Afro Samurai
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Well, there are just five episodes, but this is also going to become a live-action movie, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who also provides the voice of the title character in the anime, as well as his travelling companion, Ninja Ninja. It's set in a world that has elements of both Feudal Japan and the future. There are also these two ancient headbands, Number One and Number Two. Whoever wears the number one headband rules the world, and whoever wears number two is the only person who can challenge number one to a fight. When Afro was a young boy, he watched his father fight, and get killed by, some guy called Justice. So now Justice wears the number one headband, and the story skips forward to Afro as an adult, now wearing the number two headband, and searching for Justice, to kill him, thus avenging his father's death. Along the way, he'll have to fight lots of people, of course, including members of a cult called the "Empty Seven." Afro is followed around by an annoying guy called Ninja Ninja, who's kind of like a fan of Afro's, I guess. Though I had some suspicions about his true nature, and I think I was right, but it wasn't exactly clear to me. There are also lots of flashbacks to when Afro was a kid, and some friends he stayed with and studied swordfighting with. They'll resurface in the present....

Not sure what else to say. The show's okay, but I didn't like it quite as much as I'd hoped I would. Not sure if I'll bother buying the DVD, but I might.