Post by amanz on Jan 21, 2005 0:20:30 GMT -5
I just got Vol. 1 today and I have to say it is just awesome. The Director of Cowboy Bebop (Shinichiro Watanabe) is also the Director of Samurai Champloo. In Cowboy Bebop they used a Jazz soundtrack but in Samurai Champloo they use a Hip-Hop soundtrack. The action and the music mix together to make something beautiful.
Samurai Champloo is set in the Edo period, also known as the last era of classical Japan. The 3 main character are Fuu, Jin, and Mugen. Jin is the soft spoken wandering samurai, Mugen is from lawless Okinawa but has traveled to the main land for some reason (He got Spikes hair, voice, and at time it seems a lot of his attitude too), and Fuu the girl that ends up saving there lives and in turn has them both help her find the Samurai that smell of Sun Flowers (she never says why she is looking for him when they ask her)…If Jin and Mugen don’t kill each other first.
Now I know your all saying another Samurai anime who cares but as Animerca says “After all, anyone can make a martial-arts action series, or a buddy road comedy, or a period samurai drama. It takes a special talent to do it with style.” And Samurai Champloo has a lot of talent behind it like Shinichiro Watanabe the Director of Cowboy Bebop, Kazuto Nakazawa the director of the animated sequence in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and character designer for El Hazard and Final Fantasy: Unlimited did the character designs, and Mahiro Maeda mecha designer and director of Blue Submarine No. 6 provides the mechanical and weapons designs for Samurai Champloo.
In my opinion this is like Cowboy Bebop one of those great animes that doesn’t come along very often. “Watanabe’s hand, in particular, has clearly shaped Samurai Champloo. Just as Cowboy Bebop revitalized the clichés of anime space opera with a cool, angular visual style and an unforgettable jazz soundtrack, Samurai Champloo jolts samurai soap opera to life with a burst of streetwise sensibility and sound.” Animerica Vol. 13, NO. 01 page 31.
Samurai Champloo is set in the Edo period, also known as the last era of classical Japan. The 3 main character are Fuu, Jin, and Mugen. Jin is the soft spoken wandering samurai, Mugen is from lawless Okinawa but has traveled to the main land for some reason (He got Spikes hair, voice, and at time it seems a lot of his attitude too), and Fuu the girl that ends up saving there lives and in turn has them both help her find the Samurai that smell of Sun Flowers (she never says why she is looking for him when they ask her)…If Jin and Mugen don’t kill each other first.
Now I know your all saying another Samurai anime who cares but as Animerca says “After all, anyone can make a martial-arts action series, or a buddy road comedy, or a period samurai drama. It takes a special talent to do it with style.” And Samurai Champloo has a lot of talent behind it like Shinichiro Watanabe the Director of Cowboy Bebop, Kazuto Nakazawa the director of the animated sequence in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and character designer for El Hazard and Final Fantasy: Unlimited did the character designs, and Mahiro Maeda mecha designer and director of Blue Submarine No. 6 provides the mechanical and weapons designs for Samurai Champloo.
In my opinion this is like Cowboy Bebop one of those great animes that doesn’t come along very often. “Watanabe’s hand, in particular, has clearly shaped Samurai Champloo. Just as Cowboy Bebop revitalized the clichés of anime space opera with a cool, angular visual style and an unforgettable jazz soundtrack, Samurai Champloo jolts samurai soap opera to life with a burst of streetwise sensibility and sound.” Animerica Vol. 13, NO. 01 page 31.