Story - Like I said before, Samurai Champloo takes place in the Edo Period and involves three main characters: Fuu, Mugen and Jin. I'll go into more detail later on, but Fuu ends up recruiting Mugen and Jin, in order to find the 'Samurai who smells of Sunflowers'.
Art - The art style used is great to look at. It uses bright colours and representation of foliage and the background scenery, makes it a real treat for your eyes.
Sound - Featuring soundtracks from Tsutchie, (Watanabe's longtime friend, I might add) FORCE OF NATURE, Fat Jon and Nujabes. Samurai Champloo adds a modern twist to the era of old. Great beats I might add.
Character - I really like the three main characters Fuu, Mugen and Jin.
Fuu: She is a 15 year old waitress, has a bright personality and surprisingly enough can eat ALOT for her size.
Mugen: He is 19 years old, a brash, arrogant and a reckless person most of the time. He has a very unique fighting style that is not common with the traditonal samurai. Also can be a womansier at most times.
Jin: He is 20 years old, extremely skilled swordsman, mostly keeps to himself, and spent the majority of his life training at kenjutsu dojos.
These characters bring real variety to the series, these characters are not your typical happy go lucky type.
Enjoyment - I was looking forward to watching this anime for a while, so of course I really enjoyed watching this anime for the entirety of the 26 episodes.
Overall - Samurai Champloo is a great series, it has the right amount of blood, good laughable moments and great sword/fighting scenes. Apart from the main storyline of Fuu recruiting Mugen and Jin to search for the 'Samurai who smells of Sunflowers', each episode is an entirely different episode in it's own right, if you get what I am saying.
