THR, whom I honestly never thought I'd have a reason to report on, but here we are, dropped an article about how Edgerunners "rehabilitated" the Cyberpunk 2077 game. Making the case, and fairly so in my view, that the Netflix show became a world wide sensation and played a large part in creating positive buzz. Which drove interest in the source material, which in this case was the 2077 game. A solid article, here is a snip;

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It helped that Edgerunners was animated by popular Japanese anime studio Studio Trigger and directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, the team behind such series as Kill la Kill and Star Wars: Visions. And that the series dropped at a time when anime worldwide is booming. 

“Anime can overcome borders and other divisions with their own peculiarities,” says Elder. “In the U.S. there has been an increase of anime fans. The audience isn’t prejudiced anymore. Things are different in the industry, even regarding video games. For a long time, the source material hasn’t been respected and we’ve seen the results. However [now] things have been changing.”