Crunchyroll Releases Special Preview of Blade Runner: Black Lotus Finale

About Blade Runner: Black Lotus

• Finale tune in: Saturday, February 5 at 9:00pm Pacific Time on Crunchyroll and Adult Swim
• Finale logline: Elle has fought her way to the top of the old Tyrell headquarters and is face-to-face with her creator at last. Will Black Lotus find the answers she is seeking? Or will she fall to her mysterious replacement, Water Lily?
• Finale special preview: https://youtu.be/QS5GwOWesJA

Blade Runner: Black Lotus
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.

Blade Runner: Black Lotus is the newest installment in the Blade Runner franchise, taking place between the events of the iconic film and Alcon Entertainment’s critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049. An Adult Swim and Crunchyroll original animated series, Blade Runner: Black Lotus will feature thirteen episodes directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama, and produced by Alcon Entertainment and animation studio Sola Digital Arts, with Shinichiro Watanabe serving as a creative producer.

The English and Japanese voice includes Jessica Henwick / Arisa Shida as Elle, Will Yun Lee / Shinshu Fuji as Joseph, Samira Wiley / Takako Honda as Alani Davis, Brian Cox / Takaya Hashi as Niander Wallace Sr., Wes Bentley / Takehito Koyasu as Niander Wallace Jr., Josh Duhamel / Taiten Kusunoki as Marlowe, Peyton List / Yoshiko Sakakibara as Josephine Grant, and Stephen Root / Hochu Otsuka as Earl Grant.

Crunchyroll and Adult Swim today revealed the characters and all-star cast of the much-anticipated animated series BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS. The new series is inspired by the award-winning and critically lauded Blade Runner movie franchise. A first look at the new series will debut at Comic-Con@Home 2021 panel hosted online on Friday, July 23^rd.

The English and Japanese voice cast includes:

Elle, a female replicant created for a secret and unknown purpose, will be played by Jessica Henwick / Arisa Shida 

Joseph, a mysterious figure who owns a spare parts junkyard in Los Angeles, will be played by Will Yun Lee / Shinshu Fuji 

Alani Davis, a fresh LAPD recruit, will be played by Samira Wiley / Takako Honda 

Niander Wallace Sr, founder and CEO of the Wallace Corporation, will be played by Brian Cox /  Takaya Hashi 

Niander Wallace Jr, brilliant scientist working for his father, will be played by Wes Bentley / Takehito Koyasu 

Marlowe, a deadly Blade Runner, will be played by Josh Duhamel / Taiten Kusunoki 

Josephine Grant, the wife of the police chief, will be played by Peyton List / Yoshiko Sakakibara 

Earl Grant, Police Chief of the LAPD, will be played by Stephen Root / Hochu Otsuka 

Doc Badger, a black market dealer, will be played by Barkhad Abdi /Takayuki Kinba  

Senator Bannister, a politician with strong feelings on replicant production, will be played by Gregg Henry / Masane Tsukayama 

Doctor M, a brilliant doctor and professor of medicine, will be played by Henry Czerny / Akio Nojima 

Hooper, a journalist in the pocket of the Wallace Corporation, will be played by Jason Spisak / Kazuki Yao 

Starting at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on Friday, July 23^rd, fans will hear directly from the creative team and voice talent Shinji Aramaki (co-director), Kenji Kamiyama (co-director), Joseph Chou (executive producer), Wes Gleason (voice director), Jessica Henwick (voice of Elle), and Jason DeMarco (co-creator of Toonami/senior vice-president and creative director for Adult Swim/moderator) as they premiere an exclusive first look at the new series at SDCC@Home.

Coming later this year, the Adult Swim and Crunchyroll Original BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS will feature thirteen episodes directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama. 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 the network’s popular anime programming block Toonami and Crunchyroll will stream the series in Japanese with subtitles to its global community of more than 100 million registered users and 4 million subscribers. Both will offer the series to viewers worldwide outside of Asia.