Which Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Character Are You?

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When Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premiered on Netflix in 2022, it became one of the platform's most acclaimed anime originals almost overnight, praised for its blistering animation from Studio Trigger, its unflinching violence, and the way it deepened the world of CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 video game without requiring players to have ever touched a controller. The story of David Martinez and Lucy became a genuine phenomenon, credited with reviving interest in the game itself years after its rocky launch. Now, four years later, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is arriving with an entirely new cast, an entirely new corner of Night City, and no direct narrative connection to David or Lucy's story.

Season 2 is being billed as a fully standalone ten-episode arc, and the creative team, including returning lead character designer Ichigo Kanno, collaborator Masahiko Otsuka, showrunner Bartosz Sztybor, and composer Tsuneo Imahori, has been deliberate about signaling that this is a new story rather than a direct sequel. That freedom lets the show introduce a fresh set of edgerunners without the shadow of the original duo's fate hanging over every scene.

Leading the new cast is Roman Carax, a young cinephile who documents the lives of the people around him with an old camera in a city that has largely abandoned traditional film for full-sensory braindance entertainment. Roman's obsession with capturing "the truth" puts him on a collision course with Night City's messier realities, where nothing resolves as cleanly as it does on film. Talia Yang, raised in the sanitized comfort of corporate towers before being hardened by her time in the Maelstrom gang, represents almost the opposite arc, someone who chose chrome, violence, and independence over the safety her upbringing offered.

Rounding out the confirmed main cast are D, a Snake Nation netrunner whose formidable technical skills are matched only by his hunger for revenge against whoever wiped out his clan, and Weak "King" Kingsley, a once-legendary edgerunner now living in the shadow of the reputation he built years earlier. Their stories intersect with a rumored fifth character, reportedly a former jazz singer and corpo insider with a complicated past connection to Kingsley, whose full reveal fans have been piecing together from datamined website assets ahead of any official confirmation.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is set for a Fall 2026 release on Netflix, with the first extended look debuting at Anime Expo 2026 in July. Studio Trigger's character reveals have rolled out gradually over the months leading up to launch, each one accompanied by detailed backstory teasers that have kept the fandom actively theorizing about how this new crew's paths will collide.

For longtime fans of the original series, the appeal of Season 2 lies in Night City itself remaining as vividly dangerous and darkly beautiful as ever, even with none of the familiar faces walking its streets. It's a bet that the setting, and Studio Trigger's singular animation style, can carry an entirely new ensemble, the same way it made David and Lucy's story unforgettable the first time around.

This quiz digs into that new ensemble's core personalities, so you can find out which edgerunner's instincts, Roman's obsessive truth-seeking, Talia's fierce independence, D's relentless drive, Kingsley's faded pride, or the mystery fifth character's guarded loyalty, line up with yours.