'Suicide Squad Isekai' Gets US Premiere Date On Hulu And Max
The Suicide Squad is about to be transported to multiple streaming worlds
If you were wondering where Warner Bros. Japan and Wit Studio’s Suicide Squad Isekai anime was going to air for American audiences, well we’ve got quite the surprising answer. The parties announced Monday that the series will premiere its first three episodes on Max and Hulu on June 27.
After the premiere on that day, releases will be weekly singles, leading to the ten-episode season capper on August 15. It gets a same-day premiere on Aniplus and Laftel in Korea, ADN in France, and HBO GO in Southeast Asia, including Taiwan and Hong Kong. In its home country of Japan, it won’t premiere until July 5 at 24:30 (essentially July 6 at 12:30 a.m.) on Tokyo MX and BS11. Its streaming availability will be even more numerous there, including on ABEMA, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai. The full provided synopsis reads describes A.R.G.U.S. head Amanda Waller enlisting Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface and King Shark for a mission where they’re sent into an otherworldly realm of swords and magic where orcs rampage and dragons rule the skies. They rampage through but are captured by the Kingdom's soldiers and sent to prison. With only 72 hours before the bombs on their necks explode, time is running down fast. Negotiating with Queen Aldora, they will be freed only with the conquest of the hostile Imperial army forcing them to charge head-first to the frontlines. If they run; they die. They lose; they also die. Survival was never Waller’s intention.
Suicide Squad Isekai stars Anna Nagase as Harley Quinn, Yūichirō Umehara as The Joker, Reigo Yamaguchi as Deadshot, Takehito Koyasu as Peacemaker, Jun Fukuyama as Clayface, Subaru Kimura as King Shark, Taku Yashiro as Rick Flag, Kujira as Amanda Waller, Chika Anzai as Katana, and feature Mamiko Noto as Aldora, Reina Ueda as Fione, and Jun Fukushima as Cecil. The crew includes Eri Osada as director and Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara as the writers. Manga artist Akira Amano and Digimon: The Movie key animator Naoto Hosoda are the character designers for the series, and Kenichiro Suehiro is its composer. Shinya Tsuruoka is the animation producer from Warner Bros. Japan. The opening theme, “Another World” is sung by Tomoyasu Hotei while Mori Calliope sings the ending theme "Go-Getters”.
Having an anime based on a DC Comics property on Max makes sense. Especially as Rick and Morty: The Anime approaches as another anime adapted from Warner Bros. property. One is probably surprised how Hulu, which has been flexing Disney’s increased-to-complete ownership of what was once jointly-owned with NBCUniversal and News Corp. But Hulu’s anime collection is absolutely massive. Several Yu-Gi-Oh! series, a rotating Pokémon era (Sun & Moon as of writing), some Demon Slayer, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, FLCL, Fruits Basket, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen and YuYu Hakusho scratch the surface of the library, and carry Tokyo Revengers, Sand Land: The Series and Go! Go! Loser Ranger! as just some of their originals. And now Hulu’s integration into Disney+ makes it all available there too. Suicide Squad Isekai would fit right in. The same recent DC-based movies that jumped from Prime Video to Netflix at the start of the year also jumped to Hulu in the months since and thus have been on Disney+. Currently it’s The Batman and DC League of Super-Pets. Smallville is still there too. So go enjoy Suicide Squad Isekai when it premieres June 27, and watch the latest trailer below.
