Onimusha (Netflix) News and Discussion

[Yojimbo]

Was announced almost a year ago.

Trailer for the Onimusha series was released. Premieres on November 2. Sublimation is the animation studio, Shinya Sugai is the dreictor, Hideyuki Kurata is the writer, Koji Endo is the composer, Shochiku was consulted for historical supervision, Keiji Tsuji was a stunt coordinator, the late Kim Jung Gi did the character designs, except for the character of Miyamoto Musashi, which is credited to Manilyn Toledana, and Takashi Miike was the supervising director. The late Toshirō Mifune was used as a model for Miyamoto Musashi. And yeah, Sasaki Kojiro is appearing. No word yet on the video game's main character Hidemitsu Samanosuke Akechi showing up or not.



External Links
-Netflix page

 

[Gold Guy]

Looks promising- at the very least can’t be worse than Capcom’s last Netflix anime (Dragon’s Dogma). Preferably, at least as solid as the Netflix Tekken anime.

Kinda weird how they’re using the likeness of a long dead actor, though, and as the first name dropped in the trailer.

 

[Yojimbo]

Looks promising- at the very least can’t be worse than Capcom’s last Netflix anime (Dragon’s Dogma). Preferably, at least as solid as the Netflix Tekken anime.

Kinda weird how they’re using the likeness of a long dead actor, though, and as the first name dropped in the trailer.

9/21: Probably out of respect and/or a stipulation from his estate? Samurai Trilogy is the obvious reason, I would guess there were some big fans of those movies and Mifune that they went with that. Sort of in a way goes hand in hand with Onimusha using famous Sengoku era characters, use the most famous actor to portray Mushashi, too. Plus, just using Musashi alone wasn't out of the blue either, he was a hidden character in the Onimusha Blade Warriors game and one of the manga. So it all sorta coalesced.

11/3: Netflix posted a clip. I'm halfway thru it so far (8 eps total) and enjoying all of it so far.


EDIT: Ok, story came to rushed end and the big bad wasn't all that good. They left a lot of explanations to implication. Don't really fully explain how Remon discovered Genma and controlling them but there was some well done callbacks - like there was a third traitor after all and he gets his in the end. The little girl telling Musashi to grow up already then he agrees to think about it, ROFL.