Product Details

• Actors: Steven Jay Blum, George C. Cole, Michael Forest, Daisuke Gôri, Masako Katsuki
• Directors: Shinichirô Watanabe
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Dutch, English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: November 22, 2005
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AC7OP2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,419 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Samurai Champloo, Volume 6 (Episodes 21-23)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Samurai Baseball?, November 30, 2005

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Antonio D. Paolucci "Collector of Entertainment" (Beaver Falls, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samurai Champloo, Volume 6 (Episodes 21-23) (DVD)

Samurai Champloo has already turned into a legend of modern anime. It has everything that makes anime great: solid action, good characters, a compelling storyline with plenty of twists along with a few interesting side-plots, and an excellent soundtrack. Geneon itself has done well in Americanizing this anime by providing good voice-acting.

It's also very unique in that it's based deep in history, the Tokugawa era to be precise, during the time of Japanese seclusion from anyone whom they considered foreign, which was nearly everyone. Yet Champloo doesn't exactly allow itself to fall into the rules of history, or at least it doesn't rigidly follow it. Instead, it uses the history as a sort of background while Champloo throws in all of its wacky little side notes, historical (and ridiculous) events we didn't know about (because they never happened).

This is especially evident in volume six. Though it starts with the conclusion of an episode from volume five, it goes on from there to two "dimension" episodes. The first, episode twenty-two, is a horror story about an ancient buried treasure in which the heroes join in the excavation. It becomes clear from the start that there is something wrong with these miners, and the ending of this episode, linking smartly with the beginning of it, will throw you for a loop, and probably into laughter, if you aren't too serious about your anime. While watching this episode, I kept thinking about H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.

The last episode, called Baseball Blue, is strictly based on laughs. Firstly, at this time of history, baseball would have never reached Japanese soil, yet in this episode it has, and apparently samurai are decent players. Another great thing about this episode is the interpretation of the Americans. Watch this episode with an unbiased eye and you'll find yourself chuckling at the parody of us as Americans.

It's obvious that this DVD is meant to be the eye of the storm; the next DVD, which is basically a movie, plays out in three parts, or verses as they call them on Champloo. Some might find this volume a little off, or may feel a little cheated by the fact that neither of the last two episodes are serious in any way. It doesn't further the plot much; we still have no idea whothe sun-flower samurai is, and Jin and Mugen have yet to settle their fued. So I'd only recommend this one for anyone who isn't particular and have already collected the first five volumes. I'd also recommend this one for anyone who liked the way Cowboy Bebop ended, which was similar, with a comedic episode before the final episodes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What the..., June 8, 2006

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S. S. D. "tarantura" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samurai Champloo, Volume 6 (Episodes 21-23) (DVD)

The first thirteen episodes were sublime. A few of those that follow never really reach the excellence and craftmanship of the beginning of this series, and most of those 'few' are on this DVD. Episodes 21-23 are found here, and the last two seem soooo out of place it may have been best to leave them off (particularly the surreal and nonsensical mushroom/zombie/meteor episode).

The first thirteen episodes command 5 stars. These weird-arse episodes (#22 and partially #23) are almost the so-called 'jump the shark' moments, but at least the baseball one is still fun to watch. Episodes 22-23 are so far removed from the rest of the series that, as long as you're aware of this simple fact, you should watch them anyway. Then make up your own mind.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars could be better. one great episode., January 17, 2006

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jay "caffeineman" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samurai Champloo, Volume 6 (Episodes 21-23) (DVD)

first off i would like to say this volume caught me off guard. when i bought it i looked on the back and saw only three episodes, yet the dvd was full price. this would normally pi$$ me off, but this is a really great show. so i thought "the three episodes should be awesome, so it'll be worth it.

but this time i was wrong. the cliffhanger episode was really good, but the greatness stopped there. the other two were not very good in most peoples opinion including mine. they were still alright but not up to the usual samurai champloo standards.

anyway, below are my ratings for the episodes.

episode twenty one: elegy of entrapment part2- this episode finished what dvd five left off. there is quite a bit of shocking scenes(which almost made me soil my pants) but for the sake of fans who have not seen it, i will say no more then i have.

i rate this episode a 10/10

episode twenty-two: cosmic collisions- this episode was one of two that were okay but lacked greatness. the plot in this was odd, and the overall episode kindoff blew.

i rate this episode a 3/10

episode twenty-three: baseball blues- samurai champloo goes cleveland indians on us! our heroes end up playing a high-stakes game of baseball. horrible plot, but some humor.

i rate this episode a 2/10

thats all for this review. even though this dvd had two bad episodes and only three total, i still recommend buying this if you are a fan of the series, but only because you get to see what happens on volume six where volume five left off. belive me, you are going to be shocked!

alas, volume seven comes out 1/17/06 and it seems it is the last one. samurai champloo will come to a close and wrap up the story on volume seven. this has been a good show, and i will probably be depressed for a week or two after i watch it end. i will write a areview on that one as well.

thats all i have to say for now.

until next time.

i hope this review helped.