Samurai Champloo is an anime series set in an alternate Edo-period Japan, following a rogue trio—Mugen, Jin, and Fuu—as they embark on a quest in search of a mysterious samurai. The series blends ...

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Rurouni Kenshin may lack some of the humor of Samurai Champloo, but this late 90s anime makes up for it with its visceral fight scenes and honest historical translations. Taking place in the period ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Mugen and his pals, Jin and Fuu, are still searching for the sunflower samurai--this time on the PS2. The Samurai Champloo anime series follows the ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Widely considered one of the best--and in many cases the best--anime ...

Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima and the Samurai Champloo anime share a ton of similarities. You got some samurai, you have a main character named Jin, and they both take place in Japan –imagine that!

With the beloved anime series arriving almost twenty years ago, it seems unlikely that we’ll be witnessing a sequel story to the bloody trio’s initial journey. Over the course of the original ...

Join Jin, Mugen and Fuu on a journey to find the samurai who smells of sunflowers in Namco Bandai’s Samurai Champloo game. However you won’t be replaying parts of the anime series, instead Sidetracked ...