Stan Sakai’s SAMURAI RABBIT: THE USAGI CHRONICLES In The Works From Netflix
I actually have a lot to catch up on in anime. I’m currently in the middle of Megalo Box on Netflix and plan to hopefully watch the latest season of Baki, as well as BNA provided I get the time to, and it’s still good to know that Netflix isn’t running out of content anytime soon. As the streamer announced on Wednesday, they’re teaming up with Gaumont for the production of Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, a new comedy-action CGI animated series inspired by the globally successful 35-year-old award-winning comic book, Usagi Yojimbo, from auteur, six-time Eisner award winner, Haxter award recipient and 2016’s Best Cartoonist Harvey Award winner, Stan Sakai. The series takes place in the far future, set in a world that mixes modern high-tech images with classic Japanese references. It follows the teenage Rabbit Samurai Yuichi, descendent of the great warrior Miyamoto Usagi, on his epic quest […]