Samurai Champloo
| Samurai Champloo | |
Title card for the anime series
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サムライチャンプルー (Samurai Chanpurū) |
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| Genre | Action, Adventure, Chanbara |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masaru Gotsubo |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Ace |
| Original run | January 26, 2004 – September 26, 2004 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shinichirō Watanabe |
| Produced by | Takatoshi Hamano Takashi Kochiyama Tetsuro Satomi |
| Written by | Shinji Obara |
| Music by |
Nujabes Tsutchie Fat Jon Force of Nature |
| Studio | Manglobe |
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| Original network | Fuji TV |
| English network | |
| Original run | May 19, 2004 – March 19, 2005 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Samurai Champloo (Japanese: サムライチャンプルー Hepburn: Samurai Chanpurū?), (stylized as SAMURAI CHAMPLOO) is a Japanese anime series developed by Manglobe. It featured a production team led by director Shinichirō Watanabe, character designer Kazuto Nakazawa and mechanical designer Mahiro Maeda. Samurai Champloo was Watanabe's first directorial effort for an anime television series after the critically acclaimed Cowboy Bebop. It was first broadcast in Japan on Fuji TV on May 20, 2004 and ran for twenty-six episodes until its conclusion on March 19, 2005.
Samurai Champloo is set in an alternate version of Edo-era (1603 to 1868) Japan with an anachronistic, predominantly hip hop, setting. It follows Mugen, an impudent and freedom-loving vagrant swordsman; Jin, a composed and stoic rōnin; and Fuu, a brave girl who asks them to accompany her in her quest across Japan to find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers".
Samurai Champloo has many similarities to Shinichirō Watanabe's other work Cowboy Bebop. Both series are critically acclaimed, focus on mixing genres, follow an episodic narrative design, and utilize contemporary music.
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