Prior to the whole world "Japan Blade Runner Black 2022" released in Japan, "Cowboy Bebop" directed by Shinichiro Watanabe

Written by Shinichiro Watanabe's "Cowboy Bebop" by hands short animationThe previous day 'Blade Runner Black Out 2022' of "Blade Runner 2049" had been announced in Japan, pioneering the whole world.

【Watanabe Shinichiro's prelude animation release! "Blade Runner Black Out 2022" - YouTube(You will be able to watch after 20:49)


The stage of the image is 2022, three years after the hero of Deckard's "Blade Runner" disappeared with her lover Rachel. Among the "blank 30 years" between 2019 which was the stage of "Blade Runner" and the stage of the new work "Blade Runner 2049" · 2049, "The Great Blackout ) "Is the subject.

It is mysterious man · Iggy and beautiful girl · tricky to appear. The two are "replicant", an artificial human being manufactured as a labor force, and replicants have a much shorter lifetime than humans. So, two people want to become "human beings", causing a large blackout, shutting down all electronic equipment and deleting all data related to replicants, we will try to eliminate the boundary between humans and replicants.

In the process, the appearance of Sappa which Dave · Bautista plays at "Blade Runner 2049" also appeared. What does "big blackout" caused by Iggy and Trixy invite and what kind of facts are awaiting there? Please be sure to enjoy it along with this volume, "Blade Runner 2049" released on Friday 27th October.

Incidentally, concept art has been made public according to the main part. Director Watanabe said that he was careful about 'Maximum respect for "Blade Runner" in making animation, and the logo of Pan American Airlines that appeared in "Blade Runner" and women in kimono appearance It is a convincing art of "If it is not this" that understands the existence of video advertisement of "Wakarima Wakamoto" that will come.


· Main staff
Director / Screenplay: Shinichiro Watanabe
Character design / drawing director: Nobuo Murase
Music: Flying Lotus
Production: CygamesPictures Corporation

· Main cast
Iggy: Kenichiro Matsuda
Trixy: Aoba Ichiko
Ren: Shin Furukawa

· "Blade Runner 2049" Main Staff & Cast
Producer leader: Ridley Scott
Director: Duni Villeneuve
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, Ana de Armas, Silvia Hawks, Carra Juri, McKenzie Davis, Bakad Abdi, Dave Bautista
Distribution: Sony Pictures Entertainment