Hair raising fun

A good little animation bringing together Japanese animé and hip-hop music.

Fantastic stylised graphics and soundtrack by RZA accompany a bloodthirsty tale of revenge as a young boy is orphaned, vowing revenge for his assassinated father. He grows up nurturing an afro of immense proportions, wielding a samurai sword longer than you and a bad-ass attitude to match.
Driven by the single vision of becoming the number one samurai and literally cutting down all who stand in his way.
It was lots of fun with original death sequences stacking up along the way.

Unlike some of the other animé stories I have seen it managed to remain comprehensible throughout and followed a logical sequence of events.

The only let down for me was regrettably the character of Samuel L. J. as Afro samurai's companion, he tagged along in a manner very reminiscent of that of Donkey in Shrek, and became a slight annoyance with his repetitive nature of dialogue. 'Nah bro, you don't want to be doing that, you really don't to
want to be doing that. Watch it! He abouts to bust a two-sword move on you!'

All in all good bloody fun.

8/10