The Studio Trigger Anime Expo 2026 panel just wrapped, and as usual, the studio knows how to keep an audience on edge. Three announcements came out of it — one long-awaited, one genuinely early-stage, and one that nobody predicted. Between a release window for Delicious in Dungeon season 2, a mysterious new film or series from one of anime’s most celebrated director-writer duos, and a wildly left-field theme song choice for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, there’s plenty to unpack.
- Studio Trigger Anime Expo 2026 confirmed Delicious in Dungeon season 2 is arriving in October 2027, picking up from chapter 53.
- The Studio Trigger Anime Expo panel teased an untitled new project from Kill la Kill director Hiroyuki Imaishi and writer Kazuki Nakashima.
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will use ’10:15 Saturday Night’ by The Cure as its opening theme, an unexpected but intriguing choice.
- Falin’s character design is being updated in Delicious in Dungeon season 2 to more closely match her manga appearance.
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Delicious in Dungeon Season 2 Gets an October 2027 Window
It’s official — Delicious in Dungeon is coming back. The Studio Trigger Anime Expo reveal confirmed that season 2 will arrive in October 2027, giving fans a concrete target after months of speculation. The new season will adapt from chapter 53 of Ryoko Kui’s manga, diving into what’s known as the ‘First Floor Interlude’ arc. If you’ve been keeping up with the source material, you’ll know the story only gets stranger and richer from here — in the best possible way.
Equally notable is the news that Falin’s character design is being reworked. The goal is to bring her appearance closer to how Kui originally drew her in the manga — a subtle but meaningful adjustment that signals Trigger is paying close attention to fan feedback and source fidelity. Season one was widely praised for its detailed, loving adaptation of Kui’s world-building and its unusually earnest approach to food as narrative. Season two has enormous expectations to live up to.
For context, Delicious in Dungeon season one landed on Netflix and became one of the most-discussed anime of its year, praised as much for its tonal consistency and character work as for the sheer novelty of a fantasy show that treats cooking with genuine intellectual curiosity. Getting the season 2 confirmation at Studio Trigger Anime Expo is a statement: Trigger isn’t sitting on this property.
Studio Trigger Anime Expo Teases a Mystery Imaishi–Nakashima Project
Here’s where things get interesting. The Studio Trigger Anime Expo panel announced a brand-new, still-untitled project from director Hiroyuki Imaishi and screenwriter Kazuki Nakashima — and almost nothing else. No title. No artwork. No synopsis. Just the confirmation that it’s happening.
That might sound frustrating, but consider who we’re talking about. Imaishi and Nakashima are the team behind Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, and Promare — three titles that collectively define a specific strain of anime that’s maximalist, emotionally overwhelming, and visually relentless in the best sense. Their collaborations don’t coast. Every project they’ve made together has felt like an event, not just a release.
The fact that Studio Trigger Anime Expo chose to announce this at all — even without a shred of promotional material — tells you something about how the studio manages hype. It’s a strategic tease, designed to keep the fan base talking through a long development cycle. And it’ll work. The moment ‘Imaishi and Nakashima’ appeared on that panel slide, the conversation shifted. Whether it’s a film or a series, a spiritual successor to their earlier work or something radically new, this is the announcement that’ll carry the most anticipation heading into 2027 and beyond.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Gets Its Theme — and It’s a Cure Song from 1979
Nobody had ‘The Cure’ on their Studio Trigger Anime Expo 2026 bingo card. But here we are. Trigger revealed that the opening theme for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will be ‘The Cure’s ’10:15 Saturday Night’ — a post-punk track released in 1979.
The first Edgerunners leaned hard into a saturated, hyper-kinetic visual style paired with a pulsing electronic soundtrack — most memorably featuring Bullet for My Valentine’s ‘Fortunate Son’ adjacent energy and the inescapable ‘I Really Want to Stay at Your House’ by Rosa Walton and Hallie Coggins. The sequel, by all accounts, is targeting a 1990s aesthetic, which makes the 1979 Cure choice a curious one. It’s not the early ’90s alt-rock or Britpop you might default to for that era.
But ‘The Cure’ has never really belonged to any single decade — their influence stretched from the late ’70s through the 2000s, and ’10:15 Saturday Night’ carries a kind of jangly, melancholic dread that, if anything, fits the emotional tenor of Edgerunners better than a more obvious pick would. It’s a choice that rewards thought. If the first series taught us anything, it’s that Trigger and the Cyberpunk universe are willing to bet on audio decisions that seem counterintuitive until they’re absolutely not.
What These Announcements Mean for Trigger’s Trajectory
Step back and look at what Studio Trigger Anime Expo delivered across these three announcements together. Trigger is clearly operating on multiple fronts simultaneously — a high-profile sequel to one of its most beloved recent properties, a brand-new original from its most celebrated director, and a continuation of its commercially successful collaboration with CD Projekt Red on the Cyberpunk IP. That’s not a studio in a holding pattern. That’s a studio that knows it has momentum and is deliberately expanding its portfolio.
The anime industry has been going through a period of intense consolidation and streaming competition, with platforms like Netflix, Crunchyroll, and Disney+ all aggressively chasing prestige anime IP. Trigger sits in an interesting position — independent enough to maintain creative control, commercially proven enough to attract major partnerships. Everything unveiled at Studio Trigger Anime Expo 2026 reinforces that point, and the Imaishi–Nakashima project, when it eventually reveals itself, will likely be the clearest signal yet of where the studio’s creative ambitions are pointing.
October 2027 feels far off right now. But given the scale of what Trigger seems to have in development, the wait might go faster than expected.
Source: Gizmodo
