A boy with a camera in Night City: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2's 'Something Real'
The sneak peek for the standalone sequel, due October 20, has the comment section bracing for heartbreak again and cheering at sounds from the game.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,709,396 views a day, 25 times a normal first day on this channel (69,526).
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 | Something Real | Sneak Peek | Netflix
Twelve hours after it went up, the sneak peek for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 had passed a million views. A new upload on Netflix's main channel usually gathers something closer to 70,000 across its whole first day.
The clip is called "Something Real," and the description sets the mood: a city hooked on braindance, the recorded memories people play back as entertainment, and a search for something that is not fake. It promises a new crew of misfits in Night City, in a standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077 that arrives October 20. The tags name Bartosz Sztybor, who co-wrote the first season, and Kai Ikarashi.
That first season, animated by Studio Trigger in 2022, is the reason the comments read the way they do. Its ending left many viewers in pieces, and the running joke here is about getting ready to grieve: people promise each other tissues and vodka, warn against getting attached, and worry openly about the young cameraman at the center of the clip, whose chances in Night City they rate as poor. Others are listening closely. Several catch the familiar double-jump sound from the game, and one points out that the boy's camera footage gives the show the look of hand-drawn anime from the 80s and 90s.
The comments came in far faster than on a usual first day. They also left the channel's other new trailers behind, Ben Affleck's Animals and Jessica Chastain's Nashville mystery Heartland among them.
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What viewers say
"I am sure nothing bad will ever happen to these cool characters..."
@fredmandSee it on YouTubeBro is a kid AND a cameraman in night city. Found the ultimate cheat to survival
@aaronjackson9867See it on YouTubeI love that his camera footage makes the show look like good classic 80's-90's hand drawn anime.
@CasualRicerSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Netflix
- Subscribers
- 33,700,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 37,895,721
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,634,426 (on a normal day: 6,658,332)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,179,715 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,709,396
The numbers
Half a day of views, and the clip already sits far above anything Netflix usually starts with.
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Which Japanese studio animated the first season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners?
Studio Trigger, the studio behind Kill la Kill and Promare, animated the 2022 series for Netflix with CD Projekt Red.
