Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is now streaming on Netflix. CD Projekt Red and Japanese animation studio Trigger released all ten episodes of the anime on October 20, 2026, returning to Night City with a new cast and a story that new viewers can follow without having seen season one. It is the first new Edgerunners animation since the original, and it lands alongside a free Cyberpunk 2077 update that ties the show to the game.
A Standalone Season With an All-New Cast
The sequel does not continue the first season’s cast or story. CD Projekt Red frames the official announcement around a standalone series built on four interweaving stories: a veteran edgerunner, a young cinephile, a chrome-obsessed delinquent, and a Snake Nation netrunner. The studio describes the season as “a raw and emotional tale of vengeance and redemption” that pushes deeper into the chaos and violence of Night City.
The Snake Nation name ties the netrunner to an existing Nomad faction from the game’s lore. Because the story is standalone, someone who has never played Cyberpunk 2077 can start here and lose nothing, while returning fans still get the same city, factions, and tone. The netrunner lead pulls the plot into the data layer, where the game’s quickhacking and deck mechanics live. Splitting the cast across the game’s cyberware, netrunning, and life-path systems lets the season touch each of those systems without stopping to explain them. We mapped the Cyberpunk 2077 locations the season’s teaser was pointing at back in June, and the final season keeps that setting front and center.
The Creative Team Behind the Sequel
Kai Ikarashi directs the new season, and Kanno Ichigo is lead character designer. Two veterans of the original return: Masahiko Otsuka, and Bartosz Sztybor, the Hugo Award-winning writer who is showrunner, story writer, and producer. Trigger is back on animation, with CD Projekt Red co-producing. Both Edgerunners seasons stream exclusively on Netflix, four years apart.
A Free Update Two Days After the Premiere
CD Projekt Red also confirmed a free Cyberpunk 2077 update, Update 2.5, named the Edgerunners 2 Update. It releases on October 22 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version to follow, and it adds content inspired by the anime alongside new items and features that the studio has not yet enumerated. The studio is showing Update 2.5 off during a REDstreams broadcast on October 21 on Twitch, YouTube, and Steam, with the patch notes publishing the same day.
Update 2.5 lands two days after the season, so a viewer pulled in by the show can open Cyberpunk 2077 and find the anime-inspired content at no cost. We covered what Update 2.5 brings to the game when it was first detailed.
Netflix dropped all ten episodes at once. The original Edgerunners arrived four years after Cyberpunk 2077’s launch and stood on its own; this season arrives with a game update locked to the same week.
Current-gen consoles and PC get Update 2.5 on day one, while the Switch 2 version is listed as “shortly after.”
The announcement leaves four things open: individual episode runtimes, whether any established Cyberpunk 2077 characters voice roles in the new season, a date for the Switch 2 version, and the full contents of Update 2.5 beyond “content inspired by the anime.”
