Petty Reviews on "Afro Samurai"

Afro Samurai is the story of a young African American samurai on the destructive path of revenge to become the number one samurai in the world and avenge his father and their family name. The show has received many words of praise, as it deserves, but there are a few naysayers. These Negative Nancys seem to be harping on the same “issues” no matter how petty they are. First they say that the story of a young swordsman avenging the death of his father is repetitive. Although that might be the case, that has no effect on whether or not this story tells it better or in a different way from the others. Romantic comedies all have the same plot (couple meets, everything is going great, guy breaks girls heart, they get back together and happily ever after) nobody is sitting here saying that a movie would be considered bad for following that template. This next one is really petty in my eyes. The headbands that prove who the number one and number two swordsmen are the most sought after objects in this show and they are saying that anybody with a weapon, whether it be a gun or spear or lasers, is also going after it therefore not making them swordsmen. That just seems rather petty in my eyes and once again does not dictate whether the story and animation are good. This certain review also says that “I can't tell whatsource this show ripped off more: Ninja Scroll with its "everyone wantsyou dead" premise and ninja sidekick or Samurai Champloo with its attemptto immerse hip-hop culture with Japanese swordsmen using the "blacksamurai" gimmick that mildly offended me.” I’ve never seen the shows mentioned beforehand, but I can’t understand how someone would be offended by a black samurai as I am sure that whoever wrote this review is not a black samurai. This review seems to leave out so many important aspects as to what makes a show good. They do bring up the animation and action saying that it is great, which is one of the more important aspects of a show, but they leave out so much more. The music selection chosen for this series intertwines so well with what the producers were trying to portray. What other music group to play in a story of a black samurai than none other than RZA? The fact that RZA is playing whilst Afro Samurai is slicing through his enemies makes it just that much cooler. Also, Samuel L. Jackson plays Afro and his talkative sidekick. This show also does more than just shed blood everywhere. The plot gets very sentimental as our hero develops feelings for a woman and has to face one of his closest childhood friends in conquest for the number one headband. This review seems to have left out many important aspects as to what makes shows good and just focused on the little things that seemed to bother them. This does not make it worthy of a 3/10 rating ever. I would suggest that anybody that likes anime to definitely check this one out if they haven’t already.