July 18, 2004
Samurai Champloo Episode 2
"Redeye Reprisal"
After an intriguing, and overall extremely good first episode, Samurai Champloo's second effort was a tremendous letdown for me. The cool, uniqueness of the first episode seems to be completely missing, and we get a really standard story featuring our three heroes that involves (as one of the main antagonists) an enormous, hideously-scarred man (the kind that permeates in anime as stupid henchman).
As you might expect from that sort of character, he was called a monster and driven out by the prejudice of normal folks, and flies off the handle at being called a monster. Fuu is friendly towards him (maybe she's heard a story like this before), which ultimately saves her life, and Mugen's (who kills him, anyways).
Where the first episode was fresh and interesting, this episode was slow, standard and ultimately meaningless. Maybe taken into context with upcoming episodes, the few hints that were dropped about the overall story of the show will make it seem better, but I can't help feeling anything but disappointed.
Rating: C+
Posted by Kei at July 18, 2004 11:58 PMA+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
One of the best animes i''ve ever seen hands down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: john at December 30, 2004 12:43 PMIt was intresting. It actually, kinda reminds me of cowboy bebop. I guess its Mugen's hair, but I did like the fighting scenes and some parts are funny. The hip-hop background kinda gave it some originality. all in all i'll give it a B+
Posted by: Carmela at May 14, 2005 09:07 PMWell, I thought this anime was I guess all right. I've seen all the episodes, and was hoping for more than that at the end. The characters I loved though especially Fuu. If there were more episodes than just up to 26, i'd watch it. Great anime!
Posted by: MissChiefGirl, a.k.a. azn gal at January 9, 2006 06:20 PM