Review of Samurai Champloo
Samurai Champloo is a series I've always remembered. Asking me what was one of the best sword fighting anime and I'd say the obvious. Its been a long time ago, and recently, I've only viewed crappy anime series one after the other, especially this winter season in MAL, so I've rewatched the samurais in action, though still at episode 3. Some series this season, I've already read in manga so there's no surprise there if I don't watch the moving pictures. The unknown part is gone so why bother. I could say though, if I read a manga version of this series, I would be missingout big time, as the one quality that makes this series great is its sequence of movements. The almost real time actions, swordfights was captured here. This is just my opinion, I'm no sword fighting expert, if such things exist, but when a swordsman swings a sword, this movement would be in a flash, then he would move in a way to balance himself and prepare either for a defense, or offence. What I mean is that he/her movements would be based on the momentum he/she created and I observed this on Samurai Champloo.
Though I have great admiration for the animation, the story does not come behind either. This wouldn't be a rated 9 if it weren't so, as I put utmost importance in stories. A high spec computer would be useless for a novice programmer. I think 80 percent of entertainment value comes from the story to the many of us. And two samurais itching to end each other but can't because of this promise they were forced to take due to circumstances is such a story. I mean, they had this honor as a samurai. And to top if off, a revenge plot is involved here. Two characters with opposite personalities and a cute, strong willed girl in a period where swords unsheathed to problems unresolved? Doesn't get any better, wouldn't you say?
By the way, I've only noticed it now, perhaps I forgot, but why Champloo... oh yeah (literally just remembered this after a 5 second pause) , it's because of the samurai, a different one, whose the objective of this whole series smells of champloo, a kind of flower, as the girl remembers it, the only clue for this deadly mission of theirs.
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