#INDIE KUROSAGI SERIES#

#INDIE KUROSAGI SERIES#

The series is set during the Edo period, roughly sixty years after the end of the Sengoku period. Another theme outlined in the series pitch was individuality and finding one's unique identity. Series director ShinichirЕЌ Watanabe defined the central theme of Samurai Champloo as the portrayal and acceptance around death, themes he had previously explored in Cowboy Bebop and Macross Plus. Recovered from their final fight, the three part ways grateful for their shared adventure. Fuu also reveals she lied about the coin coming up tails, which briefly annoys Mugen and Jin. Fuu learns her father played a part in the Shimabara Rebellion and abandoned her to protect her. Mugen and Jin then have their duel, their swords shattering, but choose not to kill each other as they now consider each other friends.

One of the assassins kills Fuu's father before they are defeated by Jin. Fuu meets her father, having wanted revenge for him abandoning her and her mother, but she relents as he is already dying from an illness. The pair attempt to restart their battle, but Fuu tosses a coin, saying whether if it lands on heads then the pair can continue their battle, but if it lands on tails they postpone their battle to help her find a samurai who smells of sunflowers, whom she has sought for years.Дuring the closing stories, they finally arrive on Ikitsuki, with each ending up in conflict with a trio of assassins sent by the government to kill Fuu's father. The pair are captured and sentenced to death, but Fuu saves them. The two's fight ends up destroying the teahouse. Meanwhile the ronin Jin, also a new arrival, kills the prefect's bodyguards when they abuse a peasant, ending up in conflict with Mugen when the latter mistakes him for one of the prefect's men. The outlaw Mugen arrives in town, and Fuu begs him for protection, which he gives in exchange for food. Samurai Champloo opens in a town where Fuu is working as a tea waitress, ending up being molested by the son of the town's corrupt prefect.

Main article: List of Samurai Champloo episodes It was also licensed for English releases in the United Kingdom by MVM Films, and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. It was later licensed by Funimation after Geneon ceased distribution of its titles. Samurai Champloo was licensed by Geneon Entertainment for English releases in North America. It follows Mugen, an impudent and freedom-loving vagrant swordsman Jin, a composed and stoic rЕЌnin and Fuu, a brave girl who asks them to accompany her in her quest across Japan to find the ' samurai who smells of sunflowers'. Samurai Champloo is set in an alternate version of Edo-era (1603вЂ“1868) Japan with an anachronistic, mainly hip hop, setting. The series ran for twenty-six episodes on Fuji Television from May 2004 to March 2005. Samurai Champloo was Watanabe's first directorial effort for an anime television series after the critically acclaimed Cowboy Bebop. It featured a production team led by director ShinichirЕЌ Watanabe, character designer Kazuto Nakazawa and mechanical designer Mahiro Maeda. Samurai Champloo is a Japanese anime television series produced by Manglobe.

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