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There are plenty of reasons to return to

Blade Runner.

Some will do it because of

the metaphysical density of

the replicant Roy Batty's

final speech

or because of the ambiguous ending with an origami unicorn, but there is also a hard core of ultras from the film that dribbles on the acid rain, the aerial views with neon advertising. and the atmosphere between Asian and

noir

that give the

Los Angeles of the future personality.

For 40 years, the ideas of author

Philip K. Dick

have shaped much more than a dystopian environment:

Blade Runner

has become a universe, with its own codes, aesthetics and themes, and after Scott's revisions - which polished what in 1982 was already a major work- came

the sequel by Denis Villeneuve

and the animated short film

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (2017)

by

Shinichiro Watanabe

-the creator of the

Cowboy Bebop

series

-, which

transported the franchise to the industry of the Japanese anime.

And that's where it stays after the premiere of

Blade Runner: Black Lotus,

a series that has just been rolled out -with two chapters for now produced by Adult Swim and Crunchy Roll, available on

HBOMax-

, and which is something like

good methadone for addicts to what is already beginning to be a saga.

Philip K. Dick, the author of the original novel,

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?,

passed away in March 1982, before the film was released. However, he was

able to see the first copies

, was aware of Ridley Scott's intentions and endorsed them. In her last long conversation, recorded by her friend Doris Elaine Sauter and collected in the book

What if our world is their heaven?

(2000),

Dick accepted the idea that a book and a movie were different works, and allowed freedom in the script

, even so that Scott could shoot

three different endings

, any of them valid.

Four decades after Dick's death, one wonders if it is legal to concoct new fictions from his ideas, but his intimate confessions suggest that he would not have cared, since

for him an idea was a seed and not a property.

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

starts from those

Dickian

ideas

-

the replicant tormented by the absence of memories, the tension between truth and simulacrum

, the notion of what is human and what is not in times of perfect copies-, although the first two have been seen. chapters, the most interesting for now is the setting.

Beyond the plot -

Elle, a young amnesiac, needs to regain her identity

and discover things she doesn't like-, what's interesting about this revival of the franchise is the feeling of familiarity:

the directors, two anime veterans

-Kenji Kamiyama worked on the

Ghost in the Shell series,

while Shinji Aramaki promoted the

Appleseed

franchise

-, have sought the balance between hyper-realistic digital graphics, with videogame aesthetics, and family atmosphere; even the music of Michael Hodges and Gerald Trottman sounds like

Vangelis.

The plot abounds in cliches and inconsistencies - it has never been the forte of Japanese animation - but the result is promising.

For

Blade Runner

junkies

, it

's a craving-calming fix.

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