Although anime is Japanese, that doesn’t mean that interest outside of Japan is increasing. In the US, they are increasingly encouraged to finance animes produced with the intention of being broadcasted first in their lands, knowing that certain ideas can work particularly well in the West. That is exactly what has happened with Ninja Kamui, the new project by Sunghoo Park.
You may not recognize the name, but it’s impossible that you don’t know the animes he has made before. Sunghoo Park is the director of Jujutsu Kaisen and The God of High School, who now has his own animation studio, E&H Production, which is in charge of the production of the series along with Sola Entertainment. The series will premiere on February 10th on the Tsoonami block of Adult Swim, and will be released worldwide the next day on Max.
As shown in its first trailer, the anime promises action in abundance and a revenge story not very different from that of John Wick. Here we have a man named Joe Higan, a nuekin – a ninja who has abandoned his clan – who is forced to return to the world of shadow assassins when his former clan kills his family and mistakenly believes he is dead. This will lead him on a revenge odyssey where he will seek to end his former clan in the only way he knows: violence.
Although we don’t know much more, we do know some details. The character design is being done by Takeshi Okazaki, famous for Afro Samurai and Batman Ninja, and the music in the trailer is composed by Carpenter Brut. Something that, if indicative of what the series will be like, promises that the action will not stop for a second in this promising anime.
