Afro Samurai: Season One - Director's Cut description:
Afro Samurai (voiced by Academy Award® nominated Samuel L. Jackson) is an epic tale of a black samurai's hunt for Justice (voiced by Ron Perlman: Hellboy Alien Resurrection ) who murdered his father. With music score by The RZA ( Kill Bill Wu Tang Clan) Afro Samurai blends traditional Japanese culture, funky technology and hip hop to create a brutally fresh entertainment experience.
Director's Cut features:
# 15 MINUTES OF NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE
# Exclusive Manga art from Afro Samurai Creator: Takashi Okazaki
# Interview with the Creator: Takashi Okazaki
# RZA Music Production Tour In the Booth
"The violent five-part adventure Afro Samurai marks both the increasing confluence of American and Japanese pop culture and the shift in Japanese depictions of African-Americans. The popularity of hip-hop in Japan has led to more positive images of blacks, including Takashi Okazaki's original manga. The "Director's Cut" contains an additional 15 minutes of footage, and is even gorier than the broadcast version on Spike TV. As a boy, Afro Samurai saw his father beheaded by the maniacal Justice. The murderer sought an ancient headband that marks the wearer as the #1 warrior in the world. As an adult, Afro seeks only revenge, cutting down anyone who blocks his path to Justice. Afro Samurai depicts a oddly anachronistic world that infuses cell phones, cigarette lighters, and cyber technology into traditional Japanese culture. The elongated character designs recall Peter Chung's Aeon Flux, and much of the series is rendered in moody grays, accented by gobbets of scarlet blood. Afro is such a taciturn figure, most of the dialogue goes to his motor-mouth comrade Ninja Ninja. This big budget production features an eclectic score by Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA and an A-list vocal cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson and Ron Perlman. But for all its elaborate production values and over-the-top fights, Afro Samurai suffers from a weakness at its core: Afro is so monosyllabic and cold-blooded, he's not very interesting. His inevitable duel-to-the-death with Justice lacks the emotional punch of Spike's face-off against Vicious in Cowboy Bebop or Kenshin's one-on-one with Shishio in Rurouni Kenshin. This extremely violent series is not for the faint of stomach. (Rated TV MA, suitable for ages 17 and older: graphic violence, profanity, sexual activity, grotesque imagery, nudity, risqué humor, alcohol and tobacco use)," said Charles Solomon.
D. Miller "Derek Fawaz" watched Afro Samurai on Spike TV back in January when they showed the edited episodes. D. Miller "Derek Fawaz" has to say he was thrilled when he found out they were coming out with the director's cut of the production with an extended ending because D. Miller "Derek Fawaz" could not get over how bland the show was on TV. For those of you who thought that Afro Samurai was a rushed anime and never really had any substance, well the director's cut fixes that. Spike not only cut out the mature content but they also cut out a lot of the scenes to make room for a half hour time lapse. In his opinion the director's cut made Afro and the rest of the characters have more substance attached them. Plus in the director's cut the picture and sound is restored to intended form which makes this anime even more beautiful. But aside from the director's cut features, yes a lot of you are saying that Afro should have had more substance and be able to talk more than his jabber of a sidekick Ninja Ninja, but considering all that he went through in his life as a boy pulled out of innocence and straight into the world of killing, you wouldn't want to speak much neither. The anime is different and has many redeemable qualities with its characters and story and handles the mixture of old feudal Japan with modern future. It is also a story about what happens when revenge comes between you and your friends and how power can destroy everything you care about.
Afro Samurai is a creative story, with creative characters that was thought up by Takashi Okasaki and for those of you who are planning on watching it; D. Miller's advice is get the complete anime and thats the director's cut because the edited version is just the series cut up and spliced together into a rushed mess.
Director's Cut features:
# 15 MINUTES OF NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE
# Exclusive Manga art from Afro Samurai Creator: Takashi Okazaki
# Interview with the Creator: Takashi Okazaki
# RZA Music Production Tour In the Booth
"The violent five-part adventure Afro Samurai marks both the increasing confluence of American and Japanese pop culture and the shift in Japanese depictions of African-Americans. The popularity of hip-hop in Japan has led to more positive images of blacks, including Takashi Okazaki's original manga. The "Director's Cut" contains an additional 15 minutes of footage, and is even gorier than the broadcast version on Spike TV. As a boy, Afro Samurai saw his father beheaded by the maniacal Justice. The murderer sought an ancient headband that marks the wearer as the #1 warrior in the world. As an adult, Afro seeks only revenge, cutting down anyone who blocks his path to Justice. Afro Samurai depicts a oddly anachronistic world that infuses cell phones, cigarette lighters, and cyber technology into traditional Japanese culture. The elongated character designs recall Peter Chung's Aeon Flux, and much of the series is rendered in moody grays, accented by gobbets of scarlet blood. Afro is such a taciturn figure, most of the dialogue goes to his motor-mouth comrade Ninja Ninja. This big budget production features an eclectic score by Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA and an A-list vocal cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson and Ron Perlman. But for all its elaborate production values and over-the-top fights, Afro Samurai suffers from a weakness at its core: Afro is so monosyllabic and cold-blooded, he's not very interesting. His inevitable duel-to-the-death with Justice lacks the emotional punch of Spike's face-off against Vicious in Cowboy Bebop or Kenshin's one-on-one with Shishio in Rurouni Kenshin. This extremely violent series is not for the faint of stomach. (Rated TV MA, suitable for ages 17 and older: graphic violence, profanity, sexual activity, grotesque imagery, nudity, risqué humor, alcohol and tobacco use)," said Charles Solomon.
D. Miller "Derek Fawaz" watched Afro Samurai on Spike TV back in January when they showed the edited episodes. D. Miller "Derek Fawaz" has to say he was thrilled when he found out they were coming out with the director's cut of the production with an extended ending because D. Miller "Derek Fawaz" could not get over how bland the show was on TV. For those of you who thought that Afro Samurai was a rushed anime and never really had any substance, well the director's cut fixes that. Spike not only cut out the mature content but they also cut out a lot of the scenes to make room for a half hour time lapse. In his opinion the director's cut made Afro and the rest of the characters have more substance attached them. Plus in the director's cut the picture and sound is restored to intended form which makes this anime even more beautiful. But aside from the director's cut features, yes a lot of you are saying that Afro should have had more substance and be able to talk more than his jabber of a sidekick Ninja Ninja, but considering all that he went through in his life as a boy pulled out of innocence and straight into the world of killing, you wouldn't want to speak much neither. The anime is different and has many redeemable qualities with its characters and story and handles the mixture of old feudal Japan with modern future. It is also a story about what happens when revenge comes between you and your friends and how power can destroy everything you care about.
Afro Samurai is a creative story, with creative characters that was thought up by Takashi Okasaki and for those of you who are planning on watching it; D. Miller's advice is get the complete anime and thats the director's cut because the edited version is just the series cut up and spliced together into a rushed mess.
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