{"id":3092,"date":"2021-08-10T22:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:33:26","slug":"adult-swim-and-crunchyroll-and-cartoon-network-and-original-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2021\/08\/adult-swim-and-crunchyroll-and-cartoon-network-and-original-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Swim and Crunchyroll&#8230; and Cartoon Network and Original Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently heard about Adult Swim&#8217;s upcoming show, Blade Runner: Black Lotus. The trailer is below; and while it doesn&#8217;t blow me out of the water, I find it intriguing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahNgjVcq4sA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First, I know nothing about Blade Runner, having never watched any of the films so I have zero attachment to franchise. However, the environment shots and action sequences look pretty cool. That said, the character design seems lackluster, and the show doesn&#8217;t seem to fit with the rest of the Toonami&#8217;s anime block. The interesting tidbit is that this is a co-production between Adult Swim and Crunchyroll.<\/p>\n<p>To add a little extra spice to the pepper, it was just announced that Toonami co-creator Jason Demarco will lead <a title=\"You had me at anime.\" href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/jason-demarco-toonami-anime-warner-bros-cartoon-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new division in charge of producing anime at Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network<\/a>. On his Twitter feed, he goes as far to say it won&#8217;t be &#8216;anime inspired,&#8217; but created and produced in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t think the former is worse than the latter, as long as it tells a good story. However, I am curious what types of shows get made. Demarco is currently overseeing production on Black Lotus, but I assume this doesn&#8217;t fall under the &#8216;genuine anime&#8217; label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently heard about Adult Swim&#8217;s upcoming show, Blade Runner: Black Lotus. The trailer is below; and while it doesn&#8217;t blow me out of the water, I find it intriguing: First, I know nothing about Blade Runner, having never watched any of the films so I have zero attachment to franchise. However, the environment shots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,9,90,74],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adult-swim","tag-anime","tag-cartoon-network","tag-toonami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}