Over at San Diago Comic Cons 2008, FUNimation has announced to the world that there will be a squeal to American and Japanese conjuncture Afro Samurai. Samuel L. Jackson will be providing his voice for both Afro and Ninja Ninja once again; but that’s not all, Lucy Liu and Mark Hamill will also star in this anime as well.
According to Jackson, this sequel is “buck wild!”, or at least more buck wild than the original show; because the original was pretty damn buck wild in itself, so this one has to be on another level of buck wild that the world has never seen before. All we know about the story so far is about an unknown group who constructs an army of zombies, which enlists Afro’s father as one of hits members.
Let’s hope that this show will not be like Resident Evil: Resurrection, or Ninja Resurrection, or any of the other bad resurrections out there. If the anime is anything like this trailer than we shouldn’t be worried about this resurrection curse, because it’s going to rock. This will be released on Spike TV sometime in January 2009.
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Another "Meh" here. The first was pretty lame...and considering how big the budget was, the animation quality was pretty mediocre as well. And Samuel L. Jackson added nothing to it. Anyone could have played Afro and it would've been the same.
I'll watch this anyway, because I loved that Teddy Bear guy!! (He has a Teddy Bear head, for crying out loud!!)
Another "Meh" here. The first was pretty lame...and considering how big the budget was, the animation quality was pretty mediocre as well. And Samuel L. Jackson added nothing to it. Anyone could have played Afro and it would've been the same.
I'll watch this anyway, because I loved that Teddy Bear guy!! (He has a Teddy Bear head, for crying out loud!!)
I'll watch it for Mark Hamill alone. The man is seriously one of the greatest American voice acting talents today. :D
Without looking at budget figures, I thought the first one was a fairly stupid but entertainingly dumb romp of violence. Here's an anime that's actually geared towards a western audience, and I'm glad to see it succeed well enough to get a sequel.
You people have no taste. The first one was magnificently limbs-'asplodey, which was about all I was hoping for. And it was pretty! I hope for more of the same here.
'Action packed cutting edge hi-tech samurai technology'. That's how I felt the first one was. I want the second one to be more action packed more cutting edge and more bloody violent.
I want it to be so bloody violent that the viewers can't continue watching because they are busy vomiting blood all over their keyboards and monitors.
The first one was mindblowingly awesome with as little story as possible. That's how I like my anime. either give me a good story or start cutting open hundreds of warriors that bleed unbelievable amounts of buckets of blood and I will be happy. either that or STFU>FO!!
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