Will Smith’s Lustrous Is Returning in October as a Samurai Anime… With Orcs

Netflix has launched a trailer and poster for Lustrous: Samurai Soul, an upcoming anime scheme within the magical world of David Ayer’s reside-motion, Will Smith-starring movie Lustrous.

Netflix lately provided fans a nick of the motion by shedding the principle trailer for director Kyohei Ishiguro’s anime spinoff. The legend revolves spherical Izou, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, who work to carry a younger elf girl and the wand she carries to the land of the elves within the north for the length of the early years of Japan’s Meiji Restoration. Check out the principle trailer below:

The English-language verbalize cast of Lustrous: Samurai Soul functions Shang-Chi and the Story of the Ten Rings principal particular person Simu Liu within the position of Izou, the one-eyed wandering samurai. Netflix printed that Liu is joined within the forged by Fred Mancuso because the orc Raiden, who attempts to redeem himself from a lifetime of thievery; and Yuzu Harada because the younger elf Sonya.

The Netflix Geeked Twitter story moreover shared a poster for Lustrous: Samurai Soul, which is determined to premiere on the streamer on October 12. The upcoming anime explores an all-contemporary environment and technology while introducing a new bunch of characters, loads of whom are featured on the poster, with the movie’s human ronin, orc assassin, and elf orphan taking heart stage.

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Closing year, Netflix announced its plans to form extra anime direct material after noting an great uptake in anime streaming on the platform, with statistics displaying that over 100 million households globally watched now now not now now not up to at least one anime title on Netflix between October 2019 and September 2020 — a noted elevate of additional than 50% on the outdated year’s figures.

Lustrous: Samurai Soul is exact the most contemporary addition to a growing list of anime titles on Netflix, with many extra light to method motivate. It joins loads of other planned titles at the streamer, alongside with a Tomb Raider anime sequence with Hayley Atwell because the verbalize of Lara Croft, an anime prequel sequence of Zack Snyder’s Military of the Lifeless, and a recent scare sci-fi story known as Label My Day.

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