Aliens kill an old man and turn him into a W.M.D. in ‘Inuyashiki: Last Hero,’ a bizarre must-watch

It’s hard to imagine there’s a large target audience for a hyper-violent animated show about an unloved old man who gets blown up by aliens shortly after a cancer diagnosis and transformed, immediately, into a weapon of mass destruction intent on defending the dignity of the homeless and other cast-outs — but here it is anyway, Inuyashiki: Last Hero, a miserable and addictive sci-fi action series streaming now on Amazon.

Often quite upsetting (if you don’t think you can get past watching an infant drown in a tub filled with his dad’s own blood, this is, assuredly, not the show for you), Inuyashiki nonetheless serves as a remarkable and unexpected superhero story for 2018, when everything feels cynical and each new entry in an unending supply of phone notifications makes the bile rise just a bit higher in your throat. Read more…

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