Cyberpunk: Edgerunners | Opening Credits | Netflix

Some of the world's biggest names in anime + Franz Ferdinand. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premiere September 2022. #Edgerunners

This is the official Cyberpunk: Edgerunners opening credit sequence - first debuted by Studio Trigger at Anime Expo 2022 in Los Angeles.

ABOUT CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS

The series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City — a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he stays alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

CD PROJEKT RED, the company behind the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, is producing the series with Rafał Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher: Ronin) as Showrunner and Executive Producer, with Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder serving as producers. The team at CD PROJEKT RED has been working on this new series since 2018. Acclaimed Japan-based animation company, Studio Trigger, will serve as the animation studio on the series and bring the world of Cyberpunk to life with their signature, vibrant style. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designer and animation director Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (GRIDMAN UNIVERSE series, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: Visions ‘The Elder’). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

Opening Song: This Fffire
Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Record Label: Domino Recording Company

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners features a fragment of a song "This Fire" (music and lyrics KAPRANOS/MCCARTHY). Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd./Universal Music Publishing Sp. z o.o.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners | Opening Credits | Netflix

[paz]

I really like how David's shape has constant replays of his friends and the people he knows/loves while the shooter has images of the city constantly replaying. The city takes

[dantederi]

I finally get it, it's not faraday or smasher silhouette in the end, it was night city that finally killed him.

[ChubbiestThread]

Love the symbolism at 1:09, where David starts going so fast that he's literally falling apart at the seams and breaking into pieces. A perfect summary of David, someone who went so far and reached so high that it ultimately became his own undoing.

[wordsoflove]

Just finished the show. One of Trigger's best productions in years honestly.

[samwilliams]

It is so bizzare to hear Franz Ferdinand of all people used in an anime opening. Truly living in a different age of anime.

[summoned_skulll]

I used to love listening to Franz Ferdinand as a kid. So hearing it now in an ANIME OP almost brings tears to my eyes.

[edymarromero]

Removing the "burn this city" lyric/part out of the song truly shows that night city is basically unbeatable, the main characters try to burn it down but its impossible. The final shot of david getting shot towered by a figure with night city shows that the true villain is night city.

[ricojosiahpublico]

Never skipped Cyberpunk Edgerunner's OP. It's just too good for it to be skipped.

[jamesdarby]

This isn't just one of Triggers best animes, this is one of THE best animes all around. Solid in ever measurable way. Cant wait for the next installment.

[Solo_Dohlo]

David Martinez is basically a Icarus of Cyberpunk
He's on fire and wants to go out in a blaze of glory despite destroying himself in the process

[ametdepri]

I was not expecting this type of an opening, but honestly this got me more hyped than the actual trailers themselves.

[ALGOChannel]

Man the entire style of this with the bold choice of using a Franz Ferdinand song of all possible things is so cool. I've never been interested in the cyberpunk universe but this is 100% gonna be a must watch for me now.

[ideodarkm]

Even if the opening was foreshadowing the end i was just not ready for it

[bigboibebop]

I wouldn’t call it “foreshadowing”. The opening straight up tells you David’s story right at the start, but so does the ripperdoc. And it makes you hope for any way David could overcome his impending tragedy, to change his course to differ from every cyberpunk that’s come before him. But this intro tells the cyberpunk story perfectly.

All cyberpunks start with big dreams.

All cyberpunks start off running with a wild look in their eyes.

All cyberpunks lose their minds.

And _all_ cyberpunks lose if the system wants them to lose.

[TheWildPizza]

After finishing the show, looking at the opening now you realise what the man with the gun represents and what David represents...

[maxtheawesome]

I like how images of skyscrapers are always overshadowing the characters, kinda like the city itself is so massive, its a bigger character then anyone living in it, or maybe so big the people don't matter. Like that shot at the end, a tiny person looking up at an intangebly complex and massive figure, makes me feel like that thats how people feel living in Night City, in some incomprehensible place, kinda like us looking up at a god, or us looking down at atoms.

[austinjoseph]

Okay so interestingly I didn't like this intro at first. But each episode it kept getting better until now at the end, it's one of my favorites ever

It's so symbolic

[Akirex]

I love how the mysterious figure at the end is never really revealed to be anyone because there is no true villain in Cyberpunk Edgerunners. There is no one who can simply be beaten and all of the characters' problems will be solved. The villain isn't Faraday or Maxtac or Adam Smasher or even Arasaka. It is the city itself, and that is reflected in the flashing images of the city in that person, while the images of the characters flash in David as he tries and ultimately fails to protect them from it as the city consumes him. The city doesn't care about you and will take everything from you, and fighting against it will not change anything about that. But in the end, it might not be for nothing, because some dreams are still worth fighting for, no matter how impossible they might seem.

[melvindean]

0:43 I like how David looks like he's becoming bigger n fiercer the more he charges forward 👌🙏

[rakeemhilliard]

Months later I’m still jamming to this song before work and on weekends to get me fffired up!!