Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Sets Fall 2026 Release With First Look at 4 New Characters

Netflix has revealed archetypal quality details and a autumn merchandise model for its anime sequel series, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.

Netflix, CD Projekt Red, and Studio Trigger took to X/Twitter to rotation retired accusation astir the caller formed of characters coming to Season 2 of the Cyberpunk 2077 anime spin-off. It came with the committedness of a autumn 2026 merchandise window, narrowing down its premiere timeline arsenic fans await a much circumstantial merchandise date.

Meanwhile, the announcement came with a sneak peek astatine 4 caller characters: Weak Kingsley, D, Roman Carax, and Talia Yang. The caller pack graces the screen of the archetypal Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 poster, which you tin spot below.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2. Image courtesy of Netflix.

Netflix published accusation astir the 4 caller Night City names crossed societal media and successful collaboration with assorted contented creators. As shared via Crunchyroll, Weak Kingsley is described arsenic a seasoned Edgerunner who "now lives successful the shadiness of his erstwhile glory." D is simply a Snack Nation Netrunner looking for revenge arsenic helium "hunts the slayer who wiped retired his clan."

Roman Carax is the youngest of the radical and is described arsenic a "cinephile successful hunt of existent stories successful a metropolis that abandoned cinema for braindances." Finally, there's Talia Yang, an idiosyncratic with corpo and Maelstrom ties whose "heart belongs to chrome and violence."

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is directed by Kai Ikarashi, with quality designs handled by Kanno Ichigo. Original writers Bartosz Sztybor and Masahiko Otsuka are besides backmost to enactment connected Netflix and Trigger's sequel show.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 was officially announced successful July of past twelvemonth with a little teaser trailer (above), which, if you look closely, seems to diagnostic immoderate of the characters featured successful today's poster. A caller teaser trailer volition beryllium revealed time astatine 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET, but don't expect a steadfast merchandise day for astatine slightest a small portion longer.

"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 presents a caller standalone 10-episode communicative from the satellite of Cyberpunk 2077— a earthy chronicle of redemption and revenge," an authoritative statement for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 says. "In a metropolis that thrives successful the spotlight of violence, 1 question remains: erstwhile the satellite is blinded by spectacle, what extremes bash you person to spell to marque your communicative matter?"

We don't cognize overmuch astir the crippled of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, but fixed the events of Season 1, astir fans are already expecting the worst for this caller formed of misfits. For much connected the satellite of Cyberpunk 2077, you tin work astir however the show's archetypal play astir included endings that were someway worse than the 1 we got.

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