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Samurai Champloo
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Samurai Champloo is based around two samurai, Jin and Mugen, helping Fuu on her journey to find the samurai that smells like sunflowers. It lacks the kind of romance in Spice and Wolf but the characters dynamics between Jin, Mugen, and Fuu are just as interesting as the dynamics between Lawrence and Holo. Both stories are set in a past historical setting with anachronisms thrown in. In Spice and Wolf, Holo feels that the village no longer needs her, which is why she wants to return to her homeland. There is also the feeling that pagan traditions are slowly being replaced by Christianity. In Samurai Champloo, Fuu is worried that their journey will come to an end just like Holo is worried that she will have to leave Lawrence one day and that If she chooses to stay she will eventually outlive him. Both Fuu and Holo have to come to terms with the end of their Journeys. The message in both animes is that it's not the outcome but the journey that matters.