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When I first heard of Afro Samurai I was happy and I expected good things from it, its not every day that an anime has an African American as the main character. Alas, I was severely disappointed with this. This a a pretty bad anime, probably the worse Samurai based anime I have ever seen. Afro samurai has little to no story at all. A young Afro accompanies his father too a fight, his father loses, I need revenge, then ensue the massacre of petty much everyone on screen. This is just a simple revenge story, there is absolutely nothing else in ... the big picture, he feels no remorse for slaughtering any and everyone that crosses his path. Some of you may be thinking, wow that guys a pretty cool bad ass right? Wrong. Hes not a bad ass. Hes just a guy that walks around with a sword killing people and smoking a cigarette. He mumbles about 10 words throughout each episode, most of the time it being 'shut up'.

Story:Don't watch this if you're looking for a story, you will be severely disappointed when you try to scape up whats considered the story of this anime. At around the middle part of the second episode I figured out that this anime had no intention of having a compelling story, its just a hack and slash show.

Art: Besides the sound the art is probably the only thing thats good about this show. It properly shows everything its supposed to show from the great detail of each characters face to chopped limbs, blood, and weaponry. Due to the artwork you can properly understand each scene and experience fights the way they were meant to be.

Sound: RZA did a great job with the sound on this one. Everything sounds like it should and the music fits. Like I said before, the sound and art are the only good things about this anime.

Character: ....How can I explain the characters without expressing too much hate? I really can't but I'll give it a try anyway, Afro, the main character of this anime is a merciless swordsmen that kills everything in his path only stopping to drink lemonade and smoke a cigarette on his path to get revenge, pretty straight forward. The problem is thats exactly all he does. There were numerous scenes where someone was talking to him and he just simply didn't say anything at all. Theres pretty much no dialog at all between him and anyone besides Ninja,Ninja another character. At one point I thought he was mute until he mumbled his trademark 'shut up'. Why is this trademark you ask? its trademark because he muttered it more than once, unlike any other word or phrase that he never said even once.

Ninja, ninja is a character that follows Afro around to annoy him I assume. Every other line from him is proclaiming Afros death in the upcoming battle. Hes a pretty straightforward character also. There is nothing more to him. Hes basically a thorn in Afros side that has the magic ability to get Afro to talk. You might spend time wondering what exactly he is though. I thought he was a ghost but he picks up stuff so i don't know what exactly is going on with that.

Enjoyment: I would enjoy this anime if I was a little younger back when I loved watching hack and slash. The fights themselves are enjoyable because of the bizarre enemies he has to face.

Overall: A pretty lame forgettable anime.