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Netflix and CD Projekt Red have unveiled the first trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, their anime series based on Cyberpunk 2077. The companies first announced the project back in 2020 and have been developing it since 2018. The 10-episode story revolves around a street kid turned mercenary edgerunner and is set in Night City, "a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future," the description reads. CD Projekt Red is producing the project with showrunner Rafal Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk…

Image: NetflixAfter CD Projekt Red’s video game Cyberpunk 2077 became a best seller (despite the hiccups and bugs) last year, Netflix announced it would be producing an anime set in the same world as the first-person RPG. While there have been hints of what the show will be about, Netflix has finally released the first snippet of the show in action, which is led by some big names in anime.In this ultraviolent, over-the-top trailer (and a new clip) we see flashes of the characters and setting but not much of the story.…

With all of the drama surrounding Cyberpunk 2077’s initial launch, it would be easy to forget that there’s another exciting project on the way: an anime spinoff from famed studio Trigger. (That’s the same team behind projects like Promare, Little Witch Academia, and Kill la Kill.) The Netflix series was first announced back in 2020, and now we finally have the first trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. It’s hard to tell precisely what is going on in the one-minute-long clip, but it sure looks incredible. If you’re…

Choose your favorite mecha/sentai homage It’s time for a Fortnite Collision recap. The event played out similar to many other prior “end of season” activities, but this time it involved a giant mech. So it’s one of the coolest ones by default. This particular one ushered in the end of Chapter 3 Season 2: with another confrontation between the IO faction (the bad guys) and The Seven (the people the players are collaborating with currently), over the Zero Point (basically the equivalent of Kingdom Hearts in Kingdom…

The concept of artificial intelligence that was once thought of as science fiction is now slowly creeping its way into modern society. Recently many authors have created stories of the future with sentient machines over the decades and few anime shows focus on AI. This artificial intelligence proves that there’s more to being human than meets the eye. Robots and androids have been a part of anime since the beginning. One is the anime must center around artificial intelligence very early into the story like…

Photos via Ghost Animation/Michael Coutto/National Taiwan University of Arts Anime has grown in popularity ever since shows like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Dragon Ball Z made it to the west. Since then, there has been a plethora of good anime that was not adapted by manga. Titles such as Spirited Away, Your Name, and Belle all came from original stories by amazing Japanese storytellers who were able to hook audiences along with their stories. However, Crunchyroll and Netflix are not the only places where you can…

SD-BD to feature all 35 episodes Double headlines for Virtua Fighter fans today. Following on from the news that Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown will be receiving its Tekken crossover DLC tomorrow, separate news sees publisher Discotek Media announce plans to release the long-forgotten ’90s anime adaptation of Sega’s fighting franchise. Speaking on Twitter, Discotek Media revealed that all 35 episodes of the Virtua Fighter anime, which first premiered way back in 1996, will be released on Blu-ray at an undisclosed…

Zach Aguilar, the voice actor behind Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles has shared his favourite scenes to record ahead of June’s Nintendo Switch release. In a recent Q&A interview with NME, Zach Aguilar spoke about his time playing the main character from the popular shonen anime, sharing why he was personally interested in playing the role of Tanjiro. On the topic of recording his favourite scenes in the video game adaptation, Aguilar said that he loved acting the scenes…

Looks like we’re in store for a lovely little adventure with this Pokémon anime There is just so much Pokémon anime out there, and yet it’s always so good, it never feels like enough. Thankfully, the first installment of a brand new three-episode Pokémon anime web series just dropped: Hisuian Snow, which is set in the Hisui region of Pokémon Legends: Arceus. The mini-series is produced by Wit Studio, which famously created the hit anime series Attack on Titan. Ken Yamamoto, who worked on Princess Connect! Re:Dive as an…