Netflix show Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles premieres April 28

Netflix has unveiled a brand new trailer for Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, the animated collection primarily based on Stan Sakai’s historic motion fantasy comedian Usagi Yojimbo. The present will premiere on April 28.

Set within the futuristic metropolis of Neo Edo, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles follows the story of Yuichi Usagi, a teenage swordsman and distant descendant to the legendary warrior Miyamoto Usagi. With the assistance of a misfit group of warriors together with a hard-headed bounty hunter named Gen, an acrobatic pickpocket named Kitsune, and an aloof ninja named Chizu, Yuichi should cope with foul and fearsome creatures summoned from one other dimension if he hopes to save lots of Neo Edo and turn out to be a real samurai warrior.

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The trailer appears like a futuristic chanbara model of Star Fox Adventures, with a number of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese apparel operating, swinging, and leaping by way of a futuristic sci-fi metropolis whereas being chased by Buzzsaw-wielding development robots, villainous yokai, and different nefarious adversaries as they battle their solution to victory.

For these unfamiliar with the collection, Usagi Yojimbo is a extremely profitable comedian e book collection drawing affect from the films of Akira Kurosawa in addition to the exploits of the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. It’s maybe greatest identified within the West for its shut connection to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection. The character of Miyamoto Usagi appeared a number of instances within the 1987 animated collection, the second season of the 2003 animated collection, and the fifth season of the 2012 CG-animated collection.