With Blade Runner 2049 set to open this fall, a "Blade Runner Blackout 2022" anime short tie-in has been announced. Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe helms the work about a mass power-outage on the American west coast, disrupting food supplies and prompting a ban on Replicant manufacturing.

[Staff] 
Director / Screenwriter: Shinichiro Watanabe 
Character Design / Drawing Director: Shukou Murase (Cowboy Bebop animator, Halo Legends, Gundam)
Music: Flying Lotus 
Production : CygamesPictures Co., Ltd. 

[Cast] 
Iggy: Kenichiro Matsuda (Ghost in the Shell's Batou)
Trixy: Ichigo Aoba  
Len: Makoto Furukawa  (One Punch Man's Saitama)

via Cinema Today and Anime! Anime!

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.