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Samurai Champloo #24 - #26 (FINALE)
Samurai Champloo #24 - #26 (FINALE):

In the government place, a man was assigned to kill the remains of the rebels. Other place, Fuu asked Mugen and Jin of their personal matters over the fire at night as they neared Nagasaki. Next day, Fuu lured Jin and Mugen away and left by herself to the island where her father was heard last seen. She treated them with cake as she left them without a word but a note. The assassin appeared and fought Mugen and Jin, telling them that other assassins were on their way to kill Fuu who was the daughter of the last rebel. Jin held the man off so that Mugen could go and save Fuu. Meanwhile on the island, Fuu was being told that her father was in a hut on the furthest end of the island. In the midst of the sunflower field, she was attacked by three assassin brothers.

At the harbour, the man told Jin of his interference to influence Jin's teacher to fight Jin, resulting to Jin's killing of his own teacher. On Mugen's way to the island, Mugen was attacked by one of the assassin brothers. He managed to kill him and made his way to the island where the remaining brothers had tied Fuu to a cross as hostage. They had grudge against Mugen because of his crippling of the eldest of the brother during his piracy act in the past, resulting to their loss of position in government organisation. At the harbour, the man defeated Jin who fell into the sea.

On the island, Mugen sliced Fuu free from her bound and commanded her to go to her sunflower samurai and reassured that he would live. She ran to the hut and finally met her father who was blind and crippled on bed. Seeing his sorry condition, she could not bring herself to scold him for abandoning her mother. She bided him farewell and her father's elderly caretaker told her that he had never stop thinking of her and her mother throughout the years. Just then, the assassin man appeared and stabbed her father to death after her father apologised to Fuu. He pushed the elderly care taker away and proceeded to attack Fuu. In the cave, Mugen managed to kill the second brother but was shot by the crippled eldest brother who prepared to kill Mugen with his bombs. On top of the cliff, Fuu was cornered but Jin appeared, preparing to fight not for himself but for others. He allowed himself to be stabbed so that he could kill the man and succeeded. Meanwhile, the eldest assassin brother blew himself up planning to kill himself and Mugen but Mugen managed to escape in time. Fuu sent Mugen and Jin to recover their injuries.

Mugen and Jin did not want to fight each other anymore after long periods of fighting alongside. After weeks of recuperation, they prepared to go on separate ways. Before they left, Fuu told them that she had tricked them with the coin result before they had went on the journey together. But Jin and Mugen did not mind.

THE END

COMMENT:

Style - 7/10; unique, mixture of modern rap and detailed analysis of the origin of modern culture like graffiti and baseball with traditional Japanese music and songs. Even ghost and scientific contents are tossed into the plots. Extremely unusual.

Humor/Seriousness - 7/10; Can be both hilarious and deep thought plots in different episodes.

Music - 6/10; Mixture of modern raps and traditional Jap music

Overall - 7/10; Worth rewatching again but not at this moment.