Byakuya769
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Between this and Baccano! for the title of "favorite anime."
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Samurai Champloo
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anotherVegan
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The only real question is:
Samurai Champloo: Great anime or greatest anime?
Samurai Champloo: Great anime or greatest anime?
Tied with Bebop for greatest.
Gully State
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Great anime series...just not as good as Bebop...My main complaint with the series was that I just wasn't as invested in Jin, Mugen, and Fuu as I was with Spike, Faye, Jet, Ed, and Ein. Jin and Mugen just each felt like different halves of Spike.
Music for both series were well done but I liked Jazz/Noir/Space more than Samurai/Hip Hop..
Music for both series were well done but I liked Jazz/Noir/Space more than Samurai/Hip Hop..
neoism
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best anime ever to exist.... along with the best OST ever....
RIP nujabes......
RIP nujabes......
this this this.... without it I wouldn't probably even listen to the wonderful music I listen to today....
True. If it wasn't for this I wouldn't have discovered Nujabes (and Fat Jon, Forces of Natures,...) and probably wouldn't have discovered Jazz-Hop. I'm guessing this is true for a lot of people.
I haven't seen many anime series, but this is probably my favorite one. I like it more than Bebop personally. The characters, animation, and music were all top notch. I think what I also liked more about SC was that even though the story had a lot of side stuff like Bebop did, I felt like the overarching storyline was more coherent and interesting.
Show peaked at the blind Goze. I don't know if it was the animation, the arc storyline or a combination of the two, but it was absolutely brilliant.
If I could tell you to watch just one arc that would be it. And maybe Mugen's backstory arc. God, that music when he's in the ocean!
Okay, and the baseball episode.
Fine, watch the entire show! It was soooo good, that I had to buy it on Blu!
If I could tell you to watch just one arc that would be it. And maybe Mugen's backstory arc. God, that music when he's in the ocean!
Okay, and the baseball episode.
Fine, watch the entire show! It was soooo good, that I had to buy it on Blu!
Spring-Loaded
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"It's not my eyes that can see them."
neoism
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hell yeah these kats are wonderful also... really nujabes got most of the credit ( which was 100% deserved) but yeah -jazz-hop and nujabes especially favorite music to date...
everyone at gaf should come to the best music thread on gaf
Jazz-Hop & Instrumental Hip-Hop |OT| - R.I.P. Nujabes
heliosRAzi
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I want to see Watanabe's take on Ghost in the Shell
Love this show so much. It introduced me to Nujabes which basically completely changed my musical taste. I love this and Bebop about equally, Bebop only edges it out because it has more jazz which I enjoy more than hip-hop and it has a futuristic setting which I enjoy more than the samurai angle. Either way both are amazing. To the poster who said Michiko e Hatchin being better you are out of your goddamn mind. That anime was terrible, the ending pissed me off to no end.
Nope Cowboy Bebop is still the best. Samurai Champloo is still great in it's own right, potentially the second best anime. I just didn't like Samurai Champloo's characters, settings, and storylines as much as Bebop's which I felt were perfectly executed. I also felt that it didn't end as well, and the episodes were very hit or miss, with some being borderline awful where I considered quitting the series. (Bebop only had one truly bad episode)
Still it was a fun experience regardless, some have already posted it but the episodes about Mugen's backstory and the pirates is probably my favorite episodes in the series. (especially the way it ends)
Still it was a fun experience regardless, some have already posted it but the episodes about Mugen's backstory and the pirates is probably my favorite episodes in the series. (especially the way it ends)
RawkHawk2010
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Go_Ly_Dow
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Passive Assassin
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Forgot about that song. Damn. Samurai Champloo introduced me to nujabes, fat jon, Force of Nature, and Tsutchie. Queue new Jazz Hop thread.
Also, Michiko to Hatchin was good. Soil & Pimp is great for studying music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRTiUqGEDI4
Lavalamp1138
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This thread seriously needs some Baseball Blues.
Luved the ending episodes like they spent extra money on making the fight scenes.
I had a Japanese fansub and I luved the very last episode where they had an extra song and a whole long trailer of end credits from the fansubber I know its not part of the episode but it just wrapped up the series so well for me way back in 2004 I think it was.
I had a Japanese fansub and I luved the very last episode where they had an extra song and a whole long trailer of end credits from the fansubber I know its not part of the episode but it just wrapped up the series so well for me way back in 2004 I think it was.
second best anime in the world after Cowboy Bebop because fuck everyone except watanabe because WATANABE
also fuckin NUJABES!
rip
yup, and RIP Nujabes.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Watanabe directed a 12-episode series last year, he's directing Space Dandy with BONES this summer, and he's directing another series next year.
Gully State
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He just recently released Kids on a the Slope. Yoko Kanno did the music for the series as well (She did the music for Cowboy Bebop). I've said this in threads past but the series was just way too short for its own good. It's good through 7 episodes and loses momentum from that point on, though still worth watching...
He just recently released Kids on a the Slope. Yoko Kanno did the music for the series as well (She did the music for Cowboy Bebop). I've said this in threads past but the series was just way too short for its own good. It's good through 7 episodes and loses momentum from that point on, though still worth watching...
I'm gonna check these, even though I would like to see another big project like Bebop and Champloo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGHjp1qHI8g
Loved the final song of the show. Was different from everything else.
Such an amazing show
RIP Nujabes
Counting Stars is probably my favorite from the show
Loved the final song of the show. Was different from everything else.
Such an amazing show
RIP Nujabes
Counting Stars is probably my favorite from the showWell, nobody has said that Space Dandy or the 2014 series aren't big yet.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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some days, some nights
some live, some die
in the way of the samurai
some fight, some bleed
sun up to sun down
the sons of a battlecry
some live, some die
in the way of the samurai
some fight, some bleed
sun up to sun down
the sons of a battlecry
CountBlack
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Damn because of this thread I gotta restart the series
RawkHawk2010
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Awesome show with an even better soundtrack. Nujabes dying so young is a tragedy.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHNK16jumew
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHNK16jumew
toastyToast
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I started watching it again because of this thread
Just got up to the episode with the dude that wants to make it big with beat boxer guy in his entourage. Every crew needs one
Just got up to the episode with the dude that wants to make it big with beat boxer guy in his entourage. Every crew needs one
Gucci Messiah
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Samurai Champloo is easily in my top 10; I have fond memories watching this Saturday nights on adult swim back in high school. Ah, nostalgia...
Gully State
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viewtifulsub
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Still haven't gotten around to seeing this.
How is the english dub? I could start watching it now on netflix, or hold out till a cheap copy of the dvd/bluray boxset comes around.
How is the english dub? I could start watching it now on netflix, or hold out till a cheap copy of the dvd/bluray boxset comes around.
It's a quality dub, just like Bebop. Even has Steve Blum as Spike/Mugen.
RawkHawk2010
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Great.
neoism
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dj ezasscul
that album is soooo worth it.....
dude... is only 19 years old and he is amazing....he should so be on nujabes label.... he is a music genius....
Samurai Champloo Music Record: Arrival
dude only uses FL to make he music amazing......
yeah I was sooo sad... its bullshit..... his genius should have continued forever...
he will always be my favorite musician fo lif- Status