Super Crooks

One last heist. That's what they all say, right? Just one final score, and everyone can retire and take up fishing. Thing is, the jails are filled with super villains who thought the same thing, and got busted. But the Heat's in a jam. He's run up the kind of gambling debt that - if he can't pay it back in cash - will be paid in blood. Nobody wants to see the most beloved supercrook of all time rubbed out by the mob - especially his biggest fan, Johnny Bolt. And Johnny's got a plan to help the Heat and make all his buddies disgustingly rich at the same time. Unfortunately for Johnny's recruits, they have to head to Spain and rob the world's most notorious super villain blind. And that's where things get tricky.

(Source: Marvel Comics)

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The series is based on the comic of the same title by Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kasey

Main

Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese

Bolt, Johnny

Main

Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Diesel, Roddy

Supporting

Inada, Tetsu
Japanese

Praetorian

Supporting

Hatano, Wataru
Japanese

Josh

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Diesel, Sammy

Supporting

Kimura, Subaru
Japanese

Gladiator

Supporting

Taki, Pierre
Japanese

Carmine

Supporting

Kimura, Yasushi
Japanese

Transmit

Supporting

Tezuka, Hiromichi
Japanese

Frostbite

Supporting

Shimoyama, Yoshimitsu
Japanese

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Oyabu, Yoshihiro

Producer

Hori, Motonobu

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Yamada, Haru

Sound Director

Abe, Masashi

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"ALPHA " by TOWA TEI WITH TAPRIKK SWEEZEE

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Ending Theme

"SUGAR " by TOWA TEI WITH UA

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Nov 25, 2021

issa_labshat

Recommended

I was hyped when the trailer dropped. Coincidentally, I was reading a book critical analysis about superheroes before Super Crooks officially came on Netflix. Pretty fitting right? Cuz like, superheroes? supervillains? powers? The whole sad origins and everything? Ok

Super Crooks had an okay- flow of the story. We start the episode with the origins of Johnny Bolt a.k.a our MC and how he came to be the "crook" villain as he is today. We then follow him getting out of this super jail and we meet his girlfriend - Kasey, and his (idiotic) villain friends. Then Kasey introduces him to Carmine and meets other ... superpowered guys. After 10 episodes, there comes a time leap. Thankfully, we didn't miss any important information but only that the gang has been busy in that time period. And I'll stop from there.

Story-wise, it's easy to follow. We got the generic bad boy and his bad girl and his bad friends doing bad stuff against this really really bad guy that could literally blow your minds. And of course, a heist! It's not a villain-centered story without a grand heist. We have the scenic backdrops of America and its heavily hero-influenced environment. I have a problem with the synopsis here tho. It says that "they have to head to Spain.." In this adaptation, they went to an Island that is somewhere around Japan. I hope they fix that. Other than that, the premise is alright.

Art is good. The backdrops were nice and the colors have fit the mood of the story. There's definitely a noticeable chunk of gore elements like having your guts and heads wrecked. Character designs were decent too. (But probably except the disguise Josh wore in the first heist. Just, why did he pick that?) The animation was decent. The action scenes didn't fail my standards. Sound-wise, not so much. I love the OP and ED though. The background music was my problem. I'm not saying they're bad but some scenes were lackluster because of the background music. There are times it was distracting and some just felt like it's not right. I noticed the bg music was repetitive though it's not that memorable.

I can't say that the Characters are unique or "never seen before." In a world that acknowledges superpowers as normal, of course, there are always some after-effects. We have Johnny Bolt that can produce and manipulate static electricity. We have Kasey that has psychic powers. We have reckless dudes that can cut off their limbs and be in one piece later on. We have a ghost, a weather forecast, a telekinesis guy, a closeted dude that turned kinda wholesome in the end, and some old dude past his prime with his lava guns. Despite that, I love their dynamic in the show. But trust me when I say that most of these characters lacked a bit of texture. By texture, I mean no backstories or why any reason why they're like that. They focus on the "now" situation. Thankfully, the voice acting helped flesh out their personalities so props to them. My fave character is Kasey. She arguably has the strongest powers in the group. I'm glad to see her great potential in the later episodes, unlike the start.

If I have to be honest, I enjoyed this show. I have seen a lot of heist-related shows and movies so this was kind of predictable but I enjoyed it nevertheless. The casts did a great job and they did not disappoint. Overall, I give this an 8.

The show's not THAT bad.

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Nov 26, 2021

Lilith_20

Mixed Feelings

**THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS**

at 1st i thought its just a regular heist job but i was a bit surprised when it was super powered humans who steal shit to survive? but i was hyped i love me some morally grey shows..

soo whats wrong with this show?? the story sounds solid, the characters are hot and have great chemistry, the art style seems cool and on top of that they are some decent action scenes too....in theory this show has everything it needs to be a great show but thats where netflix comes in....

time and time again netflix proves why we shldnt trust them to ...

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Nov 14, 2022

SingleH

Not Recommended

“What is this? Call of Duty™ zombie mode?”

From the team who brought you Carole & Tuesday, here we have another stupid, ugly, pandering piece of shit no one should watch. Super Crooks is based on a comic by Mark Millar, the original creator of awesome action films like Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service, but while those films have iconic design sense, bold visual direction, & unforgettable charm, Super Crooks is plagued with clunky animation, Play-Doh CG car chases, boring caricatures, and a presentation just as wooden and unfinished as Carole & Tuesday’s. Let’s just say I accepted the fact Bones was really gonna shit ... this one out when I realized they had a CG model for every detailed character.

This whole project was flawed from the outset too, because most of it was haphazardly hashed together when the American comic book author realized Netflix commissioned a thirteen episode series and had to communicate to the Japanese production staff how to handle his four-issue miniseries. To fill the run time, he made up ten episodes worth of new content so they could keep the original story as a three episode finale and have whole new content to precede it, but it just repeats this sluggish, tensionless, exposition-heavy heist formula. Super Crooks is Ocean’s Eleven if you drained its charisma, added generic superheroes, ridiculous gore, and gave it a stale Marvel movie origin story.

Satou Dai isn’t a terrible writer—and maybe I shouldn’t even be surprised by the mountain of minor “turn your brain off” inconsistencies—but this westaboo phase he’s going through right now is just fucking embarrassing, and I’m judging by Shinichiro Watanabe/Sayo Yamamoto standards. Speaking of being a total embarrassment, this Motonobu Hori guy has proven himself to be miserably fucking incompetent. Should I start with that Japan Sinks 2020 aesthetic? Or how about the fact this show goes full-on Ex-Arm and has 2D characters standing right next to 3D monstrosities, as if the audience is blind enough not to realize it's the most jarring thing the human eye has ever seen?

The forgettable hip-hop OP is comprised solely of this blonde bimbo dressed like a cheap whore waving her camel toe at the camera, begging you to praise the hollow uniqueness of such a tasteless display. “Sure, the backgrounds are vile, digital dogshit, but they hide it by spamming their Microsoft Paint bucket tool for the OP, so now it has personality—I swear!” It reminds me of all those old spin-off DVD OVAs we used to get for shows back in the 90s and early 2000s where the main characters would fly to California, wear bikinis, go to McDonalds, and shoot guns and shit, only now its not satirical or self-aware in any way. Like it’s screaming in your face, “isn’t this is what Americans like? Isn’t this what you wanted Netflix-sama?” But where the original creator probably knew what he was doing, proven by his impressive resume and the badass film adaptations of his prior work, this team managed only to make a fool of themselves and the original comic.

Thank you for reading.

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