Edgerunners, the hugely popular Netflix anime set in CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 world, takes what’s great about the video game and expertly translates it into the world of animation. The recently released Season 2 told its own story — one we know is set just a year after the events of the main game, in 2078 (more on this later) — and it all wraps up nicely. But wait! Was that a tease for V in the show? And, if that’s true, does that mean there’s an ending of Cyberpunk 2077 that CD Projekt considers canon, and thus acts as the jumping off point for all post-game spinoffs like Edgerunners 2?
At the Lucca Comics and Games festival, we got the chance to put all this to Edgerunners writer, producer, and showrunner Bartosz Sztybor, who did his best to answer without giving much of the game away. And speaking of giving the game away, what about that Season 3?
The world of Cyberpunk is set to expand further, of course, with the in-development Cyberpunk 2 (where and when the game takes place is yet to be announced). There's also a live-action film in the works, although according to CD Projekt, the Cyberpunk 2077 movie won't retrace the game's steps.
IGN: Eagle-eyed fans spotted that in the scene in the data archive, there's a wall of images and there's one that looks like it may be female V. Was that intentional, or something left to interpretation?
Bartosz Sztybor: It's left for interpretation. But also the dialogue that they're having there is, I think, very important. So yeah, it's left for interpretation.
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IGN: Easter eggs from the game, is that an important thing for you all to include?
Bartosz Sztybor: It's not important at all. That's why I wouldn't call it Easter eggs. I think that's the way we are trying to create a franchise for Cyberpunk. So, to create standalone stories that are self-sufficient, that you can just read one comic book and you are having the catharsis and you don't need to know any other comic book or a game or other stuff. But we are putting those things that are not as a fan service, but for the audience or the readers to feel that this world is alive. That's why we don't want to create anime or animation or a comic book that will need the audience to read three other comic books and two TV shows to understand why this guy is a villain. But I like to put those many things like Sal Bigelow in Edgerunners 2, who was what, five years earlier in the comic book Cyberpunk: Big City Dreams. But only if there’s a reason.
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