{"id":19677,"date":"2026-08-22T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/?p=19677"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:34:53","slug":"cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-sets-october-premiere-with-new-night-city-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/cyberpunk-edgerunners-2-sets-october-premiere-with-new-night-city-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Sets October Premiere With New Night City Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese animation house Studio Trigger will co-animate Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 with a darker and grimier visual direction than its predecessor, <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/federal-subpoenas-target-microsoft-and-discord-after-playable-gta-vi-leak\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Federal Subpoenas Target Microsoft and Discord After Playable GTA VI Leak\">Netflix<\/a> and CD Projekt Red confirmed. The 10-episode standalone series is scheduled to debut October 20.<\/p>\n<p>An entirely new crew of mercenaries, netrunners, and an aspiring filmmaker will navigate Night City&#8217;s brutal underworld in the fresh story arc. Director Kai Ikarashi, promoted from storyboard artist and animation director on the original 2022 release, leads the production team.<\/p>\n<p>Showrunner and producer Bartosz Sztybor returns alongside veteran writer Masahiko Otsuka and lead character designer Ichigo Kanno to oversee narrative continuity for the new installment.<\/p>\n<p>The original series triggered a dramatic surge in Cyberpunk 2077 player numbers on Steam after its release, a commercial revival that helped stabilize the gaming franchise and spurred CD Projekt Red to greenlight an upcoming full video game sequel alongside expanding media adaptations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese animation house Studio Trigger will co-animate Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 with a darker and grimier visual direction than its predecessor, Netflix and CD Projekt Red confirmed. The 10-episode standalone series is scheduled to debut October 20. An entirely new crew of mercenaries, netrunners, and an aspiring filmmaker will navigate Night City&#8217;s brutal underworld in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21004,21001,21012,2081,21002,21005,21003],"class_list":["post-19677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-cyberpunk-edgerunners-2","tag-kai-ikarashi","tag-netflix","tag-night-city","tag-october-20","tag-studio-trigger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19681,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19677\/revisions\/19681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}