After the early 2000s American debut of Cowboy Bebop, Watanabe’s fame exploded in the west. The first half of Carole & Tuesday — the new anime series from Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director Shinichirō Watanabe — hit Netflix on August 30th. The lead character is Fuu, a 15 year old girl who sets off across Japan in the Edo era to find the Sunflower Samurai with the help of her two 20 year old male companions, Mugen and Jin. In 2004, Watanabe followed up Cowboy Bebop with his second original work Samurai Champloo. Being the very first show to come out from studio Manglobe, one of two studios (the other being Bones) that around the millennium shift got formed by ex-Sunrise members, Watanabe was once again given entirely free creative rein. It featured a production team led by director Shinichirō Watanabe, character designer Kazuto Nakazawa and mechanical designer Mahiro Maeda. Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー) is a Japanese anime series developed by Manglobe. See more ideas about Samurai champloo, Cowboy bebop, Shinichirō watanabe. Samurai Champloo was Watanabe's first directorial effort for an anime television series after the critically acclaimed Cowboy Bebop. Following two swordsmen, the reckless, ill-tempered Mugen and the stoic samurai Jin, as they accompany a young girl named Fuu on a journey across Japan in search of a samurai who smells of sunflowers, Watanabe’s follow-up to Cowboy Bebop gave us great character moments, amazing … Along with him from the Bebop… Sep 21, 2019 - Carole and Tuesday, Cowboy Bebop, Kids on the Slope, Michiko to Hatchin, and Samurai Champloo. It featured a production team led by director Shinichirō Watanabe, character designer Kazuto Nakazawa and mechanical designer Mahiro Maeda.

Set in feudal Japan, set to a hip-hop soundtrack, with numerous creative anachronisms, SAMURAI CHAMPLOO finds three characters journeying through the countryside. He is known for directing the popular anime series Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.

Samurai Champloo was Watanabe's first directorial effort for an anime … Shinichirō Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo was one of the hit anime of the mid-2000s. The plot is driven by 3 characters: Fuu, the teenage girl in search of a “sunflower samurai”, and 2 diametrically opposed swordsman in need of work. While I’ve yet to see a project of his that I haven’t liked, I want to focus on the big three: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Space Dandy.

Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー, Samurai Chanpurū) is a Japanese anime series developed by Manglobe.