Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)

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Los Angeles 2032. A young woman 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.

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Blade Runner: Black Lotus (Japanese: ブレードランナー：ブラック・ロータス, Hepburn: Burēdorannā: Burakku Rōtasu) is a neo-noir science fiction animated miniseries and an installment in the Blade Runner franchise, which itself is based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The series aired from November 14, 2021, to February 6, 2022. It was a co-production between Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, in partnership with Alcon Television Group.

Plot

Black Lotus takes place in Los Angeles in 2032, ten years into the aftermath of Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, but before 2036: Nexus Dawn, and centers on a female replicant protagonist. It also includes "familiar" characters from the Blade Runner universe.

Characters

Elle

Voiced by: Arisa Shida (Japanese); Jessica Henwick (English)

A female replicant created for a secret and unknown purpose.

Joseph

Voiced by: Shinshu Fuji (Japanese); Will Yun Lee (English)

A mysterious figure who owns a spare parts junkyard in Los Angeles.

Alani Davis

Voiced by: Takako Honda (Japanese); Samira Wiley (English)

A fresh LAPD recruit.

Niander Wallace Jr.

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese); Wes Bentley (English)

Brilliant scientist working for his father.

Niander Wallace Sr.

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese); Brian Cox (English)

Founder and CEO of the Wallace Corporation.

Marlowe

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (Japanese); Josh Duhamel (English)

A deadly Blade Runner.

Josephine Grant

Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese); Peyton List (English)

The wife of the police chief.

Earl Grant

Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka (Japanese); Stephen Root (English)

Police Chief of the LAPD.

Doc Badger

Voiced by: Takayuki Kinba (Japanese); Barkhad Abdi (English)

A black market dealer.

Senator Bannister

Voiced by: Masane Tsukayama (Japanese); Gregg Henry (English)

A politician with strong feelings on replicant production.

Doctor M

Voiced by: Akio Nojima (Japanese); Henry Czerny (English)

A brilliant doctor and professor of medicine.

Hooper

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (Japanese); Jason Spisak (English)

A journalist in the pocket of the Wallace Corporation.

Selene

Voiced by: Yoko Honno (Japanese); Alessia Cara (English)

A replicant nightclub singer

Production and release

The anime was announced back in November 2018. The series was animated by Sola Digital Arts with Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama serving as co-directors. Shinichirō Watanabe, director of Blade Runner Black Out 2022, served as a creative producer. It aired on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in the United States from November 14, 2021, to February 6, 2022. Crunchyroll also streamed the series in Japanese with English subtitles.

Canada's Corus Entertainment announced at their June 2021 upfronts that the series would air in the Fall on Adult Swim Canada. It would later be confirmed that the series would air in simulcast with the U.S.

In July 2021, both Japanese and English casts were revealed along with the announcement of a planned panel for the virtual 2021 San Diego Comic-Con. The opening theme is "Feel You Now" by Alessia Cara.

On September 28, 2022, Jason DeMarco, the senior vice president of action and anime programming for Warner Bros. Discovery, confirmed that the series was written off by Warner Bros. Discovery after it had been removed from Adult Swim's website.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a rating of 71% based on 7 reviews.

Comic sequel

A four issue comic, serving as a sequel to the anime, was released in 2022. The first volume ran from August 10 to November 2, 2022. The collected version is titled Blade Runner: Black Lotus – Leaving L.A. In February 2024, the editor, David Leach, confirmed on Twitter that a second volume was in development. Titled Blade Runner: Black Lotus – Las Vegas, this second volume ran for another four issues, from September 17, 2025, to March 4, 2026.

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