Just to let everyone here know, I'm planning a 'Samurai Champloo' Fan Fiction in the General Fiction Area. So, if you're interested. Post here and let me know!
The FanFic will pick up where the series left off. So get ready for some awesome samurai action.
I'm not intent to brag, but in case you're wondering if I'll do the show any justice, I won the First Annual Short Story Writing Contest of KMC. Hopefully that means something. So, keep the faith.
Last edited by Dusty on Dec 15th, 2006 at 12:22 AM
I finally got around to finishing this series. I had caught random episodes on Adult Swim years ago, but never the full series.
It's really the only anime I've ever enjoyed, but I really liked it. My only complaint regards the two episodes just prior to the final three-parter. They have a ton of character and plot development for a long time, then sidetrack randomly into a zombie excavation site that seems to be at odds with the rest of the series entirely, and they play baseball. The latter episode was fun for what it was, but utterly lacking in anything meaningful. Given the gravity of the show's run, those episodes stood out like sore thumbs, as though they needed to kill time before the finale. Even the intentionally-comical recap episode at about the midway point revealed some things about the characters and furthered their relationship. But those two were utterly devoid of purpose, and only one was moderately amusing.
Wonderful music. There's a hypnotic quality to the whole thing, and they enjoy combining the slightly-repetitive but serene musical bits with landscape or nature shots in between the action. There were many beautiful moments in the show, usually tactfully accompanied by the music. The hip-hop elements, when they're used, also work. I found soundtracks (there's more than one disc worth) online and have them in my collection. I enjoy them on long car rides...the music is interesting enough to provide distraction but not so intense as to be emotionally unsustainable for longer trips.
The OP (from 2005!) says it's from the creators of Cowboy Bebop...may check that show out someday. Most animes actively repel me, so it's not something I go seeking out too often.
I wanted confirmation that they stuck together at the end, but it never came. I also thought they were leading toward a Fuu + Jin romance...there were at least two not-so-subtle hints in previous episodes (though one I may have misinterpreted). The ending was satisfying; Jin got his story resolved, Mugen seemingly buried the dirtiest elements of his past and was openly selfless toward Fuu, and Fuu got her closure. But I guess the continuing journey for the three will just have to happen in the fan-fic universe in my mind...
I can't see Mugen settling down with a single woman, but I wonder if that cute secret agent girl ever manages to find him again?
The follow up would have made a good story.
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I think you'd be surprised. I've been recommended quite a few and turned nearly all of them down after a few viewings. Just not my style usually.
There's a difference between satisfying closure and tying up all loose ends. I saw this as something that would likely never be resolved, even when it was first mentioned, because they'd have to go out of their way to explain it after the main events of the show.
I understand why they didn't close that story. Just saying, I'd like to have seen how Mugen reacted, if she did manage to track him down and propose.
Tying up loose ends well after a story line finishes is actually one of my pet peeves with Fist of the North Star, where after Raoh's story ends, the writer keeps on developing the character by interjecting flashback scenes in EVERY single future encounter.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Found out while trying to find the tracks online that Nujabes, the guy who made a lot of them (including the theme song) died in a car accident in 2010.
Sad.
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