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REVIEW: Samurai Champloo Complete Series Blu-Ray

You gave the music an A-? The legendary Nujabes was given an A-? I really can’t with the reviews on this site anymore...

Outside of some stock production stills and promos, there aren't any substantial extras to speak of on this set, but that's to be expected for series that are getting on in years.

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Outside of some stock production stills and promos, there aren't any substantial extras to speak of on this set, but that's to be expected for series that are getting on in years.

Age isn't necessarily the issue when it comes to extras. A lot of titles, particularly the more prominent ones, released during the so-called "bubble years" of the early/mid-00s did have a fair amount of extras produced. It's just that many of those extras haven't made their way to recent re-releases, due to rights issues and/or cost-cutting. Case in point: the Geneon singles for Samurai Champloo had printed inserts with interviews/comments from chief writer Shinji Obara, musicians Fat Jon, Forces of Nature, and Tsutchie, scenario writer Dai Sato, art director Takeshi Waki, Character Designer / Chief Animator Kazuto Nakazawa, and director Shinichiro Watanabe himself.

I can understand Funimation wanting to avoid printing costs, and space is at more of a premium in modern releases. But if they had the proper rights and materials, interviews like those could've been included as still images in the Extras section of the Blu-Rays.

Re: Fuu's "damsel in distress" tendencies -- come to think of it, a fair number of Cowboy Bebop episodes did take on the pattern of "Faye's run off and gotten herself mixed up in some crazy trouble again, better go bail her out." Of course, Faye was a bit more active and capable of dealing with most of her predicaments.

Age isn't necessarily the issue when it comes to extras. A lot of titles, particularly the more prominent ones, released during the so-called "bubble years" of the early/mid-00s did have a fair amount of extras produced. It's just that many of those extras haven't made their way to recent re-releases, due to rights issues and/or cost-cutting. Case in point: the Geneon singles for Samurai Champloo had printed inserts with interviews/comments from chief writer Shinji Obara, musicians Fat Jon, Forces of Nature, and Tsutchie, scenario writer Dai Sato, art director Takeshi Waki, Character Designer / Chief Animator Kazuto Nakazawa, and director Shinichiro Watanabe himself.

You gave the music an A-? The legendary Nujabes was given an A-? I really can’t with the reviews on this site anymore...

Sorry but NO. The reviewer of this just simply has no decent taste in what makes a class and amazingly timeless masterpiece.

Samuari Champloo is the quintessential of perfection. Good original story, doesn't follow a story or setting which you've already seen countless times in other anime properties, It has amazing animation, a brilliant soundtrack which is still highly regarded as being contemporary even 15ish years later. There is a great overarching story with equally as great stand alone episodes, each character compliments each others in their flaws and good points, its highly re-watchable, creates some unforgettable moody atmospheric moments, and lastly it doesn't take itself too seriously, but it also isn't hugely reliant on comedy either. Its a perfect mixed bag of complimenting treats.

In short: its the best anime ever. Period.