NINJA SCROLL BURST

I never thought I'd see this - Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Madhouse's sizzle reel for an as yet unproduced Ninja Scroll sequel. Apparently Kawajiri has been touring industry events for years with this clip, trying to secure funding to complete the project. Amazingly, no-one's interested. Fucking anime's a right shithouse at the minute. When I stumbled on Japanese animation in the halcyon days of the early 1990s, it was jam-packed full of leering supernatural pricks who smashed up robots with their bare hands. Wonderful. Now your average show seems to revolve around fey males and their pre-teen harems. Ugh and ugh. Kawajiri's directorial career seems to have stalled hard after the fairly rad Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. According to his wiki page, Kawajiri's been stuck key animating the super shitty Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, and storyboarding the occasional awesome like Shigurui.

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