The following contains spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Episodes 1-10, now streaming on Netflix.
Set in the fictional Night City, Cyberpunk 2077 is an action role-playing game set in a dystopian future that follows a tone and premise that's similar to the Blade Runner franchise. As part of the neo-noir sci-fi experience, the game has graphic depictions of violence and allows users to have sexual encounters with various characters when they go on missions. Since the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime by Trigger and Netflix is set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, graphic depictions of sex, nudity and violence are a given. What differs is how over-the-top their depiction is in the anime compared to how they're portrayed in the game.
For fans familiar with the Cyberpunk video game franchise, cybernetic enhancements are commonplace and an integral part of the storyline. When users play as V -- the protagonist of Cyberpunk 2077 -- they get the opportunity to enhance the character's body by installing new cyberware as needed. When V gets new implants, it's experienced from the first-person point-of-view, and they are put under anesthetic. The installation of their new cyberware is sparsely shown or not shown at all. This isn't the case with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
V's counterpart in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is David Martinez, a Latinx kid whose single mother moves them to Night City so that he can have a shot at being a Corporate by attending the Arasaka Academy. One of the first implants David gets early on in the series is a powerful artificial spine known as "The Sandevistan," which is graphically shown from the third-person point-of-view. Instead of being put under anesthetic, the spine is painfully grafted onto David's body, with the incision being shown and large amounts of blood spilled all over the floor. Interestingly, as David becomes more machine than human, the cyberware installation scenes get less bloody and David isn't shown to be in excruciating pain.
Another major hallmark of Cyberpunk 2077 is the graphic depiction of violent action sequences. In the game, whenever V encounters trouble during missions, they are depicted killing their enemies, typically with a gun. Depending on the type of weapon they're using, enemies either get sprayed with bullets -- complete with blood splatters -- or their heads can be blown off if they are within close range. In the latter case, blood tends to burst in an explosive manner. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners depicts the action sequences in a similarly violent manner, but the details are much more explicit and disturbing to witness.
Several times throughout the anime, characters are violently dismembered, and whole bodies are blown in half with larger pools of blood making a huge splash. When decapitations are depicted, blood similarly pours out like a fountain. In the case of heads being blown off by guns or other powerful weapons, eyeballs are shown to be dangling, and brains are seen spilling over what remains of the head. While the violent action sequences are depicted just as rapidly in the anime as in the game, one major difference is how often they're depicted at close range. Between the two, violent death at close range is more commonly seen in the anime than in the game.
When it comes to the portrayal of sex and nudity, they're not depicted equally throughout the anime, with nudity getting the lion's share of screen time. This is one thing that differs from the game, especially since the depiction of sex and nudity is also tied to the storylines of the game and anime's respective protagonists. In the game, V is depicted as more sexually active and has sexual encounters with different people. Since V is depicted as bisexual, they sleep with both men and women, and the depiction of the sexual encounter is experienced exclusively from V's point of view. How much nudity is shown is also dependent on the setting and lighting.
In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, David is seen pursuing only one romantic relationship with his teammate, Lucy, and any sex they have always takes place offscreen. More often than not, they are shown nude together, with Lucy getting both full frontal and back shots. By contrast, David is only shown to be fully nude from the back. The characters who do experience sex from the same first-person point-of-view as V in the game are supporting characters who masturbate with virtual reality devices, which includes a pair of visor glasses that goes over their eyes. This type of virtual reality allows its users to experience orgies and ejaculation without the assistance of a real partner. Nudity is also more graphically shown in the virtual world than in the real one.
One final way the anime's depiction of nudity pushes boundaries is through the sole appearance of a random character that is shown urinating in public. This is the one time a penis is very briefly shown on screen before the character is killed by David after succumbing to cyberpsychosis. While the NSFW trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners offers a brief glimpse of the amount of sex, nudity and violence viewers can expect to see in the anime, it barely touches the tip of the iceberg of how much is actually shown throughout all 10 episodes of the series.