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We knew Netflix was heading back to Night City, but we didn’t know that a season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was officially on the way. That changes today with confirmation and some new tidbits about a second season. Here’s everything that was just announced.
You may recall Netflix and CD PROJEKT RED teamed up for a big Geeked Week announcement back in September 2024. Details were slim at the time with the streamer actually treating the announcement as a glitch in its stream. “It appears Cyberpunk has hacked us,” Joe Manganiello, the host of Geeked Week, said at the time as a teaser clip interrupted the game they were playing on stage. Manganiello went on to confirm that a new animated project is now in production. It was unclear at the time if the project was something new entirely or a renewal of sorts. I guess we now have our answer.
The announcement comes from an Anime Expo 2025 panel (replay here) with the confirmation that season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is in production. The news came near the end of a deeply emotional and nostalgia-fueled panel featuring the English voice cast, writer Bartosz Sztybor, and a surprise appearance by director Hiroyuki Imaishi. While the trailer was too graphic to show at the panel itself (“so bloody,” the host joked), fans were treated to a first-look poster and a taste of what’s to come: a darker, rawer, and more grounded continuation of Night City’s brutal universe.
Sztybor, who wrote Season 1 and returns to writing the sequel, explained the tonal shift, “Edgerunners was like a romanticized vision of being an Edgerunner. Here, we are showing the truth.”
He emphasized that this season aims to go deeper emotionally, with more violence and realism, traits that made the original beloved and heartbreaking. And just when fans thought they couldn’t cry harder, Sztybor twisted the knife, saying, “I wasn’t satisfied with the sadness that I received from the audience. So I want you to be even more sad now.”
One of the most exciting reveals was that Kai Ikarashi, the episode director behind the fan-favorite Episode 6, is stepping up as the director for Season 2. Imaishi praised Ikarashi’s ability to dive even further into the show’s emotional core: “He thought that Ikarashi-san was diving even more into the deep themes of Edgerunners than he even was initially going to do.”
Though David’s death was reaffirmed (“David’s dead,” Sztybor said bluntly), the team emphasized that Night City has many stories left to tell. With a new creative team of rising stars at Studio Trigger and a confident, emotionally heavy script in the works, Season 2 promises to not only expand the universe but break our hearts all over again. Hiroyuki Imaishi said, “Edgerunners 2 is going to be created predominantly by a younger, fresher staff within Trigger… they’ll bring a new flavor, a new fresher take.”
The news was followed up by a post on the official Edgerunners social pages reading:
“Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is in production!
It presents a new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge.
When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?
Poster artwork by Ichigo Kanno from Trigger Inc”
In addition to the official renewal of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a manga prequel titled Madness (focused on Becca and Pilar) was also announced; more stories from the Edgerunners world are being explored in print, too.
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