reviewer, Carlo Santos stated about the anime that "like most typical action-adventures, the story starts out slow and only picks up toward the middle and end when the blades really start flying" and that "Afro Samurai is hardly a complex story" and that it only has "a handful of characters and a straightforward beat-the-next-guy plotline". Carlo Santos also noted that "the original Afro Samurai manga is pretty lousy" and that Takashi Okazaki often gets lost in "incomprehensible scribbles" and "style over substance." Volume 2 of Afro Samurai also charted 147 on ComiPress' "Top 250 Manga Volumes" of February 2009. The Blu-ray of the anime series charted #16 on VideoScan's Blu-ray charts. In January 2009, IGN ranked the series 90th on a list of the top 100 animated series, saying that the over-the-top violence and quirky story and characters made the show enjoyable. China ban On June 12, 2015, the Chinese Ministry of Culture listed Afro Samurai among 38 anime and manga titles banned in China. Notes References External links Official Afro Samurai: Resurrection website Official Gomanga page Afro Samurai: Resurrection at Internet Movie Database 1999 manga 2000s American black cartoons Action anime and manga Anime and manga about revenge Anime series based on manga Censored television series Doujinshi Fuji TV original programming Gonzo (company) Manga Entertainment Post-apocalyptic anime and manga Samurai in anime and manga Seinen manga Seven Seas Entertainment titles Television censorship in China Titan Books titles Works banned in China