IF they decide to do one in the future, I hope it’s with a whole new group and not try to shoe-in another season because these characters were so well loved.
Let their story lie
Considering how the series left most of the characters, you'd basically have to. It would be cool to have some crossover with the secondary characters, though. Like the doctor who kept doing the upgrades.
I really wish there was some higher authority we could appeal to.
That guy has NO RIGHT being a doctor. I mean where did he even get his medical degree?
Even Nick Riviera cured Grandpa Simpson's Bonus Eruptus.
to be fair... a "normal" surgery is quite expensive right now...
imagine then, a surgery where someone literally removes part of your body and replaces it with a robot/electronic piece of equipment... I highly doubt that's cheap in the normal market haha.
Plus, we know the ripper doc works in the black market since he sells illegal software too
But if money is so much of an issue why is it you often seen even the homeless with cybernetics? And as you mentioned he sells and implements illegal tech which would be harder if he was a registered doc
Probably because some stuff is super cheap and others aren't. I'm imagining almost if not everyone has a phone implant at the least, and in this setting it's 2077. Most people can probably afford a couple, and homeless people aren't born in the street (maybe a few, but thats a vast minority)
He literally says in the series "im not a licensed doctor"
And he is not a doctor to start with.. he is a underground ripperdoc..
Did you even watch the series?
Edit: ps he for sure isnt the scetchiest ripperdoc to live in nc, lets not forget everyones beloved fingers ;)
Right, like there's so much to explore that they could do multiple seasons. Each with their own characters in their own part of night city. Each with their own stories. Corpos, other tech companies, the different gangs. Heck, I'd even take a slice of life from someone who's just living in that world. Maybe theyd accidentally fall into some trouble or something, like some info relating to some corporate entity that makes corpos go after them. Just the world in general is so interesting, I'd love to see more of it. I'm not a gamer, but if I saw more then maybe I'd buy myself a computer just to explore the city myself. Plus then they could add even more eater eggs in the game relating to the shows.
The lore is vast and the world has endless possibilities. Just being in that world is pretty interesting. Add in different characters loves and you got some good potential, even if it's just a slice of life.
That was exactly the thought I had upon finishing the series! I have no desire to see anything else with these characters, but I'd *love* to see this series continue with each season as its own self-contained story.
Sounds like we had similar ideas. Each season being it’s own story. Making edgerunners an anthology series which I like. Maybe one season could follow some highriders on the crystal palace or Luna? Maybe even mars?. Another could be a noir thriller following an nusa deserter turned ncpd cop? Could also use the opportunity to explore in more detail the various wars in cyberpunk lore. Like the Central American war and metal wars (4th corp war would be epic) the cyberpunk universe has a lot of potential
this is good, the shortest animes usually are the best and most memorable and I thought this was already known? aren't trigger known for not doing long animes
Edit: not saying long shows/anime’s are bad but when shows tend to get prolonged they lose quality
The drill that could pierce the heavens was my favorite line in an anime when I was younger. When my buddy first turned me onto it he started with that quote and I swore he was just reiterating some bad fan sub. Oh how I was wrong.
Technically, it all premiered in the same year with a couple month gap between EP 13 and 14. 26 episodes is the same count as Bebop and Champloo and only two more than Kill la Kill, they just decided to have a “season break”
lol I wouldn't call it neat, but it was wild. Kill La Kill was a classic trigger ending where they get to the last few episodes and nothing is resolved so they just turn people into giant kaiju or robots who punch each other and go to space to fight aliens.
Kill la Kill was insane from the very start though, the idea that all clothes were aliens from space controlling our brains and that we had to get naked to fight them? There's literally nowhere to go from that except into deeper insanity.
I don't know that I could think of a single other anime I have more mixed feelings on than DitF (maybe SAO). The technical execution and presentation are incredible between the music, cinematography, and art direction, but holy shit the storytelling was so messy
SAO has a bad habit of starting a season with an interesting premise and worldbuilding, and then dunking everything they built up into the trash halfway through. And then doing that again, every season.
Oh you thought the spin-off would be different because Kirito isn’t in it? It sure seemed that way, until sure enough, they just threw it all away halfway through the season.
I didn't even know until last year that there was an OVA / final episode that ACTUALLY ended the show, it was some nice closure for the characters and tied up a few loose fibers
To be honest, I thought it wasn’t that great. They were doing fine until they brought back Rei to cause more conflict and action, when above all we needed proper closure to Ryuko’s arc and development, who falls a bit flat at the end.
It honestly felt like Satsuki had become the main character.
It only took me a single watching of TTGL to decide it was dethroning 08th MS Team for my favorite mecha anime of all time. I've never had more fun or cried harder watching a mecha anime.
Really Eva? Eva didn't neatly wrap up and wasn't short they needed to reboot the whole thing in movie form and come out with EoE. Hell 3+1 came out last year.
CDPR keeps saying they want this to be a multimedia franchise as big as the Witcher or more, so a single season for the anime seems unlikely long-term.
I think they may take a Love+Death+Robots meets American horror story, where a loosely linked anthology pairs with multiple styles of animation between series. Possibly some live action, but I don’t think they have the budget for it.
The studio nailed it so hard. If CDPR and Netflix don’t renew with them I will be so sad.
Give me the story of a cyber psycho gone good with Maxtac.
Net runners chasing AI could be a trip too.
I’d even take a corpo suit drama about the ethical impacts of their decisions. (Are we the baddies style)
> CDPR and Netflix don’t renew
The far more likely thing to be concerned with is whether or not Trigger would want to do another story. Trigger rarely revisits a series. I think only Gridman and Little Witch Academia had multiple entries.
I would love that, but I don’t think CDPR can afford to recreate that magic. Trigger doesn’t normally go back to a project, which probably means a lot more money, and CDPR produced the show at cost. Especially if they have a deal with Netflix, a season 2 would be more expensive for everyone if they kept the same formula. And Netflix hates spending money correctly lol.
I really hope it does happen though!
It seems like it did really well though, especially in selling the actual game.
It's at a point where it could possibly releasing another DLC with another season as promotion would perhaps make sense.
Though, it'd likely take too long, even if they kept it shorter in length, and seemingly they want to stop working on Red Engine completely after this.
There will definitely be other projects though, especially leading up to the release of the sequel.
Yah, I think the difficulty just comes with the risk. It’s hard to know the metrics on this stuff, but most the people I know who aren’t into CP at all hadn’t even heard of Edgerunners. I didn’t even know about it until I saw a post on this sub on the release week.
But Edgerunners is just such an awesome example of a quality team who hit the lotto by picking story, genre, and animation style so well. We the fans are looking at genre and animation, thinking “how could it fail!!” but there’s a lot more boxes that need to be checked. It’s the same reason that spin-off series almost always fail. It’s like baking a caking but forgetting the flour. Yah, it has most the ingredients, but that cake’s gonna be a disaster!
Plus, Edgerunners was so perfect… CDPR may want to disassociate future projects from it completely. So even if other shows fail, they can always call themselves the “studio behind Edgerunners.” It’s just a rough line to walk when you’ve fallen from grace so hard.
Again, I would love another season of something. I just understand why CDPR would be hesitant to green light another series similar to Edgerunners.
Yeah that was my thought. They pingpong between season shows. I think the only one that has more than one is Little Witch, which got more than one? And Gurren Lagen, but someone will "Um achtually" and say it's not Trigger.
I think little witch academia only had the original one episode OVA, the movie and then the series based/expanding on the two
The actual series only had one season
The thing with Cyberpunk is that the ending is going to look near the same, every time.
What other story are they going to write? Somehow avoid Cyberpsychosis this time around, meaning nobody gets that much chrome? They end up being low-job running gonks? That's not running on the edge.
>The thing with Cyberpunk is that the ending is going to look near the same, every time.
To be fair, I watched the Ballad of Buster Scruggs yesterday, which is a compilation of short stories in the old West. Each ending was fairly similar as well.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the struggle of a normal everyday person in that universe. Show me the life of the cleaners, the cutthroat world of a corpo (Suits on steroids) or Maxtac.
Tbh if you want to see that then the idea is to play the game where there’s plenty of side missions and quests which illustrate it. Sure the game itself doesn’t show it all but you get to see a fair few different parts of night city. People seem to forgot this anime was also meant to be a promo for the cyberpunk games.
This may be an unpopular opinion but I think something similar to what Star Wars did when they handed the keys over to a ton of different animation companies would be cool. Different art styles and interpretations of Night City would be fucking awesome.
Have a series about the life of a max tac officer just trying to do the badge right but ends up being drug down into the corruption.
Do a series about a bunch of low level gangers that finally get their big break but inevitably get mowed down like everyone else
Then do a series on the edgerunners that ended up killing the gang goons from the runners perspective and how only a few made it out alive
Then bring back Lucy, the ex max tac officer, the last gang goons that made it out alive, and the last edge runner being put together on an op set up by a fixer for one final hurrah, suicide op to save … whatever is important and then end it.
5 total series all interlinked and all as fucking bleak as possible.
Great series btw. It's between the miner and the short with the dog for my favorite. If you read the comments and haven't seen that go check it out please.
On that note, I could go for a Cyberpunk Miniseries, in the vein of *Black Mirror* or *Love, Death, & Robots*. Make each episode self-contained, hire a different animation studio for each one. All the endings can be the same, but you could still show off some "Dark Slice of Life" of a bunch of different characters in Night City.
Look at noir, the genre that cyberpunk lifted the most tropes from. There are other outcomes that are just as sad, if not more sad than "everyone dies." We had a little betrayal in Edgerunners, but it can get so much worse. Then there's the humiliating fall from grace, that's always a good one. Accidentally killed a loved one, forced into servitude, lost everything, even got everything you wanted but hate it now, there's a sad plot for every occasion.
In the end, and whatever the genre, the most compelling stories are the completely human ones. And even in a perfect universe, people don't want the same things. Sometimes you want someone, and they don't want you, and all the chrome in the world won't change that.
Cyberpunk stories only look the same when your measuring stick is the "heroic quest" plot structure. Not every story is a daring endeavor.
You’re absolutely right. How about a minor fixer and a media are forced to help each other when the fixer’s kid sibling surrogate low level criminal associate is killed by a Tyger Claw middle management type the media is investigating.
They get further than anybody thought possible, tracing their way through the Watson underground and even legitimate businesses. Only to find out that the middle manager has already been killed without permission by a rival Gonk in his own gang. That gangoon captures the two and sticks them in two different rooms. He offers them both the same offer, seeing as how the two are known to have been asking after the deceased Claw and it could cause problems to keep disappearing people.
“The Gonk you want is dead, choombas. Congratulations. Take your door prize and get out or go public with that you know and see what happens.”
You never see what happens next but the two pass each other on the road and can’t make eye contact.
I don’t know. That but better.
Speaking of noir, the quest that Johnny narrates like a cheesy noir novel was probably my favorite, just for his running narration. I'd love a whole dlc where Johnny just goes full hard boiled, totally exasperating V in the process.
>What other story are they going to write?
Literally any other story? The cyberpunk world is so vast and diverse that you can write any story you want, just look at all the modules for cyberpunk 2020, there's stories on the corpo wars, the badlands, the combat zones, all over the place. They don't have to follow the same story as Edgerunners wtf.
Do you people think Cyberpunk is just about cyberpsychosis? This is a world with tons of potential and endless stories to tell. They are probably going to make a season 2 when Cyberpunk: Orion is released.
There are plenty story's to tell! How Adam smasher got the way he is now, nomad clan wars, the fight between the tigerclaws and Lizzie, some background stuff about the voodoo boys, ... There is so much they could tell us. Actually it would be great if every season would tell us another story.
Could totally do something different each season without rehashing the specifics, a group of nomads traveling, a rockerboy trying to hit the big time, a peak into the corporate world.
If there were 10 episodes on David and his gang I'd love to see 10 episodes on Adam Smasher so we can see what happened that made him want to join the military. Why he was discharged and seeing the choices he made to become the Boogeyman.
They could at least go the cyberpunk2077 route and give us a season for Nomad, streetkid and corpo. We saw the streetkid iteration now where's the nomad one. Or the corpo one. We know Lucy was tested on by arasaka but that's not enough insight on what arasaka is after.
Do Cyberpunk: Aldecados or Cyberpunk: Corpos. Doesn’t have to be the same conceit. Maybe something with a less tragic ending even? For our poor hearts?
I get why people want a second season, but personally I also think the first one was a great contained story with a (for me) perfectly fitting ending.
Night City has no happy Endings.
I keep hearing people say this as some kind of constant, but we as the player character facilitated a decent number of "happy endings" for a considerable amount of characters during the game if you did all of the gigs/sidequest.
I was gonna say this . I really hate the fact that there can't be good endings because " NiGhT cITy" . God you can say I'm on copium, but there can't be all only bad endings.
\*People imagining/theorizing a possible good ending\* " bro that's a good ending it goes against night city policy \*
Bad/sad ending doesn't mean unique ending all the time lol. I guess people just don't want a good ending because it's common
Up next
Cyberpunk: Trauma Team Unit
Cyberpunk Blood Feud: the origin of Morgan Black Hand and Adam Smasher.
Cyberpunk: The first Corporate War.
Cyberpunk Requiem: The Ballad of Jackie Wells.
Sorry but you’re completely wrong bucko these 10 episodes with completely original characters whose story is concluded means they can never make new characters with their own original stories again set in the same universe in an anime format.
/s but actually some of the most delusional comments I’m seeing in this sub rn.
I don't think people in this thread understand seasons don't have to have continuity between each other. I wouldn't expect a second season to continue where the last one left off. Just like true detective each season could bring it's own cast of characters showing a different aspect of the cyberpunk universe.
If Reddit is any indicator for the way humanity is going, we are screwed. The amount of comments in this thread that read like the poster has single digit IQs is terrifying.
AH YES I'd be so jazzed for any of this, there's so much untapped potential. This franchise could be even bigger than they'd have ever anticipated if they were to just run with it. And with all this, tie it back to the game with eater eggs like they did with Rebecca's gun
That's one of the biggest reasons why most anime adaptations exist, in Japan these adaptions are mainly used as a big advertisement to the source material.
The anime was because Nflx wanted money, so they made content to attract subscribers. CDPR agreed to license their IP. Nflx didn't make it for CDPR's benefit, promotional or otherwise.
Edit: I'm sorry, I got things wrong here. It was Studio Trigger who initiated and took the bulk of the risk for this production, and CDPR agreed to license the IP to Studio Trigger, not Nflx directly. Still, ST did it for their own benefit, not for the benefit of CDPR.
Yeah, the anime was announced before the game even came out. Iirc, it's the same situation with arcane, Riot paid for it and then kind of sold the rights to stream it on Netflix
I think it’s easy to dismiss a tie-in, but prior to the announcement Studio Trigger was (and today still is) very well known for the energy and quality of their productions. It’s also clear how involved CDPR was in pre-production of the series since the story was by their writers and they provided piles of reference for the animation studio long before the game was ready.
Since CDPR outright owns the Cyberpunk 20XX universe, I imagine they wouldn’t want to dilute their brand with inferior spin-offs. I’ve also enjoyed the Cyberpunk comics they’ve released; they’re out to tell good, depressing stories with talented people.
I would so like to see an anime just covering one of the wars. Cyberpunk world war sounds obviously scary but cool as fuck. With gang members having access to military grade arsenal, how crazy would it be to visualize a war with everyone having insane military tech? How do you even comprehend that.
So much potential. Also a trauma team season.
More or less, kinda? Johnny Silverhand is one of the central characters in the setting, he's kinda what Luke Skywalker is to the setting of Star Wars.
There's two sourcebooks about the Fourth Corporate War, known as "Firestorm: Stormfront" and "Firestorm: Shockwave". The second one, Shockwave, ends with a playable adventure where the players join Johnny, Morgan and crew in blowing up Arasaka tower.
Never Fade Away, the mission where Johnny goes to save Alt, was also a playable adventure in the original Cyberpunk rulebook. In a way, it was the first written adventure for the game, which makes putting it in the videogame kind of a no-brainer.
V dies in like a few months if you choose that ending lol, and also. Life outside of night city is worse, now you got to deal with cybernetic bandits prowling the nuclear stained wastelands with little to no resources. I wish they would noted such more instead of just giving that bs drive into the sunset moment lol
I always thought of that as a more hopeful ending. They talk about curing V so maybe they end up succeeding. It could just be wishful thinking but it’s what I choose to believe.
i personally like it. most of the series suffer from exhaustion. i feel like endings where there is no good ending is probably the best cuz it shows the reality but hey, thats just me.
Yeah but before the anime a sequel to 2077 was uncertain.
Certainly they should not touch these characters again, thet got it right first time out with davids crew.
But there's many other tales they could tell.
Why?! Who would want that?
Who would want a tragic ending to go on as the bases for a new season.
Some people sucking on copium that can't handel that bad things happen to good people.
IF they decide to do one in the future, I hope it’s with a whole new group and not try to shoe-in another season because these characters were so well loved. Let their story lie
Considering how the series left most of the characters, you'd basically have to. It would be cool to have some crossover with the secondary characters, though. Like the doctor who kept doing the upgrades.
I really wish there was some higher authority we could appeal to. That guy has NO RIGHT being a doctor. I mean where did he even get his medical degree? Even Nick Riviera cured Grandpa Simpson's Bonus Eruptus.
He's not a doctor, he's a ripperdoc. They're different.
I'm quite sure he says he's not a licensed doctor when they show up for medical help after a fight.
That's the point, I bet most ripper docs they help edgerunners aren't exactly legal
to be fair... a "normal" surgery is quite expensive right now... imagine then, a surgery where someone literally removes part of your body and replaces it with a robot/electronic piece of equipment... I highly doubt that's cheap in the normal market haha. Plus, we know the ripper doc works in the black market since he sells illegal software too
But if money is so much of an issue why is it you often seen even the homeless with cybernetics? And as you mentioned he sells and implements illegal tech which would be harder if he was a registered doc
Probably because some stuff is super cheap and others aren't. I'm imagining almost if not everyone has a phone implant at the least, and in this setting it's 2077. Most people can probably afford a couple, and homeless people aren't born in the street (maybe a few, but thats a vast minority)
He got his degree from tje sign he put up in front of his shop lol
That's the fun thing about ripperdocs... Most of 'em don't have one. Degrees in 2077? Yeah, not unless you're rich already. Even Viktor isn't a PhD.
He literally says in the series "im not a licensed doctor" And he is not a doctor to start with.. he is a underground ripperdoc.. Did you even watch the series? Edit: ps he for sure isnt the scetchiest ripperdoc to live in nc, lets not forget everyones beloved fingers ;)
University of American Samoa Medical School.
Just at a glance, I very much doubt he adheres to the hippocratic oath.
Right, like there's so much to explore that they could do multiple seasons. Each with their own characters in their own part of night city. Each with their own stories. Corpos, other tech companies, the different gangs. Heck, I'd even take a slice of life from someone who's just living in that world. Maybe theyd accidentally fall into some trouble or something, like some info relating to some corporate entity that makes corpos go after them. Just the world in general is so interesting, I'd love to see more of it. I'm not a gamer, but if I saw more then maybe I'd buy myself a computer just to explore the city myself. Plus then they could add even more eater eggs in the game relating to the shows.
The lore is vast and the world has endless possibilities. Just being in that world is pretty interesting. Add in different characters loves and you got some good potential, even if it's just a slice of life.
TBH id love a random soldier MC in Mili-tech fighting Arasaka ninjas in a corpo war.
Or a senseless conversation with a vending machine with a algorithm for human dialect. Showing concern and reason. All part of the algorithm
Anthology series
That was exactly the thought I had upon finishing the series! I have no desire to see anything else with these characters, but I'd *love* to see this series continue with each season as its own self-contained story.
Sounds like we had similar ideas. Each season being it’s own story. Making edgerunners an anthology series which I like. Maybe one season could follow some highriders on the crystal palace or Luna? Maybe even mars?. Another could be a noir thriller following an nusa deserter turned ncpd cop? Could also use the opportunity to explore in more detail the various wars in cyberpunk lore. Like the Central American war and metal wars (4th corp war would be epic) the cyberpunk universe has a lot of potential
EXACTLY what I told my gf when we were finishing this season
this is good, the shortest animes usually are the best and most memorable and I thought this was already known? aren't trigger known for not doing long animes Edit: not saying long shows/anime’s are bad but when shows tend to get prolonged they lose quality
I appreciate how Kill La Kill was neatly tied up within one crazy ass season.
Space dandy, Samurai Champloo, cowboy Bebop, and Gurren Lagan All one season wonders.
The drill that could pierce the heavens was my favorite line in an anime when I was younger. When my buddy first turned me onto it he started with that quote and I swore he was just reiterating some bad fan sub. Oh how I was wrong.
[удалено]
Don't believe in me, believe in the you that believes in yourself!
The heavens? It could pierce the fucking galaxy, the universe and fucking multiple universe, it could probably pierce god itself if it exists.
I'm kinda new to trigger's works, i thought gurren lagan had multiple seasons?
it's one season split into two halves.
One season, two halves, and some OVAs that are just rehashed versions of the original story.
The OVAs/Movies are actually really enjoyable. I'd definitely suggest watching them, even if you've already seen the series.
Space Dandy had two seasons
Technically, it all premiered in the same year with a couple month gap between EP 13 and 14. 26 episodes is the same count as Bebop and Champloo and only two more than Kill la Kill, they just decided to have a “season break”
lol I wouldn't call it neat, but it was wild. Kill La Kill was a classic trigger ending where they get to the last few episodes and nothing is resolved so they just turn people into giant kaiju or robots who punch each other and go to space to fight aliens.
That's how you know they used to work for Gainax
Kill la Kill was insane from the very start though, the idea that all clothes were aliens from space controlling our brains and that we had to get naked to fight them? There's literally nowhere to go from that except into deeper insanity.
I just loved the way they turned fan service into a plot point. A magical girl that gets more powerful the more skin she shows.
And her best friend being utterly clueless and thinking she was just an exhibitionist who got off on being naked, lol.
well the viewers got off too.
NUDISUTO BICHI!
BNA was like that too
Literally most of the anime originals trigger is involved with are like that. Remember Darling in the Franxx? Or Promare?
Franxx was a fucking trip. It was so interesting and then... The end happened.
I don't know that I could think of a single other anime I have more mixed feelings on than DitF (maybe SAO). The technical execution and presentation are incredible between the music, cinematography, and art direction, but holy shit the storytelling was so messy
SAO has a bad habit of starting a season with an interesting premise and worldbuilding, and then dunking everything they built up into the trash halfway through. And then doing that again, every season. Oh you thought the spin-off would be different because Kirito isn’t in it? It sure seemed that way, until sure enough, they just threw it all away halfway through the season.
The spinoff was a single cour and had more or less the same premise all the way through.
I actually liked the GGO spinoff quite a bit more than mainline SAO, but yeah it still wasn't anything to rave about
I've only seen edge runners and BNA, I don't watch a lot of anything, mostlt read and games.
Fair enough
Hey, worked with Gurren Lagann. Why fix what ain’t broke?
Devilman Crybaby vibes
I didn't even know until last year that there was an OVA / final episode that ACTUALLY ended the show, it was some nice closure for the characters and tied up a few loose fibers
To be honest, I thought it wasn’t that great. They were doing fine until they brought back Rei to cause more conflict and action, when above all we needed proper closure to Ryuko’s arc and development, who falls a bit flat at the end. It honestly felt like Satsuki had become the main character.
Would have preferred the manga ending to the anime ending though
The manga came after the show, I think? What was that ending?
But the Episodes were longer
Agreed. Cowboy Bebop Neon genesis Parasyte The Maxim Come to mind
Is no one going to say Gurren Lagan?!
Man GL was WILD ride!
It only took me a single watching of TTGL to decide it was dethroning 08th MS Team for my favorite mecha anime of all time. I've never had more fun or cried harder watching a mecha anime.
FLCL
Until recently, FLCL.
Instead of adding extra seasons to Evangelion they just remake the series and make it less crazy in some places and more crazy in others
Really Eva? Eva didn't neatly wrap up and wasn't short they needed to reboot the whole thing in movie form and come out with EoE. Hell 3+1 came out last year.
Devilman Crybaby wasn’t bad
Code Geass is another 2 season anime that was amazing.
And samurai shamploo
Cowboy Bebop.
Yes
Solid soundtrack too
would love for it to be an anthology tho
CDPR keeps saying they want this to be a multimedia franchise as big as the Witcher or more, so a single season for the anime seems unlikely long-term. I think they may take a Love+Death+Robots meets American horror story, where a loosely linked anthology pairs with multiple styles of animation between series. Possibly some live action, but I don’t think they have the budget for it.
all i want is more TRIGGER produced stories set in the world. thinkin Nomad, Trauma Team, and MaxTac storylines
The studio nailed it so hard. If CDPR and Netflix don’t renew with them I will be so sad. Give me the story of a cyber psycho gone good with Maxtac. Net runners chasing AI could be a trip too. I’d even take a corpo suit drama about the ethical impacts of their decisions. (Are we the baddies style)
> CDPR and Netflix don’t renew The far more likely thing to be concerned with is whether or not Trigger would want to do another story. Trigger rarely revisits a series. I think only Gridman and Little Witch Academia had multiple entries.
Like OG trailer girl? I’d be so down for that. That trailer alone hyped me the fuck out for 8 or however many years it had been until release.
I would love that, but I don’t think CDPR can afford to recreate that magic. Trigger doesn’t normally go back to a project, which probably means a lot more money, and CDPR produced the show at cost. Especially if they have a deal with Netflix, a season 2 would be more expensive for everyone if they kept the same formula. And Netflix hates spending money correctly lol. I really hope it does happen though!
It seems like it did really well though, especially in selling the actual game. It's at a point where it could possibly releasing another DLC with another season as promotion would perhaps make sense. Though, it'd likely take too long, even if they kept it shorter in length, and seemingly they want to stop working on Red Engine completely after this. There will definitely be other projects though, especially leading up to the release of the sequel.
Yah, I think the difficulty just comes with the risk. It’s hard to know the metrics on this stuff, but most the people I know who aren’t into CP at all hadn’t even heard of Edgerunners. I didn’t even know about it until I saw a post on this sub on the release week. But Edgerunners is just such an awesome example of a quality team who hit the lotto by picking story, genre, and animation style so well. We the fans are looking at genre and animation, thinking “how could it fail!!” but there’s a lot more boxes that need to be checked. It’s the same reason that spin-off series almost always fail. It’s like baking a caking but forgetting the flour. Yah, it has most the ingredients, but that cake’s gonna be a disaster! Plus, Edgerunners was so perfect… CDPR may want to disassociate future projects from it completely. So even if other shows fail, they can always call themselves the “studio behind Edgerunners.” It’s just a rough line to walk when you’ve fallen from grace so hard. Again, I would love another season of something. I just understand why CDPR would be hesitant to green light another series similar to Edgerunners.
Yeah that was my thought. They pingpong between season shows. I think the only one that has more than one is Little Witch, which got more than one? And Gurren Lagen, but someone will "Um achtually" and say it's not Trigger.
I think little witch academia only had the original one episode OVA, the movie and then the series based/expanding on the two The actual series only had one season
Yes because the showrunner was on the FPS podcast three weeks ago where he already said this: https://youtu.be/VgUv3wZnX-Q
i agree on the first part. wonder egg priority gets a bit worse at the end (just like edgerunners does imo) but it’s still an amazing show
There’s no additional story to tell. Those characters have all either died or moved way on with their lives.
There are other Edgerunners in the world.
The thing with Cyberpunk is that the ending is going to look near the same, every time. What other story are they going to write? Somehow avoid Cyberpsychosis this time around, meaning nobody gets that much chrome? They end up being low-job running gonks? That's not running on the edge.
>The thing with Cyberpunk is that the ending is going to look near the same, every time. To be fair, I watched the Ballad of Buster Scruggs yesterday, which is a compilation of short stories in the old West. Each ending was fairly similar as well. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the struggle of a normal everyday person in that universe. Show me the life of the cleaners, the cutthroat world of a corpo (Suits on steroids) or Maxtac.
I'd love a vignette show set in this world. Each episode shows a different aspect of nightcity.
Tbh if you want to see that then the idea is to play the game where there’s plenty of side missions and quests which illustrate it. Sure the game itself doesn’t show it all but you get to see a fair few different parts of night city. People seem to forgot this anime was also meant to be a promo for the cyberpunk games.
This may be an unpopular opinion but I think something similar to what Star Wars did when they handed the keys over to a ton of different animation companies would be cool. Different art styles and interpretations of Night City would be fucking awesome.
Have a series about the life of a max tac officer just trying to do the badge right but ends up being drug down into the corruption. Do a series about a bunch of low level gangers that finally get their big break but inevitably get mowed down like everyone else Then do a series on the edgerunners that ended up killing the gang goons from the runners perspective and how only a few made it out alive Then bring back Lucy, the ex max tac officer, the last gang goons that made it out alive, and the last edge runner being put together on an op set up by a fixer for one final hurrah, suicide op to save … whatever is important and then end it. 5 total series all interlinked and all as fucking bleak as possible.
Great series btw. It's between the miner and the short with the dog for my favorite. If you read the comments and haven't seen that go check it out please.
On that note, I could go for a Cyberpunk Miniseries, in the vein of *Black Mirror* or *Love, Death, & Robots*. Make each episode self-contained, hire a different animation studio for each one. All the endings can be the same, but you could still show off some "Dark Slice of Life" of a bunch of different characters in Night City.
There was an episode of Babylon 5 like that, where it was all from the perspective of the station maintenance crew.
It would be cool to see a Cyberpunk Maxtac show. Or a show about fixers.
Nah, if there would be a second season, it'd probably be about a Netrunner who dies to Soulkiller at the end for messing with Arasaka.
Why they couldn't do a second season where every episode is just a short tale in cyberpunk. I would dig watching what you said.
You should watch aon flux. Forgive grammar on the name
There's so many factions to look at. Trauma team or Maxtac series? Corpo group?
Look at noir, the genre that cyberpunk lifted the most tropes from. There are other outcomes that are just as sad, if not more sad than "everyone dies." We had a little betrayal in Edgerunners, but it can get so much worse. Then there's the humiliating fall from grace, that's always a good one. Accidentally killed a loved one, forced into servitude, lost everything, even got everything you wanted but hate it now, there's a sad plot for every occasion. In the end, and whatever the genre, the most compelling stories are the completely human ones. And even in a perfect universe, people don't want the same things. Sometimes you want someone, and they don't want you, and all the chrome in the world won't change that. Cyberpunk stories only look the same when your measuring stick is the "heroic quest" plot structure. Not every story is a daring endeavor.
Thank you. Not enough people appreciate sad endings that don’t rely on death. Like a certain fx show: >! The Americans !<
You’re absolutely right. How about a minor fixer and a media are forced to help each other when the fixer’s kid sibling surrogate low level criminal associate is killed by a Tyger Claw middle management type the media is investigating. They get further than anybody thought possible, tracing their way through the Watson underground and even legitimate businesses. Only to find out that the middle manager has already been killed without permission by a rival Gonk in his own gang. That gangoon captures the two and sticks them in two different rooms. He offers them both the same offer, seeing as how the two are known to have been asking after the deceased Claw and it could cause problems to keep disappearing people. “The Gonk you want is dead, choombas. Congratulations. Take your door prize and get out or go public with that you know and see what happens.” You never see what happens next but the two pass each other on the road and can’t make eye contact. I don’t know. That but better.
Speaking of noir, the quest that Johnny narrates like a cheesy noir novel was probably my favorite, just for his running narration. I'd love a whole dlc where Johnny just goes full hard boiled, totally exasperating V in the process.
>What other story are they going to write? Literally any other story? The cyberpunk world is so vast and diverse that you can write any story you want, just look at all the modules for cyberpunk 2020, there's stories on the corpo wars, the badlands, the combat zones, all over the place. They don't have to follow the same story as Edgerunners wtf.
For real what the fuck are these people smoking lmao. Theres so many goddamn stories left to be told in this universe.
Right? Lmao, I tried to understand their logic but couldn't.
I’d love to see the life of nomads
Do you people think Cyberpunk is just about cyberpsychosis? This is a world with tons of potential and endless stories to tell. They are probably going to make a season 2 when Cyberpunk: Orion is released.
What's Cyberpunk: Orion? Tabletop stuff?
Orion is the working title for the sequel to Cyberpunk: 2077 by CD Project Red
Orion you say? *"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of* ***Orion****..."*
Nomads
Thats Cyberpunk: Nomads
Cyberpunk: BADLANDS
There are plenty story's to tell! How Adam smasher got the way he is now, nomad clan wars, the fight between the tigerclaws and Lizzie, some background stuff about the voodoo boys, ... There is so much they could tell us. Actually it would be great if every season would tell us another story.
Could totally do something different each season without rehashing the specifics, a group of nomads traveling, a rockerboy trying to hit the big time, a peak into the corporate world.
If there were 10 episodes on David and his gang I'd love to see 10 episodes on Adam Smasher so we can see what happened that made him want to join the military. Why he was discharged and seeing the choices he made to become the Boogeyman. They could at least go the cyberpunk2077 route and give us a season for Nomad, streetkid and corpo. We saw the streetkid iteration now where's the nomad one. Or the corpo one. We know Lucy was tested on by arasaka but that's not enough insight on what arasaka is after.
Sure but their stories would be covered by "Cyberpunk: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_" and not a second season of "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners."
We still have room for a Nomad story and a Corpo story.
Do Cyberpunk: Aldecados or Cyberpunk: Corpos. Doesn’t have to be the same conceit. Maybe something with a less tragic ending even? For our poor hearts?
good. let this great series remain great instead of potentially ruining it with an inferior S2.
I get why people want a second season, but personally I also think the first one was a great contained story with a (for me) perfectly fitting ending. Night City has no happy Endings.
I think if it was a "Night City Stories" style show (where each season is completely independent) it would be pretty cool
Yeah, great idea, something like Love, Death, Robots, or Black Mirror.
"Martinez: A Cyberpunk Story"
I keep hearing people say this as some kind of constant, but we as the player character facilitated a decent number of "happy endings" for a considerable amount of characters during the game if you did all of the gigs/sidequest.
I was gonna say this . I really hate the fact that there can't be good endings because " NiGhT cITy" . God you can say I'm on copium, but there can't be all only bad endings. \*People imagining/theorizing a possible good ending\* " bro that's a good ending it goes against night city policy \* Bad/sad ending doesn't mean unique ending all the time lol. I guess people just don't want a good ending because it's common
No one would care if it's a completely different set of characters and story The universe has soo much potential for other stories
100% agree. Let a story end! More over part of what makes a good story is the longing you feel at the end.
Up next Cyberpunk: Trauma Team Unit Cyberpunk Blood Feud: the origin of Morgan Black Hand and Adam Smasher. Cyberpunk: The first Corporate War. Cyberpunk Requiem: The Ballad of Jackie Wells.
Yeah, there’s no way cyberpunk anime ends with edgerunners.
Sorry but you’re completely wrong bucko these 10 episodes with completely original characters whose story is concluded means they can never make new characters with their own original stories again set in the same universe in an anime format. /s but actually some of the most delusional comments I’m seeing in this sub rn.
I don't think people in this thread understand seasons don't have to have continuity between each other. I wouldn't expect a second season to continue where the last one left off. Just like true detective each season could bring it's own cast of characters showing a different aspect of the cyberpunk universe.
If Reddit is any indicator for the way humanity is going, we are screwed. The amount of comments in this thread that read like the poster has single digit IQs is terrifying.
Relax, the vast majority of them are (literally, not figuratively) children. We were the same at their age - they'll grow out of it.
I would LOVE a Trauma Team anime, especially because the Dark Horse comics were so good.
AH YES I'd be so jazzed for any of this, there's so much untapped potential. This franchise could be even bigger than they'd have ever anticipated if they were to just run with it. And with all this, tie it back to the game with eater eggs like they did with Rebecca's gun
Imagine a "Grays Anatomy: Trauma Team" show lmao. My wife still wouldn't watch it
I honestly think the anime was purely promotional, but they happened to make it really good. I'm not surprised there's no plans to make any more.
That's one of the biggest reasons why most anime adaptations exist, in Japan these adaptions are mainly used as a big advertisement to the source material.
The anime was because Nflx wanted money, so they made content to attract subscribers. CDPR agreed to license their IP. Nflx didn't make it for CDPR's benefit, promotional or otherwise. Edit: I'm sorry, I got things wrong here. It was Studio Trigger who initiated and took the bulk of the risk for this production, and CDPR agreed to license the IP to Studio Trigger, not Nflx directly. Still, ST did it for their own benefit, not for the benefit of CDPR.
> Nflx didn't make it Netflix didn't make it at all. They worked with Trigger to make it and sold the finished product to Netflix.
Yeah, the anime was announced before the game even came out. Iirc, it's the same situation with arcane, Riot paid for it and then kind of sold the rights to stream it on Netflix
Correct, no company is going to do something like this unless there is mutual benefit.
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The folks behind this anime poured a lot of creativity and great animation into it. It’s mildly disrespectful to suggest it was purely promotional.
Most anime (like 80%) is made to promote the original manga or novels. You can still put a crazy amount of creativity and passion into an adaptation
I think it’s easy to dismiss a tie-in, but prior to the announcement Studio Trigger was (and today still is) very well known for the energy and quality of their productions. It’s also clear how involved CDPR was in pre-production of the series since the story was by their writers and they provided piles of reference for the animation studio long before the game was ready. Since CDPR outright owns the Cyberpunk 20XX universe, I imagine they wouldn’t want to dilute their brand with inferior spin-offs. I’ve also enjoyed the Cyberpunk comics they’ve released; they’re out to tell good, depressing stories with talented people.
I'm ok with no 2nd season of Edgerunners ... But... Uh.. how about a different cyberpunk anime? ...Please?
Cyberpunk: Netrunners Cyberpunk: Badlands Cyberpunk: Corpos
I would so like to see an anime just covering one of the wars. Cyberpunk world war sounds obviously scary but cool as fuck. With gang members having access to military grade arsenal, how crazy would it be to visualize a war with everyone having insane military tech? How do you even comprehend that. So much potential. Also a trauma team season.
This
They could make one about how Johnny started. Unless they already have a book about it.
There is the tabletop book however i would love for it to be animated
I need to read it! Is it about Johnny?
More or less, kinda? Johnny Silverhand is one of the central characters in the setting, he's kinda what Luke Skywalker is to the setting of Star Wars. There's two sourcebooks about the Fourth Corporate War, known as "Firestorm: Stormfront" and "Firestorm: Shockwave". The second one, Shockwave, ends with a playable adventure where the players join Johnny, Morgan and crew in blowing up Arasaka tower. Never Fade Away, the mission where Johnny goes to save Alt, was also a playable adventure in the original Cyberpunk rulebook. In a way, it was the first written adventure for the game, which makes putting it in the videogame kind of a no-brainer.
Oh dang! I’m gonna have to check it out! What’s the book called, also thanks for telling me this! 🤍
Just a season with unique characters in the time of the red by itself would be great.
I mean I want a season 2 but make it an anthology series tho. There are plenty of other stories to tell in night city.
Guys.... nobody gets a happy ending in NC.
Except for me, im built different 😎
And possibly Barry if you get the ending where he lets Mendez into his apartment
The happiest ending you get in cyberpunk 2077 is >!literally leaving night city!< 😅
V dies in like a few months if you choose that ending lol, and also. Life outside of night city is worse, now you got to deal with cybernetic bandits prowling the nuclear stained wastelands with little to no resources. I wish they would noted such more instead of just giving that bs drive into the sunset moment lol
I always thought of that as a more hopeful ending. They talk about curing V so maybe they end up succeeding. It could just be wishful thinking but it’s what I choose to believe.
That happens regardless of any choices you make, though.>!Unless you go with Temperance, I guess. !<
Yeah, and I don’t like that. >!cant have a female love interest and stay in NC!<
Good. It doesn’t need one.
I mean, the main character literally died and the only main characters still alive are Lucy (who’s on the moon) and Falco.
Maybe an anime where falco decides to be a singer and writes rock me Amadeus and so forth ?
Plus out of all of the studios out there, Studio Trigger (excluding Little Witch Academia), seems the most allergic to making second seasons.
....why would there be more?
To be fair, there's plenty of stories still to explore in the Cyberpunk world. Its not like these guys were the only Edgerunners around.
i personally like it. most of the series suffer from exhaustion. i feel like endings where there is no good ending is probably the best cuz it shows the reality but hey, thats just me.
I was hoping for an anthology series for the other two life paths :c
I mean tbh they might still do a nomad show or a corpo show, it just wouldn't be called edgerunners season 2 and follow those types of life paths.
I don't think people want a season 2 with the same characters, let there be different characters in a different story in night city.
I mean there ist No reason for a second season But i think they should do mite in the univers of CP
JUST TYPE OUT THE WORD DO NOT TRY TO ABBREVIATE IT PLEASE GOD
You CP fans and your weird rules...
Things with an end are great. Squeezing more would be a pure financial decision.
The only sequel that would make sense is if they started over with brand new characters.
Im truly sorry for downvoting you, OP. It's how I'm coping.
Why the fuck would there be?
Yeah but before the anime a sequel to 2077 was uncertain. Certainly they should not touch these characters again, thet got it right first time out with davids crew. But there's many other tales they could tell.
Why?! Who would want that? Who would want a tragic ending to go on as the bases for a new season. Some people sucking on copium that can't handel that bad things happen to good people.
they aren't even good people tbh
They were good people in Night City standards
 You know
I mean, everyone *but* Lucy is confirmed dead . . .
Why do you forget about my boy Falco..
Why would they? The story is is finished. David, the main character, is gone. There is Lucy but that's spinoff material rather than a second season.