Jun 5, 2014
I absolutely LOVE this anime. It's been around for a while so I decided to watch it before Netflix decided to kill my happiness. I was extremely impressed with this anime at first because I thought that an anime about ancient Japan with hip-hop was not exactly an amazing start but I couldn't have been anymore wrong. Thinking of Samurai Champloo with traditional music (which it does have some) just seems plain wrong after watching it. The entire show had the capability to be extremely serious and depressing to complete and utter goofiness all while never losing the viewers interest.
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The characters grow on you with all of the adventures they go through and although I thought the character Fuu would be like any other "damsel in distress" anime character, she completely surprised me, giving a completely different view of her role in an anime. The two other main characters, Mugen and Jin, are also quite different from your everyday samurai (well, Mugen is anyway). A duo that are complete opposites of each other and mortal enemies make quite a good team, able to play off of each others strengths and weaknesses and generally kick ass.
The overall story was quite amazing and fresh but the ending was a bit disappointing to me but to any other normal person, it was great. The overall goal of finding the samurai who smelled of sunflowers seemed to be interesting but not only was slightly disappointing to me, but to someone else as well. That probably sounds confusing but if you've seen it, you know. And although the actual ending was everything a great, short anime should have, being the overall clingy viewer I was and am, wanted to see it continue. I thought it would have ended with a more adventuring tone but no. It just ends. None the less, this was a fantastic anime to me. I give it a 10 out of 10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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