An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Technically a Video Game Anime – Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Spoiler Review

For those who aren’t aware, in 2020, a company called CD Projekt Red came out with a video game known as Cyberpunk 2077, based on a series of tabletop RPGs that nobody remembers – “Cyberpunk”, usually referred to as either Cyberpunk Red or, ironically given when the video game dropped, Cyberpunk 2020. While most folks seem to like 2077 well enough now, at launch it was something of a buggy mess.

But maybe that’s because CD Projekt Red had other priorities, famously getting Keanu Reeves for a major role in their game and, relevant to this blog, enlisting Studio Trigger to… not exactly adapt the game to anime form, but instead to produce a series in the same setting. That would be Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Honestly, if the bug fix money went to Keanu and Trigger, I can’t really blame them.

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