At New York Comic-Con this weekend, Crunchyroll shared a number of announcements for Crunchyroll and Adult Swim’s original series. Including a new trailer and promo art for Blade Runner: Black Lotus. They also revealed that the show will premiere on November 13 at midnight ET / 9 PM PT with two back-to-back episodes.
New York Comic Con Blade Runner Announcements
During a panel at New York Comic-Con featuring Shinji Aramaki (co-director), Kenji Kamiyama (co-director), Joseph Chou (executive producer), and futurist Maurice Conti, the creators shared their take on how the Blade Runner world stacks up against our own future.
The series is produced by Alcon Entertainment and animation studio Sola Digital Arts, with Shinichiro Watanabe serving as a creative producer. Adult Swim will air the English language version on Toonami, the network’s popular anime programming block and Crunchyroll will stream the series in Japanese with subtitles to its global audience of more than 5 million subscribers and more than 120 million registered users.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Set in Los Angeles 2032. Blade Runner: Black Lotus is the story of a young woman who wakes up with no memories and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.
Previously the series’ opening had been revealed at Virtual Crunchyroll Expo in August.
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