Last week, director and actor Michael B. Jordan revealed his top five anime recommendations during a press interview for Creed III.
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Leading to Creed IIIreleased in theaters last weekend, as news releases Diversity, maniac, IGNand A polygon put up a good fight by asking Jordan hot anime-related questions. Although most of the questions these entertainment outlets ask are solely about how much anime Jordan was influenced by while directing Creed III, BBC Radio 1 critic Ali Plumb asked the darkest question one could ask an anime fan: their top five anime recommendations.
While this question may seem like a simple query on the surface, it’s actually a pretty big deal within the anime community. Why? Well, nothing is worse than getting a garbage anime recommendation from a die-hard anime fan. For example, say you really like first-person shooters and a group of gamers asked you for your favorite games. Although you might think you’re like-minded if you say some nonsense like “fate 2 clears Call of Duty and halo any day of the week, you’ll find yourself in the middle of some age-old discourse, and nobody wants that.
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Suffice it to say, Jordan navigates the question quite well, responding with the most popular shonen anime series to grace God’s green Earth: One piece, dragon ball, Naruto, Bleachand Hunter x Hunter.
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“That’s a pretty good starting five,” Jordan said BBC Radio 1.
Although I can’t argue against the quality of Jordan’s top five picks — especially considering that three of the shows he mentioned were the most popular running series in the early years— The Jordan Anime Starter Pack commits the cardinal sin that many of the Lord of the Rings fans routinely engage when they force their friends to do so watch the director’s cut of the trilogy instead of the theatrical version: They are a huge time commitment. Like, huge. It’s hard to overstate how long of a marathon it would be to binge these five shows.
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Goodbye to all free time
Combined, it would take the average person over 957 hours (roughly 40 days of non-stop viewing) to complete Jordan’s top five anime recommendations. People were quick to call out how outrageous Jordan’s first five anime engagements were in the comments section of the ripped video from TikTok from Jordan’s BBC Radio 1 interview.
“Bro just hit 10,000 episodes and said yeah pretty good start,” wrote one TikTok user.
“Brother said to start with one piece 💀,” said another.
“This guy gave you 7 years of homework ‘Get started,'” wrote a third.
In an attempt to save inexperienced anime fans, one TikTok commenter recommended that people start with less embarrassingly long shows like A death note, Metal Alchemist, Yu Yu Hakusho, HxH (not as long as Jordan’s other picks) and Samurai Champloo as their quality matches their manageable turnaround time. As an otaku of my cityI approve this list.
Outside Creed IIIanime shenanigans on, jordan let his anime lover flag fly in the past from starting a Naruto-thematic clothing line with Coach in 2019 and starring and producing Rooster Teeth’s dystopian sci-fi series, gen: Lock.