{"id":9679,"date":"2020-06-25T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2024-10-16T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T06:04:43","slug":"studio-trigger-producing-cyberpunk-edgerunners-anime-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2020\/06\/25\/studio-trigger-producing-cyberpunk-edgerunners-anime-for-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Trigger Producing Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Anime For Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Studio Trigger will be producing a 10-episode anime series set in the <em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> universe, game developer CD Projekt Red revealed. The anime is titled <em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/em> and will premiere on Netflix in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cyberpunk 2077 \u2013 CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS announcement video\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E7dKVCw7bkE?start=125&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In the announcement video, Japan-based <em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> producer Saya Elder said that <em>Cyberpunk: Edgerunners&nbsp;<\/em>will be a &#8220;great gateway for newcomers&#8221;. &#8220;The stage is still Night City, but everything else is totally new,&#8221; she shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Also in the announcement video was Studio Trigger&#8217;s CEO Masahiko Otsuka, accompanied by Hiroyuki Imaishi and Yoh Yoshinari. Commenting on the involvement of Imaishi and Yoshinari, who had previously worked on titles like <em>Kill la Kill<\/em> and <em>Little Witch Academia<\/em> together, Otsuka said, &#8220;This is Trigger&#8217;s 10th anniversary, so we have prepared the ultimate team of Imaishi and Yoshinari as Director and Character Designer to bring an outstanding result.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em><\/a> website describes the series as:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner\u2014a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The production staff includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">Hiroyuki Imaishi (<em>Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare<\/em>) &#8211; Director<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Masahiko Otsuka (<em>Gurren Lagann, Promare<\/em>) &#8211; Assistant Director<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Hiromi Wakabayashi (<em>Kill la Kill<\/em>) &#8211; Creative Director <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Yoh Yoshinari (<em>Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal<\/em>) &#8211; Character Designer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Yuto Kaneko (<em>Little Witch Academia<\/em>) &#8211; Character Designer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Yoshiki Usa (<em>SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare<\/em>) &#8211; Screenplay<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Masahiko Otsuka (<em>Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare<\/em>) &#8211; Screenplay<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Akira Yamaoka (<em>Silent Hill<\/em> series) &#8211; Soundtrack<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: press release, CD Projekt Red<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Trigger will be producing a 10-episode anime series set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, game developer CD Projekt Red revealed. 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In the announcement video, Japan-based Cyberpunk 2077 producer Saya Elder said that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners&nbsp;will be a &#8220;great gateway for newcomers&#8221;. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[982,980,981,448,106],"class_list":["post-9679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-cyberpunk-2077","tag-cyberpunk-edgerunners","tag-netflix","tag-studio-trigger"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/maxresdefault-4.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-2w7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43351,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions\/43351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}