Parents need to know that although Afro Samurai is animated, it’s not a cartoon for kids. There’s extreme violence (including beheadings, rivers of gushing blood, and more), sex (including some bare breasts), and adult language (“f–k,” “s–t”) throughout.

Afro Samurai! Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai, stylized as ΛFΓO SΛMUΓΛI) is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki….Anime.

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Afro (アフロ, Afuro), or better known as Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai) is the main protagonist of the Afro Samurai series….

Despite what it might sound like, this is no Bridgerton, with its invented multiracial British aristocracy. In fact, there did exist a genuine, historical black samurai named Yasuke who arrived in Japan in 1579 and provided the inspiration for the Netflix show.

Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ Afuro Samurai, stylized as ΛFΓO SΛMUΓΛI) is an American anime television series based on the manga of the same name, written and illustrated by Japanese manga artist Takashi Okazaki.

Yasuke, a towering African man who became the first Black samurai in Japanese history, was a real person. He entered the service of Alessandro Valignano, an Italian Jesuit missionary, and joined Valignano on his mission to Japan in 1579 as a bodyguard.

Anjin Miura or William Anjin was the first and possibly only white man to ever be knighted a Samurai.

Strictly speaking, a Kashin (家臣) is a vassal or retainer to a “daimyo” (little “d”), a Japanese feudal lord who ruled vast hereditary land holdings from approximately 1337-1868, and were subordinate only to the shogun.

Afro Samurai! Afuro Samurai?), also written AFRO SAMURAI, is a Japanese seinen dōjinshi manga series written and illustrated by manga artist Takashi Okazaki. It was originally serialized irregularly in the avant-garde dōjinshi manga magazine Nou Nou Hau from September 1999 to May 2000.

After the release of the anime series, Okazaki remade the original Afro Samurai dōjinshi into a two-volume manga. To be only released in North America, Tor Books and Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the title and published it under their new Tor/Seven Seas imprint.

In an Associated Press interview in 2007, Okazaki confirmed there would be a sequel to the anime series, and that it would air on Paramount Network. In 2008, the sequel was announced to be a television film, Afro Samurai: Resurrection, with Lucy Liu and Mark Hamill joining the cast.

Afro Samurai debuted on January 4, 2007. The series premiered worldwide on Spike’s website, where they streamed the first episode online. On May 3, 2007, the series premiered on Japanese television, in English with Japanese subtitles, and for the first time completely uncut.