Cyberpunk 2077is celebrating two milestones at the moment, starting with the one-year anniversary of theCyberpunk: Edgerunnersanime. Theofficial Twittermade sure to remind us that, somehow, an entire year has passed since the series premiered on Netflix. Add in the fact that thePhantom Libertyexpansion is looming on the horizon and you have reason enough to revisit Studio Trigger’sevocative take on Night City.
One of Trigger’s heavy-hitters helped celebrate the anniversary and point us toward the upcoming release. Yoh Yoshinari, who has a long history in the anime industry and has been with Trigger from the start, did so with a new illustration. The piece ofEdgerunnersart puts Lucy next to Songbird, one of the netrunners featured inPhantom Liberty. Check out Yoshinari’s dynamite work below.
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LikeEdgerunnersdirector and Trigger co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi, Yoh Yoshinari did a lot of work with Gainax prior to Trigger. This included everything from handling key animation forGunbuster 2andFLCLto directing theGurren Lagann Parallel WorksOVA. Yoshinari also directed theLittle Witch AcademiaandBNA: Brand New Animalanime at Trigger. ForEdgerunners, he provided storyboards, character designs, chief animation direction and more.
As nice as it would be for this art to herald a second season ofEdgerunners, it remains a standalone series. Considering how well Trigger adapted the world into a tightly-paced 10 episodes, perhaps that’s for the best. Besides, if you need aCyberpunk 2077fix, you haveupdate 2.0 on September 21andPhantom Libertyon September 26.
