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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Is Coming to Netflix This Fall — New Crew, Same Night City

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Four years after the original Cyberpunk: Edgerunners shattered hearts and set the bar for game-to-anime adaptations, the follow-up is finally real. Studio Trigger has confirmed Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 for a Fall 2026 release on Netflix — and Singapore fans who caught the first series on Netflix here will be right at home picking this one up.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 key visual featuring Weak in Night City
Image courtesy of Netflix / CD PROJEKT RED

New Edgerunners, Familiar Night City

This is a fully standalone story — no need to have seen the first series, though it absolutely helps with the emotional weight. The new season introduces an entirely fresh cast navigating Night City’s darkest corners. At the centre are two characters: Weak, a washed-up cyberpunk legend forced to exist without his chrome, and D, a deadly nomad locked onto a path of revenge. Also in the crew: young cinephile Roman Carax, who came to Night City searching for real stories, and Talia Yang, a corpo woman whose heart belongs to chrome and violence. The series is described as “a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge” running across ten episodes.

Returning to the creative chair is Kai Ikarashi as director, with Ichigo Kanno handling character designs and a screenplay by Bartosz Sztybor (CD PROJEKT RED) and Masahiko Otsuka.

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

The Cure Opening and Rico Nasty — Two Very Different Vibes

Studio Trigger’s Anime Expo 2026 panel turned heads when it was revealed that the opening theme for Edgerunners 2 will be The Cure’s 1979 post-punk track “10:15 Saturday Night” — a choice that sounds odd on paper but landed well with the crowd. Meanwhile, rapper Rico Nasty wrote an original track, “You Can’t Run From Me”, exclusively for the show; it opens the second teaser trailer and is already streaming. Two very different sonic palettes for a show that looks set to be equally unpredictable.

D, a new character in Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2, in a close-up action shot
Image courtesy of Netflix / CD PROJEKT RED

Anime Expo Screening and What Singapore Fans Need to Know

Attendees at Anime Expo 2026 on 3 July got the first look at the premiere episode in an exclusive screening — by all accounts the reaction was intense. CD PROJEKT RED and Netflix have not announced an exact premiere date beyond “Fall 2026”; with Netflix Korea having reportedly listed a potential 20 October window, that timeframe feels plausible, though nothing is confirmed.

Netflix Singapore carries the full Netflix catalogue, so Edgerunners 2 will land here on the same day as everywhere else. If the first series’ run on Netflix Singapore is any guide, expect both English and Japanese audio options at launch.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 official Netflix Fall 2026 poster — CD Projekt RED x Trigger
Image courtesy of Netflix / CD PROJEKT RED

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Delicious in Dungeon Season 2 Confirmed for October 2027 on Netflix

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It’s happening, Dungeon Meshi fans — the gang is heading back underground. Studio TRIGGER officially announced Delicious in Dungeon Season 2 at Anime Expo 2026 on July 4 (July 5, 5am SGT), confirming an October 2027 premiere exclusively on Netflix. After Season 1 swept through the anime community like Laios discovering a new monster to cook, the follow-up has been one of the most anticipated continuations in recent memory.

Marcille enjoying dungeon cuisine in Delicious in Dungeon Season 1
Season 1 set the bar impossibly high for both world-building and food photography.

The official teaser trailer dropped alongside the announcement, giving us our first look at what’s to come as the story continues from Chapter 53 — the Falin chimera arc, where the dungeon’s darkest chapter truly begins. If you haven’t watched Season 1 yet, no spoilers here, but let’s just say the stakes get very real.

Same Core Team, Epic New Chapter

The core production team returns, ensuring the show’s stunning visual identity is intact. Yoshihiro Miyajima returns as series director, Kimiko Ueno continues as series composer, and Naoki Takeda reprises the character design role. The music baton passes to legendary composer Yasunori Mitsuda — yes, the man behind Chrono Trigger and Xenogears — which is an absolutely massive get for the soundtrack department.

Delicious in Dungeon Season 2 promotional artwork
Season 2 promo art teasing the darker tone ahead. Falin’s chimera transformation looms large.

The opening and ending themes have also been revealed via the official Japanese site, though English confirmation is still pending. sumika — the beloved J-pop group known for Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso’s soundtrack contributions — performs the opening theme 運命 (Fate). Legal Lily handles the ending with キラキラの灰 (Glittering Ash). Both picks feel tonally spot-on for what Season 2’s narrative demands.

Why This Season Matters

Ryoko Kui’s manga ran 14 volumes and sold over 14 million copies worldwide. Season 1 adapted the first half beautifully — the world-building, the food, the surprisingly deep lore about the dungeon’s ecosystem. Season 2 dives into the payoff of everything that was carefully set up. The chimera storyline is where the series shows its emotional teeth, and with Mitsuda scoring it, expect to feel things.

For Singapore fans, Netflix carries Delicious in Dungeon regionally, so Season 2 will be right there in your queue when October 2027 rolls around. No hunting for streams or waiting on regional delays.

KADOKAWA Anime’s radio show tied to the series also resumes on July 5 at 21:00 JST on the KADOKAWA Anime YouTube channel, so there’s more content incoming almost immediately.

Two thousand-plus years of dungeon lore, one incredibly good anime adaptation, and now a confirmed second season with a legendary composer on board. October 2027 can’t come soon enough.

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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.

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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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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.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 — First Characters Revealed, Netflix Trailer Drops June 29

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Night City isn’t done with us yet. Studio TRIGGER and CD Projekt Red have been steadily drip-feeding details about Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, introducing the first member of the new crew and confirming that a full first-look trailer lands on 29 June 2026 — two days from now. If the original Edgerunners left a hole in your chest that no amount of Netrunner builds could fill, the wait is almost over.

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

Night City Has a New Crew — Meet Weak Kingsley

The official Cyberpunk: Edgerunners X account dropped the first character card: Weak Kingsley, a large, dishevelled man introduced with the tagline “Heavy is a crown. Heavier is the chrome.” The post formatted the reveal as a crew roster update — [CREW UPDATE] // +1 EDGERUNNER // WEAK KINGSLEY — with three additional silhouettes still blacked out alongside him, teasing that more reveals are on the way before the trailer goes live.

Promotional art unveiled at Annecy also gives us a second hint: a young, blonde character holding a camcorder appears in the key visual, and the internet has wasted no time speculating that she is the new lead. Netflix has not confirmed her name or role yet, so consider it a strong rumour until June 29.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 promotional artwork revealed at Annecy 2026
Image courtesy of Netflix / CD Projekt Red

What We Know About Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2

Much of the original creative team is back. Kai Ikarashi — who directed Episode 6, “Girl on Fire”, arguably the most gut-wrenching hour of the first season — steps up as series director. Kanno Ichigo returns as lead character designer, so expect that same hyper-kinetic, chrome-soaked aesthetic. Story is handled by returning Bartosz Sztybor, with screenplay by Masahiko Otsuka.

The new season will be a completely standalone ten-episode story set in Night City — David Martinez, Lucy, and Rebecca will not be returning as central characters. The official description frames it as “a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge,” which, knowing TRIGGER, probably means we are in for another emotional demolition job. No official release window has been confirmed, though industry watchers broadly expect a 2027 Netflix premiere.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 official teaser thumbnail on Netflix YouTube
Image courtesy of Netflix / CD Projekt Red

Singapore Anime Fans: Mark Your Calendars

The original Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is on Netflix, which means Singapore subscribers had day-one access — and if viewing figures and social chatter are anything to go by, it absolutely resonated here. Expect Season 2 to land on Netflix Singapore on the same day as global release once a date is confirmed.

If you want more Edgerunners 2 news sooner, CD Projekt Red has a dedicated panel at Anime Expo 2026 in Los Angeles on 3 July 2026, where further details about the new story and cast are expected to be shared. The first full trailer, however, is already confirmed for 29 June via Netflix’s social channels — so watch the @edgerunners and Netflix accounts for the drop.

In the meantime, catch up on all the latest anime news on GameTrader — the Summer 2026 season is about to kick off and it is stacked.