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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners executive producer Rafał Jaki announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday heand artist MACHINE GAMU have launched the Brain Alive manga on Kadokawa's KadoComi website.
Jaki additionally posted a Google Drive link where the pilot chapter is available to read for free in English.
The manga's digital English serializationwill debut this fall, but Jaki stated "we got permission to publish the English pilot now with the Japanese serialization starting today."
Jakidescribes the manga:
It's my love letter to Inception and Soulsborne games.
Kadokawa posted a trailer for the manga on Friday, and Jaki posted an Englishversion of the trailer on X/Twitter.
Pilot chapter for my and @machinegamu new manga is now available! Link: https://t. co/YBdwGSR0fo“Brain Alive” tells a story about afather trying to save his comatose son after an accident. Daniel magically enters his son's dreams and has to fight Slavic beasts and Japanese… pic. twitter. com/nkv0Iitz8D
Jaki launched the No\Name manga with art by MACHINE GAMU in July 2024, after debuting a one-shot manga for "No\Name" on Shonen Jump+ and MANGA Plus in January 2024. The manga ended in February 2025. Shueisha published thesecond and final volume in Japan in April 2025. MANGA Plus also published the serializedmanga in English.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime series by Studio Triggerbased on CD PROJEKT RED's Cyberpunk 2077 game, debuted on Netflix in September 2022. The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime will debut this fall.