5.11.2005 |  Samurai Champloo

posted by Jon
13:22 | SAY SOMETHING |




Mugen

I finished the second (and final) season of Samurai Champloo earlier this week. If you've not seen this, you are missing out. The show is Anime, but unlike other Anime cartoons (which I despise) that feature sci-fi or little kids with weird supernatural powers and whatnot, this one is set in Japan during the late 1700s and only ventured into the supernatural one time (one episode contained a weird plotline involving zombies).


Mugen, Jin, and Fuu

The show follows the journey of three companions. Mugen and Jin are two talented swordsmen who assist a girl, Fuu, in searching for the "Samurai who smells like sunflowers". The development of these characters and the storyline in general are incredibly well-written, and the show as a whole is just plain good story-telling. The ending was especially nice and unexpected. I definitely recommend this to anyone who is not bothered or distracted by subtitles. This is one of my favs, now, right up there with Lost and 24.


Mugen attacked