Samurai Champloo, Vol. 1 (v. 1)
by Manglobe, Masaru Gotsubo
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Author: Manglobe, Masaru GotsuboEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-08
ISBN: 1591822823
Number of pages: 184
Publisher: TokyoPop
Book Reviews of Samurai Champloo, Vol. 1 (v. 1)
Book Review: A Different Champloo
Summary: 4 Stars
(This review does not apply to the second volume of the Samurai Champloo manga. It was posted there by Amazon.com against my will. That manga, had I been able to rate it, would have surely gotten a 1 for going so far away from the original story and then ending quite suddenly with no promise to the future.)
The manga starts out almost identically as the anime. Fuu is still searching for her Sunflower Samurai, and Mugen and Jin are still at each others throats. Beyond that, though, the manga goes in an entirely different direction. Instead of getting captured in the first manga by the feudal lords, and instead of doing a great deal of traveling and battling, most of what happens is slapstick comedy that takes place in cities and villages, and we never quite know the progress of the heroes because they rarely mention where they are at. It gets confusing at times.
What makes this manga good, though, is that it reveals a lot about Fuu earlier than the anime did. All we know for perhaps half the series is that Fuu is searching for the Sunflower Samurai. The manga reveals a little of her history in the final chapter of this manga and why she's actually searching for this mysterious samurai. Plus, all of the separate chapters besides the first are entirely new. We can't have seen them in the anime, and they aren't jarring because the anime seems to jump ahead a lot, not to mention those "dimension" episodes, and these stories could easily be placed inside of those moments.
I'm still waiting for a major enemy to reveal him/herself, as the heroes have yet to get into a serious confrontation, with the exception of Mugen and Jin's constant, chapter-ending feuding. All the chapters deal with the ways the characters go about getting money to eat and drink. I like to laugh, but that's not why I like Champloo.
Still, it's difficult not to recommend this. Any fan of manga could pick this book up and find something inside worth reading, without any advance knowledge of the Samurai Champloo world. And if you are a fan of Champloo and want a new spin, pick this up. It follows the story in the anime but not in the same way.
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