Review of Samurai Champloo

**Spoiler free review** When I started writing this review for Samurai Champloo I thought what is the first word that comes to my mind? It's "unique". As a history enthusiast I got sucked in by the Edo-era Japan setting and the idea of following a story of a ronin, criminal and a girl roaming around in search of this mysterious samurai. And then there is this other thing I wasn't aware of. This series takes place in an alternate history. Oh man was I surprised when I first saw how seamlessly they've combined Edo period and hip-hop culture. It flows so good most of the time, that youdon't even realize those hip-hop culture homages just because how great they execute them.
Another thing I liked about this anime, is that even though most of the episodes were "case of the day" It still connected big plot points and had very good character progression. Since this is spoiler free review I'm not going to details but a good bunch of the episodes had some great metaphors and critique of different topics for example the very bizarre episode 22.
Art in this anime was great most of the time, but you could see from far which episodes were made to spare the budget. Music in this anime is no less than god-tier as you could expect It's a mix of Classic japanese music and hip-hop, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

"I think I've found what I was looking for all this time. I, who was always alone... found comrades for the first time."

Overall score: 9

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