"Afro Samurai: Resurrection" - Talkback [1/25] (Spoilers)

Hmm, well I liked this sequel more than the first season. It was still a bit predictable, but they managed to throw in some surprise twists here and there.
 
I feel like that the kid might be the next Afro Samurai just in case our main man gets killed next season/movie. If he doesn't become the next avengeful samurai, then it's cool. At least the kid should try to move on with his life rather than have his mind full of darkness and revenge.
 
The ending was too abrupt. Jinno died so that Afro could conveniently get shocked back to the living. And then bam, it's over. I would have taken one or two fewer scenes of the lady monolouging about suffering and revenge in exchange for a better climax. As a pure action movie it does the job (better than, say, Highlander: Search For Vengeance), but while I've seen worse I think I've seen better.

Also, is there a reason I should root for Afro anymore? I'd be just fine with revenge-tot eventually offing him at this point. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the movie seemed basically interested in letting us know that he's no better than Justice. Everything the villain was saying about him seemed to basically be the truth.
 
That was two hours of everything Americans want in their anime. Blood, violence, sexual content, action up the ying yang.

Oh, and Samuel L. Jackson.

People running anime blocks would do well to get stuff looking like Afro as opposed to the Moribitos of the medium.
 
Yeah, that's my main problem with Afro Samurai. If I don't sympathize at all with the protagonist, it's hard for me to care about their story. Some of the other characters are interesting, like Jinno, but I honestly don't care for Afro one bit.
 
well, Revenge-Tot is officially an orphan, his guardian is dead, and the only guy that knows him is the Bartender / House guy (forgot what you call those types of people). he could go back to him, which would end the "I want Revenge" thing.

if there is going to be another part, i am sure Justice will corrupt him somehow.


@GWOtaku
that was pretty much said in the first series.
if you're going to be the Nuraber One, you're gonna do some bloody things.

@Beat
i don't know if that was meant as sarcasm, but i have seen anime with blood, violence, sexual content, and action. and found them boring or badly done.

why use this series to judge by nationality?
 
I smell a squeal. The ending was bit confusing though, I'm going to have to re-watch the movie when I get the chance.

Random thoughts:
- Man, I really didn't like Lucy Lui voice over for Sio. I understand she was one of the big celebrity names they needed to ring in non-anime viewers but...Yeesh..."I have twisted the most twisted man with my twistedness." (Maybe I should just blame the writers)

- Afro basically cursed that kid by giving him the Nuraber Two head band. I didn't think that Afro would want anyone to go through the same thing he went through as a kid, but the I guess he deserved vengeance as well.

- Really love the music for some parts more than others. Only one song really stuck in my head. But overall The RZA did great job as usual.

- To sum up Afro Samurai: Resurrection, it was a nice entertaining blood fest. I didn't expect any less and neither did I expect something more. I can see the direction they were trying to go for since the mini series aired last year. But it will always remain as one my "guilty pleasure animes" like Ninja Scroll/Resurrection and dead leaves.
 
yeah what's funny is most hardcore anime fans hate Afro Samurai... but next Tuesday, it's gonna sell like crazy.

i thought it was okay for the most part. it could've used a bit more action, and Lucy Liu's long-winded speeches got annoying fast. also the final battle was very anticlimactic.
 
^_^ glad i am not a hardcore anime fan
foooo

so now i have to way another year for a part 3?


to "interesting characters"
i got the same impression watching Elfin Lied. i never felt sorry for Lucy/Nyuu.
i just found the story and characters interesting.
 
I'm sure it'll be longer in the director's cut for.

In a lot of ways, Afro knows what's coming.
He's selfish.
He know's by the end of the movie he's no better than Justice, except he has a better reason for doing what he does.
But he'll die for it.
 
Maybe we're not supposed too. He only seeks vengeance and he has excepted his fate of a life of loneliness and blood. It's hard to sympathize with a demon with no heart. The writers gave us no reason to sympathize with Afro other than "my dad died" incident and they never really rubbed it in our faces.

EDIT:

Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
I don't know, I don't hate it, but it just doesn't grab me. I was pretty well entertained while watching but the plot doesn't satisfy me for the reasons I've explained. I suppose I should see Afro as a tragic figure and leave it at that, but then you also have how he deals with the kid. Even if Afro's just a killing machine you'd think he'd have some kind of human reaction considering how he gets when it comes to his father, but no. I guess either Afro is supposed to be too much of a cold badass for that, or they just couldn't let that kind of thing get in the way of leaving an obvious door open for more sequels.

I mean, I've seen the Street Fighter II movie several times and very likely will again, whereas I don't feel compelled to buy the DVD for this. Obviously, a lot of people have and will because of the celebrity names and the uncensored action. I'm just looking for something more usually, and the SF II movie didn't have action heroes that I want dead.

I should say, however, that it beats the everliving hell out of Ninja Scroll. I can think of a lot of movies that I enjoyed better than Ninja scroll, whereas this at least had very impressive action going for it in addition to Ninja Ninja's constant antics.
 
or maybe they will buy it because they like it.

if those are your reasons, i don't see them being factual. they are more opinionated to me.
 
I think it's both really. xD
Personally this had a better story then Afro1, and I kept thinking, "Hey just wound the kid's father, and take the headband" but no.

But you gotta remeraber the vision of his father, it was more or less his resolve of knowing he's NOT COMPLETELY like Justice, but as long he wears the Nuraber One Band, the blooRABhed and sorrow will never end; I honestly think.. Afro wants Revenge-Tot to kill him.
 
Well, of course. Those are reasons for liking it. I didn't say there was anything wrong with that.



Now that could be. Perhaps they'll flesh that out for next time--we all know there will be a next time. I would watch another sequel.
 
Afro is rather selfish by nature, and has shown time and time again that he often puts his own narrow-minded desires above the lives of innocent people. He knows it as well, since Ninja-Ninja more or less calls him out on that rather constantly.

I don't think Afro is written to be particularly likable, but he's not a complete monster either. That's in spite of his attempts to repress his humanity. Maybe he will find redemption at some point, or maybe he won't. The point is it keeps the narrative going in the meantime, which is why this series rises above standard schlock-filled action anime.
 
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