Netflix found some solid success with its Altered Carbon TV series previously, though the second season didn’t prove strong enough for them to go forward with a third season. What we did get was an anime feature film to complement it called Altered Carbon: Resleeved which at the time revealed that it’s being written by Dai Sato and Tsukasa Kondo with Anima producing the animation. The Jo Nakajima directed film went live on the service with its March 19th, 2020 worldwide premiere.
Now, the Netflix Anime channel has put together a pretty solid tribute to the property as a whole that mixes both the live-action and animation together to show the common themes that exist in this world.
The property is based on the 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan and was adapted by Laeta Kalogridis, who is handling Battle Angel Alita.
The Japanese cast includes Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ken, Rina Satou as Gina, Ayaka Asai as Holly Togram, George Nakata as Ogai, Kenji Yamauchi as Hideki Tanaseda, Kanehira Yamamoto as Shinji, and Kōji Ishii as Genzō.
Property Concept: Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future. Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned, “on ice”, for centuries until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder … that of Bancroft himself.
