Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is out today. Netflix’s official timing map puts the premiere at 12:00 a.m. PDT on October 20, and the release is “all in one drop” — all 10 episodes at once, with no weekly schedule to follow.
Netflix dropped a new sneak peek for the season on September 22, and the clip finally showed what it looks like in motion. The scene teases an escape from an Arasaka building — thrown together with a line that sets the tone: “When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you have to go to make your story matter?”
Here’s everything confirmed.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 release time by region
The series goes live the moment it hits midnight in Los Angeles, so the rest of the world gets it on a single global clock tick rather than a local midnight. Times from the official map:
- Los Angeles: 12:00 a.m. PDT
- Mexico City: 1:00 a.m. CST
- Bogotá: 2:00 a.m. COT
- Boston: 3:00 a.m. EDT
- Brasília: 4:00 a.m. BRT
- Accra: 7:00 a.m. GMT
- London: 8:00 a.m. BST
- Algiers: 8:00 a.m. WAT
- Warsaw: 9:00 a.m. CEST
- Cape Town: 9:00 a.m. SAST
- Cairo: 10:00 a.m. EEST
- Kyiv: 10:00 a.m. EEST
- Kuwait City: 10:00 a.m. AST
- Almaty: 12:00 p.m. ALMT
- New Delhi: 12:30 p.m. IST
- Beijing: 3:00 p.m. CST
- Singapore: 3:00 p.m. SGT
- Seoul: 4:00 p.m. KST
- Tokyo: 4:00 p.m. JST
- Sydney: 6:00 p.m. AEDT
- Auckland: 8:00 p.m. NZDT
Baghdad sits on the same clock as Kuwait City, so that’s 10:00 a.m. local time there. Ten episodes landing together also means the binge argument is settled for you: nobody has to dodge spoilers for two months.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 release date
The series debuts on October 20 on Netflix. The first episode had an early premiere screening at Anime Expo on July 3, so a chunk of the fandom has technically already seen it. It also leads the streaming slate for the month, which you can see in our Netflix October 2026 anime lineup.
New poster and trailer
On October 14, a new poster key visual and a fresh trailer landed, both of them introducing more of the cast ahead of launch. The season is a new 10-episode story set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, and it has been described as “a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge.”
Four main characters anchor it. Weak Kingsley was once known as “King,” a veteran edgerunner at the top of his game who now lives in the shadow of his own past. D is a Snake Nation netrunner hunting the killer who wiped out his clan. Roman Carax is a young cinephile chasing real stories in a city that traded cinema for neurodance. Talia Yang grew up in the corpo towers and came out of Maelström harder than she went in.
That puts it right at the front of the Fall 2026 season, and it topped the most anticipated anime ranking for the season in a recent community poll.
Who’s making it
- Director: Kai Ikarashi
- Producer / writer: Bartosz Sztybor
- Lead character designer: Ichigo Kanno
- Scriptwriter: Masahiko Otsuka
Ikarashi is a notable choice because this is his directorial debut. He worked on the first series as a storyboard artist, animation director, animator, and prop designer, so he’s not an outsider — he knows how the original was put together. Kanno also returns after serving as an animation director and key animator on season one, and Sztybor and Otsuka are both back in the same roles.
Keeping the core creative team intact matters here. A big part of why the first season landed was its specific look and pacing, and swapping that out would have been the fastest way to break the follow-up.
Theme songs
This is where things get interesting. The opening theme is The Cure’s 1978 track “10:15 Saturday Night,” while the ending theme is Petite Meller’s “Watson.” Rapper RICO NASTY also wrote and performed “YOU CAN’T RUN FROM ME,” which appeared in the second teaser trailer.
Using a 48-year-old post-punk song as an anime opening is a bold move, but it fits the Cyberpunk brief almost too well. The original leaned heavily on moody, atmospheric tracks, and this continues that tradition instead of chasing whatever is trending.
The full score and song album are out separately now: 39 tracks from composer Tsuneo Imahori and eight original songs. Details on both, and how they split, are in our breakdown of the Edgerunners 2 soundtrack.
Where the series comes from
The first Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, animated by Studio Trigger, launched on Netflix in September 2022 and became one of the more surprising crossover hits of the decade. It’s based on CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 game, which in turn came from Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop RPG series.
There’s a prequel manga too. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Madness, from artist Asano and writer Bartosz Sztybor, launched on the Comic Alive+ website in December 2024 and is being localized into seven languages, with Dark Horse handling the English print release.
Home video and the Blu-ray set
If you want the first season on disc, Aniplex of America is putting out a complete Blu-ray set in North America on October 28 — about a week after season two hits streaming. Anime Limited and Plaion Pictures are handling Europe, while Sugoi Co covers Australia and New Zealand.
The short version
Out now on Netflix: 12:00 a.m. PDT, all 10 episodes in one drop. Kai Ikarashi directs, The Cure opens it, and most of the original creative team is back. For a sequel fans waited years for, that’s about as clean a rollout as you can ask for.
Featured image: Sneak peek visual from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, via Anime Corner.
One addition since launch: Hideo Kojima recorded a cameo as Hideyoshi Oshima, the character he played in Cyberpunk 2077.
