If you loved Afro Samurai: Resurrection, try Yu☆Gi☆Oh!
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Yu☆Gi☆Oh! has roughly 3.4× fewer votes than Afro Samurai: Resurrection — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Adventure / Animation / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Afro Samurai: Resurrection, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Yu☆Gi☆Oh! is
Pokémon if card games were a matter of life and death. A timid teenager obtains a rare and powerful card. He must overcome his timidity to compete. It's a watchable oddity for fans already deep into the anime.
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