Are we allowed to talk about this here? I just watched the director's cut and this is some of the best shit I've ever seen. I loved it as a kid but I never would have dreamed it held up this well, which makes it all the more painful that this show was left to rot and die on Spike of all fucking networks.
Let's get a muthafuckin Afro Samurai thread going man
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the game sucked besides its ost and 2 was meh compared to the first one
Wish jinno was the protag in 2 killing his way to get all of the headbands, instead of Afro doing a no more heroes
I love the cyberpunk set in old ass Japan aesthetic its got going on too, wish more shows in general did that sort of thing
Ya resurrection was a lot of wasted potential
I don't think cyberpunk describes the setting properly, it has so much mixed into it. That said it's fucking slick as hell and I'm glad it's appreciated
The pilot is one of the greatest things I've ever seen youtube.com
I don't see why not, the nime is literally made in America and I'm pretty sure Zig Forums would throw a bitch fit about this
How can one describe the setting of afro samurai? It seems to be like a... technologically advanced medieval setting.
Wasn't it animated by hondo? A Japanese studio?
It's feudal cyberpunk. Quasi-futuristic tech combined with villages and swords.
I fucking wish they would've shown Kuma earning all the other headbands
they need to do a sequel series about that
I wish they'd continue it in any capacity, but Resurrection was ten years ago. I have a feeling Afro Samurai is done for. Maybe they couldn't get Sam Jackson back.
he produced the thing, it's not like he was just a rando casting call
besides, youtube.com
Him liking anime (and hentai) doesn't mean he's still interested in the property. Also, it's almost certainly owned by another company; Sam Jackson can express interest, but if they don't want to greenlight a sequel, it'll never manifest.
Yeah, I didn't care for the sequel in general, but I thought what they did with Jinno was especially lame. The first one ended on the cool final shot of him getting to be this sort of tragic eternal rival. Like a warped reminder of Afro's past mistakes that would never go away. But just making him into a silent thug that helped recycle the plot of the first movie for the sake of his previously unseen sister to get revenge felt like a pretty lazy way to go about it.
Is it schmaltzy that I thought that at the end of Resurrection that Afro was going to give the kid that he orphaned the Number 1 headband while he would continue to carry the burden of the Number 2 as penitence for all the blatantly terrible things he did?
I don't know. The pointless cycle of vengeance is the obvious theme of the movie, but I couldn't help but be disappointed that anything that Afro might have learned from it all was ignored for him just to do exactly what Justice did to him as a kid so he could go sit alone on top of a mountain in the end.
I fucking love that show. Sio is best girl, by the way.
IT'S A FUCKING ANIME YOU IDIOT
Japanese creator
Japanese animation studio
Japanese writers and directors
You should read the manga, it ends with that kid as a young man challenging Afro again who is now a near catatonic old man living for nothing and wishing for death, the kid attacks him but Afros self defense reflexes kick and he kills him with one strike
That doesn't sound very catatonic
>Director cut
What's the difference between it and the tv cut?
reading off the box:
unedited dialogue and picture
15 minutes of extended footage
extended ending
and original art from Takashi Okazaki
Nah, I've seen threads for this show on Zig Forums many times and it went fine, albeit with not much posts since it's a pretty old show at this point.
>train for years to avenge your father
>can't even defeat the murderer when he's a suicidal old man on his death bed
Bummer.
I heard about that, kinda defeats the purpose.
Yeah, it's less of a tragic cycle of violence at that point and more of a slow-ass murder spree.
Afro Samurai is in that weird area where Zig Forums and Zig Forums could claim equal ownership, like Big O or Robotech. It's ultimately up to the mods if they'd allow it or be petty.
Commencing box art dump
Fucking samsung
The ending where Kuma comes back to the Mountain with all the other headbands wrapped around his body is hype as fuck. Either the guy who rebuilt him or Jino himself made sure that no one can ever challenge Afro again, except Kuma.
