Season 2 Of Netflix’s Blade Runner Replacement Debuts To Incredible Rotten Tomatoes Score

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Published Oct 21, 2026, 4:39 PM EDT

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Four years later, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has arrived. Netflix and Trigger’s original anime takes place in CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 universe, with each season contributing new characters and events to the anthology series.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is critically acclaimed, and, for some fans, it might interest them in Cyberpunk 2077, even if they hadn’t been prior to watching the anime. It has all the blisteringly brutal action and storytelling excellence that you’d hope for or expect from an animated TV show that’s set in Night City, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2’s Rotten Tomatoes score is proof that the series’ second season is being praised as well.

Weak Kingsley from Edgerunners 2 and male V from Cyberpunk 2077 are back-to-back, holding weapons in Night City.

On Rotten Tomatoes, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has debuted to an impressive average Tomatometer score (critics’ score) of 83% and an average Popcornmeter score (audiences’ score) of 63%. As a base of reference, the first season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is currently sitting at an astonishing Tomatometer score of 100% and a Popcornmeter score of 95%.

Clearly, critics and audiences alike do enjoy Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, but not nearly as much as Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Still, 83% is nothing to scoff at, of course, and there’s always a chance that this score will go up as more fans get around to binging all 10 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 episodes.

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The second season only just premiered the other day. And, considering how adored and popular the first season’s characters and storylines were, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 had an uphill battle in terms of ever being able to best Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Indeed, with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners sitting at as high a Rotten Tomatoes score as it is, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 was going to need to be a god-tier anime series that excelled beyond what the first season achieved. For instance, fans have expressed that they believe there are too many characters, with too many of them not being developed sufficiently over the course of the second season’s 10 episodes.

Overall, any criticisms of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 may seem glaring due to how few criticisms Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has, and that’s virtually inevitable when comparing one season with another. Either way, some fans might turn out to enjoy this second season more, and only time will tell how Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2’s Rotten Tomatoes scores take shape; Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has 16 Tomatometer reviews and more than 2,500 Popcornmeter ratings, for example, while Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 only has 7 Tomatometer reviews and over 100 Popcornmeter ratings thus far.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is out now.