Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - Trigger's Remix of Cyberpunk 2077

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Studio Trigger is known for selling a particular feel with their anime, one commonly associated with the studio talent's past in GAINAX and the style of Gurren Lagann or Kill la Kill. But after Trigger's panel at this year's Anime Expo, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners might be a big departure and another step towards becoming bigger on an international scale.

Announced way back in 2020 when Cyberpunk 2077 was still being hyped, Edgerunners is an animated series that not much was known about. About all that was known was that it was coming in 2022, so at least Trigger was better at setting a release date than CD Projekt Red. The small synopsis given was as vague and inviting as the premise of the game to which it is a companion piece; a boy surviving in a tech-obsessed dystopia. It was announced to have 10 episodes and be helmed by Hiroyuki Imaishi who at the time was hot off the heels of Promare's critical acclaim.

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Almost two years later exactly, the first teaser was shown, and now there's far more to chew on leading up to the release in September. The trailer shows plenty of familiar aesthetics and imagery, from the sprawling metropolis to the fashion to familiar corporations advertised everywhere.

There have clearly been changes in the two years since the announcement, and not even the protagonist looks the same as they did in the first promo poster. Between the similar premises and the imagery in the teasers, this anime could be less of a new story and a remix of the game's message.

It need not be said how wild, fast, and «out there» Trigger's original stories can be, but they haven't really ever adapted something that they didn't make themselves. Even so, while Trigger mostly does