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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Samurai Champloo #2
I watched the first three episodes of the series so far, and I am completely and utterly impressed. The basis of the story is the two main characters Mugen and Jin being drawn together by hte female lead (name escapes me). Mugen is a wild, everything goes type of swordfighter. He's more of a punk, poor and scraping by sort of character slightly reminiscent of Spike (bebop). Jin is a more honorable ronin traditional swordfighter and they both want to kill each other, though not for any personal reason...episode one introduces all that.

The visual style is fantastic, far better than 99% of anime out there now. It feels like they spent a lot of time polishing the show so that its not plain and simple like a lot of anime where you get a lot of still shots with just mouths moving. There are a lot of transitions inbetween scenes and its put together quite nicely. Like Cowboy Bebop it has a good blend of action, comedy, emotion and great characters. Having seen the first 2 eps, its at least as good as CB.

I don't know when it will come out in the US, but it will likely take a while. I hope they get good voice actors for it.
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