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Afro Samurai [ 1 ]
rekon59
rekon59
New Fang
#1   Posted 3 years ago
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Anybody catch this last night on Spike? It's a manga adapted into a short series. Samuel L. Jackson does the voice of Afro, a man who watched his father be killed as a child by Justice(voiced by Ron Perlman). The story goes that there are two headbands in the world, representing Number One, and Number Two. If you're number One, you are a god, and noone can touch you......except Number Two. Afro's father was Number One, but Justice killed him and took the title for himself. Afro took the Number Two headband as he began his quest for revenge. But while Number Two is the only one who can go after Number One, anybody can go after Number Two. So the show focuses on Afro's quest to find the man who killed his father, while battling all those who want to try and become a god themselves. The premiere episode was really well done.
Marz
Marz
#2   Posted 3 years ago
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Damn, I missed it. Well, I guess I'll try to catch an encore. But from what I've saw so far, it looked pretty badass.
LeCompte19
LeCompte19
#3   Posted 3 years ago
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i had to TiVo it, and i must say it was pretty good.

only things were, i had seen the two major scenes on the web before the show started, and it was kinda short. less than 20 mins.

other than that, the show is pretty good. nice art work and pretty easy story to follow.
JEDICAB
JEDICAB
#4   Posted 3 years ago
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it was great i missed a few min of the opening but i would consider it a worthy 21 century sucessor to Ninja Scroll.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIcrmGsnt6M

heres the episode
Mister_Fiend
Mister_Fiend
Evil
#5   Posted 3 years ago
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It kinda looks like Aaron MacGruder wanted to make a action show with a Samurai Champloo inspiration.

Not that I'm complaining, I thought It was pretty badass.
googleme2day
googleme2day
#6   Posted 3 years ago
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I thought it would be silly. Stupidity really, but from what i hear, it sounds like a good one.

I'll watch it to see it for myself.
mr_murisaki
mr_murisaki
#7   Posted 3 years ago
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Being from the UK, I won't be able to see this until the DVD's are released. But from what I've seen (from trailers and such), it looks pretty fun.
LeCompte19
LeCompte19
#8   Posted 3 years ago
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Was there an episode on last night? I might have set the TiVo to record it, but I totally don't remember. I will have to check that as soon as I am done with my graphic design project.
LeCompte19
LeCompte19
#9   Posted 3 years ago
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Yup, it was there. I totally forgot that I set it to record last week. I did the same thing for next week, but I set a reminder.

As for this weeks show...
I liked how it went into the background of his life. I enjoyed seeing his training and fighting as a kid. I hope to see more of this in next weeks episode so we can learn how he got the Number Two Headband back.

Can't wait.

Someone said that this was first a comic book, anyone know where I could find them?
crazey_freak
crazey_freak
#10   Posted 3 years ago
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yeah!!!! this show is so good but its kinda sux how its only a mini series.I liked that part in the first episode where he split the bullet and it hit the guys behind him lol i thought that was awsome !!!
BlackMonsta
BlackMonsta
Rollout
#11   Posted 3 years ago
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In reply to crazey_freak, #10:

The manga is a lot longer the show creators say the show is only a 2% snippet of the actual timeline
LeCompte19
LeCompte19
#12   Posted 3 years ago
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I only saw the first two episodes, then TiVo stopped recording them on me. I will have to YouTube them.
crazey_freak
crazey_freak
#13   Posted 3 years ago
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In reply to LeCompte19, #12:

youtube removed them all cuz i tryed to watch ep 3 and it was removed but they do have the last episode at spike tv.com so yeah check it out :P
Soki03
Soki03
#14   Posted 2 years ago
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ya it sure was badass.
Gaarachan
Gaarachan
#15   Posted 2 years ago
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The show is pretty good.

I like the style of the anime. It makes you wonder how different american made animes and japanese animes.

But still I ike Afro Samurai. It is on my top 20 list of a time favorite animes as ranked 6th.
LeCompte19
LeCompte19
#16   Posted 2 years ago
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American anime? I have never heard of such a thing.
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