17-419: Super Crooks is a Japanese-American original net anime 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. Following small-time crook Johnny Bolt as he recruits a team of eight super-villains to perform a super-powered heist, the first nine episodes serve as
34-411: A prequel to the comic book series, with the last three episodes adapting the comic outright. The series serves as a spin-off to Jupiter's Legacy (2021). In June 2021, a live-action Super Crooks series and second spin-off from the simultaneously- cancelled Jupiter's Legacy was announced to be in active development. Small-time crook Johnny Bolt recruits a team of eight super-villains to perform
51-610: A super-powered heist. Depressed and resentful at their failure, the crew goes their separate ways, with Johnny and Kasey returning home. When Kasey suffers a breakdown due to her anger at the Network and sorrow at their failure, Johnny impulsively proposes to her. The two plan their wedding, though Johnny realizes he is not ready to leave behind a life of crime on his stag night he is teleported and reunited with his old group of friends who convince him to pull one last job with them before he leaves crime forever. Johnny drunkenly agrees and on
68-573: Is directly released onto the Internet . ONAs may also have been aired on television if they were first directly released on the Internet. The name mirrors original video animation , a term that has been used in the anime industry for straight-to-video animation since the early 1980s. A growing number of trailers and preview episodes of new anime have been released as ONA. For example, the anime movie of Megumi can be considered an ONA. ONAs have
85-473: Is surprised by Gladiator's presence, who is one of the few heroes stronger than himself. Gladiator overpowers Praetorian and beats him heavily for his massacre of innocents and desecration of the Union's reputation, leaving him alive but brain damaged. The group then makes their escape while Matts engages in a psychic duel with the tied-up Kasey, eventually winning and killing her. However, he is shocked to find that
102-503: Is widely accepted in the literature that there is a strong correlation between sales and aggregated scores. Due to the influence reviews have over sales decisions, manufacturers are often interested in measuring these reviews for their own products. This is often done using a business-facing product review aggregator. In the film industry, according to Reuters , big studios pay attention to aggregators but "they don't always like to assign much importance to them". Movie Review Intelligence
119-428: The Internet. Early examples of ONA series include Infinite Ryvius: Illusion (2000), Ajimu (2001), and Mahou Yuugi (2001). Review aggregator A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services, such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, or cars. This system then stores the reviews to be used for supporting a website where users can view
136-404: The guards for a chance to call Kasey to no avail. Johnny and the crew successfully survive the network of traps and guards protecting the briefcase, retrieved by Carmine using his flamethrowers. As they escape, Matts reboots the security system and reveals that he has tied up Kasey in his office, before sending Praetorian down to stop the crew. Praetorian once again defeats the group with ease, but
153-458: The last four episodes, which serves as a straightforward adaptation, with the series also set in the same fictional universe as the live-action series Jupiter's Legacy . In June 2021, a live-action Supercrooks series and direct spin-off continuation of the simultaneously- cancelled Jupiter's Legacy was announced to be in active development. At Netflix's Tudum event in September 2021,
170-511: The morning of the wedding the group robs a chain of jewelers again, but Praetorian sabotages their getaway, and the group is forced to flee on the Subway where Johnny is caught by Gladiator and the police. At the church Kasey realizes what has happened and burns her wedding dress, leaving the venue and her relationship with Johnny behind. Johnny is once again locked in Supermax where he pleads with
187-459: The primary voices from Kenjiro Tsuda and Maaya Sakamoto were revealed along with the release date of November 25, 2021. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 100% of 6 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.7/10. Original net animation An original net animation ( ONA ), known in Japan as web anime ( ウェブアニメ , webu anime ) , is an anime that
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#1732771843382204-491: The production of animation in Japan is made for television or for other audio-visual formats, which include ONAs that can be viewed on television, mobile devices or computers. As broadband Internet bandwidth began to increase in speed and availability, delivering high-quality online video over the Internet became a reality. In the early 2000s, the Japanese anime industry began broadcasting original net animations (ONA) on
221-419: The reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of
238-405: The series takes place, in part, before the comic book series, Mark Millar provided additional back story for Dai Satō to adapt, and Leinil Francis Yu provided younger character designs for Takashi Mitani to translate into animation. Towa Tei composed the music for the series. The first nine episodes of the series serve as a prequel to the comics and then overlap with the comic storyline for
255-479: The tendency to be shorter than traditional anime titles, sometimes running only a few minutes. There are many examples of an original net animation, such as Hetalia: Axis Powers , which only last a few minutes per episode. But while that was true for the beginning of the 2010s, this began to change in the second half of the decade as full series began to be licensed exclusively for streaming services like Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , and Disney+ . The majority of
272-701: The whole experience was one of Kasey's illusions, having been fooling him since the airport. The crew escapes the island with the briefcase and, after they each collect their share of the money, go their separate ways. Netflix first announced that the series was in production with Studio Bones in March 2019, and the series was ready for its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2021. At its premiere, director Motonobu Hori explained that because
289-406: The work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and stock prices have been seen to reflect ratings, as related to potential sales. It
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