Samurai Champloo Volume 1: v. 1

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a b c d Halverson, Dave (January 2005). "Samurai Champloo: Cooler than any of us deserve". Play. Fusion Publishing (37): 92. Champloo has great animation on par with Bebop, but it can be very inconsistent: one episode could have amazing action sequences and other episodes seem to be constrained by budget. This is to the same degree with characters: the main cast isn't necessarily as charismatic or meaningfully developed as the Bebop cast, though they are pretty funny. Music is good (for reasons entirely different than Bebop), though some episodes don't give it an opportunity to shine. Samurai Champloo was the debut television production of animation studio Manglobe, which was started in 2002 by Sunrise veteran Shinichirō Kobayashi. [8] [31] The opening animation was contributed to by the studio Madhouse. [32] A production committee to support the project was formed by Victor Entertainment's Shirō Sasaki, partnering with Tokuma Shoten and North American company Geneon Entertainment. [8] Watanabe acted as the series director, in addition to creating the project. Kobayashi, Sasaki, Sanae Mitsugi and Hideki Goto were credited as planners and executive producers, [33] and the producers were Takatoshi Hamano, Takashi Kochiyama and Tetsuro Satomi. [34]

There are problems with this manga; the story never progresses (for obvious reasons) and some of the artwork could be considered simplistic for one more adjusted to popular big name artists. In this way, I like how the story never gets dragged out or overdone; it doesn't suffer the fate of so many wonderful premises which get massively popular and extended beyond their natural lifetime. A manga adaptation written by Masaru Gotsubo was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace from January 26, 2004, [78] [79] to September 25. [80] [81] Gotsubo decided not to follow the series narrative, calling that approach both boring and "impossible". Instead, aside from the opening section, he created an original narrative using the central cast. [82] The manga was collected in two tankōbon volumes, released on July 28 and October 26, 2004. [83] [84] A compilation of the two volumes was released on January 28, 2011. [85] It was licensed for a North American release by Tokyopop. [86] The volumes were released on November 8, 2005, and March 7, 2006. [87] [88] The volumes were released in Australia on February 15 and March 15, 2006. [89] [90] DVD. JVC (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 11, 2007 . Retrieved January 8, 2022.Also directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, if you're looking for something with that mishmash of excellently animated action sequences and scenarios ranging from sincere and serious to absolutely hilarious, than Samurai Champloo should be next in your radar.

a b Dent, Mike (March 13, 2015). "Samurai Champloo is an Anime Mix Tape with a Hip-hop Beat". Otaku USA Magazine. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018 . Retrieved January 22, 2021. UPDATE: Funimation Titles Now Available on Crunchyroll (3/23)". Crunchyroll. March 1, 2022. Archived from the original on March 22, 2022 . Retrieved March 24, 2022.

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Samurai Champloo premiered in Japan on May 20, 2004 on Fuji Television, and concluded on March 19, 2005, spanning a total of 26 episodes. It was also aired in Japan on Animax.