Review of Samurai Champloo

anime has a way of making you like a show that might now even have a story to it. But to be completely honest, sometimes it is all about the adventure and fun the show represents, so without further a due, from the creator of cowboy bebop, Mr. wtanabe gives us samurai champloo. story: 6/10 The story of samurai champloo is very very very very simple to grasp. Two badass samurai start kicking each other's ass, a girl named Fuu comes along and saves them after being arrested and in return those two don't kill each other until they help her find the samurai that smells ofsunflowers. boom, entire story, now why did I give the story a 6/10? Because the story barely exist, the show contains more filler than anything. Normally i'd say that this isn't that big a deal, but they don't make shit progress until the final episodes, and yes those filler episodes are very enjoyable, but my god, the plot needs to exist somewhere, right?! In terms of fun, which is exactly what this show is, it's great, but in terms of story, it kinda flopped in my opinion. But remember, it is still fun to watch, just the main plot itself barely exists.

art and animation: 10/10
With a show that had madhouse as it's production company and manglobe for it's animation, there's not really much more to talk about other than it looks fucking awesome. Truly one of the show's highpoints, the action is smooth and the attention to detail, while not perfect, is definitely noticeable. so that wraps up this segment.

sound: 10/10
Samurai Champloo truly has one odd yet genius sountrack. You won't find another show with this kind of soundtrack. It has an opening featuring rap, and hip hop beats and some nice soothing music when it wants and needs it, including the ending song done by Shiki no uta, which is an amazing song, just gonna have to trust me on that one. It seems that wantanabe really likes having the music speak for the show itself, being champloo and bebop are his best two pieces of work (in my opinion). Not a bad thing because soundtracks to both shows are awesome.

Characters: 7/10
The characters in this show really are the definition of the rule of cool. Mugan is your beatboxing breakdancing samurai, who kicks as much ass as he talks shit, you have Jean, the cool calm relaxed, but deadly samurai who is the exact opposite of Mugan, and you have Fuu.... and she's the only character I couldn't give a shit less about in this show. She literally serves no purpose, she's not there for fanservice, she's not there for comic relief, and she sucks at trying to keep Mugan and Jean from killing each other. in all honesty, Mugan and Jean get very well flushed out and a lot of cool reasons to like them. Fuu just does not have anything on that end, and considering she has a fair amount of dialogue and presence in the show, she became annoying. just a dragggggg.

enjoyment overall: 7/10
Samurai Champloo is a very entertaining show and however, it tries a little to hard to be like it's cousin cowboy bebop. It is a show with two awesome samurai's, some seriously epic fight scenes, and a sountrack that will blow the doors off of most shows being the rarity it is. The only real gripes I have with the show is that it couldn't focus on the main plot of the show enough, and while many will say that it's all about the adventure, your right, but you need to get on the plot at some point. and waiting until the last three or so episodes is a bit ridiculous. And of course since Fuu SUCKS, she just dragged the show a bit there too. so I feel a 7/10 is a fair rating for this show, and should be a recommendation to watch it. it's fun, it's entertaining, and hey, just don't go into it accepting a deep plot?