Warner Bros. Japan and Spy x Family Producer Wit Studio announced at Anime Expo 2023 a new animated series focusing on the DC surveillance team suicide squad. The series, titled Isekai Suicide SquadThere’s no release date or associated streamer yet, but it’ll definitely unify the worst people you know once it happens.
In the comics, former members of the Suicide Squad task force include Bane and the jovial Harley Quinn, who featured prominently in the series. Isekai trailer with her re-encounterable boyfriend, Joker. Yeah, we’re having a classic, post-Joaquin Phoenix joker cartoon. This is exactly what I’m talking about—Discord will become a war zone and Joker’s avatar will mark enemies.
At least he looks good in the 48-second trailer, which doesn’t reveal much about the series beyond confirming Harley and Joker’s involvement. Amanda Wallerdirector of Suicide Squad in both the comics and live action movies also seems to be taking her usual position as the bad guy arranger.
Since the anime will be an isekai—“literally translated as ‘other world’ or ‘other world’” Kotaku office agent Isaiah Colbert said, a genre that often features protagonists who are “suddenly transported to a new world”—Members of the Suicide Squad may not need to dodge AK-47s as they usually do, but rather a series of fantasy elements. In the trailer there is a Gyarados-dragons, a group of pigmen with bloody spears and a series of swords.
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The suicide squad doesn’t get it often Medieval treatmentTherefore Isekai seems like an interesting change of pace, even if it comes at the expense of my safety on Discord.
Less threatening, Superman also has his own cartoon, called My Adventures with Superman. It premieres today on Adult Swim and will begin streaming July 7 max.
