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Samurai Champloo Premieres

Starts 05/20/2004 CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCEBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

Start: May 20, 200492% CONFIDENCEfrom myanimelist.net
End: Mar 19, 200592% CONFIDENCEfrom myanimelist.net

Samurai Champloo Premieres

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Manglobe's Samurai Champloo begins airing, a hip-hop-infused samurai adventure directed by Shinichiro Watanabe that follows wanderers Mugen and Jin escorting waitress Fuu as she searches for a mysterious 'sunflower samurai.'

Manglobe original series, 26 episodes aired May 20, 2004 to Mar 19, 2005, Saturdays at 10:30 JST, set in an alternate Edo period with a hip-hop soundtrack^[1]
Fuu Kasumi rescues the fighters Mugen and Jin from execution and hires them to find a samurai who smells of sunflowers^[1]
Featured music by Nujabes, including opening "Battlecry"; spawned the 2006 PlayStation 2 game Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked^[1]

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myanimelist.net· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts May 20, 2004· Ends Mar 19, 2005 ✓· 100% of score
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