We once again meet one of those animes that are only good durring the first time watching.
This anime had pretty much everything to keep your jaw dropped as we see Samuel L Jackson jive talk his way into fucking childhood friends and cutting people in half in order to execute Justice (Ron Perlman)
This anime started out as an idea by an average guy who loved Hip-hop and oldschool.
As a Japanese, he also liked Bishido and other warrior like things of his heritage.
So this guy (The creator) would scribble shit in his note books, eventually leading to what we would know as Afro Samurai. One day the soon to be director of Afro or producer or some shit i forgot (not the creator) is given offers on what his next project could be. After sighing at the moe kawaii stuff at Gonzo, he finds a photo of Afro Samurai and is suddenly super interested and takes that up as the next project.
Out of freaking nowhere, Samuel L Jackson happens to be looking a Afro Samurai demo that was made from the said Gonzo project. "I WANT TO BE HIM!" And holy shit, they got him.
So in this story we have a seemingly very african looking child watching his dad (best warrior in the world) get slaughtered by his Cowboyish best friend. (Ron Perlman/Hell Boy) (Who was the second best warrior in the world).
Just as we see in Kill Bill, the Cowboy dude tells the young 'Afro', "If this gets to ya, you can see me about it in the future". But unlike Kill Bill, the skin colors are reversed.
So this whole story is about revenge. The creator wanted something very tradidtional, and holy shit, it sure was.
The plot power involved headbands. Each headband had a number. 1,2,3,4,5 etc.
The number you had was your rank. Through out this whole series Afro had #2.
And ONLY the person with the #2 head band is able to fight the ass with the #1 headband.
Pretty simple right?
As the series progresses, we see shit ton of guys attacking Afro for the headband. We even get a cult of monks hire people to kill Afro and even make cyborgs just to get this fucking #2 head band.
And thats pretty much the whole story. #2 wants revenge from #1.
Theres some other interesting twists like how some of Afro's enemies are fucked up versions of his friends from childhood. Afro even also managed to fuck a super hot older version of his best friend's sister (That you get to see on the DVD ;] ).
The first time watching this series i was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME.
The second time wasn't as entertaining.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, science fiction
Themes: Samurai
Age rating: Mature (May IT DOES contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Other shit;
Production cost: ¥119,580,000 ( $1,000,000)
This is one of those animes that are aired to America first.
Side notes; Afro loved the shit out of Lemonade.
I'm guessing this was the closest thing he had to Kool-aid
VERDICT
Art A
Animation B-
Story D (This is what makes it a 1 time watch)
Characters C
Acting B-
Music B
Laughs N/A
Action A-
Drama C
Execution B-/C+ (Smooth telling of the story in the exact amount of episodes needed, no fillers, fitting animation)
6.0
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