This week is an excellent time to watch the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime

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As I write this, there's roughly one week until Cyberpunk 2077's long-awaited expansion Phantom Liberty goes live on PC, and less than 72 hours until the big, free 2.0 patch drops for everyone who already owns Cyberpunk 2077. Ample time to watch all 10 episodes of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the Netflix anime series that debuted last year and was popular enough to give the game a big boost in the sales charts. Whether you've already watched it or not, I can't think of a better way to get in the mood for 2077's big comeback this week.

Despite its short episodes, Edgerunners packs a hell of a lot into just over four hours of unhinged animation. As I wrote last year, the action series is a surprisingly compelling gutter-level view of Night City, focusing on a Night City gang and their frequent bouts of ultraviolence. Edgerunners doesn't connect to Cyberpunk 2077 protagonist V at all and requires no knowledge from the game to enjoy, but it actually manages to deepen the world you'll be playing in by exploring some ideas the game doesn't dabble with much.

Here's a snippet of what I wrote about Edgerunners a year ago: 

«The smartest thing Cyberpunk: Edgerunners does is build its story around the threat of cyberpsychosis, a psychological condition mentioned in the game but never really focused on. Cyberpunk RPG lore says cyberpsychosis is the violent madness that results from too many augmentations, the brain losing itself to body trauma and turning poor chromed-up chooms into deranged killers...

The characters end up injecting immunosuppressants to stay sane, upping their dosage the more body parts they replace. Edgerunners makes it clear that for characters like David and Maine, it's not the drugs that are addicting: it's the