Rafal Jaki, the creator of the critically-acclaimed Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series (showrunner and executive producer), has released his original manga called NO/NAME. The new series was co-created with talented manga artist Machine Gamu. A promotional video was released by YouTuber NinjaristicNinja to hype up the new manga, and it teases "a world where your name gives you power."
You can read NO\NAME manga on the Manga Plus Creators website by Shueisha. You can read the official synopsis of the manga here:
Dark Action Mystery set in Northern Europe where supernatural powers are attributed through a person's name, given to everyone by the government. A man fighting with wolf companions & a werebear girl investigate a missing child's case for the government-run Naming Agency.
Here's the promotional art for NO/NAME:
You can read the author's tweet about his new original series below:
Rafal Jaki is best known for being the creator of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series, which is set in the futuristic world of CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 videogame franchise. Studio Trigger was in charge of the animation, and Hiroyuki Imaishi directed the anime series, with Masahiko Otsuka and Yoshiki Usa writing the scripts, Yo Yoshinari designing the characters and serving as animation director, while Akira Yamaoka served as the anime's composer. Cyberpunk Edgerunners was released on Netflix exclusively on September 13, 2022, and it consists of 10 episodes.
Here's the list of the main Japanese cast of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners:
Kenn as David Martinez
Aoi Yuuki as Lucy
Michiko Kaiden as Dorio
Kazuhiko Inoue as Faraday
Yurika Hino as Gloria
Takako Honda as Kiwi
Hiroki Touchi as Maine
Wataru Takagi as Pilar
Tomoyo Kurosawa as Rebecca
Kenjiro Tsuda as Ripperdoc
Before his involvement in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Rafal held the position of business development director for the game Cyberpunk 2077 developed by CD Projekt Red. Additionally, he contributed to the development of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion pack and the crowdfunded comic series The Witcher: Ronin.
