UGO has a nice interview with the exec that brought Afro Samurai to the small screen. Eric Calderon used to be a MTV animation executive. Now he has the lofty title of Vice-President of Creative Affairs for GDH International, which owns a little studio that you may have heard of called Gonzo. The interview focuses on how the series started from an obscure manga in Japan to a network hit starring Samuel L. Jackson.

The thing that I found most interesting about the interview was how this guy actively sought out the original creator of the manga, Takashi Okazaki, and worked out the beginnings of the show.

Read the Eric Calderon interview here.

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