Samurai Champloo, anyone?

BalineseKittyn · Post by **BalineseKittyn** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:59 pm

we just started watching this in the anime club here at my university, and i LOVE it. the storyline, while a little disjointed, is definitely cool. the characters are just awesome (the vagrant Mugen, who looks a little like Spike Spiegel; the rogue samurai Jin, cool and ascetic; and the little teahouse girl Fuu, who searches for the samurai who smells like sunflowers). the opening theme rocks ("the elements composin' magnum opus/my modus operandi is amalgam"). and to top it all off, it's directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (think Cowboy Bebop).

anyone else see this? what do you think of it?

ryuu_hime13 · Post by **ryuu_hime13** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:17 pm

Alas, I have not. They showed it at an anime con I went to in August, but since the schedule was off kilter (by a few hours, as a matter of fact

) I wound up walking into the middle of an episode...::grumble:: I want to see it, though. Does anyone have any idea when it'll be released here? I think it's been licensed.

DrngdKreationz · Post by **DrngdKreationz** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:55 pm

It's pimp

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:45 pm

ryuu_hime13 wrote:Alas, I have not. They showed it at an anime con I went to in August, but since the schedule was off kilter (by a few hours, as a matter of fact ) I wound up walking into the middle of an episode...::grumble:: I want to see it, though. Does anyone have any idea when it'll be released here? I think it's been licensed.

http://animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedi ... hp?id=3211

...thus adding my endless wish list of anime DVDs.

DrngdKreationz · Post by **DrngdKreationz** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:55 pm

at least a geneon is doing it.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:09 pm

I've followed the fansubs (but I'm a bit behind).

Also, at Mandarake Shibuya I picked up a giant sheaf of photocopied genga/layouts/etc from the show. Very cool stuff. The first DVD went on sale here, retail price about $60 for ep 1-2...

-DOKool