Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Showrunner Talked About Canon Ending Of Cyberpunk 2077
Bartosz Sztybor also addressed whether Season 2 confirmed a female V as canon.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the hugely popular Netflix anime by Studio Trigger set in CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 universe, recently returned for its second season, which many fans watch with special attention, since it's set in 2078, just one year after the events of the game, and it has sparked fresh questions about how its story connects to the wider franchise. In a recent interview with IGN, showrunner Bartosz Sztybor addressed some of the biggest questions.
The supposed female V cameo in an Arasaka database, listed alongside other cyberware-compatible individuals, is one example fans have pointed to as a possible indication that V is canonically female and still in Night City sometime after the events of Cyberpunk 2077. According to Sztybor, such theories are ultimately just speculation: he stressed that the Cyberpunk franchise is built around "standalone stories that are self-sufficient." This is also why he isn't particularly concerned with including Easter eggs.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners deliberately avoids establishing a canon ending for Cyberpunk 2077:
"We don't want to set a canon ending. So there were a lot of conversations again with the lore team to see what we can do to somehow satisfy all the endings, and what will be the state of the world after the game. That's why the scene that you asked about, we don't want to be straightforward, but we are giving some suggestions that will probably reveal the state of the world in more comic books and other stuff. So there are discussions. There are discussions, but we are not setting one kind of ending."
"There is canon, of course. But again, when we were creating Edgerunners 1 and multiple comic books and board games, the canon was before the game. So we knew the state of the world. And for the things post-game, it's not that there are super detailed canon things, but one important canon information is that Arasaka is weakened and that's it. And it gives us a lot of opportunities to show the city in a different way. But again, it's not detailed. So it doesn't make any of the endings canon. But the things that happened in the game could lead to that, whatever your choice was."
In the same interview, Sztybor also addressed the third season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Although it launched six years ago, Cyberpunk 2077 continues to reach new heights, hitting the milestone of 40 million copies sold this summer. The franchise is also expanding with a live-action film adaptation and a sequel in development, with half of the quest team reportedly consisting of former modders.
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