Set
during a fictional Japan in the Edo period, this anime follows two samurais with opposite personalities
-Mugen is rude and short-tempered, Jin is well-mannered and calm- in a journey
to help a determined young girl named Fuu to find her missing father. The problem
is the only thing Fuu knows about her father is that he smells of sunflowers.
The word champloo
means to mix. The idea of blending factual events of Edo period with modern references
such as hip-hop, beat-box and graffiti seems weird. But Samurai Champloo’s creators did much more.
Some of the subjects during the 26 episodes include an eating competition, a
baseball match (one of the players is a dog, by the way) and zombies. Not to
mention drugs and homosexuality.
Amazingly all those
different elements work pretty well. The pace and storytelling are great and
one thing that I love are the characters. The main characters are so well built
that sometimes they seem real people.
Samurai Champloo is a
crazy adventure about samurais, hip-hop culture and sunflowers.
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