Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has cast Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima in a role that will see him reprise his part from Cyberpunk 2077.
Series game developer CD Projekt Red confirmed the news in a social media post on X/Twitter. The message teased that it's more than a throwaway part, too, as Kojima will be seen playing "the famous braindance director who was at Konpeki Plaza in Cyberpunk 2077" (via X's machine translation).
The real-life game director was quick to respond and share his excitement, as well as a few pictures from his time recording his lines. His full statement, minus a few fun emojis, is as follows: "I make a cameo appearance in the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 as Hideyoshi Oshima, the character who appeared in the previous game."
I make a cameo appearance in the anime series “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2” as Hideyoshi Oshima, the character who appeared in the previous game. 🙏🙇🏻😅🫶👍 https://t.co/OuUaazFfR4
Cyberpunk 2077 players were treated to an unexpected visit from the Kojima Productions lead when they first traveled to Night City back in 2020. It's a moment that wasn't actually directly tied to V's mainline quest and surprisingly easy to miss, but yes, if players search Arasaka's Konpeki Plaza hard enough, they can find Kojima sitting near a bar.
If you're familiar with Kojima's work on games like Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, what he had to say in the Cyberpunk world wasn't too surprising. He enjoyed chatting about the in-universe memory-exploring mechanic, braindances, as he wanted his "productions to convey real, raw human emotion." When stopped by V, he asks the player if they have any pitches to show him.
"The feeling when you combine happiness and melancholy, or being calm with an underlying sense of anxiety," he says in the game. "These complex, realistic feelings and emotions are what I aspire to recreate... woven into much better stories, of course."
Kojima's Oshima will now bring his love for braindance technology to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 when it premieres tomorrow, October 20, 2026. All 10 episodes of the second season will drop at the same time. IGN called this second anime trip into Night City "Amazing" in our 9/10 review.
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