How do you follow up an anime series like Cowboy Bebop, a hard-hitting blend of sci-fi and jazz? If you’re Shinichiro Watanabe the answer is with a hip-hop adventure set in alternate Edo-era Japan.

As a certain creative aphorism goes, "good artists borrow, great artists steal." Who's the easiest person to steal from? Yourself. When anime director Shinichirō Watanabe was making "Samurai Champloo, ...

'Samurai Champloo' is getting a live-action adaptation from the team behind 'One Piece' and 'Cowboy Bebop,' with more Watanabe input this time around. Reading time 2 minutes With the second season of ...

Samurai Champloo is an anime series set in an alternate Edo-period Japan, following a rogue trio—Mugen, Jin, and Fuu—as they embark on a quest in search of a mysterious samurai. The series blends ...

Netflix's live-action take on Cowboy Bebop struggled to leave its mark, but its upcoming adaptation of a highly acclaimed samurai anime can finally make up for its previous mistakes. Cowboy Bebop's ...

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With the beloved anime series arriving almost twenty years ago, it seems unlikely that we’ll be witnessing a sequel story to the bloody trio’s initial journey. Over the course of the original ...

From Ghost in the Shell to Yu-Gi-Oh!, the majority of anime-license-based video games tend to go for the lowest common denominator. As if the core audiences of these games have never played a real ...

Rurouni Kenshin may lack some of the humor of Samurai Champloo, but this late 90s anime makes up for it with its visceral fight scenes and honest historical translations. Taking place in the period ...

If you're a regular viewer of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, there's no way you've been able to avoid commercials for one of their latest anime series, Samurai Champloo. Called by ...

Man, this game is $@&*!# up. Monkeys with knives. Rain of blood. A witch that attacks with flying hearts. A dude that takes a sword to the forehead and walks away clean. Some crazy dancing line ...