To some, Cyberpunk 2077 was this decade's Duke Nukem Forever, a buggy disappointment that didn't do a great job of representing the board game it’s based on or the genre it’s named after. To others, it was ok. CDPR's seedy PR let down a lot of fans, but people generally have more faith in Studio Trigger. But are they enough to get people interested in the *blegh* Cyberpunk franchise again?

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was announced some time ago, a 10-episode standalone series about a street kid and a hacker trying to make it big in Night City. It'll have to be mindblowingly good to win the fans back; luckily director Hiroyuki Imaishi's other works like Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill are known for being mindblowingly good. Little Witch Academia and BNA: Brand New Animal character designer Yoh Yoshinari's characters look faithful to the game’s aesthetics, which William Gibson (the Neuromancer author who basically invented the cyberpunk genre) called “GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future.” SSSS.Gridman & Dyazeon creative director Yoshiki Usa and Little Witch Academia writer Masahiko Otsuka will be writing the show, and music will be done by none other than the legendary Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame. No cast has been confirmed so far other than Zach Aguilar (Tanjiro in Demon Slayer) as main character Alex in the English dub at least. Check out some previews here:

I never expected Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand to ever make an anime OP, but their song This Fffire is the opening theme to Edgerunners. You can watch the full intro here:

Cyberpunk: Edgerunner comes to Netflix this September. Will you be checking it out? Can they win back the fans at this point? Or would you rather be watching authentically retro cyberpunk anime like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Genocyber, Bubblegum Crisis and Battle Angel Alita? Sound off below!