# Review: Samurai Champloo
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 27, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534 "2008-01-27T20:10:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/1 "2008-01-27T20:10:06Z")
> **[Samurai Champloo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Champloo)**
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> Samurai Champloo (Japanese: サムライチャンプルー, Hepburn: Samurai Chanpurū), stylized as SAMURAI CHAMPLOO, is a Japanese anime series developed by Manglobe. It featured a production team led by director Shinichirō Watanabe, character designer Kazuto Nakazawa and mechanical designer Mahiro Maeda. Samurai Champloo was Watanabe's first directorial effort for an anime television series after the critically acclaimed Cowboy Bebop. It was first broadcast in Japan on Fuji TV on May 20, 2004 and ran for twenty-si...
Great anime series if you are into the whole samurai and sword fights. Dialogue is funny (the copy I have has Japanese and English streams).
8.7/10
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### Author:  [@AngryHero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AngryHero)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/2 "2008-01-27T20:13:39Z")
i like this show.It used to be on cartoon network.I usually hate the samurai shit but this one different then most.
Try
Elfen Lied
Berserk
Gunslinger Girl
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/3 "2008-01-28T06:32:47Z")
Elfen Lied is just plain brutal(heads and limbs being blown off almost every episode), it was awesome. Champloo was better than i first thought, worth the watch.
If you want to stick with samurai, Kenshin was well put together
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### Author:  [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/4 "2008-01-28T06:36:38Z")
never got into any animi, i’ll have to check it out sounds intersting
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### Author:  [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/5 "2008-01-28T08:44:06Z")
Champloo doesn’t have much in the way of storyline, but the action is pretty good.
The animation style reminds me of the greatest anime series in history, Cowboy Bebop.
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/6 "2008-01-28T09:17:05Z")
> [@sureshot!](#):
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> Champloo doesn’t have much in the way of storyline, but the action is pretty good.
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> The animation style reminds me of the greatest anime series in history, Cowboy Bebop.
It’s done by the same guy, IIRC.
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/7 "2008-01-28T09:42:52Z")
even has Spike’s voice actor from Cowboy Bebop
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### Author:  [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/8 "2008-01-28T10:15:48Z")
> [@JCuz](#):
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> even has Spike’s voice actor from Cowboy Bebop
If you are talking about the cartoon network version… lol. If you are talking about the original japanese track, then oh, cool.
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### Author:  [@AngryHero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AngryHero)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/review-samurai-champloo/42534/9 "2008-01-28T13:24:13Z")
> [@JCuz](#):
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> Elfen Lied is just plain brutal(heads and limbs being blown off almost every episode), it was awesome.
It has a sick back story to.Its also a great love story.
If you like elfen lied then try gunslinger girl.Its only 6 episodes long and is pretty good violence wise