hoggersying

Sorry, this is more of a rant than a review.

A lot of people love this anime and swear by it. In fact, as a huge fan of samurai/swordfighting, I'd have thought that I would have loved it too.

But as much as I like (a) samurai; (b) swords; (c) bloody action scenes; (d) great animation sequences; and (e) Samuel L. Jackson, I must say that Afro Samurai was, well, absolute drivel. Nonsensical storyline. "Characters" who I would barely even call characters. Gratuitous gore and a random tasteless boobular sex scene that might as well be anime porn. Lame-o boring "plot," if you can call it that.

I've already seen the whole anachronistic shtick. Cell phones and RPGs and guns and people swinging Japanese swords to rap music. Yeah, yeah, yawn. Samurai Champloo did it, and did it much better.

Sure, this series had action, and I love me some action. (The bloodier the better!) But quite frankly,with no emotional heft--no investment whatsoever in the "characters," not a care in the world for the storyline--even the fluid action scenes got boring after a while. They got overly stylized and overly unrealistic. Kind of like a Steven Seagal movie--you know the protagonist is never even going to get a scratch.

Well, I have nothing more to say about Afro Samurai other than . . . thank god it's over, and I won't be watching Resurrection or whatnot.