Crunchyroll and Adult Swim announced in 2018 their partnership with Alcon Entertainment to produce the Blade Runner: Black Lotus series, which was based on Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the 1982 Blade Runner film.
The anime premiered on February 6 on both Crunchyroll and Adult Swim.
Crunchyroll and Adult Swim also announced their collaboration to produce an anime series adaptation of Yu Suzuki’s Shenmue game series in 2020.
The series premiered on Crunchyroll and Adult Swim’s Toonami block in the United States in November 2021.