Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 mantis blade slices its way out of Netflix's doors this autumn, with a fresh crew of tech-infused Night City dwellers

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, the follow-up to that Cyberpunk 2077 Netflix anime, finally has a release window. A year or so on from its initial announcement, the new series is slated to debut this autumn, with CD Projekt Red and Netflix having revealed the fresh cast of characters who'll be taking over the reigns from David Martinez and co.

Netflix wheeled out series two's release window in a post yesterday, June 28th, following days of teasing the new Edgerunners crew. So, while the fresh teaser trailer I've embedded below isn't set to premiere until later today as of writing, there are at least some character descriptions to dissect.

As outlined by Crunchyroll, the big bloke looming at the back in the poster below is Weak Kingsley a veteran edgerunner once dubbed 'King', who "now lives in the shadow of his former glory" because sometimes names are apropos. In the blue jacket on the left is D, "a Snake Nation netrunner with sharp technical skills and a sharper hunger for revenge" who's hunting the person that wiped out his nomad clan. The least Cyberpunk protagonist-esque of the lot is Roman Carax, the camcorder-toting "young cinephile" at the front who's "in search of real stories in a city that abandoned cinema for braindances" and is keen to expose truths. Finally, on the right is pink-haired in Talia Yang, whose snappy description only reveals that she "hails from the corpo towers… but her heart belongs to chrome and violence".

New crew. Same chaos. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, coming this fall, only on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/2wvZgv89Gh

What a nice bunch, I'm sure their lives in R. Talsorian Games and CD Projekt Red's dystopian future metropolis will be thoroughly pleasant and free of deep emotional anguish. The story the ten episode series will tell is being billed as "a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge", which'll ask the following question: "In a city that thrives in the spotlight of violence, one question remains: when the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?"

Animation studio Trigger are behind Edgerunners series two after handling series one, with Kai Ikarashi directing and Bartosz Sztybor wearing many hats as writer/showrunner/producer. We'll see if it sparks as many fresh Cyberpunk playthroughs and mods as that first go-around did. I should probably get around to watching more than the first couple of episodes of David's tale, not that I ever need much of an excuse to reinstall Cyberpunk.