Cool Trailer for Netflix's Fantasy Anime Film BRIGHT: SAMURAI SOUL

Remember Netflix’s fantasy cop movie Bright with Will Smith and Joel Edgerton? Well, there’s a new samurai anime film coming out titled Bright: Samurai Soul which is set in that same universe. However, this story is set in Japan during the end of the Shogunate and the start of the Meiji Period.

The spinoff tells the story of Izou, “a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, who work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the land of the elves in the north…”

The unique animation style used to make the is meant to combine “Japanese woodblock print art with 3DCG technology.” The movie also features the voices of Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) as Izou, Fred Mancuso as the Orc Raiden, and Yuzu Harada is playing Sonya.

Here’s a more detailed synopsis:

In the time between the fall of the Shogunate and the rise of the Meiji era, a powerful bright light emitted from a wand brings an end to the long Shogunate period to avoid further bloodshed as Japan begins to shift toward a new era. Amid these circumstances, a one-eyed wandering ronin name Izou, who has lost his reason to live, and Raiden, an orc who detests murder and hopes to leave a life of thievery behind, separately meet a young elf girl named Sonya around the same time.

Together, they go on a journey along the Tokaido road to bring her and the wand she holds safely to the land of the elves in the north. Standing in their path is the mysterious organization Inferni, which aims to obtain the wand and revive the Dark Lord, who intends to rule all of creation. Inferni also uses the new Meiji government in its attempt to steal the wand from Izou, Raiden and Sonya.

The movie will hit Netflix on October 12th. Check out the trailer and let us know if you’ll be watching it when it comes out.