OK. I’ll borrow you a reply I gave to another. I’m sure you’re familiar with this scene from “Cowboy Bebop”:

If Blade Runner is going to broaden it’s scope beyond the film medium, anime ‘is’ the perfect fit for it. Whether or not the content will be any good is a whole different issue entirely.

It’s a very, very loose adaptation.

Conversely:

I think what’s a bigger affront:

*in this scene*

I’m not the one saying that one format is the best. As others have pointed out, “Blade Runner” is a very loose adaption of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”

Of course I’ve seen others, however the premise and philosophical plots behind the two milieus are similar.

You raise valid points, and I agree with some while disagreeing with others.

“And even if you recognize the original for the masterpiece it is, one could still have the opinion that anime is a superior medium for it.”

I know this. You should respond to the original poster’s comment in which they think the “Blade Runner” story and setting can only be expressed in an animated format, i.e. “the best.”

Are you not seeing what I’m seeing?

Uhmm, you know that I wasn’t pretentious enough to think that a story is only beholden to one medium, right?

The Zucker Brothers are/were known for their satirical humor. Some of the jokes in “Airplane!” were also featured in their other, less well-known movie, “The Kentucky Fried Movie.”

If it can be built and miniaturized (like in the original “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “Blade Runner”), it doesn’t need computers or animation to be astounding.

So, animation is not the perfect format for “Blade Runner”.

See, this is the problem with folks that live away from areas that are used to these sorts of things.

Ha! Coming from someone that doesn’t know what WD40 is, you’re opinion counts for very little in these parts.

But wait;

And thousands of weeabos scream foul that Hollywood made something original that Japan copied.