Netflix Drops Opening Title Sequence for Cyberpunk 2077-Inspired Anime 

Netflix announced the upcoming anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners back in 2020. The project is primarily based on the video game Cyberpunk 2077 and has been in the works since 2018.  

The official opening title sequence for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was released by Netflix at the Trigger 10 Year Anniversary & Announcement Panel at Anime Expo 2022. 

CD Projekt Red is producing the series while Studio Trigger, a Japanese company, is in charge of the animation. The director of the show is the founder of Studio Trigger, Hiruyoki Imaishi. The OST will be composed by Akira Yamaoka. The first episode was exclusively shown to the audience at the event. 

Netflix and CD Projekt Red unveiled the official teaser trailer on 9th June 2022.  

The anime will consist of 10 episodes, featuring Martinez; a kid turned mercenary Edgerunner as the protagonist, who is being voiced by Zach Aguilar from the English dubbed version of Demon Slayer. It will be set in the utopian megapolis Night City.  

The show’s main theme is the survival journey of a kid in a “technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future.” Another character is a Netrunner named Lucy. 

Like other Studio Trigger projects, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is expected to feature quality animations and a complex narrative. The anime show is scheduled to release in September.  

About Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt, based on video game designer Mike Pondsmith’s game series.

Set in a dystopian cyberpunk universe, the player assumes the role of “V,” a mercenary in the fictional Californian city known as “Night City,” where they deal with the fallout from a heist gone wrong that results in an experimental cybernetic “bio-chip” containing an engram of the legendary rock star and terrorist Johnny Silverhand (played by Keanu Reeves) threatening to slowly overwrite V’s mind; as the story progresses V and Johnny must work together to find a way to be separated and save V’s life.