Los Angeles still rainy, now very CGI in the first trailer for Adult Swim’s Blade Runner anime
Adult Swim ran panels on Black Lotus, Rick And Morty, Tuca And Bertie, and Teenage Euthanasia at today's Comic-Con@Home
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Given the thoroughness with which Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner cribbed from the signs and signifiers of Japanese culture to create its Los Angeles dystopia—and how thoroughly that aesthetic has filtered back into art created on both sides of the Pacific in the intervening decades—it was probably inevitable that we’d get a Blade Runner anime at some point. And so it has arrived at last, with Adult Swim taking advantage of its time at Comic-Con@Home this year to debut the first trailer for Black Lotus, an animated TV series set in the ever-rainy Blade Runner universe.
(Also, let us take a minute to acknowledge that this is actually the second Blade Runner anime, technically. Warner Bros. produced a 2D animated short film, Black Out 2022, as part of the lead up to Blade Runner 2049.)
As will become immediately obvious from the trailer, Black Lotus is one of those newfangled CGI anime series, rather than a more traditionally animated 2D production. Still, it does look recognizably Blade Runner, what with all the rain, grime, and giant signs advertising your good friends at the Coca-Cola corporation. The premise seems pretty familiar, too, centered as it is on A Mysterious Girl with amnesia and A Dark Secret who inexplicably is Very Good With Swords.
Still, the fight scenes themselves look pretty cool, and woe betide us for suggesting we don’t want a Blade Runner anime movie where Brian Cox and Stephen Root are running around shouting at people. (Cox is playing the father of Jared Leto’s character from 2049, presumably getting ready to Succession the shit out of his lousy kid, cyberpunk style.)
Blade Runner: Black Lotus (set to premiere this fall) was one of several projects that got focus at Adult Swim’s panel/set of YouTube videos (the phrases are indistinguishable in 2021) today; there were also conversations surrounding existing hits Tuca & Bertie and Rick And Morty, as well as a panel based around Alissa Nutting and Alyson Levy’s upcoming Teenage Euthanasia. (If you’ve ever wanted to watch Tim Heidecker try semi-successfully to modulate his natural energy to fade into the background to moderate a panel, here’s your chance. Also, the show itself sounds wonderfully strange.)
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It’s amazing how effectively ending your dark, gloomy anime trailer on the word “crunchyroll” can suck away all the tension you’ve been building.
For the way the word sounds, or because of…the implication?I like Blade Runner and Cyberpunk in general, but don’t generally care for anime. So for this my expectations are definitely moderated. The character designs aren’t too bad, there’s a bit of the big eyes bit that seems to be the extent of the anime influence on aesthetics here – the rest of it seems very Blade Runner.But I can’t help but think of Altered Carbon:Resleeved. I really like the Takeshi Kovacs novels, I liked the first season of the show pretty well (and was a bit disappointed by the second season, though I didn’t hate it). So I was in for a new Kovacs story, even if it was in anime form. And it ended up being just kind of an anime movie, more than a Kovacs movie. I’m certainly willing to give Black Lotus a shot, but I’m hoping that it doesn’t have that same feel, of an anime show that looks like Blade Runner.
“So these replicants are in danger?!”(It’s actually because “Crunchyroll” just sounds so silly. It seems like one of those names that sounds so wacky and goofy and hey-let’s-all-just-have-fun-peeps when you’re young and just starting out, but starts becoming a bit of an albatross when you reach a point where you want people to start taking you seriously. A bit like ‘Beatles’, or ‘Awkwafina’, or ‘ScottyEnn’.)Also, yeah, from this trailer I also got the vibe that this was just an anime with a Blade Runner desktop theme applied. It felt more like The Matrix (or, well, The Animatrix, really) than anything really Blade Runner; a bit too much stylised violence. Blade Runner is a world in which replicants get shot in the back when they’re fleeing government-sanctioned executioners, not where they have super-cool katana ninja-fu fights.
But it’s not just a silly name. Crunchyrolls are maki rolls with a panko coating, making them, you know, crunchy. And were created in California as an attempt to adapt Japanese cuisine to American tastes. Given that Crunchyroll (the company) mostly adapts Japanese animation to American tastes by providing dubbing/subtitles, it is quite an appropriate name.
I didn’t know that, that’s very interesting. But I never said it was inappropriate on a cultural level, just that it sounds a bit silly and undercuts the drama a little when growled at the end of a trailer that’s trying to be all dark and gritty and noir. I don’t think it’s disrespectful to Japanese cuisine to suggest that the word “crunchyroll” is hard to growl dramatically in a way that can be taken seriously.
I hear there’s a very good comic adaptation of the original book … which is quite different to the movie.
Blade Runner Black Out 2022 was the one directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, right? I remember thinking that Blade Runner 2049 felt like the live action Cowboy Bebop movie of my dreams (specifically any Mars-related episodes), and finding out that Villeneuve was a fan of Watanabe was a major lightbulb moment for me.
I forgot that they actually were doing a live action Cowboy Bebop series. Is that finally back in production? I know they stopped because Cho had an injury, but I’m curious to see how this plays out. CB is easily one of my favorite series of all time. Infinitely re-watchable, and I always catch something new every time I see it again.
Yeah, it looks like it’s back on. I’m like, cautiously optimistic. I think Cho is a fantastic pick, if a little older than I imagined Spike. (Wasn’t he in his 20s, early 30s?) But the entire cast is so pitch-perfect that I hope beyond hope it’ll at least be passable, if not amazing. Daniela Pineda as Faye is a killer pick. Speaking of…I found this yesterday.
Giving the back story we have on Spike, I always figured he was mid-late 30’s. Cho is maybe 45, but looks young so I’ll give it a pass. And I’m with you on the casting. Folk I wouldn’t have thought of, but after seeing the characters they are portraying, I’m all for it. Supposedly it’s out sometime this fall, but…Netflix. And thanks for that link, I’m gonna binge the series on AS over the next two days.
Joss Whedon is creaming his jeans somewhere at tiny girl turned stronk fighter trope.
The CG looks so bad. As if it’s from 25 years ago. No budget obviously when your animated series looks like a PSone intro.
yep. I was thinking so when does the video game start?
I thought these days people were more accepting of cheap or more rudimentary CGI if the story is sufficiently developed. A lot of the Star Wars animated series look like they should be starring Daniel Tiger but people are really into them
The difference is that those shows are way more expressive. You can get away with cheap CG animation if the characters are exaggerated. That’s way more difficult to pull off if you’re attempting something that is this muted and lifelike.
Yeah, those are some dead eyes.
Finding out it’s going to be “3d” style animation is a HUGE letdown. I can’t articulate it- but it never has the same energy (except in VERY few instances) that 2d can do. Plus- the mouths never quite match the vocals. Mouths move to slow because the animators seem to be completely obsessed with make everything look REAL… which is not even close to the reason I’m watching animation in the first place.
I am so sick of all the 3d animation these days. It looks like garbage next to 2d.
Feels like the creators wanted to make an Alita Battle Angel anime but couldn’t get the rights and decided to go with Blade Runner instead because it was the next closest thing of “cyberpunk but with cool lady robots”.
Wow. Vangelis has a beautiful singing voice!
looks like a PS2 game opening
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but was there a lot of samurai swords and martial arts in Blade Runner?
Leon Kowalski was a master of the ancient arts of Car-Fu and Eye-Fu before getting shot by Rachel.
Ooh, Blade Runner anime? Oh, CGI on a TV budget. I see. Nevermind.
Thumbnail looks like shit
Blade Runner: The Animatrix