Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword is a 2009 direct-to-DVD animated comedy mystery martial arts film, as well as the thirteenth entry in a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the "Scooby-Doo" Saturday morning cartoon franchise. In the United States, the DVD sold 163,890 units in its first week and as of January 2014, it has sold approximately 524,725 units. This is the last direct-to-video Scooby-Doo film to use the bright animation style keen to the "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" TV series. It was also the last "Scooby-Doo" production featuring Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers before
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost features real ghosts instead of traditional crooks in masks, giving the film a darker tone. The film has been adapted into a book. It is the second of the first four Scooby Doo direct-to-video film to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio Mook Animation. The film marks the first time voice actor and radio-personality Scott Innes voiced Shaggy, as Billy West (who voiced Shaggy in "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island") needed time for his roles as Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Dr. John Zoidberg on "Futurama". After Ben Ravencroft, a famous horror writer of whom Velma Dinkley is a