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Samurai Champloo Manga

posted on 2004-01-22 01:32 EST by Christopher Macdonald

A manga adaptation of Samurai Champloo will be serialized in the Japanese monthly Manga Shounen Ace starting in the March issue that is due out on January 26th.

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