I like how it seems your in recording booth spitting rhymes. Hehe

One of the best Samurai series I've ever seen.

I just finished watching Samurai Champloo for the first time a few weeks ago and when this popped up, I quickly clicked. First time here and I have to say, I'm impressed with the quality of the video and sound. I noticed the spoken word and thought how perfect it was for the topic, much respect! I'll subscribe and watch a few of your back log. If they are half as good as this, I'll be permanently glued to the channel! Have a great evening guys! P.S. the script hit the feels deep! Outstanding work!

I love the work you all invest into this🖤

Welcome to the channel! I think this video is great, but we have a bunch that rival it in quality. Trigun and Evangelion come to mind specifically of recent videos.

And a good example of good things always come to an end 😭

Idk the destination of game of thrones still sucked ass.

I would say for gaming, Persona would be that example. Xenoblade too.

You’ve never read the alchemist have you

Damn frfr

He past away? When?

@@exthechickenwing he passed away a long time ago bud. I think it was like 20 yrs ago

19 yrs ago

@@danny4evr I never considered it. Dang

@@exthechickenwing February 26, 2010

What purpose does she serve, then?

@@TheRaveJunkie The two of them wouldn't have been travelling together to begin with if she didn't come into the picture and make them help her find the Sunflower Samurai. Also I find she adds an element of heart into the story arcs as she almost always tries to understand the other person's point of view. Especially in the episode where she meets the pickpocket's mother and gains a new perspective of the situation whereas Jin and Mugan just busted into the mother's home with just the intention of getting their money back so they can eat

She's a very caring, kind hearted and innocent person, she's the third contrast to Mugen and Gin, a normal person thrown into absurdity.

@@FC-mk1nb definitely!

@@JustNathaniel she is, and she's kind of the backbone of the group. She puts a lot of emphasis on compassion and I think it teaches them how to be more caring and to hold onto their humanity through all the tumultuous shit they've been through

Epic dude😎

Carai jose

Though my mind's at peace, the world out of order Missing the inner heat, life gets colder.

sharp like an edge of a samurai sword the mental blade cut thru flesh and bone though minds at peace world out of order missing the inner heats life gets colder ohh yes i have to find the path no less walk on earth water and fire the elements compose a magnum opus my modus operandi is amalgam steel packed tight in microchip on my arm sign of all pro the ultimate rewards honor not awards odd at times war with no lords freelancer a battclecry of a hawk make a dove fly and the tear dry wonder why lone wolf dont run with klan only trust ur instincts be the one with the plan

This song means so much to me legit

Holy shit it is

🔥🔥🔥🔥

i thought it was spoken word on the love he felt while watching this anime, glad to see another soul understand and feel the same flow i got from this awesome script, without doubt this video is an anthem to the word and the romantic vibe it wrap us in, kudos mike it shows you make this outstanding thesis on animes from a shinning part of your soul.

yeah it hit me what he was doing half-way through or so. The sense of flow. Prose elevated to poetry by mood and subtle rhythm. This video was a work of art in response to and explaining a work of art. This is what KZfaq is meant for.

i didn't even notice that

saskia uh same, I only got into anime properly late 2018 early 19, and I’ve taken it upon myself to watch and appreciate older anime’s rather than the typical boring big anime’s like naruto and shit. I recently finished watching older anime’s and loved stuff like samurai champ loom black lagoon, cowboy bebop, trigun, all the good stuff. I’m tired of hearing naruto this dragon ball than every corner of the world

Aung San dragon ball is one of the anime defining animes form the 80s naruto is also a highly great anime of the early 2000s around 2002 - before samurai champloo. i'm not saying you're wrong i do prefer all trigun samurai champloo and cowboy bebop to the others but just correcting you

The big three were just that for a reason. These old, often shorter animes carry a much deeper meaning in them most of the time, which is why they feel so great to watch. While they're not there week in week out for years on end, they tend to stick with you much more at certain points. Samurai champloo reminds me of an amazing summer where i just watched 2-3 episodes every night, and it really stuck with me as one of the greater animes out there.

I never got into cowboy bebop besides the movie the series is all over the place like a bunch of filler episodes. i feel samurai champloo more follows a solid storyline

@@ESFDragxnFistEntertainment the individual episodes are pretty strong though imo, most of them flesh out the characters and I'm currently really enjoying it ^^

Agree and she helped them to develop. She is not boring at all.

She was also so strong with them, I am watching this again for the 3rd time and I see so much more in it.

he said at the beginning they wernt likable meaning that they did as the show develops

that they became likable

It's all about the journey and not the destination. Sure when you get there you can do what you gotta do but the time you spend getting there is a story on its own... A random series of events or Champloo haha

or he’s just blind..

@@lousassoled3485 nope it's been stated that it's for show so... No

Woah...that makes way too much sense.

woa i never thought of it that way.. i always thought that he wore those glasses because of something his sensei had told him. i don't remember the exact words tho i'm sure he said something like "Your eyes see too much" and indicated that because of his rare strength, he would always be alone. because of that moment i had thought that he wanted to hide his strength, that he could "see too much" by wearing those glasses, because in fact he didn't want to be alone.. this might be a stretch but i still wanted to put my opinion out there

Well it was said it's just for show but I guess makes sense now

I always imagined the smell of sunflower oil whenever they said that 🌻

Holy fuck right? It blew my mind when he explained it like that. Just like awakening, it was under our nose the whole time.

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Funny thing, sunflowers do actually have an aroma, but it's only when you let them ripen and harvest the seeds that you smell it. When the head begins to sag, indicating ripeness, you sever the head and find that there's little nubs, one atop each seed, that pop off and are discarded. In the act of brushing aside those nubs you get this sap on your hands (which is dried nectar, since the nubs are sepels), and the pollen from the anthers atop each sepel sticks to the sticky glue-like nectar. As you pry open the head and loosen the seeds, the tissue holding them in will further coat your hands in another kind of sap which has a strong but somehow unremarkably indescript scent. The stuff doesn't rub off and is a bitch to remove, perhaps as bad ir worse than pine tree sap, if you've ever climbed an evergreen as a kid you'll know what I mean. I'd like to think that it furthers the concept explained in the video, because up until the end, when the experience is ripened, does the hindsight hit you, and boy does it stick.

It was literally mentioned in the show one time, someone saying that sunflowers don't have a smell

Just out of curiosity, what would be in your top 5?

Not in any order, Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Mushi-shi, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Kenshin

Look into Undertale and Chrono Cross. This guy worked in two magnificent pieces of theirs into the background music

Counting stars

!!!!!! this

Personally, I came up with my own little ending. Throughout the episodes I noticed that each of them had people to return to. Fuu mentioned how she was trying to find the guts to tell that sickly mother the truth about her son, or Mugen to eventually find that police women he helped, or Jin finding the lady he saved and how she ended up at the refugee. They all have people to eventually return to, a new reasoning. As you said, I definitely think they’ll end up finding each other again. The paths they took was all connected to one trail.

This is a good interpretation

ah yes, this is why the ending is so satisfying even though they went on diff paths; through their portrayed adventure, you see that somehow, they always ended up together again, so even as they walk away, again, one day, together they shall be.

yes!! and the fact that they show them walking but just in daylight which could suggest that not much time passes, maybe it's all in the same day. I think they are destined to meet again not long after they part ways.

and that woman who Jin saved from the brothel, did he left off to meet her. I hope he did, her sweetness and sense of humour perfectly complemented his reserved nature

Hahahha I've been wondering about it too

He gonna get that good ninja puh

I hope he was bro but ''we don't know destination we only have the journey'' she was married some another dude :( RYUKYU4LIFE

Probably, I mean, you heard what she said. And she does seem to type to get what she wants.

Thanks for writing. She gets the short stick nearly always, mostly due to what people expect from the show. She's the pivot of the story, much of the show and its pathos is driven from Fuu herself, her actions and motivations or lack thereof. The other two are just tagging along. She's also fun and entertaining in many episodes when the other two were brooding and bored. There was never a dull moment. Without her, the center, samurai champloo wouldn't be half as good, it would lose much of its meaning, and just become a tale of two rival samurai who want to best each other. The show instead is about three aimless lovable fools looking to find some meaning/purpose in life, but watanabe's talent is making this work by knowing when/where to put the focus, and he uses episodic storytelling to his advantage. His shows end up more rewarding with time

Thank you

Truue, we need to remember that she is the begining of that crazy trip, its not a coincidence

That's a great summary! Just FYI that guy is Dutch not Scandinavian.

I wanna say stop trying to make Fuu happen. But you aren't wrong

just happened to me

𝙹𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚒 ur one of us now

danthegoat13❶ dont know what to do now, show goated asf

Yeah can't lie I teared up

Me too may have to rewatch

wouldn’t doubt it. Im sure the director could link them cause why not ya know.

Thas Dope to Think of

yeah I'm glad they used Steve Blum for both roles. He kills it every episode

It's awesome to know that I'm not the only one who thinks that and believes it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's what I'd like to think

Thankyou

shame the content sounds like a read thru, super monotone, sounds just read and you meh thru the whole thing.. lol

Katelyn Pfister 1000%

@@katelynpfister2920 Yeah. I feel like this guy's voice could be good for this type of content if he expressed any form of emotion. It's super well thought out and I loved his take on the series, but it was presented in a pretty bleak tone that took away from the video as a whole quite a bit.

@@omnistellar5647 I think the intention was to sound like a straight Rap to the BGM.

@@katelynpfister2920 I disagree, the rhythm and emphasis on specific words seemed to be well thought out on top of the excellent script.

Makes me think of cowboy bebop as well...

That did help me to enjoy the video, kinda bobbed my head to it a little.

it is obviously what he was intending to do; funny enaugh he looks like a edgy kid trying to be cool and rap hip-hop

Yea I noticed this around three minutes, holy shit

Lol he was doing exactly that

Turns out I wrote this comment twice and someone asked for an explanation on the other one so there you go. Kinda wrote that a long time ago and I dont remember now all the details about the show but I have an explanation for Jin atleast. so yin and yang is two personalities each one is dominant with either the energy and thoughness, or with being gentle and mindfull. So Jin is the gentle and smart while mugen is the though and hard. Now the idea about yin and yang is that they both have just enough of the other personality type to complete eachother, its the idea that opposing people can still have stuff in common and complete/ compliment eachother, this is why although Jin and Mugen hated each other when the series started, they found themselves sticking together until by the end of all their journeys they understood what they ment for each other and how they need one another. The one example I thought of is when Jin fought the samurai guy at the end of the show (dont remember the name but the hyped up one who was a master or something I dont remember). The whole fight Jin was obviously losing because he was only using his already known fighting style, but what gave him the win was when he did a very Mugen esc move, and charged in knowing he will get hurt but didn't care, which is exactly the type of rushing in mugen usually does. This move is what ended the fight, signifying how Jin needs the reckless side that Mugen represents. other than that I remember at the last episode when Jin and Mugen almost die they lay there on the beach infront of eachother and it resembles the yin and yang symbol so thats another thing.

yea its a very zen ending... peoples paths cross and separate often and we are all on our own path. ships passing eachother in the dark or whatever the quote is

Its more uplifting with equally tragic charcters, and fun, that alone makes it like me more, and i am a bit of a weeb. And i think ultimately both fight because both mugen and jin are both lost and just now how to fight till they meet each other. I am glad we et a bitter sweet but not tragic solution here, o all three, fuu isnt that stock of a character.

i made my poser son watch it and now its one of his favs

I love champloo so much more than beboo. It just speaks to me in a way bebop couldn't

Champloo is better than bebop.

Champloo claps bebop's cheeks no cap.

You make your own purpose. The people without one need religion to give them a sense of one. It’s a curse a lot of humans have and needed to make something like religion to cope not being able to just enjoy the ride.

Newtus minder you speak like its objective truth. In all likelihood, you probably haven’t explored purpose much. You probably haven’t read many books or spent much time thinking about it. You just say that because it’s more convenient for you to believe that than to invest in an honest search for truth

Filip Gasic how does that logically follow?

@ but that's thing. YOU were the one making purpose. Not life or nature. Life is inherently purposeless cuz it doesnt care what you do. You were the one that cared whether you want a purpose or not.

It depends on the assumption you take at the start. If you believe that an omnipotent God exists and created you, of course you would believe that your purpose lies somewhere there. If you believe that the universe is all that is and nothing more, then, yeah. Life is indeed meaningless.

Me too, bro. I got a list of anime that I'm going to have my kids watch. Videogames, too.

@@roastchicken401 what are some of the animes on that list, I'm interested

@@conrute Well, My Top 3 personal favorite anime are Space Dandy, One Punch Man (well season 1 anyway), and my #1 favorite anime of all time HunterXHunter, so those are definitely on the list and I highly recommend them to anybody. Also in that list are Mob Psycho 100, Vinland Saga, Kill la Kill, Fire Force... Honestly there's a ton. Do you want me to list more or nah

@@roastchicken401 yea im always looking for good animes, hxh and one Puch man are good, I'll check out space Dandy for sure

@@conrute It's different and wildly bizarre, but it's high quality all the way through. Space Dandy is one of my all-time favorites. Also I think it's made by the same person who made Cowboy Bebop

...Hakumen? That's what jumped out of my mind when I saw this comment

It helped it was one of my earlier anime, but the fight scenes and nuanced human interaction wirth the humor made me like them on the spot, Even fuu to a good degree, i like her ability to think on her two feet in any situation. Thats a stong female character too. The music helped too.

i like them all too. it's one of my favorite animes. i watched it many times and i will watch it again and again ^^

This video is great but I definitely agree with you that all the characters were immediately endearing in their own ways. In a show like this where the only throughline of each episode are the characters, it’s critical that they are relatable enough, or at the very least interesting enough, to hold your attention. Samurai Champloo holds up in part because both its primary and secondary characters make such a strong first impression and unfold as they go.

@@jonsnor4313 Agree with you 100%. Fuu is mos definitely a strong female character.

its in my top 3 easy and i agree i loved them all right away

That really was a nice touch and nod to the series

jm007890 don’t forget about Trigun!

Monster !!!

It's been out for so long how have you not seen it by now?

enjoy the ride!

It’s worth it, you’ll definitely feel something after it ends.

Watch cowboy bebop next

Enjoy!! 😁

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@C. J. B. Kinda wrote that a long time ago and I dont remember now all the details about the show but I have an explanation for Jin atleast. so yin and yang is two personalities each one is dominant with either the energy and thoughness, or with being gentle and mindfull. So Jin is the gentle and smart while mugen is the though and hard. Now the idea about yin and yang is that they both have just enough of the other personality type to complete eachother, its the idea that opposing people can still have stuff in common and complete/ compliment eachother, this is why although Jin and Mugen hated each other when the series started, they found themselves sticking together until by the end of all their journeys they understood what they ment for each other and how they need one another. The one example I thought of is when Jin fought the samurai guy at the end of the show (dont remember the name but the hyped up one who was a master or something I dont remember). The whole fight Jin was obviously losing because he was only using his already known fighting style, but what gave him the win was when he did a very Mugen esc move, and charged in knowing he will get hurt but didn't care, which is exactly the type of rushing in mugen usually does. This move is what ended the fight, signifying how Jin needs the reckless side that Mugen represents. other than that I remember at the last episode when Jin and Mugen almost die they lay there on the beach infront of eachother and it resembles the yin and yang symbol so thats another thing.

My best friend and I would occasionally call eachother Mugen and Jinn after we watched this show too lol I was Mugen as well.

For me in my top 5 1 - Stains; Gate 2 - Death Note 3 - Mob Psycho 100 4 - Samurai Champloo 5 - Dragon Ball Z (There are animes that i like more than dragon ball z but this was the first anime i saw and nostalgure gets the fifth spot)

What’s the other two?

ima take a wild guess trigun and bebop are the other 2 :)

There are some Samurai Champloo playlists on Spotify that have most of the songs from the soundtrack as well as other songs that fit into that chill hip-hop theme.

@leo mendoza it's not as beautifully animated.

@leo mendoza leave me alone..troll.

@leo mendoza it's not a joke if I can't see you or hear your voice...and if it's just not funny. I don't laugh at "jokes" that tear me down or my imagination. So back off.

@leo mendoza Stop...

Same