Fuu is a girl of no notable position in society. She ends up recruiting two odd ball men; Mugen, a disillusioned swordsman and Jin, a stoic ronin, in order to track down a samurai from her past who smells like sunflowers. Their adventures across an alternate version of Tokugawa Japan leads them to confrontations with graffiti artists, eating competition and ninja baseball. Their mission is vague and they wander around the country trying to pick up any clues for the mysterious man from Fuu's past, all a long developing a bond with each other.
This is a fun and entertaining romp which tosses the world of feudel Japan on its head. Heavy hip hop and modern urban influences and references abound. The humor is quick and smart. The animation is well done with entertaining and creative direction. The majority of the series is not really series, even when the subject matter is. This changes as the show comes to a close, the humor takes a bit of a back seat and the drama steps in. The series did seem to end on a rapid note without much leading to the conclusion until the last few episodes. The majority of the show is the characters wandering around aimlessly from place to place only snatches of information to the answers they seek. For an overall plot this show is lacking in effectiveness and may have been better off not having much of a central plot like Cowboy Bebop was. Either way this was a fun and entertaining series that continued the quality humor and action combination found in Cowboy Bebop.
This series is readily available in North America on DVD. It was aired shortly after its Japanese broadcast on Cartoon Network as well.
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