With a unique style that's sharp like the edge of a samurai sword, Samurai Champloo combines the twenty-first century's bold, flashy, and fresh attitude with Edo-era Japan; a feudalistic world of honor where people lived life day by day and fight by fight.
Jin and Mugen, both ronin, are total opposites, Jin is the classic 'honourable' samurai, while Mugen is a rude and lawless punk. It is from these major difference in opinions of Jin and Mugen that the plot and unique nature of the series is spawned. If the two had not been fighting in a burning down house, a fight derived from their dislike for the other, they would have never been captured and thus forced into working together in order to save their lives through a bloody escape (with the help of Fuu, a klutzy teahouse employee). And if they hadn't escaped together, they wouldn't have ran into Fuu who cajoled them into promising to journey with her to find a samurai that smells of sunflowers. |
