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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 — New Crew, Fall 2026 on Netflix

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Four years after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners became one of Netflix’s most acclaimed anime series — scoring a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and sending millions of fans flooding back into Night City — Studio TRIGGER and CD Projekt Red are ready to go again. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 lands on Netflix this Fall 2026, and if the buzz from Anime Expo 2026 is anything to go by, Singapore fans should start clearing their weekend schedules.

The first episode screened at AX 2026’s July 3 panel, with showrunner Bartosz Sztybor, executive producer Saya Elder, director Kai Ikarashi, and voice actor Nazeeh Tarsha in attendance. Audience reactions have been enthusiastic — though plot details are being kept under wraps.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 official key art — four new characters in Night City, Netflix Fall 2026
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red × TRIGGER

A Standalone Story — No Need to Have Watched Season 1

The biggest news for newcomers: Edgerunners 2 is a completely standalone 10-episode series. The new season follows four brand-new characters in Night City with no narrative connection to David Martinez from the original. You can jump straight in — though you’d be robbing yourself of one of the finest 10-episode anime runs ever made if you skip Season 1.

The season’s creative pitch is as bleak as Night City deserves: “When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?” Four outcasts, four desperate motivations, one city with no interest in happy endings. The original song accompanying the teaser, You Can’t Run From Me by Rico Nasty, sets the tone perfectly.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 | Official Teaser 2 — via Cyberpunk 2077 on YouTube

Meet the New Night City Crew

The four main characters cover very different corners of Night City’s social hierarchy — which is exactly how you get good drama:

  • Weak “King” Kingsley (Japanese CV: Kentaro Tone) — A veteran edgerunner living in the shadow of his former glory. Old enough to know how the city works, stubborn enough to still think he can beat it.
  • D (Japanese CV: Kouki Uchiyama; English CV: Nazeeh Tarsha) — A Nomad netrunner from the Snake Nation clan with a singular mission: revenge against the corp that wiped out his people. Uchiyama is known to anime fans here for Black Clover and Blue Lock.
  • Roman Carax (Japanese CV: Momoka Terasawa) — A young cinephile documenting Night City’s reality through a lens, in a world where truth itself is a weapon.
  • Talia Yang (Japanese CV: Akari Kito) — Corpo-raised but drawn irresistibly toward the chrome and violence of the streets. Kito voices Nezuko in Demon Slayer and Tohru in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid — she has the range for wherever Talia’s arc goes.
Roman Carax — young cinephile character from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, holding a camera device
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red × TRIGGER

TRIGGER Returns — With a New Director at the Helm

Studio TRIGGER is back in the driver’s seat, and their visual DNA is unmistakeable in the teaser — the kinetic action, the bold flat colours that still somehow crackle with energy, the character designs by Ichigo Kanno that feel TRIGGER even in a Western sci-fi setting.

One significant change: director Hiroyuki Imaishi (Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Promare, and Season 1 of Edgerunners) is not returning. Kai Ikarashi steps into some enormous shoes as the new director. That’s worth flagging honestly — Imaishi’s kinetic excess was a huge part of what made Season 1 so visceral. Whether Ikarashi can match that energy is the open question. On the writing side, CD Projekt Red’s Bartosz Sztybor returns as co-screenwriter alongside Masahiko Otsuka, which gives us confidence the Night City storytelling instincts are intact.

Talia Yang in action from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 official teaser — pink-haired fighter with cybernetic enhancements
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red × TRIGGER

When Can Singapore Fans Watch?

Edgerunners 2 is a Netflix exclusive — which means Singapore fans get it the moment it drops, no import or workarounds required. A specific premiere date hasn’t been confirmed beyond “Fall 2026,” but given Netflix’s track record of simultaneous global launches for its anime originals (and how hard they pushed Season 1 here), expect a same-day release with subtitles and an English dub to follow.

In the meantime, the official Edgerunners 2 website has character profiles up. And if the teaser has given you the itch to revisit Night City itself, Cyberpunk 2077 with the Phantom Liberty DLC is routinely on sale across digital storefronts — it’s a good time to go back. More game news here.

Manga Anime

Daemons of the Shadow Realm Cour 2 Starts July 4 — FMA Creator’s Anime Hits Its Peak

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The wait is over. Hiromu Arakawa’s Yomi no Tsugai — known internationally as Daemons of the Shadow Realm — launches its second cour tonight, with episode 13 airing in Japan on 4 July at 11:30pm JST and streaming on Crunchyroll in Singapore shortly after. If you’ve been sleeping on one of Spring 2026’s most talked-about shonen anime, this is the best possible moment to catch up.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm Cour 2 key visual
Image courtesy of Hiromu Arakawa / Square Enix / Aniplex / Bones Film

What Arakawa Has Built Since Fullmetal Alchemist

Hiromu Arakawa needs little introduction to Singapore anime fans. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood remains one of the most beloved anime productions ever made, and Arakawa-sensei has been busy since: Yomi no Tsugai (黄泉のツガイ) has been serialised in Square Enix’s Monthly Shonen GanGan since 2021. The anime adaptation — announced in July 2025 and premiering on 4 April 2026 — has been worth every year of the wait.

The story follows twins Yuru and Asa, raised apart in an isolated mountain village that appears, at first, to exist in feudal-era Japan. Yuru is a skilled hunter; Asa has been confined indoors since childhood, assigned a mysterious duty by the village elders. When armed attackers descend hunting specifically for Yuru and kill the village adults, the siblings are forced to flee — whereupon the outside world reveals itself as entirely modern: helicopters, firearms, mobile phones, contemporary cities. The village’s isolation was deliberate, concealing both the twins and the ancient supernatural creatures they’re bonded with: the Daemons of the title. Cour 2’s key visual — stamped with the phrase “Defy your fate.” — suggests the reckoning with that hidden truth is about to arrive.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm — Cour 2 Main PV, via Aniplex on YouTube

The Bones Film Team That Made Brotherhood

Daemons of the Shadow Realm promotional visual
Image courtesy of Hiromu Arakawa / Square Enix / Aniplex / Bones Film

The production pedigree here is exceptional. Bones Film handles animation — the studio behind FMA: Brotherhood, My Hero Academia, and Soul Eater. Director Masahiro Ando worked on both the original 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series and Brotherhood. Character design is by Nobuhiro Arai, who was part of the Brotherhood animation team. Series composition belongs to Noboru Takagi, whose credits include Attack on Titan, Golden Kamuy, and Kuroko’s Basketball. Music is composed by Kenichiro Suehiro (Vinland Saga, Chainsaw Man).

Voice cast highlights: Kensho Ono as Yuru, Yume Miyamoto as Asa, Misaki Kuno as the daemon Gabby, and Rikiya Koyama as Migi. An English dub launched simultaneously with the first cour on Crunchyroll.

New Themes Signal a Tonal Shift

Daemons of the Shadow Realm Cour 2 visual
Image courtesy of Hiromu Arakawa / Square Enix / Aniplex / Bones Film

Cour 2 arrives with a new pair of theme songs. “Back Shot” by Masanori Otoda takes over the opening slot from Vaundy’s Tobu Toki, and Kei Sugawara’s “Kujaku” (Peacock) closes episodes in place of Yama’s Tobō yo. Both were previewed in the Cour 2 main PV released on 27 June — and if the track choices are any indication, the back half of the season is going darker and harder than the first.

How to Watch Daemons of the Shadow Realm in Singapore

Crunchyroll is the streaming home for Singapore and Southeast Asia, with Muse Communication holding the regional licence. The full first cour — all 12 episodes — is available now in both Japanese with English subtitles and English dub. Episode 13 lands shortly after the Japanese broadcast on the night of 4 July JST, putting Singapore fans only hours behind Japan each week.

Elsewhere, Netflix begins streaming the series for subscribers outside Asia from 4 July, bringing the anime to a much wider global audience. If you’re in Singapore, Crunchyroll is your platform of choice — and with cour 1 fully available right now, there’s nothing stopping you from a weekend binge before episode 13 drops.

For more anime coverage, check out our Manga Anime section.

Manga Anime

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 — New Cast, New Story, Fall 2026 on Netflix

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Night City doesn’t forget you — and Studio Trigger isn’t done with it either. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is officially coming to Netflix this Fall 2026, and the second teaser trailer that dropped on 29 June makes one thing clear: this is a wilder, darker ride than the first.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 | Official Teaser #2 — via Netflix on YouTube

A Standalone Story, Not a Sequel

This is not a continuation of David Martinez’s story. CD Projekt Red and Studio Trigger have been clear that Edgerunners 2 is a brand-new, self-contained 10-episode arc with a fresh cast of characters. The tagline says it all: “New Legends. Same Night City.” You don’t need to have seen Season 1 to jump in — though if you have, you’ll know exactly how unforgiving Night City can be.

The official description frames it as “a story of family, obsession, legacy — and how your lens reflects the stories of the people around you.” The trailer backs that up: a bone-deep grunge aesthetic, bursts of cyberware violence, and Rico Nasty’s “You Can’t Run From Me” driving it all forward.

Who’s Running Night City This Time?

Four characters anchor the new story, each coming at Night City from a completely different angle:

Weak — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 character art
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red / Studio Trigger

Weak (voiced by Kentaro Tone) is a washed-up edgerunner legend — once the best, now living without chrome and searching for a sense of purpose in a city that has long since moved on without him.

D — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 character art
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red / Studio Trigger

D (voiced by Koki Uchiyama) is a deadly nomad on a path of revenge for his clan, only to find himself knee-deep in corpo secrets that were never meant to surface.

Roman — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 character art
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red / Studio Trigger

Roman (voiced by Momoka Terasawa) is a young cinephile hunting for stories in a city that replaced cinema with braindances — pointing a lens at the chaos around him instead of running from it.

Talia — Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 character art
Image courtesy of CD Projekt Red / Studio Trigger

Talia (voiced by Akari Kito) grew up corpo but got hardened by time running with the Maelstrom gang — someone who knows how to survive in a city that chews people up.

The Creative Team Bringing It Back

The original Edgerunners was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, and his absence here is worth noting — but the team stepping in is no less impressive. Kai Ikarashi takes the director’s chair; he previously worked as an animator on Trigger projects including Little Witch Academia and SSSS.Gridman, and this marks his biggest solo directing credit yet.

Hugo Award-winning writer Bartosz Sztybor returns as showrunner and lead story writer, joined by Masahiko Otsuka. Ichigo Kanno handles character design, with colour supervision by Yukiko Kakita. Studio Trigger is back in the animation seat.

An Anime Expo 2026 panel on 3 July will include the first episode screening for attendees and is expected to surface new details — including, possibly, a specific premiere date within the fall window.

Singapore Fans: Netflix, This Fall

Netflix Singapore carries the full Cyberpunk: Edgerunners catalogue, and Edgerunners 2 will land globally on the same platform with the same day-one access. No region delay, no import headache. If you haven’t caught Season 1 yet, it’s a tight ten-episode run that’s well worth clearing before fall. Check out more anime coverage on GameTrader while you wait.

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One Piece Season 3 Wraps Filming: The Battle of Alabasta Coming 2027

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Netflix’s One Piece live-action series has officially wrapped production on its third season. Filming for ONE PIECE: The Battle of Alabasta concluded on 30 June 2026 after roughly seven months and more than 200 days on set in Cape Town, South Africa. A 2027 premiere on Netflix — available in Singapore and across Southeast Asia — has been confirmed.

The Alabasta Arc — Why This One Matters

For many longtime fans, the Alabasta arc is the point where One Piece stopped being a pirate adventure and became something larger. After agreeing to help Princess Vivi at the close of Season 2, Luffy and the Straw Hats sail to her desert kingdom to find it teetering on the edge of civil war — a conflict engineered in secret by Sir Crocodile (Joe Manganiello), one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and his criminal syndicate Baroque Works. It’s the arc that first put the crew through a genuinely impossible fight, introduced the series’ most heartfelt send-off moment, and set the template for every major arc that followed.

ONE PIECE: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix — via Netflix on YouTube
Luffy, Nami and Usopp on the Merry in One Piece Season 2
Image courtesy of Netflix

The Full Cast — Returning Crew and New Arrivals

The core Straw Hat crew returns intact: Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, Mackenyu as Zoro, Emily Rudd as Nami, Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp and Taz Skylar as Sanji. Returning antagonists and supporting cast include Joe Manganiello as Sir Crocodile (Mr. 0), Lera Abova as Miss All Sunday, Charithra Chandran as Vivi, and Sendhil Ramamurthy as King Nefertari Cobra.

Four new characters fill out Season 3. Cole Escola joins as Bon Clay (Mr. 2), the Baroque Works agent who shape-shifts into anyone he touches and ends up being one of the arc’s most memorable presences despite fighting the crew. Xolo Maridueña takes on Portgas D. Ace, Luffy’s brother — a casting announcement that drew an outsized reaction from the fandom. Awdo Awdo plays Mr. 1 and Daisy Head plays Miss Doublefinger, the Baroque Works fighters who headline the arc’s climactic battles.

Luffy and a pink-haired character in the Alabasta desert city in One Piece Season 3
Image courtesy of Netflix

Seven Months in Cape Town

Buggy the Clown and Luffy face to face in One Piece Season 2
Image courtesy of Netflix

Season 3 began shooting in late November 2025 and ran for more than 200 days across Cape Town’s soundstages and location sets. The series is written and co-showrun by Joe Tracz and Ian Stokes, produced by Tomorrow Studios in partnership with Netflix and Shueisha. Netflix confirmed the wrap on 30 June 2026 alongside the first cast photo from the Alabasta set, showing the core crew in the desert environment that defines the arc.

When Singapore Fans Can Expect It

Netflix has confirmed a 2027 release window for ONE PIECE: The Battle of Alabasta, though no specific date has been set yet. Netflix is fully available in Singapore and across Southeast Asia — Season 2, Into the Grand Line, is already streaming if you need to catch up on where the Straw Hats left off. For more entertainment news, check our ongoing coverage.

Game News

Persona Live-Action Series in Development at Netflix

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Netflix is developing a live-action adaptation of the Persona video game franchise, according to a Variety report relayed by Gematsu. The project marks the first live-action screen adaptation of Atlus’s beloved JRPG series — and with Netflix available across Singapore and Southeast Asia, local fans of the Phantom Thieves and the Investigation Team would be able to watch it from day one whenever it does arrive.

Persona 5 Royal school scene featuring counsellor Maruki in the classroom with students
Image courtesy of Atlus

The Creative Team Behind the Persona Netflix Live-Action Series

Christopher Monfette is attached as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Alongside him are Shawn Levy and Robert Atwood of 21 Laps Entertainment — the production outfit behind Deadpool & Wolverine, Stranger Things, and Free Guy. Three more executive producers come from Story Kitchen: Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson, a company with a growing track record of adapting video game IP for the screen. Rounding out the team is Toru Nakahara of SEGA as executive producer — meaning the franchise’s publisher has a direct seat at the table rather than simply licensing out the property.

Netflix declined to comment when contacted by Variety, so the series has not yet received a formal greenlight. It remains in active development at this stage, but attaching a producer of Shawn Levy’s calibre — one of the architects of both Deadpool & Wolverine and Stranger Things — is a meaningful signal that Atlus and SEGA are serious about finding this adaptation the production it deserves.

Persona 4 Revival Broadcast — via Official ATLUS West on YouTube

Which Persona Game Will It Adapt?

Variety’s report does not specify a source game, leaving the question open. The Persona franchise spans several standalone numbered entries, each with a distinct cast, setting, and tone. Persona 5 is the obvious frontrunner — it is comfortably the series’ most commercially successful title, praised for its stylised visuals, strategic combat, and a story about high schoolers exposing corrupt adults that reads almost like a ready-made episodic premise. Its existing anime adaptations demonstrate how well that story translates outside the game.

That said, Atlus has not confirmed a source game, and a creative team adapting a multi-entry franchise sometimes opts for an original story set within the established universe rather than a straight remake of any single title. A live-action take on Persona 4‘s small-town murder mystery — with a fresh cast, real locations, and none of the anime’s constraints — could go in a direction the existing adaptations have not.

Persona 4 Revival Broadcast key art showing Yu Narukami and the Investigation Team on a vibrant yellow background
Image courtesy of Atlus

The Persona Franchise Is in Full Momentum Right Now

The Netflix development news arrives at a moment when Atlus is pushing the Persona brand harder than it has in years. Persona 4 Revival — a rebuilt, modernised take on the beloved 2008 RPG — launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on 18 February 2027, with day-one access via Game Pass. Beyond that, Persona 6 has been confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. Meanwhile, Persona 3 Reload recently crossed three million in combined shipments and digital sales, a milestone that speaks to how much broader the series’ audience has grown beyond its cult JRPG roots.

Persona 5 Royal cutscene featuring Ann Takamaki, Ryuji Sakamoto and Joker in school uniforms at a shopping centre
Image courtesy of Atlus

For Singapore fans, the Netflix angle is clean: the platform is widely subscribed here, and barring unexpected regional issues, any series that gets made would land globally on release day. Persona 5 Royal has been a consistent JRPG recommendation at local game shops and a regular talking point across SG gaming communities online — there is a real local audience primed for this. The bigger question is timelines: with the series still in development and no greenlight confirmed, a premiere could be years away. But Shawn Levy’s production machine has a track record of moving projects from concept to screen with serious momentum, and the Persona franchise is in the best commercial shape it has ever been. More game news here.

Manga Anime

Daemons of the Shadow Realm: FMA Creator’s Anime Hits Netflix 4 July

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If the name Hiromu Arakawa means anything to you — and if you grew up watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, it absolutely should — mark this Saturday on your calendar. Daemons of the Shadow Realm (original Japanese title: Yomi no Tsugai / 黄泉のツガイ), Arakawa’s first major anime since FMA, arrives on Netflix Singapore on 4 July 2026, with the full first cour available for subscribers from day one.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm | Official Trailer 3 — via Crunchyroll on YouTube

What Is Daemons of the Shadow Realm?

Yuru, protagonist of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, with a hunter's arrow
Image courtesy of Bones Film / Project TSUGAI

The story centres on twins Yuru and Asa, separated at birth and raised in completely different worlds. Yuru grows up as a skilled hunter in a remote mountain village, while Asa is confined to a specialised role inside the same community. In this world, certain humans can bond with pairs of supernatural creatures called Daemons — and twins “born between day and night” are prophesied to wield greater Daemon power than anyone before them.

When Yuru and Asa are finally reunited, their abilities prove far beyond the prophecy’s scope, and the show quickly expands from its rural opening to reveal a modern society with its own agenda for the twins. The manga ran in Square Enix’s Weekly Shōnen Jump+ and Monthly Shōnen Gangan, and Arakawa has described the Daemon bond system as the kind of intuitive, relationship-driven power that drew her to alchemy in FMA — but taken in a new direction.

The Dream Team Behind It

The production is exactly what FMA fans have been hoping for. Bones Film — the studio behind Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Soul Eater, and My Hero Academia — handles animation. Director Masahiro Andō worked on the original 2003 FMA television series, giving him deep familiarity with Arakawa’s source material sensibility. Series composition is by Noboru Takagi, and music comes from Kenichiro Suehiro, whose recent credits include Vinland Saga and Delicious in Dungeon.

The voice cast is equally strong: Kensho Ono (Giorno Giovanna in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5) plays Yuru; Yume Miyamoto (Ochaco in My Hero Academia) voices Asa; and Yuichi Nakamura (Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen) appears as the enigmatic Dera. An English dub is available on Netflix from launch.

Netflix Arrival: Binge the Whole First Arc from 4 July

The full cast of Daemons of the Shadow Realm against a modern city backdrop
Image courtesy of Bones Film / Project TSUGAI

The anime originally premiered on Japanese television on 4 April 2026 and has been streaming simultaneously on Crunchyroll with a same-day English dub. Netflix is now bringing it to over 240 countries and territories (excluding Japan and Vietnam) starting 4 July. With the first cour of 12 episodes already fully aired, Singapore subscribers can watch the complete opening arc as a binge from day one — then pick up new episodes weekly on Saturdays as the second cour of the planned 24-episode run unfolds later in 2026.

In Southeast Asia, anime regional licensor Muse Communication holds distribution rights, and the simultaneous Netflix rollout means there are no region-lock concerns for Singapore viewers — the show will be right there in your Netflix library when you open the app on Saturday morning.

For fans who have been waiting for an Arakawa anime since Brotherhood concluded, this is the one. The combination of her world-building instincts, Bones Film’s action pedigree, and a voice cast drawn from the biggest titles of the past five years makes Daemons of the Shadow Realm the highest-stakes premiere of the Summer 2026 season. Check out our Manga & Anime section for more Summer 2026 coverage as the season ramps up.

Manga Anime

Thunder 3 Anime Hits Netflix 8 July — What to Expect

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If your Netflix queue needs a fresh weekly obsession this July, Thunder 3 (サンダー3) might be exactly that. The isekai mystery series — based on Yuki Ikeda’s manga from Monthly Shōnen Magazine — debuts globally on Netflix on 8 July 2026, with Singapore subscribers able to stream from day one.

What Is Thunder 3? The Manga That Just Ended

Thunder 3 ran in Kodansha’s Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 2022 to June 2026, wrapping up its complete 8-volume run literally weeks before the anime adaptation premieres. Written and illustrated by Yuki Ikeda, the series sits at the intersection of isekai, mystery, and science fantasy — a more interesting combination than it might first sound.

Panel from the Thunder 3 manga showing Pyontaro and Hiroshi
Image courtesy of Yuki Ikeda / Kodansha

The story follows three inseparable middle schoolers — Pyontaro Tezuka, Hiroshi Ochanomizu, and Tsubame Azuma, nicknamed the “Small Three” — who stumble upon a mysterious disc belonging to their teacher, Dr. Doc. Playing it unleashes an alien dragonfly from their TV screen, and in the chaos Pyontaro’s younger sister Futaba and the family pet are dragged into a parallel world and captured by its extraterrestrial inhabitants. What starts as ordinary boyhood friendship turns into an interdimensional rescue mission.

Netflix, Fuji TV, and a Surprising Director

Thunder 3 | Official Trailer — via Netflix Anime on YouTube

The TV anime premieres on Fuji TV’s +Ultra block from 8 July 2026, broadcasting every Wednesday night, with Netflix handling global streaming from the same date. Singapore viewers can jump straight in on launch day — no region restrictions.

The creative team is worth noting. Per the Anime Expo 2026 press release coverage, Hiroyuki Seshita directs — the same filmmaker behind the bleak, atmospheric sci-fi of Blame! (2017) and Ajin: Demi-Human on Netflix. Series composition is handled by Hiroshi Seko (Witch Hat Atelier, Rooster Fighter), with studio UNEDN producing the animation. That pairing of a hard-sci-fi director with a chibi-inflected adventure story is one of the more unexpected creative decisions of the summer anime season.

The Small Three — Pyontaro, Hiroshi, and Tsubame — in the Netflix Official Trailer for Thunder 3
Image courtesy of Thunder 3 Production Committee

North American Premiere at Anime Expo 2026

Thunder 3 gets its North American premiere at Anime Expo 2026 on 4 July — Room 408AB at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 3:15 PM PDT — with Seshita and Seko present for the panel. For Singapore fans weighing up a new seasonal watch, that screening lands just four days before the Netflix global drop, so any buzz coming out of LA will be very fresh when the series goes live on 8 July.

Character close-up from the Thunder 3 anime promotional video 2
Image courtesy of Thunder 3 Production Committee

How to Watch Thunder 3 in Singapore

Thunder 3 is a Netflix exclusive in Singapore from 8 July 2026, with new episodes dropping weekly. The manga source is fully concluded at 8 volumes — available digitally through Kodansha USA’s Azuki platform for anyone who wants to read ahead or revisit the story after the credits roll. Browse more anime picks on GameTrader as the summer season gets underway.

Manga Anime

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 — Full Cast Revealed, Coming Fall 2026 on Netflix

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Studio TRIGGER and Netflix have completed the main cast of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, dropping the fourth and final character reveal today alongside confirmation that the 10-episode sequel lands on Netflix — Singapore included — this autumn. A full presentation and the first proper trailer are due tomorrow at Anime Expo 2026 in Los Angeles.

Meet the New Crew

Season 2 brings an entirely fresh set of edgerunners to Night City, each teased through individual character drops over the past week. Studio TRIGGER and CD Projekt Red introduced them one by one, building to today’s reveal of the fourth main cast member:

  • Weak Kingsley — “Once known as ‘King,’ a veteran edgerunner at the top of his game, Weak now lives in the shadow of his former glory.” Tagline: Heavy is a crown. Heavier is the chrome.
  • D — A Snake Nation netrunner with sharp technical skills and a hunger for revenge. D hunts the killer who wiped out his clan. Tagline: No signal, no survival.
  • Roman Carax — A young cinephile searching for real stories in a city that abandoned cinema for neurodance. He documents the lives of others like a witness to every gig’s cost and every legend’s fall. Tagline: A witness to every gig’s cost, every fall, and every legend.
  • Taliya Yang — “She comes from the corpo towers… but her heart belongs to chrome and violence.” Tagline: From corpo towers to the chrome-forged edge.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 — Weak Kingsley and D character reveal key art
Image courtesy of Netflix / Studio TRIGGER
Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 — Roman Carax and Weak Kingsley character reveal key art
Image courtesy of Netflix / Studio TRIGGER

Watch the Official Teaser

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix — via Netflix on YouTube

A Standalone Story Built Around Revenge

Edgerunners 2 does not continue David Martinez’s story from Season 1 — this is an entirely new crew in the same Cyberpunk 2077 world. The creators describe it as “a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge,” running 10 episodes, the same length as the original.

At the helm is Kai Ikarashi, a storyboard artist, animation director, and animator on Season 1 who makes his directorial debut here. Masahiko Otsuka returns as screenwriter, and Ichigo Kanno takes over character design from Yoh Yoshinari. The core creative relationship between CD Projekt Red and TRIGGER stays intact; only the story and its people are new.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 Netflix official teaser key art
Image courtesy of Netflix / Studio TRIGGER

A teaser was screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival earlier this month, and an official poster released this week sent fans into speculation mode — several observers noted visual cues that might place the new story before Season 1, though neither TRIGGER nor CD Projekt Red has confirmed a prequel setting. Tomorrow’s Anime Expo panel should answer that question.

What to Watch Tomorrow

The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 full presentation at Anime Expo 2026 is set for June 29 (that’s tomorrow, Singapore time). Expect the first proper trailer, possibly a release window narrower than “autumn 2026,” and likely some story details from the team. Netflix typically streams or mirrors Anime Expo panels, so you should be able to catch it without booking a flight to LA.

Netflix Singapore has the full Cyberpunk catalogue, and Season 1 of Edgerunners remains one of the most-watched anime on the platform — a series that sent Cyberpunk 2077 player counts surging when it dropped in September 2022. The characters that time are all gone, but the neon, the chrome, and the heartbreak appear to be very much back. Follow our anime coverage for the trailer drop and anything else that comes out of Anime Expo tomorrow.

Manga Anime

Fool Night Anime: Sunrise x SHAFT Join Forces on Netflix

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One of the most striking manga you’ve probably never heard of is about to become one of the most visually distinct anime on Netflix — and it’s arriving in 2026. Fool Night, Kasumi Yasuda’s acclaimed dystopian thriller serialised in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior, has been confirmed as a global Netflix anime, backed by a studio pairing that has literally never happened before.

Toshiro Kamiya walks through a neon-lit dystopian city in Fool Night
Image courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks

What Is Fool Night About?

The premise is instantly arresting. Sunlight hasn’t reached Earth in a century — thick clouds have locked the planet in perpetual winter and darkness. Plant life has collapsed, oxygen is critically scarce, and humanity’s response is a morally fraught technology called transfloration: a procedure that implants seeds into the bodies of people near death, gradually transforming them into oxygen-producing plant beings. It is presented as a choice, but one driven entirely by economic desperation.

At the centre of it all is Toshiro Kamiya, a young man struggling with poverty and his mother’s illness, confronting the question the series keeps asking: is life worth preserving if it means ceasing to be human?

Yasuda’s manga has earned serious recognition in Japan — it ranked in the prestigious Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 list and took home best suspense manga at the Japan Expo Daruma Awards 2023. But outside Japan it remains largely under the radar, which makes this Netflix adaptation a genuine discovery moment for anime fans in Singapore and across Southeast Asia.

A Historic Studio Pairing: Sunrise Meets SHAFT

A transflorated being cradles a dying flower in a scene from the Fool Night Netflix teaser
Image courtesy of Netflix

The production story is, on its own, something anime fans won’t forget quickly. Fool Night marks the first-ever collaboration between Sunrise and SHAFT — two of anime’s most storied studios, working together for the first time in their respective histories.

Sunrise built its legacy on the scale and ambition of Mobile Suit Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, and Code Geass. SHAFT built theirs on the visually singular, avant-garde craft of Puella Magi Madoka Magica and the Monogatari series — shows defined by daring direction and unforgettable aesthetics. The Fool Night teaser already hints at what this union looks like: Sunrise’s epic scope filtered through SHAFT’s precise, intimate visual instincts.

The Creative Team Behind Fool Night

A close-up of the Fool Night protagonist from the official Japanese teaser PV
Image courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks

The assembled team is a who’s-who of recent prestige anime:

  • Director: Atsuyuki Yukawa, who served as unit director on Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume
  • Series Composition: Jin Tanaka (Oshi no Ko, Kowloon Generic Romance)
  • Character Design: Robert Sato
  • Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka (A Silent Voice)
  • Composer: Tatsuya Kato (Dr. Stone)

The voice cast is equally compelling: Koki Uchiyama — the voice behind My Hero Academia’s Tomura Shigaraki and Genshin Impact’s Xiao — takes the lead as Toshiro Kamiya. Minako Kotobuki (K-On!’s Tsumugi Kotobuki) voices Yomiko Horai.

Watch the Official Fool Night Teaser

Fool Night | Official Teaser | Netflix Anime — via Netflix Anime on YouTube

Streaming on Netflix in 2026 — No Singapore Wait

Fool Night is confirmed as a Netflix worldwide exclusive debuting in 2026. An exact premiere date has not been announced yet. Netflix’s global simultaneous release model means Singapore subscribers will get it day-and-date with the rest of the world — no waiting for a regional rollout.

Given the creative pedigree, the unprecedented studio collaboration, and a story with genuinely rare ambition, this is one to add to your watchlist now. For more anime and manga news, check out our Manga Anime coverage.