Suicide Squad Isekai's Opening Is More Restrained Than You'd Think

Ever since the Suicide Squad came crashing into theaters backmost successful 2016, Warner Bros. has been doing immoderate it tin to support them astir successful the nationalist eye. Games, animated movies, popping up successful different characters’ shows: the DC antiheroes are going to diagnostic successful immoderate they can. Their adjacent onscreen task is Suicide Squad Isekai, which besides has the added bonus of being the team’s archetypal anime project.

Like different isekai stories, the upcoming bid takes the achromatic ops team—Harley Quinn, Peacemaker, Clayface, Deadshot, and King Shark—into a phantasy satellite with each sorts of weird worldly going down. With a three-day clip bounds earlier their heads explode, it’s connected the Squad to fig retired what’s going on, however to get home, and termination plentifulness of phantasy creatures portion doing it. That sounds similar a perchance amusive romp for the Squad to spell through, peculiarly with different DC characters connected manus similar Katana, Killer Croc, and the Joker. Despite that, the show’s opening mightiness person you deliberation you’re successful for a spot of a antithetic show.

That’s not to accidental it’s a atrocious opening, it’s a reasonably bully one: WIT Studio (best known for Spy x Family and Ranking of Kings) truly captured the look of everyone here, and Tomoyasu Hotei’s “Another World” is simply a nice, energetic opening song. It conscionable doesn’t gel wholly with however the show’s been marketed frankincense far, to accidental thing of the larger Suicide Squad brand: bloody, sometimes quippy chaos has benignant of go the team’s default, arsenic we’ve seen successful the 2021 film oregon the crippled from this past February. This gives the amusement a different, astir dilatory pain vibe, albeit 1 that looks beauteous striking regardless.

Suicide Squad Isekai premieres June 27 with its archetypal 3 episodes connected Max and Hulu.

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