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Wicked awesome animated series. As the title suggests, it stars a Samurai with an afro (and seemingly has no name beyond being referred to by this distinguishing characteristic). Ain't set in a normal Japan though. Some strange one where old and new mix. Some character have used flintlock rifles, others are pulling out revolvers, RPGs and crossbow-grenade launcher combos. And, of course, your large variety of normal melee weapons.

The story is pretty interesting (and dark) thus far and the action is awesome. It's fluid, kinetic and rather gory (which is why there's 'age verification' in the official web page). It's visually stunning. And Samuel L. Jackson voices the main character and his somewhat useless sidekick.

The only downside I think, is that it's only going to last five episodes.

Also Trailer and the for anyone who dosn't wanna go through a flash site to get a sample of what it's like.

It's on SpikeTV from what I hear, Thursdays at 11 PM. I've only seen the episodes via the internet, though. Ep. 2 is on SpikeTV.com though I can't remember the URL of where the first episode was.

So, anyone else seen it? Anyone not seen it but want to see it? Opinions, thoughts, etc?

I'm still waiting for the samurai fad to end before getting back into anime, but that's just me. From what I've seen of Afro Samurai, it is very good looking. The subject matter and characters kind of bugs me though. There are many people that could take offense to the stereotypes they used. Overall the show seems a little "over the top".

Ordinarily, seeing as I have somewhat of an afro myself and all, I'd have said "Afro samurai? HELL YEAH!!!"

But seeing the website, well. . . It looks a lot like Adult Swim's version of The Boondocks. . . Which sucked.

So anyway, I'm kinda' split down the middle on this one. Those of you that have the channel it's own, lemme' know what you think.

Kaebora wrote:I'm still waiting for the samurai fad to end before getting back into anime, but that's just me. From what I've seen of Afro Samurai, it is very good looking. The subject matter and characters kind of bugs me though. There are many people that could take offense to the stereotypes they used. Overall the show seems a little "over the top".

Over the top!? its SLJ of couse it's over the top

Kaebora wrote:I'm still waiting for the samurai fad to end before getting back into anime, but that's just me.

Umm. . . Samurai are Japanese, and anime is Japanese. In other words, the samurai "fad" in anime is never going to die.

When I was just a cub, there was Samurai Pizza Cats. Fast forward seventeen years and it's Samurai Champloo on Adult Swim. Expecting anime to never again have samurai is like expecting American action flicks to never again have guns.

Kaebora wrote:I'm still waiting for the samurai fad to end before getting back into anime...

...and what exactly would you like to see instead? Swordplay is awesome!

Wanting to see a world of anime without samuri is like wanting to see a James Bond film where nothing blows up, and no one is trying to take over the world.

...why are you interested in it at all?...


On the other hand...in your defense, as much as I like the visual style to this, the battle and the bad guy definitely have a "been there, done that...haven't I seen him in a different anime?..." feel to it.


Even so...I can't imagine ever growing tired of seeing swordplay and combat in anime...they just do it so well.

Fang wrote:

Kaebora wrote:I'm still waiting for the samurai fad to end before getting back into anime, but that's just me. From what I've seen of Afro Samurai, it is very good looking. The subject matter and characters kind of bugs me though. There are many people that could take offense to the stereotypes they used. Overall the show seems a little "over the top".

Over the top!? its SLJ of couse it's over the top

Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with over the top action.

Also: anyone offended by the show should like, grow some tougher skin or something. OMFG, black guy with a afro and he's a samurai, say it ain't so!

Well, it seems that lately most of the popular anime shows made in year the 2000 onward are samurai related. They community hypes these shows so much that they get crispy from all the attention. I then dub them as, overrated. Some shows deserve the attention, but others, not one bit. I won't be specific right now, but I must say that I miss some of the lesser visited anime genres. The Space Opera animes kind of died after 1999. Since then its been samurai fever. We need a few more good sci-fi shows like Outlaw Star and Pilot Candidate.

Oh well, back to the original subject that I was so rude to butcher. My bad.