Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

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Japanese: BLADE RUNNER BLACK OUT 2022
German: Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Spanish: Blade Runner Black Out 2022
French: Blade Runner Black Out 2022
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Type: ONA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 26, 2017
Producers: dugout
Studios: CygamesPictures
Source: Other
Genres: Sci-FiSci-Fi, SuspenseSuspense
Duration: 15 min.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.921 (scored by 1733917,339 users)
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Ranked: #44082
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Popularity: #3470
Members: 34,836
Favorites: 43

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Synopsis

In 2022, an EMP detonation causes a global blackout that has massive, destructive implications all over the world. Directed by Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo's Shinichiro Watanabe, Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 is an animated short which serves as a prologue for the feature film Blade Runner 2049.

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Gaff

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Ren

Supporting
Furukawa, Makoto
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Staff

Watanabe, Shinichiro
Director, Script
Iso, Mitsuo
Key Animation
Ohira, Shinya
Key Animation
Okiura, Hiroyuki
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Sep 27, 2017
Mixed Feelings
With skies pitched black, darkness has fallen across the land. The only form of light coming from countless flames; always burning fiercely with no sign of dying down. Amid the blaze lies a man shrouded in shadows, traversing the fires unfazed, unmoved. In their hand lies a small round figure, otherwise unrecognizable from the sheer dimness of the scene. They move closer to the flames. It’s a man. He is still covered in shadows, but a red light can be seen from his left eye. Before anymore can be perceived, the scene cuts to a city, with the camera panning across the metropolis. The city: ...
Sep 27, 2017
(Spoiler-Free Review)

The fact that this shoft anime film exists is somewhat of a small miricle.

It all begins with Ridley Scott's 1982, cult classic sci-fi film, Blade Runner. A film derived loosely from Philip K. Dick's novel titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". It explores philosophical issues related to the over-arching theme of the impacts that technology has on society, i.e. designing robots (Replicants) that are visually the same as humans, and progressing them to a point where they themselves believe that they are human.

And now, thirty-five years later, writor, editor and director Denis Villeneuve continues the saga not only with a sequel ...
Sep 28, 2017
To explain Blackout 2022 I best start out this quick review explaining what Blade Runner actually is. Blade Runner is a 1982 Hollywood science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. Set in 2019 it depicts a dystopian Los Angeles under the influence of the Tyrell Corporation, who manufacture advanced human-like androids known as replicants. These androids were designed to work in the off-world colonies although a number have escaped back to earth illegally. Those that do so are hunted and ‘retired’ by a special police force known as blade runners.

Blackout 2022 serves as a bridge between the original 1982 movie and the upcoming Blade ...

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Recent Forum Discussion

Poll: Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 )
Stark700 - Sep 26, 2017
79 replies by ShionArita »»
Mar 23, 12:15 AM
Where can I watch this anime?
Lydark_007 - Nov 15, 2021
3 replies by Jinx_Araragi »»
Sep 17, 2022 10:18 AM
Does Blade Runner 2049 reference this?
AcbSnakeDemon - Jun 20, 2021
7 replies by O_T_T »»
Sep 25, 2021 2:34 AM
Official season?
akiraic - Sep 27, 2017
5 replies by removed-user »»
Aug 26, 2021 8:51 AM
Trixie: Replicant or Human?
blurbyglurb - Jan 24, 2021
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