Samurai Champloo サムライチャンプル By Watanabe Shinichiro (2004)
9 March 2006I am a huge Watanabe Shinichiro fan, and have loved not only Cowboy Bebop, but also his live action films like Cutie Honey, and I love that he worked on Storyboards for Macross Plus as well. This guy has a great history. And this series is another amazing series from him, maybe not as good as Cowboy Bebop, but still an incredible series. Not just an incredible samurai serious, but also a hip hop adventure. The characters and artwork are top notch, and so is the fighting. This is an amazing series and one that no anime fan should miss. One of the best, from one of the best!
This is the story of 3 very different people, a young girl with a huge appetite named Fuu (Kawasumi Ayako) who is searching for the Samurai who smells like Sunflowers (never mind that Sunflowers have no smell), who it turns out is her father, that she wants revenge on for abandoning her and her mother.
The second is Jin (Sato Ginpei) a incredibly talented samurai who killed his own master, and is haunted by his past.
The 3rd and final character is Mugen (Nakai Kazuya) who is Jin’s equal in swordfighting, though in a completely different completely chaotic sword style, that often looks like breakdancing, and he is pretty much a dead ringer for Spike from Cowboy Bebop.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Jin an Mugen want to kill each other, but instead Fu convinced them to be her bodyguards through many adventures to find the samurai who smells of sunflowers.
Eventually they find their target, but not before the find out the shogunate is after them because Fu’s father was a prominent Christian, and Christianity is banned in Japan of this period.
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An excellent and amazing anime with great characters, artwork and style that really can’t be missed.
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