Review of Samurai Champloo

It's me again, writing another review. I'm on fire. Anyway, so many people talk about Samurai Champloo, so I thought, it was time to finally give it a chance. The beginning was amazing. I love how they showed the characters' lives before they met one another, each doing their own thing. Honestly, when it comes to the story/plot, for me, the start was good and then everything went downhill. This show was mainly fillers honestly (even though it was manga canon) and it barely focused on the actual story. It kept adding new, random people, who have the same goal to kill the characters, andthe the two main leads always beat them. Then the story starts to go somewhere before it goes absolutely nowhere. For example, Jin was given a love interest in episode 11, I think, and then the girl was completely forgotten about. Jin never even thought about her, and I thought... he had actually fallen in love with her. I mean he did risk his life, fought so many samurai just to help her escape, and they even shared sweet moments. So I was confused when like two episodes later he was in the Red Light District. Like my respect for Jin went so high when he saved the girl, and she was actually a very good love interest for him. But then they just made her into another random, one-episode character who is never shown again.

The plot had too much bun and not enough meat. What I mean by that is that they focused on everything but the characters' background story, the sunflower samurai, etc. Only once in a while we were given actual plot. I wanted more than one or two episodes about Jin and Mugen's background story. More flashbacks. All the important parts of the story are just pushed together in the last few episodes. Fuu finally meets her dad and he dies right after. Everything is so rushed in the end.

Now moving on to characters. I personally did not like Fuu. She was annoying for sure since she neglect to even tell the two male leads about what the name of the samurai was that they were searching. Like how are they going around the country with the two male leads not having any clue besides that the samurai smelled like sunflowers? I mean she's 15 not 5. There should've been a better reason for the three of them to be traveling together. Jin and Mugen are both free birds. They don't seem the type to just listen to a girl, but apparently they did.

Idk, I just feel like one of the biggest reason why this show got such high ratings is because it's an older show with more freedom when it comes to the dialogue and scenes. Definitely, Jin and Mugen carried the show, and the dialogues were funny. Other than that, there was no actual plot besides them helping a girl find a samurai who smells like sunflower. Like just imagine a girl forces you, a grown man, that he MUST help her find a man who smells like sunflowers, and no additional detail is given. LOL.

Overall, I've seen worse shows. It really did have lots of protentional in the beginning. There was room for romance as well (I know the girl was like 15, but at that time, age like that didn't matter). However, I guess I like the fact that she ended up with none of them since they're on another level, and she just nags, gets captured all the time, and then has the audacity to say they're useless bodyguards.

And that's all folks.