Toonami's Black Friday Blade Runner Doorbuster Event is a special 5.5 hour Toonami marathon that aired on Adult Swim on Friday, November 26, 2021 (Black Friday) from 11:00 PM to 4:30 AM. The marathon featured the short anime film Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, followed by the live action film Blade Runner 2049 and three episodes of Blade Runner: Black Lotus.[1]
Schedule[]
- 11:00 PM – Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
- 11:15 PM – Blade Runner 2049
- 3:00 AM – Blade Runner: Black Lotus - Episode 1: "City of Angels"
- 3:30 AM – Blade Runner: Black Lotus - Episode 2: "All We Are Not"
- 4:00 AM – Blade Runner: Black Lotus - Episode 3: "The Human Condition"
Gallery[]
Blade Runner Black Friday Marathon Promo
Trivia[]
- The marathon did not have the normal Toonami packaging/bumps featuring hosts TOM 6 and SARA v4.[2]
- Jason DeMarco explained on twitter that the Toonami crew were told that including the normal packaging would have made the movie run too long.[2]
- This is the first Toonami marathon that aired on a day other than Saturday during the Adult Swim era.
- Blade Runner 2049 is the first live-action feature film to air on Adult Swim's Toonami block.
- It is the third live-action feature film to air on Toonami overall, after Batman and Spider-Man.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Toonami's taking over your Friday to run Blade Runner, all night long! ". Facebook.com/TOONAMI. November 10, 2021. https://www.facebook.com/Toonami/photos/a.1442483259375850/2838762289747933/. Retrieved on November 10, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "We were told that if we included our normal packaging the movie would just run too long ". twitter.com/Clarknova1. November 27, 2021. https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/1464459480394047491.