Super Crooks
Super Crooks is a Japanese-American adult animated superhero original net animation series based on the 2012 Marvel 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 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. 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.
Premise
Small-time crook Johnny Bolt recruits a team of eight super-villains to perform a super-powered heist.Characters
;Johnny Bolt;Kasey
;Carmine / The Heat
;Gladiator
;Josh / The Ghost
;TK McCabe
;Sammy Diesel
;Roddy Diesel
;Forecast
;Praetorian
;Salamander
;Christopher Matts/The Bastard
Episodes
Production
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 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 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.