Reality Bites
THE TYRELL CORPORATION. Deckard. Niander Wallace. If those words mean something to you, let us extend the Blade Runner fan secret handshake.
Beginning in 1982 with Ridley Scott’s now seminal adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, the long-dormant Blade Runner universe was resuscitated with Denis Villeneuve’s sequel Blade Runner 2049. Since then Alcon Entertainment has grown the canon with three short films and now the first animated series set in the world, Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s Blade Runner: Black Lotus.
Co-directed by Japanese anime legends Shinji Aramaki (Ultraman) and Kenji Kamiyama (Star Wars: Visions), Black Lotus is a 13-episode, CG-animated series centring on new replicant Elle (Jessica Henwick) as she, along with the audience, comes to understand her reality and how she fits into the next stage of replicant advancement.