The Suicide Squad anime looks surprisingly great, but years too late

The first full trailer for Suicide Squad Isekai is here, and it's looking pretty good honestly - it just feels like eight years too late. When I first caught word of the fact there was going to be a Suicide Squad anime, more specifically one that's an isekai, I thought, "yeah, that tracks," but I also felt that it's a little bit behind the times. In case you don't know, the isekai sub-genre is one that sees characters being transported from their own world to a radically different one, typically just from boring old reality to a fantasy world. So it does feel like an appropriately "anime" thing to do with the Suicide Squad, as vague a descriptor as that might be. The characters are eccentric enough and the concept is silly enough that it just might work, and this latest trailer honestly inspires a bit of confidence. It just feels like a weird time for a project like this to finally happen. Harley Quinn as a character was arguably at peak popularity between 2015 and 2017, the 2016 Suicide Squad film bringing her into the broader public consciousness after she was already becoming increasingly successful as a solo comic book character in her titular solo run. Read more