 The official Japanese Twitter account of the Blade Runner film series has revealed through a preview on Friday that Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) will direct an animated short titled Blade Runner Black Out 2022. The short will be streamed on September 26. Set in the year of 2022, the anime short will fill the gap of 30 years between the original Blade Runner film, which takes place in 2019, and its upcoming sequel Blade Runner 2049, which will premiere in Japanese theaters on October 27. The story will center on a large blackout on the West Coast of the United States. Staff Director, Script: Shinichiro Watanabe Character Design, Animation Director: Shukou Murase (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) Music: Flying Lotus Studio: Cygames Pictures Cast Iggy: Kenichirou Matsuda (Ghost in the Shell: Arise) Trixy: Ichiko Aoba (18if ending theme performance) Ren: Makoto Furukawa (One Punch Man) PV Source: animate Times Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 on MAL |
VindstotSep 27, 2017 12:15 AM
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Vindstot said: Actually, it's 2049 XDits upcoming sequel Blade Runner 2046 |
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Corrected. Thanks for the note. |
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| Now this is interesting. Looking forward to it. |
| Jojolion anime when? |
| Music by Flying Lotus. This oughta be cool. |
| Shinichiro Watanabe? oh my. Hopefully he will have a new anime after this. (such a nice dream.) |
| Omfgggg this gonna be awesome I hope. |
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| Looking forward to this one. I'm a big fan of bladerunner and I love Watanabe's directing style. |
| When it's Watanabe, i'll have to watch it. |
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| I'm a big fan of Blade Runner, and apart from Kekkai Sensen, whenever an anime took "inspiration" (read: carbon copy or adapted) from a western source (Watchmen, in Kekkai Sensen's case) it's been garbage, so I'm not exactly hopeful. THEN AGAIN, the actual Hollywood movie is 110% for sure going to be shit too. |
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| Released on youtube, pretty impressive |
| It is so dense. Every single image has so many things going on. |
| And where the page of this here? |
| More enjoyable than anything else this season, but I suppose that's not saying a lot. |
| Shouldn't this have been added to the MAL database when you made the news article about it? I mean, it means you know about it and you have the info for it...just add it. |
| - Hamst3r |
| This was way too good |
hamsteralliance said: Shouldn't this have been added to the MAL database when you made the news article about it? I mean, it means you know about it and you have the info for it...just add it. I would like to know as well. |
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| What a beautiful short, I just wish it was longer. Top notch animation. |
| I don't know if we could have hoped better for this serie. |
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