Netflix and CD Projekt Red announced a second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners at the 2025 Anime Expo, and it’s no surprise — the anime, which won the prestigious “Anime of the Year” award at the 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, played a major part in making 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077 so successful following its troubled debut.

Before Cyberpunk: Edgerunners debuted, Cyberpunk 2077 struggled to recover from bugs and backlash over a gameplay experience that fell short of the Grand Theft Auto-style sandbox many fans had expected. Sony Interactive Entertainment went as far as removing the game entirely from the PlayStation Store just a week after launch. Microsoft also issued refunds at the time, costing CD Projekt Red an estimated $51 million in lost sales and reimbursements, according to Ars Technica.

After its release in 2022, however, Edgerunners, produced by renowned studio Trigger (Gurren Lagann, Delicious in Dungeon), sparked a resurgence of interest in the property. Cyberpunk 2077’s player count on Steam never dropped to its previous lows, marking a turning point that

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