Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is an anime series and spin-off of created by Studio Trigger for Netflix. It contained 10 episodes and premiered on September 13, 2022.

Overview
Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid - David - trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future, Night City. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

Production
Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare), creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designers Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Little Witch Academia), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

Edgerunners was showcased on June 8th at the Netflix's Geeked Week 2022.

A preview event hosted by CD Projekt RED showcasing the first three episodes of Edgerunners will take place on September 12, 2022 on |twitch.tv.

Main Cast & Characters
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Japanese
Kenichiro Ohashi

Aoi Yûki

Hiroki Touchi

Michiko Kaiden

Takako Honda

Wataru Takagi

Tomoyo Kurosawa

Yasuyuki Kase

Yurika Hino

Kenjirô Tsuda

Kazuhiko Inoue


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English
Zach Aguilar

Emi Lo

William C. Stephens

Marie Westbrook

Stephanie Wong

Ian James Corlett

Alex Cazares

Matthew Mercer

Gloria Garayua

Borge Etienne

Giancarlo Esposito


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Role
as David Martinez

as Lucy

as Maine

as Dorio

as Kiwi

as Pilar

as Rebecca

as Falco

as Gloria Martinez

as Doc

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Minor Cast & Characters

 * Jimmy Kurosaki
 * James Norris
 * Tanaka
 * Katsuo Tanaka
 * Adam Smasher
 * Aldo
 * Kate
 * Douglas

Locations
The anime takes place in Night City and the Eastern Wastelands of the Badlands. Parts also takes place on the moon.

Credits

 * Creator: Rafał Jaki
 * Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
 * Assistant director: Yoshiyuki Kaneko
 * Animation studio: Trigger
 * Executive producers: Rafał Jaki, Dylan Thomas, Taiki Sakurai, Yoshiki Usa
 * Producers: Saya Elder, Bartosz Sztybor, Satoru Homma
 * Animation producers: Shunsuke Shida, Naoko Tsutsumi
 * Screen story: Bartosz Sztybor
 * Script: Masahiko Otsuka, Yoshiki Usa
 * Creative support: Hiromi Wakabayashi
 * Character designer: Yoh Yoshinari
 * Assistant character designers: Yuto Kaneko, Yusuke Yoshigaki
 * Background director: Masanobu Nomura
 * Color design: Yukiko Kakita
 * Composite director: Tetsuya Kawata
 * Editor: Masato Yoshitake
 * Sound director: Hiroki Urakari
 * Sound effects: Hiroki Nozaki, Airi Kobayashi
 * Original score: Akira Yamaoka
 * Opening animation director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
 * Opening storyboard: Kai Ikarashi
 * Opening staff: Shigeto Koyama, Hiromi Wakabayashi, Tuyoshi Kusano, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Eiji Tsuchida, Koji Aramaki, Shoichi Kita, Ryoma Sanpei
 * Opening song: This Fffire by Franz Ferdinand