Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.

ReleaseOctober 20, 2026

StatusRELEASED

NetworkNetflix

Why it matters

Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red return to their Cyberpunk series following the 2022 original, which won Anime of the Year at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.

About Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red are back in Night City with a second run at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, four years after the original swept the Crunchyroll Anime Awards and took the top prize there. This one is a standalone story rather than a continuation: a new cast, a new set of people trying to make a living on the edge of a corporate city that has no use for them. Kai Ikarashi, who directed episodes of the first season, takes over as director, and Bartosz Sztybor returns as showrunner and writer.

It premieres on October 20, 2026, with all ten episodes landing on Netflix at once rather than weekly. Two things help decide whether to clear an evening. You need neither the first season nor Cyberpunk 2077 to follow it, because the story stands on its own, and Trigger's house style, the high-contrast and high-speed register that carried the original, is intact. The genres on file are animation, action, science fiction and crime.

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