Neon streets, black-market cyberware, and a kid with nothing left to lose: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners drops viewers into Night City at street level, where every upgrade comes with a cost.
What is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners about?
The story follows a street kid who loses everything and chooses the one path left to him: becoming an edgerunner, a mercenary outlaw who survives by taking jobs too dangerous or too illegal for anyone else. Set in a metropolis obsessed with technology and body modification, the series tracks how far a person will push their own body and mind chasing power, money, and a way out. Each episode runs a tight twenty-five minutes, moving fast between heists, chases, and the quieter moments where the human cost of all that hardware starts to show. Action, crime, adventure, sci-fi, and thriller elements sit side by side without the show ever slowing down to explain itself twice.
About the cast
The voice cast is led by KENN, whose performance anchors the series' emotional core across its full run. Director Yoshiyuki Kaneko keeps the visual language sharp and propulsive, matching the source material's reputation for kinetic, unfiltered violence and a soundtrack that pushes the tempo scene to scene.
Context & significance
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a joint production spanning Japan, Poland, and the United States, built as a companion piece to the Cyberpunk video game universe while standing as its own self-contained story. It was warmly received, a reflection of how well the animation and story landed with audiences well beyond the game's existing fanbase. The genre mix of crime, action, and science fiction gives it crossover appeal for anime viewers and general thriller fans alike.
Watching Cyberpunk: Edgerunners on Ktime
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can watch either fully localized or with the original Japanese-language track and Farsi text on screen. The page itself is free to browse; streaming the series requires only a free K-Time account login, with the full interface available in Farsi for the diaspora audience.