Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Anime Is a 'Standalone Work', No Plans for a Second Season

Typical corpo gonks. They must be leaving preem amounts of eddies on the table.

I haven’t actually watched it yet, but I loved my recent play through of the game and I’m well up for more stories in whatever form set in the Cyberpunk universe.

I'll certainly be getting into Cyberpunk at some point but not because of this. Not into cartoons so very unlikely I'll watch it. What'll tempt me is a very reasonably priced bundle of the game with all DLC. A peace offering for all that let down and torment they put me through. And to make up for that unworn Cyberpunk t-shirt, somewhere at the bottom of a drawer, that I've been too embarrassed to let see the light of day.

Not everything needs to be milked sometimes one good season can be good as well. There are more then enough series and games that overstay their welcome.

@Eldritch Anime is totally different then cartoons to fair and this is certainly not for kids.

It shouldn’t have a second season, but there should defo be more anime. Lots of stories you can tell in this world.

Loved the show. Made me reinstall Cyberpunk after quitting at launch. And.. it’s still very meh. Bland open world, nothing happens between getting to point A and point B I think is my biggest thing. Played for an hour and a half and uninstalled. It’s just not great.

I'm happy with one-shots. I could also imagine another mini series in the future which would be like the Animatrix or love death and robots

I liked it. I wouldn't mind more but if it not, it's fine.

@Flaming_Kaiser 🤣 They're cartoons. I don't know why people try to claim differently. Especially using the "certainly not for kids" arguement. There are plenty of American and European cartoons that are most certainly not for kids. So do they, by your arguement, become Anime? I like Akira and a couple of others but on the whole I find them over the top and cringey, as cartoons usually are. But I guess if it helps people think they're a little more "high brow" whilst watching characters that looks like they're from a cartoon, with voice acting befitting cartoons and storylines that could shame a lot of cartoons but all the while proclaim cartoons are beneath them, they only watch anime! Yeah, right.

@Eldritch They are on a different level from your standard American cartoons though. I've always loved different types of animation but when I first laid eyes and ears on my first few Anime Movies/series (Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Ninja Scroll). I was blown away by what the medium was capable of, that I'd never seen done before in any hand drawn animation!

I wish more stuff would end after one series, instead of being milked dry all the time.

@MightyDemon82 Please... you can't just make a blanket statement like that. There are some exceedingly good American cartoons and there are some completely trash anime. And vice versa. So "They" are not on a different level. That's like saying all classical art is excellent yet impressionists works are rubbish. Both have their masterpieces and both have trash. But to try and blanket statement all anime is better, just belittles your arguement.

@MightyDemon82 @Eldritch @Flaming_Kaiser

Anime and cartoons are different and there are rules that can be broken for either.

Most US cartoons are designed for children, but not all. Most US adult cartoons are comedy, and most of them have levels of obscenity and vulgarity that just wouldn’t work if it was live action.

Anime has many different genres from children’s “cartoons” to dramas, romantic comedies, epic fantasy, science fiction and so forth. (They even have real “adult” anime if you know what I mean.)

If you take the example of Akira for example, I cannot think of a single US cartoon intended for adults that comes anywhere close to showing the themes or world that anime delivers. And Akira is just the tip of the iceberg.

There are of course great Western cartoons (Disney produced many) but it still is different and the same thing goes for other genres.

Anime, Cartoons, CGI, Live Action, Theatre etc - all of them can cover the same themes and have a lot of similarities but they are different mediums that deliver in different ways.

@Kienda Hold on... you say "Anime and cartoons are different" Ok, so why then say "Anime has many different genres from children’s “cartoons” to..."
How can they be different and the same? 🤣 Look, I get you all want to distance what you watch from the Flintstones but Anime is just a umbrella term. If, like you say, it includes cartoons, don't get upset when people refer to cartoons.
Stop basing the argument on Anime vs American children's cartoons... what about the stuff from other countries? Stuff that has many genres like dramas, romantic comedies, epic fantasy, science fiction and so forth. (They even have real “adult” cartoons if you know what I mean.)
The UK, for example, has some amazing animations. I had the good fortune to study Animation under the tutelage of Joanna Quinn an amazing British animator. Animation isn't just restricted to America and Japan.
I liked Akira, I bought it first on VHS, various mediums between, and now I have it on Blu-ray. I thought it was excellent. But that took me down the path of exploring other anime. There were a few that, like Akira, were very impressive but a lot of it was absolute garbage. And to try and put that garbage on a pedestal, just because it comes under the tag of anime, is ridiculous.

@Eldritch I didn't mean for it to come across that way, I apologise If that's how you read it. I specifically meant the shows I listed as they were unlike anything I had seen up until that point. I was in my late teens when I discovered the medium, before that it was mostly all ages stuff and the likes of great shows like Beavis & Butthead and Southpark.

I'm certainly not saying Anime is better as a whole. Plenty great animated shows/movies from around the globe.

I probably wouldn't have looked into Anime if it wasn't for my love of all the great 80's and 90's shows and Disney's movie output (I wish they would give traditional animation a shot again).

@Kienda I'm a huge fan of all animation types but indeed Anime is a whole culture on it's own and like you said there are certain themes dealt with in Anime that no American show has came close to.

@Eldritch Maybe it'd be easier for you to understand if we break it down to Cartoons and Anime as two different genres/subjects within the "Animation" umbrella term. The key differences are in the art style, themes, directions, and of course origins. As such there are many variations of cartoons just as there many variations of anime. Like many other genres, some cross, some borrow elements of another but still maintain their own identity.

It'd be like comparing Third person versus First person perspective in video games. They can share the same sub-genres but different origins, directions, themes, and experiences when consuming the products. Whilst still under the video game umbrella.

I liked the animation and story, but the godawful pop music made it near unwatchable. I hate it when corny music tries to tell me how to feel in shows and movies. Trust your writing, let the viewer feel their own emotions without bad melodramatic music forcing your… feels?

@Eldritch I’m seriously struggling to understand if you’re trolling.

Anime is a specific style of animation. Anime literally means animation. Western cartoons are different just as Hollywood and Bollywood movies are different. They use the same medium but the results vary.

No one is putting Anime on a pedestal or saying Western cartoons cannot do what Anime does. But you are failing to understand a globally recognised genre of animation that differs from simple cartoons. There is a distinction between them, whether you want to accept that or not, and sometimes there is overlap, but that doesn’t negate the genre. There are also sub genres within Anime.

It would be like arguing that Manga is the same as Western comics. They are the same medium, but they have tweaked methodologies and capture different audiences as a result. Yet they also have a lot of overlap as “Graphic Novels”.

The same could be said of video games and the different genres of it.

Someone could not like video games but play solitaire all the time. Meanwhile gamers wouldn’t consider someone who only plays solitaire as a ‘gamer’ despite them playing a game all the time.

There is nuance to our words and the different mediums. Classical music is not the same as Heavy Metal even though they are both music. JPOP is different to KPOP. Chinese food is different to Indian food. Etc.

Anime (primarily Japanese Anime) is different to Western Cartoons.

Good. It's better to leave us wanting more.

Great decision. End on a high note. Plus it's not like we won't be getting other cyberpunk related media from CDPR. They very well could come up with another show in a few years.

It doesn’t need a second season WITH this story line- I don’t really see where they can go with the current characters. It should be a different story in a different part of Night City. There’s so much for this world to be explored. Hopefully Edgerunners popularity will convince them down the line for a different plot line.

On another note, stop feeding the “Cartoons are the same as anime” troll above. He’s just trying to get people worked up on something people shouldn’t be worked up on. Move on from it. Can’t teach someone who doesn’t want to be taught.

@Eldritch It can cover the same themes but its clearly a totally different beast just name the stuff by their right name. And lets be honest you are just here to say that its for kids.

@Flaming_Kaiser Nope. Not sure where you get that idea. As I said to you the first time, but will repeat since it obviously didn't sink in, cartoons can be for adults as well.

@Flaming_Kaiser You're just about right given their choice to ignore the facts.

@Kienda Just call it by the right name its a anime and you know it just as well as me its said like this lets be honest here. Nobody is showing this anime to their kids and in in this case its clearly to talk doen on it.

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah, it’s an anime.

I was trying to explain to someone above the difference between cartoons and anime because they were saying this was for kids.