Darlings, Hideyoshi Oshima is strutting back into Night City tomorrow, and yes — that's Hideo Kojima's own smug mug wearing the braindance producer's face again. CD Projekt Red just confirmed the Metal Gear legend is reprising his blink-and-you'll-miss-it Konpeki Plaza cameo from the original 2077 Heist quest, this time in the Edgerunners Season 2 anime drop. The official account dropped the tease with a side-eye emoji and a direct tag to @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN, because why let the chooms guess when you can make them scream.

Kojima himself hopped on X to confirm the cameo, posting that he's making another appearance as the character who was already quietly canon in the game. The Kotaku piece notes the surprise factor hit hard when the review embargo lifted this morning, and the internet is already memeing it as Kojima slowly colonizing every corner of our favorite dystopia. Even the Japanese accounts are buzzing about it, with one calling it "peak Kojima energy" while another wonders if he'll survive the season or pull a David Martinez.

This is the kind of cross-media wink that makes Night City feel like a living, breathing, slightly unhinged shared universe instead of just another game tie-in. The anime drops October 20 on Netflix, so if you're already queuing up for the new crew's chaos, keep those eyes peeled for the legendary director slumming it in braindance production. Kojima doesn't do anything halfway — even his cameos have main-character energy.