Yup I was just going for TV.
You add movies, games, books etc thats a Crazy amount.
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Blade Runner Anime series to come to Adult Swim
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Yup I was just going for TV.
You add movies, games, books etc thats a Crazy amount.
This is a good time if you like anime. I hope this apparent boom period for the industry is also a boom for the wages and work conditions of animators in Japan.
Yeah, but this one is being directed by the director of Stand Alone Complex.
What a time to be alive. Cowboy bebop is moving to live action and blade runner is moving to animation.
That's the biggest news gits with some of the stand alone people on it. Call me intrigued.
Im out. BR needs to be visually amazing, not shitty japanese cgi
That's what Black Out was though...expect for the shitty cg part.
So hyped for this! I was scared we weren't going to get any more BR stuff after the box office failure.
Progressive was ATROCIOUS. As a sequel it was garbage and as a standalone anime it was completely nonsensical. Alternative, while not matching the original, was still pretty good in its own way
What a coincidence!
It's like Adult Swim completely firing back at Netflix's Cowboy Bebop announcement.
Also, DYK? Blade Runner has influenced anime!
It's like Adult Swim completely firing back at Netflix's Cowboy Bebop announcement.
Also, DYK? Blade Runner has influenced anime!
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It didn't make its budget back, it was a flop through and through. The first one was too though, and the proposition of a $180m Blade Runner sequel was always (financially speaking) dumb as fuck, but *thank god* everyone was stupid enough to sign off, lol.
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It was a tough sell. Assuring even the existing fan base of the original movie that a sequel could be done in a manner that respects and enriches the original movie in this day and age might as well have been impossible. I was one of those fans. lol
It wasn't until the movie actually came out that anybody started hyping it, but the grimm reality was also that casual viewers would be bored and the film would still be guaranteed to do badly no matter how good it was.
Damn that was good. Wish we got more anime/cartoons like this in general
Well that sounds interesting...
Oh, then again, probably not if it's going to end up looking like those Starship Troopers movies they put out. Once they've come far enough along in production to put out a trailer it'll be easier to judge, I suppose.
Make that definitely not.
If FLCL "Classic" was a 10/10 (not everyone thinks so of course but I'm just using relative measures) then:
FLCL Progressive was a 5/10
FLCL Alternative was a 9/10
I would still watch both if you're an FLCL fan though
I'm concerned we'll just end up with soulless cash-ins now that BR2049 made an example of how an actually interesting - on some level even clever - sequel completely bombed at the box office. I can't see movie studio execs approving anything even resembling actual cyberpunk. More likely at least some of what's coming up will just end up being mediocre, cynical cash-ins with little to say and no substance. Basically taking cyberpunk to mean "neon" and "Blade Runner was so cool" instead of an actual critique of, well, anything. Flashy visuals and pseudophilosophical nonsense, at best.
Here's hoping I'm wrong. Either way I think audiences are going to burn out on cyberpunk really fast at this rate, which is just lovely too.
He poisoned the well in a good license like Appleseed, I dislike him just because of that... :(
Been watching the original Blade Runner and 2049 in preparation for me jumping into the comics (I've got all the issues to date to read).
And it got me thinking about this. Seems there has been little to no news since the announcement getting on 2 years ago.
No development updates or cancellation news that I can find.
Anyone seen or heard anything?
And it got me thinking about this. Seems there has been little to no news since the announcement getting on 2 years ago.
No development updates or cancellation news that I can find.
Anyone seen or heard anything?
No but I wouldn't take that as any sort of sign. Animation takes a very long time to procedure and things are slower than ever now.
I think as always with BR, it depends on Ridley. If he is still pushing for it then it will happen. It took him 30 years to get that BR sequel made but he got it done eventually.
Personally my feeling is that BR2049 bombing will make it very difficult for any future projects, there has been talk of an anime, a live action series and a 3rd film in the last few years but right now they sound like 2049 did in the years before it happened. A nice dream but maybe not something real.
Netflix picking up the Ghost in the Shell series indefinitely delayed this. It's best to assume it's dead since the studio is primarily focused on making CG series on Netflix (GitS currently). Plus, there was no planning or work done beforehand so it's not like they lost anything. Even if they started today (which they aren't), it would still be years away.
An anime based on Black Out? That's pretty good!
That's at least better than having nothing Blade Runner related after the masterpiece that was BR2049.
That's at least better than having nothing Blade Runner related after the masterpiece that was BR2049.
Well that's disappointing, hope the story is at least good and faithful to the films
Was expecting it to look like Bebop or something
Was expecting it to look like Bebop or something
also this
yeah or at least like the BR: Blackout 2022 short which looked great. i wonder how japanese anime fans feel about all this CG.
oh well story could still be interesting, the show is going to have a female replicant protagonist which sounds cool and something new for BR.
yeah or at least like the BR: Blackout 2022 short which looked great. i wonder how japanese anime fans feel about all this CG.
oh well story could still be interesting, the show is going to have a female replicant protagonist which sounds cool and something new for BR.
I think Netflix an animation have been some of my favorite and absolutely least favorite trends of recent years. EVERYTHING is CG. I don't know what Devilman Crybaby and Castlevania did to be the exceptions, but I just can't
I apologize for being pretty out of touch with the modern Anime scene, but what's the deal w/ CG, is it significantly cheaper than more traditional animation? I have yet to see an application of it that doesn't just look plain worse than normal animation techniques, I can only imagine it's a cost savings thing
i think it has to be massively cheaper, there is really no other explanation. i mean people will watch bebop or gits 95 in 50 years and it will still look fantastic while GITS 2045 already looks terrible now, how is it going to look in 20 years or so lol? i won't give up hope though, music and story might still be great. it really can't be worse than what they've done to GITS.
also it makes me wonder if the Cyberpunk 2077 anime is also going to be CG, it's being made for netflix after all