Samurai Champloo

Sara: Everyone you meet has their own individual aura about them, its something I can sense you see, Ive walk in darkness for a very long time, a person can grow accustomed to anything I may have lost my sight but I have much inner sense for other things as a result, so please dont feel sorry for me.

— Samurai Champloo time

I always get inspired on the spot, at any given moment. I constantly think how it will be interesting, exciting or unique if we can combine and mixing genre A and genre B. I would like to mix different things in my work: the word “Champloo” in ‘Samurai Champloo’ comes from an Okinawan term ‘chanpuru’ which means “something mixed”. Cooking is essentially mixing of different ingredients and that would be a mixture, right? So in Samurai Champloo, I combined two completely different elements, a traditional samurai story and trendy hip-hop music with the hope that it would be an exciting and interesting story.

— Samurai Champloo hope

Mugen: If living means bowing down to the likes of you bastards, Id rather die on my feet with my head held high.

— Samurai Champloo living

Jin: Cutting down a man whos done nothing wrong; is that what you spent all those years honing your skills for?

— Samurai Champloo man

Jin: Your stance leaves you wide open, and your moves are totally inefficient. All in all, your fighting style is a mess.

— Samurai Champloo fight

Mugen: Hell. Every freakin day I have to ask myself: Will this day, be the last day I lie in the sun?

— Samurai Champloo self

Fuu: Alright, thats enough! You two made me a promise. You havent forgotten, have you? Until we find the Samurai who smells of Sunflowers, you two are not allowed to kill each other!

— Samurai Champloo you

Ryujiro: Whatever gave you that idea. You lady, I gave up humanity long, long ago. I like to watch human suffering. Now thats what I call fun. Im really a very generous man. I want to share my suffering with everyone else. Id say thats fair, wouldnt you? So, now you know why youre gonna die?

— Samurai Champloo humanity

Rikiei: Where are you going? If you stay here youll have everything you want. Are you just going to throw that away?

— Samurai Champloo you

Jouji: But some day, the country will come to accept people like me. Some day, this country wont be so tight assed.

— Samurai Champloo people

Ogura: Ive looked for you. To find you, I even apprenticed myself to a man like that and waited. Why did you betray him? A man like you, why did you betray our master?

— Samurai Champloo self

Jin: Im not the one who did the betraying. But I wont make excuses. Regardless, its true that I killed my master.

— Samurai Champloo true

Budou Kiba: Listen, men arent the brightest of our species so its best you keep them wrapped around your finger.

— Samurai Champloo men

Nagamitsu: Me? Im a man who will be big. Rather, big no bigger than biggest. My name is Sakonshogun Nagamitsu!

— Samurai Champloo man

Mugen: But theres one thing that I do understand. I dont care how many damn dogs you got. It dont amount to jack if they aint tough enough to bark when theyre out alone.

— Samurai Champloo man

Mugen: Training. You should be able to tell by looking. Beetle wrestling. Im going to train him and put him in fights.

— Samurai Champloo fight

Fuus Diary: about Mugen I could tell right away he was a bad guy, the sort who did all kinds of horrible things, the kind of person who Id never want to be friends with.

— Samurai Champloo friends

Zuikō: Freedom cannot be forced into existence, nor can it be won through painful struggle. Freedom cannot be bought or sold. It has nothing to do with one’s social status; one’s profession is of no consequence. In order for you to accept yourself as you are and live with your soul at peace, you must simply teach yourself to let it be, only then will you discover freedom.

— Samurai Champloo freedom

Fuu: Damn them. Going to the red light district even though they have me Being a woman is a disadvantage

— Samurai Champloo light

Yatsuha: About Mugen to her companion After all, thats the man Im going to marry. I guess I fell in love with him. to herself So long. Once both our journeys are over, Ill come find you.

— Samurai Champloo love

Fuu: To Okuru There were two useless bodyguards traveling with me. Well, it doesnt matter anymore. Now Im as lonely as can be. So, it doesnt matter where I die. But I didnt want to drown. Because, you know, your body size doubles. Im not joking. I want to die beautiful, you know.

— Samurai Champloo travel

Mugen: to Fuu, about Jin Tall, dark, and four-eyed here is thinking the same thing: hanging around with a girl with absolutely no sex appeal isnt my idea of fun.

— Samurai Champloo sex

Mugen: To Okuru Ive seen those eyes before. Theyre similar to the eyes of a head thats been cut off. The ones that are slightly wet and dont know what they see. Hey, are you really alive?

— Samurai Champloo light

Mugen: Notices Okuru playing a melody You are Okuru, arent you? They were just out there People called Matsumae-Han or something. They gave me a lot of trouble. They thought I was you.

— Samurai Champloo people

Jin: By starting this pointless squabble, you have done nothing but reveal just how vast your stupidity is. Please refrain from these moments of self-grandeur.

— Samurai Champloo art

Priest: . . .and after that youll be able to get started on polishing the Buddha. Youll be happy to do that, right?

— Samurai Champloo art

Sara: Well, a blind woman isnt really the best mother for a child isnt it ironic, a woman like me singing songs like kuzunoha leave her child?

— Samurai Champloo man

Sara: Everyone you meet has their own individual aura about them, its something i can sense you see, Ive walk in darkness for a very long time, a person can grow out custom to anything I may have lost my sight but I have much inner sense for other things as a result, so please dont feel sorry for me.

— Samurai Champloo time

Sara: Huh we have a lot in common, the two of us the words happiness and joy have never had any meaning for me however, at the moment that my son was born, I began to have the same dreams that any mother would have.

— Samurai Champloo happiness

Mugen: The only way hes coming back is as if hes getting kick in the nuts for trying to make a move on that chick.

— Samurai Champloo

Sara: Inside of you looms a simmering storm of hatred and rage, but perhaps what Im actually sensing is sadness. Its as if youve never once been loved by anyone; its as if youre just like me.

— Samurai Champloo love

Mugen: Take your pick. Weve dined and dashed, snuck through a checkpoint, and, oh yeah, killed people.

— Samurai Champloo people

Jin: Fish use the water surrounding their bodys to sense what will happen next you cant fight the current you have to flow with it. If you do that, you might just catch the fish.

— Samurai Champloo body

Sara: I realized something. My sons been dead for a long time now. This whole time, theyve just been using me.

— Samurai Champloo time

Shige: Completely surrounded Well, at this point, whether Im a descendant or not has nothing to do with it. We have no blood in our bodies to connect us anymore, anyway. Couldnt we just forget about that and let things continue as they have been? I guess not.

— Samurai Champloo blood

Fuu: Sees a shooting star Oh, a shooting star. Making a wish Let us find the samurai who smells like sunflowers. Let us make it safely to Nagasaki. And I want to eat enough so my stomach is full.

— Samurai Champloo sun

Kagetoki Kariya: Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to live without hope, so I guess that leaves Man no choice but to walk around with despair as his companion.

— Samurai Champloo hope

Kagetoki Kariya: I know hes a felon who abandoned his country and had his soul stolen by that foreign religion. Ive heard that he fled here to Kyushu and that he was involved in the Shimabara Rebellion. I also know hes the man that the Shogunate wants eliminated more than anyone else. Theyve know all along that his daughter was trying to find him. In fact, its helped them. Theyve let her run free this whole time so theyre able to discover Kasumis whereabouts. And now, although it pains me to say this, I have to insist that you two die right here.

— Samurai Champloo religion

Mugen: Dont give me that crap! Listen to me, Im gonna be pissed off if we came all this way for nothin. Get lost.

— Samurai Champloo lost

Jin: I think Ive found what I was looking for all this time. I, who was always alone, found friends for the first time. You two were my first friends.

— Samurai Champloo time

Mugen: My point is thats all a bunch of bullshit! I aint least bit interested in that crap! I dont wanna rule or BE ruled, either one.

— Samurai Champloo

Jouji: But someday, the country will come to accept people like me. Someday, this country wont be so tight-assed.

— Samurai Champloo people

Mugen: The only way hes coming back is as if hes getting kicked in the nuts for trying to make a move on that chick.

— Samurai Champloo

Jin: Fish use the water surrounding their bodies to sense what will happen next you cant fight the current, you have to flow with it. If you do that, you might just catch the fish.

— Samurai Champloo fight

Mugen: I think thats a bunch of bullshit if youre happy, theres no way you would sing a song you sing.

— Samurai Champloo sin

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