Watched Samurai Champloo, and it was great. It was great, but it was kinda sad. I feel like too much has been put into it, it has a lot of stories. It supposed to be fun, but it was all about death. Not life, not living, but dying. Guy from Ryukyu, young girl and rōnin with glasses, ain't it a perfect trio? Mugen can't even read, he moves purely on instinct. Jin is calculative, calm and always composed. But Kasumi is like just a girl. Not like women in the anime at all. Which are in the anime always scheming, they either poison you or steal from you, and all of those women are beautiful.
In Samurai Champloo East and West converge, and this convergence is shown in a kinda absurd way. The son of Xavier guy, from where did he get his guns from? Giant statue of Jesus in some random cave of random Japanese village, what are the odds? It shows both Japanese resistance and western curiosity. Very rememberable is the episode about Issac, it was about homosexuality. Samurai Champloo had many rememberable episodes though, like the Heike episode, it was odd and mysterious.
The samurai who smelled of sunflowers, who is that? Some Japanese girl explained that sunflowers were brought to Japan from Netherlands, so, Nagasaki must be the way. The trio is always on the move, to Edo, from Edo to Nagasaki. But sunflowers don't smell, that's what he explained at the end. There was a deeper explanation to the sunflower thing, but in all it was about dying.
Mugen and Jin, they just kill. Jin kills less, but Mugen couldn't care less about it all, he just fights anyone who makes a nuisance. All he really wants is to fight someone strong, Jin was strong, and they fought. But with time they experienced all kinda things together. Mugen almost died twice, Jin once, and they look invincible. But at the very end, they look like they actually died. Kasumi tricked those two and wanted to search for the sunflower samurai alone. Like, she would want for those three to continue forever like that but she knew it couldn't be. After all, a thing that binds those three is that they don't have anywhere to go. But at the end there were people who wanted to take revenge on Mugen and Jin. Even if those people end up diying in the process, they win. Mugen and Jin change, that's why they survive, they leave their old self behind and live as new ones. The guys which wanted to get revenge couldn't leave the grudge behind, they died. The god hand guy was just microantagonist who supposed t
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