As will become immediately obvious from the trailer,
Black Lotus is one of those newfangled CGI anime series, rather than a more traditionally animated 2D production. Still, it does look recognizably
Blade Runner, what with all the rain, grime, and giant signs advertising your good friends at the Coca-Cola corporation. The premise seems pretty familiar, too, centered as it is on A Mysterious Girl with amnesia and A Dark Secret who inexplicably is Very Good With Swords.
Still, the fight scenes themselves look pretty cool, and woe betide us for suggesting we don’t want a
Blade Runner anime movie where Brian Cox and Stephen Root are running around shouting at people. (Cox is playing the father of Jared Leto’s character from