Samurai Champloo reminds me of Xena in a good way with respect to the story lines: an anachronistic mixture of history & modern culture, an unlikely group of people on a seemingly aimless road trip with battles along the way & show even pokes fun at the repetitive ways that they get in danger. Even though I am not into the chanbara genre (sword fighting or samurai) for its own sake, I thought that the fight scenes were excellent. And though an anime character, Jin was hot, especially the last episode. It was tiresome that Fuu & every random female was always in danger of becoming a sex slave.