~Entering the Unknown~

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.

One Piece #423:

Hancock turned the CCTV snail and the inspector into stone so that Luffy could sneak into hiding before she reverted them back to normal. As she exchanged glances with Luffy before she left with the jailers, she mistook him for saying 'I love you' instead of 'Thank you'.


Within the elevator, the jailers explained to her that the prison was made up of level 1 - 4, the higher the number, the lower it was located and the more terrible it was for prisoners. Within the prison level 4, Buggy managed to sneak out of his cell and escaped to level 1 but was detected and pursued by the jailers. He ran into Luffy and together, both of them fought the jailers.

Samurai Champloo #18: War of the Words

Mugen, Jin and Fuu were having dinner at an open air stall when Fuu realised Mugen could not read words. She and Jin joked about it. Mugen was protesting when a drunken man dragged Mugen aside, lecturing him for the importance of languages and downed him with sake. He collapsed drunk. With insufficient money, Jin, Fuu and Mugen left the remaining debt for the drunken man to clear. Along the way, Jin told the other two that he was planning to visit someone and parted for a short while. Fuu tried to teach Mugen how to read some graffi on the wall when the earlier drunken man turned up and dragged Mugen away. Fuu was left all alone. In a hut, the man forced Mugen to learn words from him. On the street, two young men quarrelled over something and seemed attracted to Fuu, trying to compete each other over her. Jin turned up and Fuu was surprised to learn that he was looking for them both. It turned out that he had promised a kudo master to take care of his sons after his death and the two young men were the sons. Fuu suggested them competing by writing graffi on the most dangerous places. That night, Mugen returned to the inn where he told Fuu that he was learning to write. She told him of the graffi competition and he was interested. Since that night, many guards were rushing around in panic as graffi appeared in the most secured part of walls. The two brothers tried to write graffi on the top of a castle but Mugen got there before them. Before they parted, the brothers turned out to like the squrrel on Fuu and not Fuu herself. Jin told her that their father died when he committed suicide to secure his dojo.

Samurai Champloo #19: Unholy Union

Fuu was resting in an abandoned hut, waiting for Jin and Mugen when a woman rushed into it, pleading for refuge. She agreed and took her in. Shortly, two men stormed in, demanding for the woman. Fuu managed to persuade them to leave. Other place, Jin and Mugen were walking when they noticed an old woman who drew a cross against her chest being dragged away by officers and then a man with foreign accent who addressed himself as Xavier III and a messager for God turning up on a horse, interrupting Mugen's fight with the officers. He shot the officers with his rifle and rode away. Meanwhile in the hut, the woman got out of her hiding, she introduced herself as Yuri. Fuu told her of her plan to find a samurai with sunflower aroma and showed her the little skull. Yuri asked her to look into the eye of the skull and she saw a cross. As Yuri told her that the samurai with sunflower aroma was probably a man who had worked with her and her father on an island devoted to Christianity, Fuu told her that the samurai with sunflower aroma was actually her father who abandoned her mother. Suddenly, the two men returned and dragged her away. Fuu woke to find Mugen and Jin looking down at her and she told them everything. They continued their journey into a heavily guarded village where they were allowed to stay for a night.

That night, Fuu woke with a start to see a long row of people moving in the dark. She followed them to a hall to see Xavier III trying to brainwash people with using guns to reach God. She was caught and imprisoned where she met Yuri again. Yuri had been forced by Xavier III to become his wife. He also threatened to kill her like what he had done to her father. Fuu sent a help message using her squirrel. Jin and Mugen received the message shortly. When Fuu and Yuri were taken to the hall, Jin and Mugen stormed into the place, defeating Xavier III and disclosing him as a liar. The crowd were also shocked to see that Xavier III was actually a Japanese.

Next day, when everything was over, Yuri parted with others. Fuu told Jin and Mugen that the samurai with sunflower aroma was her father and she could not forgive him.

Samurai Champloo #20: Elegy of Entrapment (Verse 1)

It was a raining when Fuu sought refuge from the rain outside a restaurant. The owner invited her to enter for food and shelter even though she had no money. Jin and Mugen immediately accepted the offer. In the restaurant, a blind singer was playing her instrument and singing sad songs about missing her child. Later, she sat with Jin, Fuu and Mugen where she was harrassed by two thugs. Mugen and Jin hit them away. When knowing their intention to travel to Nagasaki, she tagged along to thank them with her singing. With her street performance along the way, the group was able to get more money for decent meals and shelter. At an inn where Mugen intentionally popped into the hot spring with the blind singer - Sara, he later told Jin that Sara was a cautious woman. Sara asked Fuu to allow either Jin or Mugen to accompany her in the rest of her journey after they were to part. Fuu felt it hard to decide. At a Matsuri fair, Sara told the others that she had a child who was a boy but not with her because of her blindness causing her unable to take care of him. On the day of parting, Fuu asked Jin to take care of Sara and wept when they parted with Jin agreeing without hesitation. On a bridge, Sara suddenly attacked Jin.

Samurai Champloo #21: Elegy of Entrapment (Verse 2)

Jin and Sara fought and he was shocked of how skilled she was. To save himself, he was forced to slash the bridge into half, letting him and Sara fall into the river below.

Next morning, Mugen and Fuu learned of the broken bridge from the locals. Concerned as it was along Jin and Sara's route, they went to investigate and found Sara unconscious. Mugen found Jin's glasses. In a hut, Sara regained back to conscious while Mugen searched for Jin but no success. He found Sara's weapon instead and returned to the hut. Fuu took over. When Mugen and Sara were alone, Mugen made known his awareness of her possible in hand for Jin's disappearance. They went to a riverside and fought. Mugen was shocked to see her being a difficult opponent. She told him that she was doing this to save her child. Fuu arrived to see their fight and shielded Mugen with her body before Sara could kill him. Sara could not bring herself to kill them and left.

Other place, Jin woke and his saviour guided him with hidden phrases. He thanked him and left to reunite with Mugen and Fuu. Mugen and Jin agreed that someone powerful must have sent Sara as an assassin after them and were sure that she would come again. Mugen went out of the hut and faced off Sara again. Even though she gained advantage edge, she allowed herself to be killed under Mugen's katana as she was certain that her boy was already dead. Before she died, she told Mugen that the government had sent her to assassin them. Mugen screamed into the night air.

COMMENT: I think I'm liking the style of this anime with mixture of raps, traditional Japanese songs, music, humor and seriousness, plus lots of battles.

Samurai Champloo #22:

This episode is more like a ghost story than a samurai one. Narrator talked about shooting stars. Back to story, Fuu saw a shooting star in the sky and wished for finding samurai with sunflower aroma quickly. Mugen noticed a mushroom on the ground and devoured it instantly. He and Jin began to pluck the mushrooms around them despite Fuu's protest. After they finished their mushrooms, Fuu told them that fortune book stated the day was not suitable to eat mushrooms. As Mugen protested, all of them fell into a hole. When they came to, they were led out of the place by two men who felt like corpses to Fuu. Outside, they saw a few men digging the ground under instruction from a man who claimed he was the inheritor of the gold buried within the soil and made the trio digging for gold. Fuu found the incident suspicious and witnessed the man summoning all helpers from the soil. Apparently, all people were already dead. Same time, Jin discovered that the man was not the descendent of the clan he had claimed to be. Mugen tried to fight off the zombie attackers but in vain while Jin disclosed the man's no relation to the clan. The man was disappointed but insisted on continuing the work but he agreed not to attack them anymore. Meanwhile, a shooting star fell to earth, causing a giant explosion with mushroom like smoke from afar.

Samurai Champloo #23:

The narrator introduced baseball - a game from America. Back to story, a man - Manzou was looking out to sea from a cliff. Meanwhile, Fuu, Jin and Mugen were waiting for their food when plates of food not ordered from them came to their table. Mugen, ignoring Fuu's protest, began to eat the food. Fuu followed suit. Knowing they had not enough money for the food, Mugen ran away but was hit back by a baseball tossed by a man. Mugen was tied together with Fuu and Jin. All three of them were forced to play a game of baseball with the man who told them that it concerned the fate of the country.

Flashback, an American ship reached the Japanese shore, forcing the settlement to open up trade with them. The man interfered with challenge of baseball. If they won, the American had to leave, if they lost, they would agree to the American's terms. After some times of training, the trio together with the man, Manzou and the settlement head (an old man) plus a dog and Fuu's squirrel, they played the game against the American team. After times of victory from Japanese side, the American team began to play dirty, forcing Jin and others out of the game. Mugen played dirty back at them and won the competition. As a result, the American left.

Darker than Black - Ryuusei no Gemini #03:

Hei dreamed of Yin as she bided farewell to him with tears running down her eyes. When he woke, he found himself lying in a hut with Suou. He pinned Suou down. Later, the tied Suou demanded to know why Hei killed her father and tried to pursue her younger brother - Shion. Other place, three people were discussing of their mission that they had to succeed. Meanwhile, an organization was observing Nika and sent Tanya to extract information from him. In the hut, Suou’s mobile phone rang. Hei crushed it and pulled Suou into hiding after slicing her free. From some delivery, they knew Shion was currently in Japan.

At the train station, Hei tried to hold Tanya off so that Suou was to hide inside a train that would take off in 5 minutes’ time. He commanded Mao to protect and to watch over Suou. Suou was shocked to see Mao in the form of her pet squirrel. She saw Nika gravely injured and Tanya not hesitating to kill him and to capture her in order to gain position in her organization. Aghast and angry, Suou thought of her father’s death, April’s death and of her brother, the hidden power within Suou and her necklace began to activate. A long rifle appeared and she started to fire contactors according to directions issued by July. Afar, some people knew the end was beginning. From the train, Suou started shooting the pursuers including Tanya until Hei stopped her. Her activation paused and she passed out. Hei carried Suou and motioned July and Mao to leave with him.

In a building, Kirihara discussed with someone over the disappearance of BK-201’s star and subsequently communicated with her ex subordinate to extract information of Hei. Her subordinate warned her of section 35. Just then, an officer interrupted her time and wanted her to leave with him under section 35 that was to eliminate witnesses of contactors.

Samurai Champloo #16:

Mugen watched as a man fell from a cliff, enveloped in fire. Flashback, Mugen, Jin and Fuu were on their way to Nagasaki. Mugen asked Fuu her reason to pursue the samurai with sunflower aroma. When she refused to answer, he left her. Angered, Fuu decided to find the samurai alone. Concerned for Fuu, Jin followed her but was attacked by his foster brother who used to practice with him under the same teacher whom he had slain. Fuu was distracted by Mugen and Jin’s departure and in her pursue of her pet squirrel, she tripped and fell down a cliff into a lake. Other place, Jin told his foster brother – Yukimaru that he could tell the world that he had killed him if he wanted fame that much. With that, he jumped down the cliff. Other place, Mugen was attacked by a strangely dressed man who mistook him for his pursuers. When he realised his mistake, he left. Mugen went to rest by a bank and was attacked by the man’s pursuers.

Samurai Champloo #17:

Fuu woke to find herself in a cave where a man, who had earlier mistakenly attacked Mugen, had rescued and tended to her. He told her that he was travelling to the west and that his wife and child would always be beside him. Fuu asked him to let her tag along as she was going to the west as well. Other place, Mugen told the others that they had mistook him for someone else and got into a fight. After they realised their mistake, they tried to leave but Mugen threatened one of them with his katana and demanded to know the man’s crime. He was told that the man had killed everyone in his village and daimyo’s wife. Other place, Jin passed by and eavesdropped from the officers that they would kill Mugen if he interrupted their mission. Meanwhile, Mugen told the pursuers not to interrupt his finding of the man, as he wanted to fight him. Meanwhile, Fuu woke in the middle of the night to find the man missing. She ran into Jin who told her that he had been concerned of her well-being. In the woods, Mugen ran into the man who told him that the officers had massacred his people in the village with excuse to curb an infectious disease. He had returned to the village too late to see his family dead and his village burning. Mugen and the man dueled only to be interrupted by the officers who intended to kill both of them using burning arrows. When the man gave in, the officers shot him. Fuu and Jin arrived to see the burning man managing to kill some officers before leaping down the cliff to his death. Mugen witnessed his fall.

Another new day, Jin, Mugen and Fuu were on their way to Nagasaki. Mugen asked Fuu her intention to find the sunflower aroma samurai and she told him that she was seeking revenge on him for her mother’s death. The three of them went on their way.

Samurai Champloo #13:

Fuu, Jin and Mugen came to the seaside where Mugen met his old friends who had lived with him in the island where criminals were deported and grown roots there. His female friend was delighted to see him but his foster brother was not. After some arguments, his foster brother got Mugen to help him to attack a government ship for gold. Mugen told Fuu that if he did not return, she and Jin would have to proceed Nagasaki without him. Fuu was not happy. Later, the female friend rushed to tell Fuu and Jin that Mugen’s foster brother had meant to betray Mugen again in the mission.

On the sea, Mugen’s foster brother deserted Mugen on the government ship which he shortly blew up. On the shore, the female friend, Jin and Fuu saw the explosion. Fuu was aghast.

Samurai Champloo #14:

As Mugen sank into the sea, he thought of the past when his foster brother had betrayed him before resulting to Mugen being arrested by the government and to be executed at the edge of the cliff. Mugen leaped into the sea before the officers opened fire at him. Another flash, he recalled his meeting with the female friend who had been concerned of him.

Next day, Fuu was searching the shore when she found Mugen being washed ashore. She took him back and nursed him back to health. In a cave, Mugen’s foster brother disclosed the location of the stolen gold to a young man. Meanwhile, Jin and the female friend confronted Mugen’s foster brother who told the female friend to enter a hut to meet the young man. Jin killed Mugen’s foster brother who realised both of them had been tricked by the female friend and the young man. Mugen left Fuu to find his foster brother and met Jin who told him of the female friend’s betrayal. Mugen confronted and killed the young man, leaving the female friend who still did not know location of the gold, aghast and ashamed.

Samurai Champloo #15:

Jin found a small bag of gold in a lake. Together with Mugen and Fuu, they enjoyed themselves in a town. Jin and Mugen sneaked off to a prostitute lair. The only pretty prostitute was a spy to the owner of the lair who was actually running an illegal operation beneath the building. The organisation was suspecting the female spy and also planning to kill Mugen, Jin and Fuu for finding the illegal gold. The female spy lured Mugen into cracking the illegal operation and eliminated the organization. Next day, she left off with her comrade who was rescued from the lair, leaving Mugen still unconscious under the tree. Other place, Fuu was still looking for Jin and Mugen while Jin was suffering from back ache.

Naruto Shippuuden #132: Enter - The Six Path of Pain

Jiraiya managed to stop Ma and Pa toads from bickering and concentrated fighting the three Pains. After analysing, he noticed that one of them could summon creatures while another one could absorb Chakra. He also observed that the three men possessed the same Rinnegan and suspected the real Pain was among them. Suspecting that their close coordination was due to common sharing of their views through Rinnegan, Jiraiya was forced to hide in a piping.


Within the piping, Toad Ma and Pa gathered Chakra and forced their genjutsu song to trap the three Pains while Jiraiya stabbed them. Feeling sure that Pain was dead, Jiraiya walked towards the exit only to be hit out by one of the Pains. Out in the open, six Pains leaped out to confront the injured Jiraiya who identified one of them.

OMAKE:

Naruto invited Jiraiya on Air and asked embarrassing questions like when his Icha-Icha book was coming out as well as his payment of debts. Jiraiya silently apologised to Minato for not bringing his son - Naruto up well.

Samurai Champloo #12:

This episode is more of a flashback to the previous 11 episodes.

While Fuu was enjoying her hot spring, Mugen and Jin peeked her diary. They were pissed off when she had excluded her real reason for the journey and had kept her entries short and brief because she knew they would peek her diary when she was not around.

Fairy Tail #02:

Natsu led Lucy to Fairy Tail Guild, other place, the Magic Council was bemused over Fairy Tail wizard's creation of trouble again. In Fairy Tail Guild, Lucy was dumbfound to see all wizards into beers and fights until the Guild master interrupted them with a blast. The giantic looking Guild master turned out to be a tiny old man who encouraged the Guild wizards to fight for their belief despite complaints received from the magic Council. Lucy was accepted as part of Fairy Tail Guild.

While Natsu was looking on the board for offered jobs to wizards' missions, a little boy - Romeo stormed at Guild master, asking for his father who had not return since the last mission. Overhearing Romeo's anxiety and Guild master's inability to help, Natsu left off to look for Romeo's father - Macros. Lucy and Happy tagged along. In the snowy route, Natsu told Lucy that Macros' last seen mission was to fight Vulcans. Lucy recalled a fellow Guild member's saying that Natsu was brought up by a dragon - Leneel and was separated when it vanished one day. That was why Natsu could feel the same.

Along the way, Lucy was kidnapped by Vulcan. Natsu ran after it, demanding Macros' whereout. Lucy summoned a key ox but it was defeated by Natsu who mistook it for Vulcan. Natsu moved on and defeated Vulcan who reverted back to Macros. Macros told them that Vulcan took over human bodies into their forms. Macros had defeated 19 of them but was taken over by the 20th one. Macros reunited with the delighted Romeo who thanked Natsu, Happy and Lucy. Lucy began to like Fairy Tail Guild.

Dragon Ball Kai #28:

Vegeta tracked down Gohan and Karirin when the latters increased their speed to the elderly's place. Gohan moved ahead so that the elderly could wake his unawakened power while Karirin tried to block him off. In space, Goku got showered and meals after his training and went to take a nap. Other place, Vegeta sped beyond Karirin and Niel faced him. Vegeta sensed Gohan's increased power. The elderly told Denden that there were outside powers on their way here. Denden reverted the information to Niel, Gohan, Kiririn and Vegeta. Vegeta sensed 6 forces moving towards the planet and told them that Freeza was getting his 5 Ginyo special forces on the way. Niel told them that 5 of the forces were weaker. Niel told them that the dragon balls could grant 3 wishes. Gohan, Kiririn and Vegeta decided to work together against Freeza and flew off together to unite the 7 dragon balls. The elderly told Niel to go with them and he did.

Meanwhile, the 5 Ginyo special forces arrived and Freeza welcomed them. Bulma was shocked to see Kiririn and Gohan working together with Freeza.

One Piece #422:

Hancock and Luffy, on board of the Marine warship was approaching Impel Down. Near the ship, Captain Buggy’s ship was sailing nearby. A woman pirate was taking over it as Buggy was imprisoned in Impel Down. She managed to convince Buggy’s men from going to rescue him. In the middle of the sea sat the building prison of Impel Down. Inside, an elderly Marine admiral told Ace that he was disappointed that Ace and Luffy did not join the Marine and he also told Ace that he had told Luffy that his father was Monkey D Dragon. He was upset over Luffy’s interference to Marine’s activities and chaos caused. Ace stated that he and Luffy had top criminals’ blood flowing in their veins and he recalled his past acknowledgement of Whitebeard as his adopted father.

Meanwhile, the Marine ship reached Impel Down and Hancock was told that she would be searched before she entered the official prison, she silently told Luffy who reassured he would find a way out. Inside the building, she was greeted by the warders and led to a room where she would be chained and searched.

Inuyasha – Final Act #03:

Inuyasha and others told Kadae of Kikyou’s plan and Kohaku’s determination to sacrifice himself for her plan. Other place, Toutousai approached Sesshoumaru who was silently grieving over Kagura’s death. He told him that it was time to reforge Tensaiga because Sesshoumaru had learned how to think for other people. In modern world, Kagome and her classmates were applying for a high school and preparing for exams. Kagome’s grandfather told Kagome that someone had made the right wish to Shikon no tama in the past causing it to vanish forever. That night, Inuyasha fetched her and she returned with him because she could not concentrate on her studies with her worries.

In Feudal Japan, Inuyasha and the others approached a building and Shippou was hit by a leaf with number 77 on it. It was later found that many kitsunes were having kitsune exams by tricking people. Shippou managed to promote himself by bullying Inuyasha. Next day, they continued their path and Shippou met a girl who absorbed Inuyasha’s Tesusaiga’s demon aura. She tried to hold Shippou hostage but Inuyasha disclosed her identity to be an old man demon. Shippou was bemused for he had initially fallen for her.

Other place, Sesshoumaru demonstrated the new power of Tensaiga that could send opponents into the world of dead. The technique was known as Meido Zanpakutou.

Samurai Champloo #10:

It was night when a samurai attacked and killed another samurai. Next day, Fuu, Jin and Mugen were dragging their feet in hunger when a monk agreed to take them in for accommodation and meals in return for their effort to clean his shrine. When Fuu was running errands to buy materials to repair the door that Mugen had damaged in anger, she overheard some people discussing of a wanted serial killer and hearing the prize reward, she ran to tell the interested Mugen. They both ran off, leaving Jin to do the work alone. While gathering information, Mugen ran into a samurai who told him of a legend about a warrior who aimed to climb higher and as a result, he turned into a demon. Mugen disclosed his identity as the serial killer. They fought and for the first time, Mugen was almost defeated if not for interruption by some people. In the shrine, Jin tested the monk and knew he was skilled in fighting. When Mugen returned with the news, the monk told Mugen, Jin and Fuu that the serial killer was his ex student who had changed since his return from China. The student was subsequently dispelled from his school and due to his defeat by his student, the teacher became a monk. Mugen was excited by the serial killer’s skill and trained himself.

On another full moon night, he faced off the serial killer and won. At the waterfall, the monk knew his ex student had died.

Samurai Champloo #11:

It was a raining night when Jin passed by a bridge, stopping a young woman – Shion in time from committing suicide. She helped him in the unagi business and told him that it was her last day of freedom before she went to work in the prostitute to pay off debts. Other place, Mugen was gambling in insect fighting while Fuu was working part time in a stall. Another night, Jin followed Shion and stood outside the prostitute den where she was working. After being chased off by the people there, he went back to Fuu and Mugen’s place and took away the remaining money Mugen had won from the gambling. He spent time with Shion in the prostitute building. Fuu learned of Jin’s recent event from customers in the stall and told Mugen. In the den, Jin stopped Shion’s debt ridden husband from hitting Shion for money. He returned to Fuu and Mugen’s place and told them to proceed the journey to Nagasaki without him if he failed to return. Jin left despite Fuu’s protest.

Jin returned to the den and aided Shion to escape from the place. They were surrounded by the gangsters. Mugen and Fuu came along to help them. Jin led Shion to a harbour and sent her away. Before she left, her husband came and tried to hold her back but she rejected him and told him that she was leaving him. The gangsters arrived. Jin helped Shion to hold them back and she left alone for her freedom.

Darker than Black Ryuusei no Gemini #02:

Suou managed to escape from Hei with help from some contactors. At a point of time, she witnessed Shion walking on his own from afar and she was shocked for Shion had lost his ability to walk since the fall of a star. Everyone around her had forgotten her identity except Nicke who managed to escape from a confinement in a medical centre. Together, they put up posters to lure out Hei. Hei confronted Suou wanting to take a medalion and realised 'Shion' was Suou - Shion's elder sister. A contactor named Magician attacked them and Hei was being ambushed by his people's attacks. Other place, a bespectacled woman stated the fall of BK201.

Samurai Champloo #07:

Fuu, Jin and Mugen managed to win some money with help of Fuu's pet in a gambling den and they were ordering some food at a noodles stall when a young man pickpocketed the money from Fuu. Angered, the trio went to search. Other place, the same young man pickpocketed some opinium from a group of gangsters. Fuu soon located the pick pocket's home and had a talk with his mother who mistook her for her son's girl friend. Later, she confronted the pick pocket again but they were both surrounded by the gangsters who demanded return of opinium. The pick pocket held Fuu as hostage and hid in a house. Mugen and the gangsters broke in. The pick pocket who was touched by Fuu's words not to hurt his mother's feeling, promised to be better next time they met in future and escaped from the house. At a corner, he was confronted by the gangsters and stabbed to death. Fuu witnessed his death and visited his mother for the last time before leaving with Jin and Mugen.

Samurai Champloo #08:

A man and his underlying were showing off in the street. Other place, forced by hunger, Jin pawned his spectacles so that he, Mugen and Fuu could have some food in a stall. Inside the stall, the leader of a gang tried to impress Fuu while a woman lured Jin and Mugen for western wine in a bar. Angered, Fuu accepted the man's invitation. On a hill, the man told Fuu about a bespectacled samurai who killed his own teacher and stated that he inspired to defeat him. Fuu suspected the samurai he was talking about was Jin. In the bar, Jin and Mugen were drugged by the woman.

Next day, Fuu found Jin and Mugen lying on the street, their money gone. Left without choice, they did street performance and earned money to pawn back Jin's spectacles. In the pawn shop, they ran into the man and his gang and another man duelled Jin who confirmed that he was the one who killed his own sensei. However, Jin stated his sensei was the one who betrayed him first. The woman appeared and it turned out that she and the gang were working together to earn money. The man told Jin that many people were after his life and he did not care. Jin, Fuu and Mugen left.

Samurai Champloo #09:

An old government official was thinking back an event 30 years ago. Flashback to 30 years ago... Mugen, Fuu and Jin were resting at the boundary of a town and a man sold them fake passes to the next town. The trio were arrested by the government officials and Mugen was forced to infiltrate into an organisation's lair in the forest using Fuu and Jin as hostages. Mugen set off and the then young official stalked him. Mugen was captured by tengou faced samurais who turned out to be rebellious monks against the government. The official who tried to save him was also captured as well. He managed to escape from his bound and rescued Mugen. Mugen attacked the monks and burned the opinium field and the smoke emitted from it affected everyone's mental ability. Fuu and Jin were allowed to investigate and found Mugen and the other people having illusions on the burned field. They were bemused.

Samurai Champloo #5:

Fuu called Jin and Mugen to find money for their ferry fare. She was approached by an artist who offered to make her a model. Meanwhile, Mugen bullied some gangsters' subordinates into extorting their money. Jin played a game of chess with an old man in return for money. Meanwhile, a police inspector was spying on the artist and Fuu for the past girls kidnapping incidents. Fuu was tricked by the artist and was kidnapped by the same gangsters whom Mugen had harrassed in human trafficking. Feeling guilty, the artist tried to save Fuu and with help of the inspector and Mugen, Fuu was rescued and the gang crushed. The old man who was playing chess with Jin was arrested as he was the mastermind of human trafficking. Before he left with the police, he gave the promised rewards to Jin. The artist bidded farewell with Fuu and left for Holland to make his future in field of arts. He was later heard to be arrested and be deported back to Japan. But his arts were later known to people there.

Samurai Champloo #6:

Fuu pestered Jin and Mugen into participating the bento eating competition using their katanas as collaterate. Fuu managed to make to the final two but an irritating fly around her crushed her chance to win the prize. The winner was a westerner and he got Jin and Mugen's katanas. In order to get their weapons back, they accepted the Westerner's request to be his tour guard. Along the way, they were pursued by a troop of officers who tried to arrest the westerner for being in Japan. The westerner managed to get Fuu and others to bring him to see a dance show and at the back stage, he confessed that he was into homosexuality but it was forbidded in his country in Holland. He told them how he read of homosexuality in Japan and had looked forward into visiting this paradise. Just then, the officers appeared and they fought to the stage where some westerners and a Japanese stopped them telling them that the westerner was an important guest who visited Japan under his company - Dutch East Indies Company. Despite his unwillingness to return, he agreed to leave with his people. Jin and Mugen got their katanas back. Before he left, Fuu asked him of the samurai who smelt of sunflowers and showed him an item which he seemed to know and he warned her that the place where it came from was dangerous and she should not show it to anyone else easily.

Samurai Champloo #04:

Jin and Mugen fought while Fuu urged them not to fight each other. Their fight was interrupted by the gang's henchmen and Mugen was not pleased. Surrounded by henchmen, Jin pulled Sousuke out of the scene. In the gang's HQ, Mugen protested to the boss of the interference as he wanted to fight someone strong but was being told off. Angered, Mugen left. The other bodyguard who was formerly Sousuke's father's men secretly agreed with Mugen's arguement.

Next day, Fuu and Sousuke's sister were being harrassed by the potential clients again when Sousuke stormed in to stab the man who touched his elder sister's hand. Sousuke was bound and brought to his father who promised to gamble for his son's live with the gang leader. That night in the prostitute lair, Fuu tried to frighten clients off by making ugly face but attracted a man instead. The man tried to ride on her and was being hit off. Fuu tied him up and ran off to the gambling place. Other place, Mugen thought of Fuu's words when he and Jin were fighting and decided to turn back. Meanwhile, Fuu was dragged to be the dice thrower for Sousuke's father and the gang leader. The gang leader won and Sousuke's father committed suicide to save his son. Mugen banged in and together with Jin, they killed off the gang's men. The leader tried to flee and was killed by Sousuke's father's former man.

Next day, Sousuke and his elder sister reunited. Jin and Fuu bidded farewell to them. Next to the lake, the former gang bodyguard and Mugen duelled in good will and Mugen won.

Dragon Ball Kai #27:

To save his and Bulma’s lives, Kiririn gave up his dragon ball to Vegeta. Pleased, he let them off. Along the way, he found Gohan who managed to hide his dragon ball in time. Vegeta noticed the radar in Gohan’s hand but did not know its purpose. He kicked Gohan and left to find the dragon ball he had hid in the lake. Gohan finally met up Kiririn and Bulma and were glad that Vegeta did not complete all dragon balls. They evacuated their place before Vegeta returned in anger. Outside in space, Goku was still training himself. Other place, Freeza saw no sight of Zarbon and called for reinforcement to search Vegeta who had stolen all his 5 dragon balls. After Bulma went into hiding elsewhere, Kiririn took Gohan to find the elderly who could increase his ki level. Meanwhile, out in space, the reinforcements of Freeza were on their way to the planet.

Bleach #241:

Ichigo related Byakuya’s betrayal to others. Renji was angry and shocked. Rukia’s captain told Rukia the matter and she decided to investigate. In the cave, the Zanpakutous demanded Byakuya to prove his loyalty by killing Rukia’s Zanpakutou and he did. Byakuya’s Zanpakutou was shocked and aghast and decided to watch him from then on.

It was night when Renji accompanied Rukia to Byakuya’s office to search evidences. As Rukia fell asleep, she dreamed of Byakuya and was woke by a loud noise. She came out of the room to find the Shinigami being attacked. Byakuya and his Zanpakutou were there and the latter tossed Rukia’s broken Zanpakutou to her. As he was about to attack her, Renji went to her aid. Byakuya fought Renji while Byakuya’s Zanpakutou fought Renji’s Zanpakutou. When Renji and his Zanpakutou were defeated respectively, the other Zanpakutou appeared. Byakuya refused to attack Rukia further, telling her to stay out of the Zanpakutou rebellion. When the Zanpakutou were about to attack the injured Renji and the shocked Rukia, Ichigo and other Shinigami appeared to their aid.

Samurai Champloo #03:

Jin and Mugen ran off from the grumpy Fuu to seek their ways to settle their hunger and boredom problem. Mugen went to work for a corrupted gangster organisation while Jin worked for a boy whose elder sister was pulled to a prostitute den to settle their father's debt. Fuu was unfortunately forced to work in the same prostitude den and met the boy's elder sister. The boy - Shousuke and Jin infiltrated into the place in disguise. When their covers were blown, Mugen ran to look for them to fight.

One Piece #421:

While Hancock was feeling the troubled about the female crews within Luffy’s group, Luffy was having great feast day and night on the ship. Robin, in other place, learned that she was on the island of labour and she was condemned as one of the slaves to finish the never-ending building of bridge. Usopp, meanwhile, was fearful of the man-eating plants around him.

Same time, Zorro landed on a lonely island of Rugg where a negative girl whom Kuma had sent times ago had stayed ever since. She took in the injured Zorro and tried to make him stay with her using her Negative Hollow technique. Other place, Brook landed on an island of ‘Hungeria’ where the people who wanted revenge using help of Satan mistook him for their devil god and wanted him to help them.

On the ship, one Marine officer suspected someone else hiding in Hancock’s cabin and told his superior. The officers went to investigate and Hancock cleared their suspicion by imitating Luffy’s tone in front of them. In the Great Prison, a senior Marine officer went to see Ace and told him that the Government was in a mess because of him. Ace told him to kill him but he refused, as Ace was an important person to lure out Whitebeard. Ace wept and in his mind, he called Whitebeard his father.

Samurai Champloo #01:

In a place, Mugen and Jin were about to be executed by a corrupted officer. A day ago, Fuu was attending to customers in her little eatery inn when Mugen entered asking for plain water. After she told him that he had to buy other food in order for her to serve him, she accidentally tripped and tipped hot tea over a corrupted officer’s son. He threatened to cut off her finger and she called Mugen to help her in return for 100 dango. Outside the eatery, Jin went to help a poor man who was being forced by the corrupted officer to pay up by killing the officer’s men. In the eatery, Mugen killed the followers of the corrupted officer’s son and demanded more powerful followers to fight him. Just then, Jin entered and Mugen mistook him for one follower and wanted to fight him. As they fought, the eatery caught fire. Fuu and her colleagues escaped out of the building. Before Mugen lost consciousness, he had a funny vision of Jin having a bath amidst the fire.

When he regained consciousness, he and Jin were arrested by the corrupted officer who was flaring because his son was killed in the fire. After torturing them, he declared to execute them the next day. Meanwhile, with nothing left, Fuu left to look for Mugen and Jin. She found them and tried to release them from the jail but failed. On the time of execution, she used explosive to distract the officer’s men while Mugen and Jin freed themselves from their bounds and killed the corrupted officer. After they got away with Fuu, Fuu asked them to help her find a samurai with smell of sunflowers. They agreed and left.

Samurai Champloo #02:

In a dark cell, a huge man was released to carry out another man’s order. It was daytime when Mugen, Jin and Fuu were trying to gather enough money to buy their meals. After overhearing conversation from some customers in an inn, Mugen volunteered to deal with the mysterious kidnappers. In return, they had food. Fuu got herself drunk and had to be carried on a trolley by Mugen and Jin. Along the way, Mugen ran into a woman who offered lodging for the three of them. Back at the eatery inn, a man killed the inn owner for helping him lure Mugen, Jin and Fuu into his trap.

It was night. Mugen and the woman were drinking in a room. Outside the house, Fuu was knocked unconscious by two men and taken away. Out in the open, Jin was soaking in hot spring with a stranger and they watched the fireflies in the sky. Out on the road, Fuu witnessed the larger of the men killing two invaders easily with his limbs. Later, in a hut, she saw the larger man watching the moon and telling her that other people had despised him because of his ugly look. Fuu stated that he was not ugly and showed him a firefly in her hands. The second man, who was the initiator of the kidnapping, interrupted their conversation. Meanwhile, Mugen pushed the woman host away when she attempted to poison him with her kiss. He ran off looking for Fuu as she told him that she was probably in danger. Same time, Jin was also looking for Fuu when the stranger at the hot spring told him about Fuu. Mugen was confronted by the two men who showed him the tied up Fuu. In the bamboo woods, Jin and the stranger fought. Other place, Fuu was about to be killed by the initiator when the larger man killed him to protect her. Mugen in his haste to secure Fuu’s safety stabbed the larger man. Fuu asked the man why he wanted to save her and he told her that she was the only person who did not despise him for his look before he died.

Fullmetal Alchemist Issue #100:

From afar, Greed!Ling was distracted by the intense alchemy effect and was dragged down the building. Ran Fan grabbed Ling’s arm. Ling ordered her to look after Fuu instead. She wept and told him that her grandfather – Fuu was already dead. The Brigg’s soldiers tried to help but Bradley injured them with his knives instead. King Bradley finally fell into the water below. Ling wanted to use Greed’s Philosopher’s Stone to save Fuu and wanted any alchemy to come forward to revive Fuu. Olivia’s men told Ling to help them protect the gate, as he was the only one who could. Ling wanted Greed to give him power and ordered Ran Fan to protect the people. Ling moved forward in full steel form to face the enemy and fought fiercely. The Briggs soldiers were glad that Ling was on their side. Olivia’s lieutenant finally died.

Other place, Hughes’ wife and daughter were watching a solar eclipse above. Other place, Ed, Izumi and Al were transmuted into a place. A black person with eyes all over him with Hohenheim struck within his stomach approached them and stated they were still one person short. Ed was shocked to see Al not getting up. Other place, Roy and Riza were captured by the puppet people. So was Scar. The lab researcher wanted Roy to open the Gate by doing human transmutation. Roy flatly refused. One of the puppet men began to cut Riza’s neck. Roy screamed.