Its great to see
Anime News Service is back with more news
(though I just noticed >.< )
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Anime News Service:
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Afro Samurai American Debut
GDH K.K. has announced that AFRO SAMURAI, the animated series produced by its main production subsidiary GONZO K.K. (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Managing Director: Koji Kajita, hereafter GONZO) will premiere in the US on male skewing cable network SPIKE starting January 4th, 2007.
Based on Takashi Okazaki's comic, AFRO SAMURAI is a five episode animated series in which the protagonist - Afro Samurai - sets out on a journey to avenge his father against a unique backdrop of mixture of samurai culture and soul culture.. The series stars and is also co-produced by Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of the hero. Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Kelly Hu (X2: X-MEN UNITED) also participate as voice actors. The soundtrack of the series is composed by the revolutionary hip-hop artist The RZA, adding another outstanding creative talent to provide a whole new experience never seen in the animation history. The series will be aired in Japan in 2007 after US broadcast. The animated TV series will initially be aired in the US and will then be aired in Japan with the original English voices and Japanese subtitles. Original concept by Takashi Okazaki. For more information, visit www.afrosamurai.com.
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Ok I didn't know that AFRO SAMURAI was based on a manga >.<
From the
wiki:
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Afro Samurai is a Japanese dōjinshi manga series, created by Takashi Okazaki, originally featured in the Nononhow dōjin magazine, which has adapted into an 5-episode anime television series, produced by Japanese animation studio GONZO, and set to air in January 4 2007.
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And about the the doujin magazine (Nononhow), from
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Nononhow, a self-financed magazine put together in 1998 by Okazaki and his friends during their time at art school of which fewer than 100 copies were published.
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