AoD Review: Samurai Champloo Vol. #2

[maehara]

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I can't help but wish Samurai Champloo had more to it than the “find money, end up in trouble, repeat� routine. The characters are a likeable bunch and the scrapes they get themselves into are admittedly great fun to watch, but to carry the series for a full 26 episodes I think there'll need to be a change in direction sometime soon. This is still a good show, but it's going to find it hard keeping the attention if it simply sticks to the same formula.

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Full review (http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4791.php).

[Johnny]

Heh, just wait til the UK release catches up and gets volume 6 with the baseball episode /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

FWIW this is one of the series of the year for me.

[abigsmurf]

It's very much a "find money, spend/lose money, find money again" type show. But then again, so was cowboy bebop.

[maehara]

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abigsmurf said:
It's very much a "find money, spend/lose money, find money again" type show. But then again, so was cowboy bebop.

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Yeah, but Bebop took some good detours away from the formula stories - like the Spike / Vicious / Julia stories, and the ones dealing with Faye beginning to re-discover her past. Champloo's sort-of promising that sort of story, but it hasn't delivered on the promise. Yet.