Blade Runner: Black Lotus - Coming to Adult Swim & Crunchyroll in 2021

[CrazyBlu-RayFan]

https://mobile.twitter.com/adultswim...51052341985281

For your non-replicant eyes only: the first two work-in-progress images from Blade Runner: Black Lotus, an
@adultswim x @Crunchyroll production, coming in 2021 #AdultSwimCon

Interview with the Directors:

https://youtu.be/4QVBgip996I

[Gorgon]

^^ They must have been hit by the covid crowbar to the face pretty hard as this has been in development limbo for a while.
Quite happy to see things starting to get back on track.

[CrazyBlu-RayFan]

Originally Posted by Gorgon

^^ They must have been hit by the covid crowbar to the face pretty hard as this has been in development limbo for a while.
Quite happy to see things starting to get back on track.

Yeah, it's been in the works since 2018, so hopefully they're taking the proper time to give it the best story and animation.

[MOONPHASE]

So 3 Toonami Originals in 2021. Though I thought Uzumaki was going to come out this year since Jason DeMarco was always saying that it is unaffected by delays.

[DR Herbert West]

Finally!

[CrazyBlu-RayFan]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

So 3 Toonami Originals in 2021. Though I thought Uzumaki was going to come out this year since Jason DeMarco was always saying that it is unaffected by delays.

I guess they got more behind schedule than originally realized.

[MOONPHASE]

Canadian media company Corus Entertainment revealed in a press release on Tuesday that the Blade Runner: Black Lotus anime is scheduled to premiere this fall on Adult Swim in Canada.

Directors Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama had revealed in an interview in July 2020 that the anime would debut in 2021.
Crunchyroll and Adult Swim are partnering with Alcon Entertainment to produce the 13-episode television anime series. The anime is based on Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the 1982 Blade Runner film.

Aramaki (Ultraman, Appleseed) and Kamiyama (Ultraman, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) are directing all the episodes at Sola Digital Arts. Both directors previously worked together on Ultraman and Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is a creative producer on the series.

The series' story will take place in 2032, between the two films, and will include some familiar characters.

Adult Swim will have worldwide distribution rights to an English-dubbed version of the show outside of Asia, and will air the anime in the United States on its Toonami block. Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide.

Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, and Al-Francis Cuenca of Alcon Entertainment are executive producers on the project along with Sola Digital Arts' Joseph Chou. Alcon executive Ben Roberts is serving as co-executive producer, and Production I.G's Mitsuhisa Ishikawa is a production adviser.

Crunchyroll previously streamed the "Blade Runner: Black Out 2022" anime short in September 2017, shortly before the debut of Blade Runner 2049. Watanabe directed the anime short at Cygames Pictures, Shukou Murase (Halo Legends, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) served as character designer and animation director, and Flying Lotus composed the music.

The original film from director Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford is based on Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? novel. The Blade Runner 2049 sequel debuted in October 2017.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...canada/.173739

[Member-571539]

After SAC_2045, I could care less what Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama do next.

[Morsoth]

Originally Posted by gloomranger

After SAC_2045, I could care less what Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama do next.

If you 'could care less', it means that you do care about it!

Unless you wanted to say "I couldn't care less…"

[Member-571539]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/blade-r...oice-cast-set/

The full English and Japanese voice cast of Alcon Entertainment, Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s anticipated animated series “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” have been announced.

Jessica Henwick / Arisa Shida as Elle
A female replicant created for a secret and unknown purpose.

Will Yun Lee / Shinshu Fuji as Joseph
A mysterious figure who owns a spare parts junkyard in Los Angeles.

Samira Wiley / Takako Honda as Alani Davis
A fresh LAPD recruit.

Brian Cox / Takaya Hashi as Niander Wallace Sr.
Founder and CEO of the Wallace Corporation.

Wes Bentley / Takehito Koyasu as Niander Wallace Jr.
A brilliant scientist working for his father.

Josh Duhamel / Taiten Kusunoki as Marlowe
A deadly Blade Runner.

Peyton List / Yoshiko Sakakibara as Josephine Grant
The wife of the police chief.

Stephen Root / Hochu Otsuka as Earl Grant
Police Chief of the LAPD.

Barkhad Abdi / Takayuki Kinba as Doc Badger
A black market dealer.

Gregg Henry / Masane Tsukayama as Senator Bannister
A politician with strong feelings on replicant production.

Henry Czerny / Akio Nojima as Doctor M
A brilliant doctor and professor of medicine.

Jason Spisak / Kazuki Yao as Hooper
A journalist in the pocket of the Wallace Corporation.

Adult Swim will air the English language version on the network’s anime programming block Toonami and Crunchyroll will stream the series in Japanese with subtitles.

[Member-571539]

https://youtu.be/ahNgjVcq4sA

BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS | Official Trailer | adult swim

Experience the future with BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS — an Adult Swim and Crunchyroll original animated series inspired by the award-winning and critically lauded Blade Runner movie franchise, coming this fall.

This thrilling thirteen episode series is directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama and produced by Alcon Entertainment and animation studio Sola Digital Arts, with Shinichiro Watanabe serving as a creative producer.

[hagios]

Will this be able to be seen on different formats especially regular TV?

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by hagios

Will this be able to be seen on different formats especially regular TV?

Well Adult Swim is regular TV. But it will be on Adult Swim’s Toonami block and on Crunchyroll.

[hagios]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Well Adult Swim is regular TV. But it will be on Adult Swim’s Toonami block and on Crunchyroll.

What I meant by that is I do not have Adult Swim and was wondering if it would be offered on a channel(s) I might have (that’s why I asked about several other watching avenues).

[Phillip c. Niethe]

Not enjoying the music.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by hagios

What I meant by that is I do not have Adult Swim and was wondering if it would be offered on a channel(s) I might have (that’s why I asked about several other watching avenues).

Well Adult Swim is part of the Cartoon Network channel. It is not its own channel here in the U.S. Unless you don’t have Cartoon Network or live where Adult Swim is different than it is in the states in another country.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by hagios

Will this be able to be seen on different formats especially regular TV?

Crunchyroll will be streaming the series as well. Beyond that none of us know.

[CrazyBlu-RayFan]

Oof, this doesn't look great. I'm so freaking hopeful this is just a bad trailer but so far besides the look this feels nothing like Blade Runner.

[Modren]

All I could think about from the main character's look was Resident Evil Revelations 2. Funnily enough, that game actually has better visuals than the trailer.

[MOONPHASE]

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