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in his anime Time of Eve and in his new feature film Sing a Bit of Harmony.

Yasuhiro Yoshida may be best known to Western viewers as the director of Patema Inverted, but he also depicted androids with A.I. In his own question to the directors, Andrew Osmond referenced another anime creator who’s asked if the two sides can mix. There is a lot of violence between humans and artificial life in the Blade Runner world, whereas in Ghost in the Shell, there is violence but also co-operation between the two sides. Kamiyama was a franchise veteran, previously having also been behind the classic first TV incarnation Stand Alone Complex, while Aramaki is an established name in CGI anime.Ĭomparing the worlds of Ghost and Blade Runner could offer an interesting way of seeing differing approaches to depicting synthetic life-forms. Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki previously teamed up to create G host In The Shell: SAC_2045, the franchise's debut CG-animated series and are back together at the helm of Black Lotus. There's a pleasing symmetry to Blade Runner's first TV spin-off being produced by the creators behind the most recent adaptation of Shirow's work. Ghost In The Shell would then in turn go on to influence storytellers both in Japan and outside (The Wachowski's are on record that GITS was a major influence on The Matrix). Shirow's manga was then adapted into anime, initially with Mamoru Oshii's classic 1995 feature and then several TV series, OVAs and the poorly received Hollywood adaptation.

Masamune Shirow's seminal manga presents a world with cybernetic bodies, artificial intelligence, and hackable cyber-brains, in a future that owes a definite debt to the iconic movie. Most notably though, arguably there would have been no Ghost In The Shellwithout Blade Runner. Or take 90s OAV series Armitage III which saw a terraformed Mars where synthetic life-forms, indistinguishable from humans, live illegally among the general population undetected. It even featured a main character called Priss, who fronted a rock band called The Replicants (both names are taken directly from Blade Runner). Classic cyberpunk Bubblegum Crisis featured The Knight Sabres, a gang of female vigilantes in powered suits defending Mega-Tokyo from rogue robots called Boomers. Its influence was on full display in the anime of the 80s and 90s. It feels somehow fitting as the sci-fi futures of Philip K Dick (whose work inspired the films) and William Gibson were heavily influenced by Japan's futuristic-looking cityscapes.īlade Runner would in turn go on to be a major influence on Japanese popular culture, with many manga, anime and novels inspired by Ridley Scott's movie. Blade Runner: Black Lotus is an anime set in the iconic cyberpunk world of the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner and its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049.