When you hear “Suicide Squad” and “Isekai” in the same sentence (or the same title,) there’s a chance that you might imagine what can only be described as the most annoying thing in the world. Though the comic book team was partially redeemed by 2021’s gleefully bonkers The Suicide Squad and a handful of solid animated films, there is still a bit of a cultural hangover regarding the abysmal 2016 film. And the Isekai anime genre, which is a subgenre where a character is transported to a fantasy world, is often a mass dumping ground for uninspired power fantasies and needless fantasy realms. Combine the two and you’d probably get something with the amount of artistic grace as, say, that eternally bizarre Suicide Squad tie-in where Skrillex and Rick Ross hung out with Jared Leto’s Joker on a boat for some reason.
