How Cyberpunk: Edgerunners connects to Cyberpunk 2077

polygon.com:

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Studio Trigger’s (Kill la Kill, Promare) 10-episode anime series set in the same universe as CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, is finally here — and it totally whips.

Executive produced by Rafal Jaki (Gwent: The WitcherCard Game), co-written by Bartosz Sztybor (Cyberpunk 2077), and directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Promare), the series follows the story of David Martinez, a street kid from the Night City borough of Santo Domingo who goes to an Arasaka Corporation charter school. Following a tragedy that leaves him orphaned, David submits himself to being implanted with an experimental cyberware augmentation and turns to the only life left for him: becoming an edgerunner, a cybernetic mercenary for hire who joins a gang of fellow “cyberpunks’’ in search of fame and fortune.

Fans of CD Projekt Red’s 2020 action-RPG may be curious as to how Edgerunners relates to the story of Cyberpunk 2077, if at all. The short answer is: It’s complicated. The long answer is… Well, let’s just get into it.

[Ed note: Spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Cyberpunk 2077 follow.]

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners takes place in Night City, the futuristic metropolis that serves as the primary setting of Cyberpunk 2077. While sharing the same location, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a stand-alone series featuring its own original cast of characters with their own storylines separate from that of either CD Projekt Red’s game or any storyline in Mike Pondsmith’s original tabletop RPG.

Several locations and supporting characters from Cyberpunk 2077 make noteworthy appearances throughout Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, either as allies to David and co. or as non-speaking blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em background cameos. While an exact year