Warner Bros. still hasn’t managed to make superhero movies outside Batman and Superman work for them. No matter how hard they try, they still can’t find the alchemic formula that Disney found with the MCU, and at this point, even Disney seems to have lost that magic touch. That doesn’t stop them from continuing to try and, starting from the characters that have managed to succeed within their more modest canons, they are looking for a way to break the mold. For example, by making an anime of The Suicide Squad.
At the recent Anime Expo 2023, which was held last weekend in Los Angeles, Warner Bros. Japan and Wit Studio, the animation studio behind the popular Spy x Family series, announced an anime series called Suicide Squad Isekai. While they haven’t given a release date or synopsis, they did show a brief trailer that, along with its title, explains everything we need to know. What is an isekai.
It is possible that at this point you are wondering what an isekai is. And it is normal. In Japan, the isekai genre is one in which a person, upon death, is transported to a world different from their own. This has usually been translated as a person from our world who ends up immersed in a fantasy world, but that has been changing little by little to end up imagining all kinds of scenarios. From people from fantasy worlds who end up in our world or other fantasy worlds, people who end up reincarnated as animals, monsters or things, or any other combination of concepts you can imagine. In this case, it seems, the approach is more classic and the Suicide Squad end up in a fantasy world, as implied in the trailer, where we see the Joker and Harlequinn facing dragons and a group of pig men with bloody spears.
While it’s only forty-eight seconds of trailer, this is enough to pique our curiosity. The last thing we imagined was a Suicide Squad isekai. How they will approach it is a mystery, but what is clear is that we can expect a lot of fantasy and a lot of craziness from this. Exactly what we want from an isekai.
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