This past weekend, in a panel for ComicBook.com in New York, The Crow creator James O’Barr revealed that his comic had almost been adapted in to anime sometime in the last ten years.

“Funimation wanted to do a The Crow series,” O’Barr said. “It was right after they did Afro Samurai. A bunch of these Japanese executives flew over to meet with me and talk with me about it, and I thought that was just a phenomenal idea. With anime, the violence is so over the top and I thought it would be perfect.”

Fans of anime and The Crow would obviously love this idea and all hope isn’t lost:

“Unfortunately the deal I have with Hollywood is that I own the character and the publication rights and they own the film and TV rights. And what Hollywood did is, ‘Yeah, he can make it. Give us $6 million and he can license it,'” O’Barr explained. “Well, that’s the whole budget, right there, so that was a big disappointment because I really wanted to see that. They did Afro Samurai, they did Black Lagoon. It was an amazing company and I would have really liked that. I thought they could have done something really phenomenal. But the cool thing is that now The Crow is with a new studio and they’re much more open to that. So if we can get the Japanese interested again, I would love to see something like that. Because in my opinion, they kick Disney’s ass all over the street.”

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Source: ComicBook