The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Opening is a Splashy, Colorful Bop

The Cyberpunk 2077 prepare retains going, regardless of its rocky protracted launch. Now that the sport’s been patched right into a playable (and fulfilling) state, and DLC is on the horizon, it’s the proper time for Netflix to launch that Edgerunners tie-in anime they supplied us a first look eventually month throughout their week lengthy TUDUM occasion.

Studio Trigger, dealing with manufacturing on the sequence alongside CD Projekt Red and greatest identified for Promare and Little Witch Academia, revealed the opening titles to Edgerunners on Saturday throughout their panel at Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Set to “This Ffire” by Franz Ferdinand, the opening is a visible feast—like their work typically is—and is heavy on the yellow that Cyberpunk has grow to be infamously known for. Similar to the opening for final 12 months’s Super Crooks, all the pieces within the opening simply seems and sounds nice, a lot that you’ll doubtless not skip the opening in the course of the sequence’ 10-episode first season. And if that doesn’t catch your consideration, the sequence’ soundtrack being dealt with by Silent Hill’s Akira Yamaoka doubtless will.

Edgerunners is about in in the identical universe as the sport, and by extension Mike Pondsmith and R. Talsorian Games’ tabletop RPG. The anime tells the story of David Martinez (voiced by Zach Aguilar of Demon Slayer fame). As a road child trying to survive in Night City, David opts to grow to be a mercenary outlaw, aka a cyberpunk. The setup sounds roughly like that of 2077, with David being an precise character with historical past on the earth of Night City reasonably than 2077’s protagonist V, who the participant needed to create from high to backside. The sequence will even give attention to a netrunner named Lucy, and the 2 will inevitably cross paths sooner or later in the course of the season.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will hit Netflix in September.

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