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Best television shows based on video games: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
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Published onMarch 15, 2023
published onMarch 15, 2023
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Based on CD Projekt Red’sCyberpunk 2077, this animated adaptation is consideredpartly responsible for the popularity surge the game enjoyed over the course of 2022. (That and a series of patches that finally ironed out the many issues the game suffered at launch).
Cyberpunk: Edgerunnerswas developed by Studio Trigger, the Japanese animation studio known forKill la Kill,Little Witch Academia,Star Wars: Visionsand more. The show’s premise goes as follows:
In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.—From the official Netflix description.
The story follows teenager David Martinez, a student at the Arakasa Academy who through a string of unfortunate events becomes an edgerunner—a mercenary who has become bionically enhanced with illegal modifications. The show is set in the same universe (Night City, in the Free State of California) asCyberpunk 2077, about a year before the events in the game, thoughEdgerunnersis entirely a standalone work. The show was co-created by Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk universe.Check out the official trailer here.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunnerswas always meant to be a 10-episode miniseries, and will not be getting a second “cour” or season despite the show’s success. OnRotten Tomatoes, it still enjoys a 100% rating with an audience score of 96%.Cyberpunk: Edgerunnersalso won many accolades including “Anime of the Year” from multiple outlets, and was nominated for “Best Adaptation” atThe Game Awards 2022. But perhaps the biggest honor of all came in the form of some pretty high praise from non other than Hideo Kojima, who said ofCyberpunk: Edgerunners,
1/2I just watched “Cyberpunk Edgerunners” in one sitting! Awesome! Great! Under the recent domestic anime situation, there was a feeling that famous Japanese studios were consumed by the overseas market, but not this one! This is a miracle of squeezing the trigger to the world!pic.twitter.com/Q2fzRJDAVw
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN)September 20, 2022
Netflixhas really been on a roll with these video game anime adaptations, with the likes ofCastlevania,The Cuphead Show!andArcane: League of Legendsin its catalog. And many more promising video game-to-television crossovers are coming in 2023 and beyond. Among them: Fallout, Sony’sHorizon Zero DawnandGod of Warseries, andA Plague Tale. We should all be especially stoked for that last one given the success ofThe Last of Us, because of the similarity between those two game franchises. Other recently announce small screen adaptations include those forTomb Raiderfor Amazon and, reportedly,Hogwarts Legacycourtesy of HBO.
Featured image via Digital Mafia.
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