Samurai Champloo/Awesome


 * Mugen generally has too much badass to count but one instance sticks out: when promised sex with a hot ninja girl if he helps her (but doesn't get anyway) he defeats an entire room full of armed guards while unarmed and half-naked, and in the dub even shouts something like "I want my nookie!" What's more, Yatsuha, the ninja, ended up falling in love with him, and swore to herself that she would find him again someday (as her partner questioned her taste in men).
 * The fact that Mugen
 * In a much more poignant example, Mugen nearly drowned after a friend betrayed him, and survived as if by a miracle, with barely enough strength to walk. Wow. The music playing during this scene really drives home what kind of person Mugen is, at least at that moment.
 * Context makes this even more awesome;
 * The second fight scene with Mugen and . While his opponent does have awesome manuevers i.e. the staff cutting through a downpour of rain exposing open air, Mugen's final move is so expertly animated that it sent a shiver up this troper's spine. Never mind the fact that.
 * It increases in awesomeness when it is revealed . The last scene ties it all together.
 * Jin's final battle against Kariya Kagetoki, in which He is also shirtless with his long hair down throughout the scene, which, according to the fangirls, helps. It also helps that he's using the Ultimate Technique of his dojo exactly the way it was intended.
 * Jin's fight against Mukoro, who is Mugen's Evil Counterpart, is also well worth a mention.
 * Jin's fights with are also crowningly awesome, the first one ending with him leaping off a waterfall to avoid killing an old friend, the second in death with only the slightest movement of his sword.
 * Jin effortlessly trouncing at least six sword-wielding thugs unarmed is pretty awesome.
 * Though not a hero, Kariya Kagetoki's first fight with Mugen and Jin is unbelievable. Significant challenges to either had been extremely rare, but when they team up to fight Kagetoki, they turn out to be hopelessly outclassed.
 * The assassin, whom Kariya appears to have trained, is badass enough to crack a bridge with the ki surrounding lance...while blind.
 * Let's not forget how Mugen deals with Umanosuke, the assassin with the scythe on a chain: . That may be the first time in the series he really thought about an attack.
 * You people! What about Fuu?
 * "Her Stomach is like a cosmos unto itself." (Please note the capital letter 'S' when describing 'Stomach'.)
 * Her encounter with the various pots she bumps into in the fourth episode eventually leads up to some of the most impressive... uh, dicemanship, this troper has ever witnessed. I know this because the stunt even draws fourth a genuine (if momentary) expression of astonishment from the resident stoic.
 * Or the fact that she manages to keep the two men from shredding each other for the majority of the series?
 * Or even the very reason that she makes the entire journey with two virtual strangers just so she could ?
 * Plus she  that coin flip.
 * Several characters in the series (including Jin's Evil Counterpart and Jin himself) even comment on just how feisty and determined she really is. In fact, Samurai Champloo would be non-existent as a series if it wasn't for her!
 * Not to mention she provides the only Recap Episode ever that was worth watching.
 * Heck, what about the first episode? We see her in a shop, then in the next scene she looks like she's gained several cup sizes. Only, we discover she's packing explosives? Didn't See That Coming.
 * Her wall-ricocheting dice roll.
 * You see? You don't have to dodge bullets or break dance in order to qualify into the CMOA hall of AWESOMENESS.
 * Any fight scene from the final three episodes deserves special mention.
 * Full Contact Baseball. That is all.
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