Line #62 WMG/SamuraiChamploo


1	!Meta
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3	[[WMG: Samurai Champloo is intended as a LighterAndSofter successor to Bebop]]
4	For one thing, the MainCharacters of Champloo seem to be able to access (often by stealing) decent food on a fairly regular basis, so their PerpetualPoverty isn't quite as bad as the Bebop's crew. Also, whereas Spike seemingly dies at the end of the series, Mugen takes Spike's survival skills further, and even when he does die in one case, he comes back. It's a strange case where it is LighterAndSofter despite being a bit BloodierAndGorier. The heroes are more heroic, the episodes more serious (or less darkly comedic if you will), and everything's less edgy overall.
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6	[[WMG: Mugen, Jin, and Fuu represent the MC, DJ, and producer, respectively.]]
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8	[[WMG: The show was initially intended to end on a darker note.]]
9	Considering everything that happened in the last two episodes (including Jin's [[spoiler:suicidal attack]], or Mugen [[spoiler:getting blown up]]), and many similarities to Cowboy Bebop, the show was probably supposed to end on [[spoiler:Jin and Mugen fainting after their so-called "duel"]], leaving it up to the viewer to decide whether they finally collapsed from the wounds or survived at the end.
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11	!Plot
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13	[[WMG: Mugen and Jin still had some of that zombie-inducing wasabi, which they ingested shortly before the last episode.]]
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16	[[WMG: The reason Jin survived in the last episode is because of Shino's prayers.]]
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18	[[WMG: Mugen and Yatsuha eventually do get married after the end of the show]]
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20	!Characters
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22	[[WMG: Mugen was sexually abused/raped as a child.]]
23	He grew up in a poor, socially chaotic and violent environment while likely not having any protective and loving adult figure in his life. Places like that in the real world almost always have rampant child abuse of every kind, male or female. Around the end of the show, he makes a not-really-joking crack about how he'd [[FridgeHorror been through every degrading, humiliating thing possible...]]
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25	[[WMG: Shoryu is an [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Airbender]] ]]
26	He learnt how to use his chi from monks on the mainland, and he does so by shooting wind blasts from his sword. In Aang's series, various benders learn how to manipulate new bending techniques with different elements from their designated powersets. For example, Katara learns to bend blood, Toph with Metal and Azula with lightning. These new technicques are STILL derivatives of pure chi, that's a given, but the ability to ''use'' pure chi was never out of the question either.
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28	[[WMG: Koza is an MagnificentBastard and TheManBehindTheMan]]
29	Koza planned everything, even the death of Shiren. The only thing that didn't match up with her plan was that shiren gets killed by Mugen instead of Jin.
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31	!Plausible Crossovers
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33	[[WMG: Mugen is a distant ancestor of [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike]].]]
34	Same voice. Same hair. Do the math. ''both series are done by the same guy'' (Sinichiro Wanatabe) and in fact ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo is a spiritual sequel to Anime/CowboyBebop'' (as much as ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' was an homage to bebop jazz, hence the title, ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' is an omage to modern rap-inspired bebop, hence the title, "Champloo" - Japanese for "remix") - or perhaps an outright prequel?
35	** If it's going by the afro-like hair, they'll have an unpleasant family reunion with Nabeshin, where he'll disappear to another mission, not before drinking all their booze and eating all the goods, because he's not the kind of guy to lose a good chance.
36	* Plus, how many times have they both been mortally wounded but pulled through?
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38	[[WMG: The entire series is a game played by the crew of the Bebop.]]
39	Mugen, Jin and Fuu really ARE Spike, Jet and Faye, only playing some sort of MMO or [=PnP=] game.
40	* They've all made characters that reveal much of what they think of themselves. Spike plays a badass martial artist, Jet plays a hardass law & order type and Faye plays an innocent girl.
41	* Further, the reason for the series inexplicably bringing in zombies or baseball was just Ed playing with the system. She's the GM, Ein is playing as Momo.
42	* It would explain not only the whackyness, but also the anachronysms. The disclaimer at the beginning is put there by GM Ed to prevent any of the crew (other than the viewers) from complaining about the anachronysms themselves.
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44	[[WMG: Mugen is immortal.]]
45	* He's been killed three times, and he's ''still'' alive. Specifically an immortal of the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' series. It's either that or he's a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lo]]--[[KilledMidSentence is shot]]. "Mugen" means "infinity", so yeah I'm going with this one.
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47	[[WMG: Mugen is not human.]]
48	* Rather, he's some kind of spirit who materialized in the human world. As pointed out by the above entry, he was killed no less than three times, but came back from the world of the dead each time. This is because he doesn't belong there, as he doesn't have a human soul. In the flashbacks in ''Misguided Miscreants'' he looks exactly the same as he does in the present, aside from a few wisps of facial hair. He's an impossibly agile and skilled fighter in spite of having no formal training whatsoever. He even has a natural affinity for KiManipulation! In light of these facts, and considering his personality, I posit Mugen might be a sort of AnthropomorphicPersonification of the thoughts and feelings of the Ryukyu criminals. The Ryukyu Islands are a place of death, hopelessness and misery, crawling with doomed souls who want nothing more than to leave. Over the years, all their mental and spiritual energies accreted until Mugen was spawned from them, unaware of his true nature.
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50	[[WMG: Mugen IS Spike.]]
51	"There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life."
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53	[[WMG: Mugen, Jin, and Fuu are all the ANCESTORS of each of the three main leads of Cowboy Bebop ]]
54	* Why not? It's been nearly 200 years. Plenty of time for the three of them to have married and produced children, who also married and produced children...and for some of those descendants to have met and married each other unknowingly. Spike and Fay are both a little crazy like Mugen, Spike has Mugen and Jin's combat skills (albeit with firearms and a spaceship), Jet has some of Jin's calm (but can go off like Mugen if angry enough), and all three have Fuu's uncanny ability to meet -- interesting -- people.
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56	[[WMG: A time traveler was involved]]
57	* A hip hop loving time traveler went back in time and taught the Japanese about hip hop.
58	* Detective Manzo is the time traveler. He narrated in some episodes and then he knew stuff about the future.
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