Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai is a Japanese Anime series that premiered in January 2007, initially online. It is about a samurai (known only as Afro Samurai) who sets out on a journey to avenge his father's death at the hands of a demon called Justice. It stars the voice talents of Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Perlman, Kelly Hu, and others.
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[edit] Season 1
[edit] Unidentified Episode
- Justice: With this headband on my forehead, I will rule this world as God himself!
- Afro Samurai: Nothing personal. It's just revenge.
- [to young Afro after killing his father]
- Justice: It's unfortunate you had to see this, boy. This moment will always haunt you. Challenge me when you are ready to duel a god.
- Justice: And I thought you loved your pappy.
- Justice: Are you ready to die like your pappy?
- Brother 1: Can you dig it?
- Empty 7 thugs: Yeah!
- Brother 1: Then let's get busy!
- [Thugs charge towards Afro Droid]
- Justice: This is it, kiddo. Here's where you go down!
- Ninja Ninja: Add one more body to the body toll. May God rest this poor bastard's soul.
- Justice: Those headbands can make a man crazy.
- Ivanov: I am second to no man.
- Ninja Ninja: Watch it! He abouts to bust a two-sword move on you!
- Ninja Ninja: Is that a mother fuckin' RPG?! You got a mother fuckin' RPG?! A RPG in a mother fuckin' back pack?!
- Afro Samurai: You will only die again, my friend.
- Afro Samurai: Nothing personal... It's just revenge.
- [To the stalker that is following them up the mountain]
- Ninja Ninja: Hey, hey, hey, w- Can't you give a brother a break, yo? Can't you see the man's down? What about honor, and- and-and fairness, and shit?!
- Ninja Ninja: Afro, don't fight this fucker! [assassin cocks his crossbow] He got arrows and grenades 'n' shit! You ain't got no chance, dude!
- [The Afro Droid has just fired off a phallic-looking laser weapon and missed, falling over dead.]
- Ninja Ninja: I think he blew his load.
- Sword Master: Become unpredictable, strike from your subconscious mind, let your moves flow out of your individual essence. Even the most masterful opponent will fall from a strike that has no history or reference. The moves created from your own individual unique essence may suprise even you.
[edit] Afro Samurai:Resurrection
- Afro Samurai : I have come for my father...and the Number One Headband.
- Sio: [Unimpressed] What a surprise. But what can you possibly do with your body so... utterly destroyed?
[Jinno rushes past Sio and punches Afro hard in the gut, causing Afro to fall to the ground]
- Sio: We're going to torture you. Death will come slowly.
- Sio: [To Rokutaro Clone] Kill him...kill him...kill him once and for all! [Laughs maniacally]
[Jinno thinks about the friendship he and Afro had and the good times they shared when they where younger while Jinno watches Afro being strangled to death]
- Jinno: [Struggling to talk] A..Afro.
- Ninja Ninja : Kill him Afro! That ain't your real father! That's it! Finish it! Do it!
- Afro: I...cannot kill my father.
- Ninja Ninja : Well, then this is the end...of Afro.
[After Afro seemingly died]
- Sio: Did you that Jinno? We did it! We brought him to justice and it was we...we who killed him. [Turns to Jinno happily] Look! Look my dear brother!
[Jinno starts grunting in sorrow]
- Sio: [Concerned] Jinno? Jinno.
[Sio gasps as she sees Jinno's hands clenching in anger]
- Jinno: A...Afro...[Rips the half of his Kuma mask off revealing his whole true face] Afroooooo!!!
- Sio: [Gasps]
[Rokutaro Clone was about to finish Afro off while Jinno draws his swords and stops the attack]
- Jinno: [Angrily] What have you done?! What have you done to Afro?!
- Sio: [Whispers] Why?
- Sio: Jinno! Why are you protecting Afro?! He's dead now! It's no use!
[Jinno run's in and battles the Clone]
- Sio: Have you forgetting what Afro did to us?! To you.
[Jinno continues to battle until he got his right arm cut off and pushed to the ground]
- Sio: Jinno!
- Jinno: [In his mind while getting up] Afro...my...dearest...brother!
- Jinno: I must...protect the Sword Master's dojo. Must...protect everyone....including my brother...Afro.
[edit] Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson - Afro Samurai, Ninja Ninja
- Kelly Hu - Okiku
- Yuri Lowenthal - Jinno/Kuma
- Lucy Liu - Sio
- Greg Eagles - Rokutaro: Afro's Father, Brother #6
- Ron Perlman - Justice
- Jeff Bennett - Foo, Hachiro
- Steven Blum - Assassins
- S. Scott Bullock - Dharman
- TC Carson - Sword Master, Brother #4
- Grey Delisle - Oyuki, Woman
- John DiMiggio - Brother #2, Giant, Ivanov, Patron #2
- John Kassir - Soshun
- Phil LaMarr - Brother #1, Brother #3, Brother #5, Kuro, Teen Afro Samurai
- Jason Marsden - Sasuke
- Liam O'Brien - Kihachi, Patron #4
- Crystal Scales - Young Afro Samurai
- Dwight Schultz - Assassin #1, Patron #1, Ronin
- Tara Strong - Jiro, Otsuru
- Fred Tatasciore - Juzo, Patron #5, Shuzo
- James Arnold Taylor - Yashichi
- Dave Wittenberg - Assassin, Matasaburo, Patron #3, Pun