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I just watched this (5 20+ minute episodes in all) last night. Wow. Starring Samuel L Jackson as Afro Samurai as well as his subconscious/imaginary friend/whatever. Scored by RZA. Incredible animation, some incredible blood-spurting battles, etc etc. Anyone else seen this?

I hope they make more episodes, one day.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

No relation to afro ninja?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

haha, no, but thanks for giving me a reason to google "afro ninja", that was fun.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hoping it will eventually get a DVD release in a version un-edited for tv (there was still plenty of cussing, but it had commercial breaks, "previously on..." parts, title screens, etc), because it played out like a feature-length film, only chopped up.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

(I am just now researching some of this stuff for myself):

Animation was by Studio Gonzo, some stuff I've seen (Transformers: Cybertron, Chrono Crusade), but nothing of their's I've ever seen looked anywhere near this good (a bit Aeon Flux meets the O'ren Ishii part of Kill Bill).

I loved the Empty Seven Clan baddies or whatever they were called.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, fuck you, rogue apostrophe.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm disappointed and kind of surprised that no other ilxors know this show...there were 25,000+ seeders!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I know it but I haven't seen it yet

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've looked at the soundtrack, but I haven't bought it.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I really really wanted to like it, but after I sat through a couple eps it didn't really grab me so I gave up. Is it better in one sitting?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

there was something about it on tv in the uk last night. apparently Sam L is hoping for a big budget live action movie remake in the near future.

― stevie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know when/where this is/was being broadcast.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

that image looks like something out of cowboy bebop

― sleep, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

The animation is very Cowboy Bebop/Samurai Champloo-esque, impossibly curvy women, blood spurting like fountains, proportions everywhere just fucked, etc.

I think it aired on Spike TV, not sure about reruns though.

There is no way this will translate as well into live-action. It had a kind-of moving-painting quality to it that would be ruined w/ live action. Any excuse for more RZA score though I am okay with.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, this looks cool

good news from wikipedia:

The series has also been licensed for North American distribution by Funimation, whose DVD release is planned for May 22, 2007

― sleep, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

This is now on my shopping list OF TEH FUTURE

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

nickalish, where are you torrenting from? Cause the one I got of the first ep is of pretty shitty quality...

― Roz, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

25,000 + seeders where?

― Jena, Monday, 2 April 2007 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dccomics.com/media/products/7396_a_full.jpg

― M.V., Monday, 2 April 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

You know my roommate did the torrenting, I think he might have been exaggerating on the 25k+ seeders, still, we got all episodes in one go, and I've personally only been able to find them as standalones. I'll ask him when I get home.

― nickalicious, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

so ... what do folks here think of Resurrection?

― Richardson Richardson (Eisbaer), Sunday, 26 April 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

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