Warner Bros. has released the incredible ending credit sequence of its new Suicide Squad anime series, and whatever you feel about the DC team’s morally dubious director, Amanda Waller, you owe it to yourself to give it a watch.
What’s so striking about this—disregarding its exquisite animation and execution—is that what initially feels like a left-field Task Force X parody is, upon a moment’s consideration, strikingly in-character for Waller. Her attitude constantly vacillates from a righteous fury to a completely not-giving-a-shit attitude—which, somehow, she manages to convey in both measures here. What’s cooler than not trying to be cool, but still managing to be cool, anyway? Nothing short of commanding a clandestine organization of government-funded supervillains on a series of life-or-death missions, that’s what… and she knows it. It doesn’t hurt having Harley Quinn, Clayface, King Shark, Deadshot, Peacemaker, and Rick Flag to provide backup, either.
Suicide Squad Isekai’s stacked voice cast includes Anna Nagase as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, Yūichirō Umehara as the Joker, Reigo Yamaguchi as Floyd Lawton, Takehito Koyasu as Peacemaker, Jun Fukuyama as Basil Karlo, Subaru Kimura as Nanaue, Taku Yashiro as Flag, Chika Anzai as Katana, Reina Ueda as Fione, Mamiko Noto as Aldora, Jun Fukushima as Cecil, Yōji Ueda as Ratcatcher, Hōchū Ōtsuka as the Thinker, Shizuka Itō as Enchantress, Tarō Kiuchi as Killer Croc, and Kujira as Waller. The first three episodes premiere today on both Max and Hulu in the U.S., and on HBO Go in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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