Adult Swim and Crunchyroll Developing Blade Runner Anime Series

Adult Swim and Crunchyroll are teaming up with Alcon TV Group to create a new anime series inspired by Blade Runner 2049. The companies announced that Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama will direct all thirteen half-hour episodes, which will be produced through Sola Digital Arts. Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo), who previously wrote the short Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, will serve as creative producer.

“The Blade Runner universe is an incredibly deep well for story and character with its world and mythology that audiences have been debating and talking about since inception,” said Alcon’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. “We are excited to continue exploring that world via this anime series.”

“I first saw Blade Runner in 1982, at age 11. It has remained one of the defining films of my life,” added Jason DeMarco, svp/creative director of Adult Swim on-air. “To be able to explore more of this universe, with the incredible talent we have on board, is a dream come true.”