A new Cyberpunk: Edgerunners trailer and visual have been released, with both highlighting the upcoming anime’s cast of characters.

As revealed by the frenetically edited trailer (which is dubbed the “Studio Trigger Version“) the two leads, who were the main focus of an earlier visual, are named David and Lucy. The other highlighted characters are Maine, Dorio, Kiwi, Pilar, and Rebecca.

The trailer also reveals David’s past, with his mother wanting him to become a high-ranking employee of the Arasaka Corporation before an attack seemingly results in her death. Additionally, David and Lucy’s bond is teased with several cuts near the end, as well as a line where David tells Lucy that he will take her to the moon.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will premiere in September on Netflix. The 10 episode series is “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.”

Cyberpunk began as a tabletop role-playing game developed by Mike Pondsmith, with the first edition of the game being released in 1988. Later editions titled Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk V3.0, and Cyberpunk Red were released in 1990, 2005, and 2020 respectively. In December 2020, The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red released its Cyberpunk 2077 first-person open world RPG, which was announced in 2012, after several delays. CD Projekt Red is also involved with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

The staff of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners includes Hiroyuki Imaishi (Promare, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann) as director, Masahiko Otsuka (Promare, Gurren Lagann) as assistant director, and Yoh Yoshinari (BNA: Brand New Animal and Little Witch Academia director) and Yuuto Kaneko (BNA: Brand New Animal animation director) as character designers. Other staff include Yoshiki Usa (Working Buddies!, SSSS.DYNAZENON creative producer) as series composer, Usa and Otsuka as scriptwriters, and Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill video game series) as music composer.

Sources: Netflix Anime YouTube channel, @edgerunners