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- Super Crooks is one of the biggest anime surprises of the year. It's short but sweet, a worthy addition to the Studio Bones’ hall of fame, with slick animation and whip-smart writing. If you're into Mark Millar's work and mature superhero stories, there’s plenty to love here.
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Small-time crook Johnny Bolt recruits the ultimate crew for one last heist. Watch Super Crooks — Season 1 with a subscription on Netflix. Super Crooks blends a creative premise with equally ...
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By Brittany Vincent
Updated: Nov 27, 2021 7:50 pm
Posted: Nov 27, 2021 7:40 pm
Super Crooks Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
There are surprisingly few anime series inspired by superhero comics. Super Crooks is one of the most recent, an adaptation of the four-issue series by writer Mark Millar and artist Leinil Francis Yu. It's an intriguing, action-packed prequel to the Super Crooks comic that takes a firecracker of a script from Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) and runs it through the lens of director Motonobu Hori (Cowboy Bebop, Paranoia Agent) to create an anime Ocean's 11 with, well, supervillains.
The 13-episode anime series follows supervillain Johnny Bolt (Jonah Scott) as he works to pull off the ultimate heist: robbing a private casino belonging to the world's most powerful supervillain, Christopher Matts, also known as "The Bastard" (Jason Marnocha). Johnny’s ragtag bunch of supervillains includes his psychic girlfriend Kasey (Abby Trott), retired elderly villain Carmine (Doug Stone), weather-changing savant Forecast (Zeno Robinson), twin healers Roddy and Sammy Diesel (Bruno Oliver and Ben Pronsky), telepathic thief TK McCabe (Bill Rogers), translucent thief The Ghost (Bill Butts), and Gladiator (Beau Billingslea), blackmailed into joining Johnny.
Set within the world of Jupiter's Legacy, which explores an uncharted island in the Atlantic Ocean where a group of people received superpowers, Super Crooks is actually a spinoff involving the "first" people who received their special abilities. We learn how Bolt gets his electrical-based powers from an early age, introducing young Johnny, living in a troubled household and getting through each day with the help of his favorite superhero comics. He can control electricity at will, from a simple "on" and "off" at first to snapping and generating electricity.
As every young hero and villain does, we see him experimenting with his newfound powers, bragging about it to his friends, and then ruining a few bullies' days (and personal belongings) with his uncanny ability. Over time, young Johnny deduces that he must be part of the "first" superheroes' bloodline with the help of a friend, indicating one of his parents must have had powers too. After Bolt's powers are more firmly established and he creates a superpower name for himself, as well as an attempt at an alter ego, we realize his powers spiral out of control -- as does he -- and he turns to a life of crime after a particularly gruesome incident involving the neighborhood pool.
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Super Crooks is one of the biggest anime surprises of the year. It's short but sweet, a worthy addition to the Studio Bones’ hall of fame, with slick animation and whip-smart writing. If you're into Mark Millar's work and mature superhero stories, there’s plenty to love here.
Nov 25, 2021 · Super Crooks (Netflix) is based on the 2012 graphic novel series Supercrooks by Mark Millar and Leinil Yu. It’s a prequel to the storyline presented there, offering a look at Johnny Bolt as a...
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Super Crooks: With Jonah Scott, Kenjirô Tsuda, Abby Trott, Maaya Sakamoto. Johnny Bolt recruits a group of ragtag supervillains for one last heist. Their target: A ruthless super-powered crime boss.
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Season 1 – Super Crooks. 2021 Action Adventure Anime. Tomatometer 0 Reviews. Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings. Small-time crook Johnny Bolt recruits the ultimate crew for one last heist ...
Super Crooks is a Japanese-American original net anime [ 2 ][ 3 ] series based on the 2012 comic book series of the same name by Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu. The series was written by Dai Satō and Tsukasa Kondo, and premiered on Netflix on November 25, 2021.
