Afro Samurai by Takashi Okazaki will get a new english print release by Titan Comics

“Afro Samurai” by Takashi Okazaki will get a new English print release by Comics Titan starting July 26, 2022. This new “Directors Cut” edition will include a new cover illustration & foreword by the artist.

Takashi Okazaki’s Afro Samurai Vol. 1 is to get a new ‘Director’s Cut’ edition from Titan Comics this July. And it will not only mark Afro Samurai’s 15th anniversary but also usher in Titan Comics’ new manga imprint, Titan Manga. This remastered, fully authorized edition features a specially commissioned new cover and a foreword by creator Okazaki.

Inspired by Okazaki-san’s love of hip hop music and American pop culture, the story, set in a feudal futuristic Japan, follows the young Afro Samurai who witnesses his father, the holder of the No.1 headband, being challenged and killed by the No.2 – a lethal gunslinger named Justice. Swearing revenge, he starts off on a bloody path of retribution that will eventually make him the No.2 warrior and lead to a final dramatic face-off with his father’s killer. In this first of two volumes, we see the beginnings of young Afro’s quest, his battles with an array of assassins and warlords, that climaxes in the epic confrontation with the powerful Empty Seven Clan and a showdown with an old enemy… Described by Okazaki as “out of all my work it is my best project”, AFRO SAMURAI “director’s cut” edition published by Titan Manga (the new imprint from Titan Comics), will present the original manga in Okazaki-san’s preferred larger graphic novel format in two volumes, giving old and new fans alike the chance to experience his seminal cult masterpiece as its creator originally intended it.