“Before the title was even scheduled to broadcast, there was a minimum of three minutes per episodes that was known to never make broadcast… The DVDs started and were conceptualized with an extra 15 minutes that would only be seen on DVD. Through the editing process, we decided what was going to be for the [...]
Newsarama’s animation correspondent Steve Fritz talks to Gonzo Studios VP Eric Calderon about Afro Samurai. It’s the second interview in the column.
Plus: Another Hyperion vs. Nighthawk article.
Afro-Samurai: The Director’s Cut
Distributed by FUNimation
125 minutes (5 episodes)
Samuel L. Jackson plays a quiet, brooding, and murderously formidable ronin with an afro, engaging in ridiculously well-animated samurai combat with a variety of cutthroats, assassins, ninjas, robots, and warriors with an assortment of melee weaponry and really big guns. That is, no doubt, a high level [...]
