We’ve been hearing for a while now about BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, an anime that takes place between the original movie and its sequel, BLADE RUNNER: 2049. After a number of detail drops from outlets regarding this anime, looks like we finally got a trailer from the recent Comic-Con@Home.
Check it out below.
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.
Despite some of the action in the trailer, I have to admit, I’m a little underwhelmed by this trailer. First off, the look of it, I mean, the CG looks a little cheap. If you’re announcing something as an “anime”, I feel like there’s an expectation of how it would look overall and crafting it down to the look of the IP you’re telling a story for.
And this misses that overall look. Honestly the animation looks like a video game cutscene from the ‘90s. My initial thought that this was a production simply “called” an anime, but not really. Like so many stateside productions simply calling an animation an anime. I mean there’s A LOT of content in Netflix’s catalog they call anime, but really aren’t.
According to io9, this series features episodes co-directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama. So, there it is, and find myself not knowing what to do with this first look for BLACK LOTUS.
I mean, if you’re gonna give me a CG anime, would had hoped for something more along the lines of STARSHIP TROOPERS: TRAITOR OF MARS, which, ironically, does still look like a video game cutscene (but more reflective of anime), on Netflix, AND directed by Aramaki.
But what can you do?
Now where can you find this 13-episode series? Sounds like it’s set to premiere this Fall on Adult Swim (in English) and Crunchyroll (in Japanese).
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Source: io9
