28-07-2010, 05:29 PM
Samurai Champloo had a very strong start with a cute heroine with two very different samurai in tote.
The refined Jin and wild Mugen almost never agree on anything and fight a lot.
It, of course, takes place just before or during the revolution (like everything...) and basically is about a search for the "Sunflower Samurai".
What? Yeah, the Sunflower Samurai.... Who apparently makes dreams come true.
They tried to dress it up with fantastic animation, dialogue, and fight scenes (which are some of the best I've ever seen). ...but that doesn't hide the fact that the entire premise of the series is RETARDED.
After a few good episodes the series takes a nose dive when they introduce character #4, who is some gay European samurai. Yeah, a European samurai, and when I said "gay", I meant it literally. He was apparently driven out of Europe due to gay persecution to go and live in the "more accepting" Japan.
So, the series suddenly changes into this big retarded journey to learn more about some (I'm hoping-ly) fake gay exodus that took place in the 1800s.
About two episodes into this portion of the story and I stopped watching, because it stopped having action, and instead had pie-eating contests, and pro-gay propaganda.
That gay European samurai apparently likes Japan so much because women aren't allowed to join the theater (much like in Europe back in Shakespearean times) and he really liked knowing that "Yamato Nadesico" was a man in makeup. Seriously.
1/10 - If it wasn't for the action I'd have given it a 0.
The refined Jin and wild Mugen almost never agree on anything and fight a lot.
It, of course, takes place just before or during the revolution (like everything...) and basically is about a search for the "Sunflower Samurai".
What? Yeah, the Sunflower Samurai.... Who apparently makes dreams come true.
They tried to dress it up with fantastic animation, dialogue, and fight scenes (which are some of the best I've ever seen). ...but that doesn't hide the fact that the entire premise of the series is RETARDED.
After a few good episodes the series takes a nose dive when they introduce character #4, who is some gay European samurai. Yeah, a European samurai, and when I said "gay", I meant it literally. He was apparently driven out of Europe due to gay persecution to go and live in the "more accepting" Japan.
So, the series suddenly changes into this big retarded journey to learn more about some (I'm hoping-ly) fake gay exodus that took place in the 1800s.
About two episodes into this portion of the story and I stopped watching, because it stopped having action, and instead had pie-eating contests, and pro-gay propaganda.
That gay European samurai apparently likes Japan so much because women aren't allowed to join the theater (much like in Europe back in Shakespearean times) and he really liked knowing that "Yamato Nadesico" was a man in makeup. Seriously.
1/10 - If it wasn't for the action I'd have given it a 0.