Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Reveal Premiere Date for ‘Blade Runner: Black Lotus’ and First look at ‘Shenmue the Animation’

ByHrvoje Milakovic Published on
Blade Runner Black Lotus' and 'Shenmue the Animation'

The highly anticipated Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Original series Blade Runner: Black Lotus is set to premiere on November 13 at 9 PM PT with two new back-to-back episodes, revealed today during New York Comic Con’s The Future of Blade Runner: Black Lotus virtual panel along with a new trailer and key art from the series. 
 
The panel featured Shinji Aramaki (co-director), Kenji Kamiyama (co-director), Joseph Chou (executive producer), and futurist Maurice Conti, who shared his 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 120 million registered users and more than 5 million subscribers. 

Fans also got a first look at Shenmue the Animation, the upcoming Crunchyroll and Adult Swim Original series during the Shenmue: Continuing the Legacy virtual panel that featured Yu Suzuki (Shenmue video game creator) and how he brought his Sega creations to life through anime. Additional panelists include Chikara Sakurai (director), Yû Kiyozono (producer, Telecom Animation), Joseph Chou (producer, Sola Entertainment). 

Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is WarnerMedia’s #1 brand for young adults offering original and acquired animated and live-action series.  Airing nightly from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. (ET/PT) on its linear channel, and also available through HBO Max, Adult Swim is basic cable’s #1 network with persons 18-34 and 18-49 and is seen in 94 million U.S. homes, reaching over 40 million viewers via HBO Max.

Hrvoje, based in Osijek, Croatia, with a Master's degree from the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, is a co-founder of Incomera, a media company that has launched several entertainment sites including Fiction Horizon, Game Horizon, and Anime Horizon. He is also a co-owner of Comic Basics and Voice Film. Hrvoje's writing career began in 2016 when he started writing for a Croatian film website he founded, Svijet Filma. Over the years, his work has been featured on LifeWire, Yahoo, and IMDb, to name a few. His favorite movies are 300, Conan, Alien, The Lord of the Rings, MCU, and Stargate franchises. His favorite shows are Doctor Who, Only Fools and Horses, Stargate, Seinfeld, Sherlock, Everybody Loves Raymond, Fringe, Poirot, Spartacus, and Rome.