filmmaker shooting everything in his vicinity on a camcorder. Offscreen, kids discuss what movies and theaters used to be—haha, very funny, a Netflix show. Very funny.
It then switches over to a trio of new mercenaries pulling off a heist at the megacorp, Arasaka facility. One of them is Weak “King” Kingsley (Kentaro Tone sub / Clancy Brown dub), a massive, bulky edgerunner and the muscle of the operation. However, he begins to glitch out during the job, hallucinating visions of a woman named Anita—the woman seen in the trailer that he talks to in a diner scene—standing right in front of him. His visions cause the heist to go haywire as they’re caught.
The mercenaries struggle to escape, but as security arrives, King takes action, mowing down everyone in a bloody, ballistic breakout. And the Studio Trigger people don’t play when it comes to turning a guy’s brains exploding into a gorgeous and grotesque work of art. A member of his own crew gets caught in the crossfire, sustaining a major injury. The team scrambles into their getaway car and speeds off.
Nearby, Roman insults a man for walking into his shot, escalating into an altercation—”The fuck you say to me?” he screams. Right as the man grabs Roman’s arms, the team’s getaway car crashes into him, killing him on impact.
King begins to go haywire as his comrades run off. The woman dies succumbing to her injuries in her teammates’ arms.
Roman watches nearby as King goes ballistic on incoming corporate insurance agents, looking about to put on a show. Someone describes that he’s entered “cyberpsychosis”—a mental illness where too much chrome and augmented cybernetic machinery causes people to hallucinate, blurring the line between fiction and reality.
The footage ends with the new opening titles, a ’90s‑styled pop art title card sequence set to The Cure’s “10:15 Saturday Night.”
Studio Trigger in‑house key animator Kai Ikarashi (Mob Psycho 100, Delicious in Dungeon, Ghost Cat Anzu) directs the season’s ten episodes, while returning writers Bartosz Sztybor and Masahiko Otsuka serve as writers. So you know—don’t get emotionally attached to this new set of characters before they pierce your feelings. They can literally bite the bullet at any moment (but the good folks at Trigger will surely make itl look pretty).
The panel concluded with a few lucky fans in Cyberpunk cosplay receiving a CD Projekt Red logo hoodie.
Picture Credit: Netflix
Picture Credit: Netflix
Picture Credit: Netflix
Picture Credit: Netflix
The return to Night City isn’t that far off—Edgerunners speedruns to Netflix on October 20.
