Afro Samurai

Afro Samurai is a 2007 animated television miniseries broadcast by the Spike TV Network. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world and follows Afro (Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction) in his pursuit of the Number One Headband, which is said to grant god-like power to the one who possesses it. It just so happens that the guy who currently possesses it killed our main man's father right in front of him at an early age, hence Afro's quest for vengeance. The trick is that nobody can challenge the owner of the Number One Headband unless he possesses the Number Two Headband. Needless to say, the owner of Two is beset on all sides by every bloodthirsty yahoo who lusts for the power of One. That's where the endless carnage comes in. Limbs and heads fly to and fro with whimsical abandon, blood splatters everywhere, death is at pretty much every stop on the Afro-train. Along the way he encounters seductive kunoichi, cyborgs, a dual-bladed opponent in a teddy bear mask, a rocket-launching psychopath, a cybernetic double, and much, much more. MORE