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This was just a re cap episode. Mugen and Jin stole the dairy of Fuu, trying to find out who on earth is this ‘Samurai that smells like sunflowers’. They didn’t learn anything of it. All what Fuu was describing, was how the food tasted, that she was kidnapped again and that she had two useless body guards. ^^

However that it was a recap episode, I really enjoyed it. How come? Fuu’s describtion of Mugen and Jin was too hilarious! I can’t tell anything else about this episode, simply because nothing new happened. But it was a great laugh. The picture’ll be online in Januar. Yes.

Once again: Forgive me for this review, because I’m tired as well again. The rain won’t stop and therefore they stay in town ’till the rain has stopped. But they need money then. Fuu works in a tea shop, Mugen has found something really eeer… ‘interesting’ (namely: beetle wrestle^^) and spends his day in ‘training’ the beetle.^^ Jin was going to a cutting job, but cutting can be translate as many things. In this case, it’s eels. So he has to prepare eels and sell it to customers^^.

A woman that he spotted once more gives him some assistent. They have a wonderfull time together and the woman thanks him. This was her last free night, because her husband sold her to the brothel because she has to pay for his debts. Men…-_-. The next day he visited the woman in for the brothel, and we can see that the two of them have fallen in love. Jin in love?! YES, even Jin can fall in love.^^

Mugens ‘training’ has paid off, and therefore Jin borrows the money so he can be with her, leaving a very pissed off Mugen and Fuu. They are angry at him because he leaves them and he promised to go search for the notorious samurai that smells like sunflowers. ‘BAKAAA’ Fuu yells at him.

Jin and the woman escape, but he hasn’t have his swords, so there is a small problem. But Jin can even fight without swords and the nicest part in this episode was when Mugen and Fuu came to the rescue.

They defeat everyone, and the woman escapes. The end, once again. All these episodes are as randomn as ever.^^

We continue the journey! This time, because they don’t have money to eat, they’ve got to work by a monk and his priest. Well.. ‘work’? Let’s face it again: Jin works hard, Mugen ruins all, Fuu has to clean up his mess. On her way to get the stuff to replace the sliding door, she hears about a killer on the lose. The killer’s targets are all well known famous samurais. There is no wound, only that bloods flowed out of the eyes and nose. A painful way to kill someone. Fuu tells it to the rest, Jin is not interested, Fuu wants the money that is on the killers head, Mugen just wants to fight.^^

He meets the killer. They fight a bit, but Mugen discovers soon that the Killer is something special. He uses wind, that kills the opponent. The Killer runs off, and telling that with the next full moon, the fight will continue. Plenty of time to practise, ey?^^.
The monk tells us about the history of this guy, because he was once the master of the guy. But the guy learned in a distant land a material art, that changed his live. This art uses no blade, it uses Ki. Live force. He came back to the dojo, but his heart was filled with darkness. The master expelled him, and because he couldn’t save his student, he became a monk.

Mugen starts meanwhile with the most ridiculious, idiotic training, that can only be fitted by some baka like Mugen self. He acts this way, because he isn’t sure he can defeat this guy. On the night of the battle we get some nice scenes.

"Don’t forget. I’m going to be the one that kills you."

The dryness is wonderfull here.^^ I really liked that part. Mugen is off, and we ALL know, that the badguy will be defeated. How expectingfull!

This time, they have to pass a border. In order to pass, you need a passport. Mugen doesn’t have one, Jin has lost it, and with Fuu it can’t be too good either. Their ‘luck’ arrives when a salesman offers them some passports. It is fake. Of course. Because it was fake, they are sentenced to death. But something changes and if Mugen can deliver a head through the mountains (the place of a notorious clan) and can come back before the nightfall, their lives are spared. But that that baka like Mugen has to do this.. Fuu is verry worried about it.^^ It gives us some really nices scenes with Jin and Fuu, and it’s too typical^^

"He wouldn’t run off, would he?""
"Hm."

I’m suprised that Fuu manages to spend a whole day like this^^ Mugen, meanwhile, meets the clan. And let’s face it…

He goofs off. Of course, he gets captured. It couldn’t be any else. The clan is a Buddishtic army that wants to take over the world and free the world from the samurais. Mugen is sentenced to death by the next morning. A guy from the border tries to save him, and ended up at getting caught himself. But he is handy and sets the place on fire. In the commotion, the two escape and run to the veilds, killing the rest.

The veilds are set on fire too, and spreading a purple smoke. We can only guess what that smoke could be. ^^ Drugs, anyone? The smoke spreads to the border, and because Jin and Fuu are on a higher place, they don’t inhaled the smoke. And that is a good thing, because everybody couldn’t stop laughing. And that is a good thing, because Fuu and Jin were sentenced to death because that Baka didn’t show up. Jin and Fuu escape in the commotion, and on their way, they spot Mugen, laughing with the clan. Stoned.^^ Leaving a very angry Jin and Fuu. The end. The rest: use your own imagination^^

They are all starved again. So what do you do to get money when you don’t have the energy? YES! You sell some of your possesions. But because that man is corrupt and doesn’t take a high price for the swords, Jin’s glasses have to believe it. Well, Jin, it’s better then losing your swords. Right? *wink wink*

Meanwhile, we have a Narcist. That we will call Narcist because I’m to lazy to remember his name. He thinks is is the greatest men on earth and he wants to beat the strongest men on earth. He heard of a dojo, with a amazingly strong master. The master was killed already by the time he got there. Who killed the master? Yes, a guy named Jin with glasses. So he challenges everyone who carries glasses, no checking of the name is Jin. Only to do so, he believes that he can be famous. He is an asshole. I didn’t pay attention at all when he was babbling, because I hate arrogance. The Narcist is attracked to Fuu, Fuu thinks he is a weirdo.

A adresse is given to Fuu, and the weirdo is off again. When she starts to brag about that guy hitting on her, the guys are invited to drink with some bitch with cup D. Men…-_-.. But let’s face it, that woman is also the worst kind.

That woman can extremely good hold her liquid, Mugen and Jin not too well. Of course, they are robbed by the time they wake up. Guess who woke them up? An extremely irritated Fuu for leaving her^^

Don’t they look just poorly? Their own fault. Há. They find some interesting ways to make money, still completly wasted^^, and Fuu doesn’t dare to ask Jin about if he really killed his master. She thinks that Jin is just a nice guy and wouldn’t do such a thing. They meet the Narcist and co in the shop, because they want to get the glasses of Jin back. The narcist is shocked, but one of his followers beats him with speed. He was of the same dojo of Jin and wants revenge for his master. Jin accepts.

Jin did kill the master. But not because he is a traitor, in fact, the master did the traiter part. What more of that we’ll see later in the anime. The narcist is too scared to imagine when Jin defeats the other one, and runs off, with his wife: The Bitch. The end. I suppose. Nice marriage..

The bunch is lucky in gambling! (Or Fuu has just a lucky animal^^). By the money they’ve made, they go eat some noodles. Sounds nice, but Fuu is pickpocketed. By some Kid. We already had the brat, this is the kid. They all go after him, Mugen just knocks out people and only then he checks if the Kid is there too, Jin attacks tea houses and excuses himself then, and Fuu is waiting somewhere. The Kid comes home to his mother. The mother is ill, can’t live long. We already know then that the Kid is pickpocketing because he wants to buy a decent medicine. It’s just too sad. He is hiding it from his mother to not make her worry.

The next day, Fuu meets the mother. The mother thinks that Fuu is his girlfriend and they have a conversation about her son. Fuu doesn’t tell her that her son is a criminal. In the village, she meets the son again, but because the Kid has some pickpocketing records, other people find him as well. They want their opium back. Fuu starts yelling and the kid drags her away to a place. But.. when the cops come, the kid has no choice.

He takes Fuu hostage. They run into a building after the Kid threatened that he would killed Fuu. Fuu isn’t afraid of him at all, and they talk. Fuu totally understand his situation, because her mother has passed away, and her father left her a long time ago. She understands everything, and just when they were planning to escape, Mugen sees Fuu. ^^ And goes berserk because he recognizes the kid as well. And what do you do then?
Yes. You knock out the police. ‘What is he for guy?’ they all ask. Jin has the perfect answer: ‘An Idiot’. And he is so right. The Kid manages to get his first escape, gets caught. And is mudered, while Fuu watches. The episode ends when Fuu told the Kids mother about her son.

The bunch arrives in Edo! With an eating contest! They want to participate, but they have to pay something. Because they are completly broke, Mugen robs Jins swords, and gives it with is own sword as contribution. They all have to win to get it back. Sounds simple! But Jin is counted out, and even pushing Mugen doesn’t help Mugen from fainting. That was the most funny thing ever because we really saw Jin angry because he can’t lose his samurai swords. But damn it, Fuu can eat! She is the second one, because she accidentally gave up^^. The winning goes too… a foreigner. And not just a foreigner! A Dutchie^^.

He has the swords of the samurais, and in order to get them back, the Dutchie wants to get sideseeing in Edo. Well, Jin bluffs himself right through it. They almost get caught, because there are no westerners allowed in Japan. They run, they hide, they go to a play, the Dutchie falls in love with the actresse. The actresse turns out to be a man.

The Dutchie appears to be gay. It’s so typical, a land of flowers, wind, wooden shoes, big guys, gays, and ones with a great stomach. It couldn’t be any different. Because the Dutchie saw a book about homosexuality in Japan, he thought it would be heaven for him. But… The arresting team comes in, followed by some interesting guys. And there.. the fun starts.

They are all Hollanders, in order to come to the Dutchie! They speak Dutch ‘WAT, de brutaliteit!’ (What how rude)^^, they fight, it’s fun. But even for me, I’m Dutch, I had a little problem in understanding what they say. But that was just because there was a new language. Our biggest friend turns out to be the son of the govenour of the Japanese-Holland trading thingey, so he has permission to go to Japan. And then, the part that really was so funny! It is probably not understandable for someone that can’t speak any Dutch, but the conversation was too hilarious. The grammatic was good, the pronounce was good too, but they made one great, wonderful mistake. They talked to the Dutchie with ‘Opperhoofd’. Opperhoofd means Chief of Indians. Not ‘govenour’. ^^ Ghehe^^

The bunch is going to Nagasaki, because Fuu had some of the possesions of the samurai that smells like sunflowers. It is something that can not be seen in Japan. That can only mean some things. Probably something Western, otherwhise we wouldn’t have seen our ’Opperhoofd’. The most probable thing is that the sign was Christen… We shall see, we shall see.^^

When I look at this, I begin to wonder why on earth this is a decent anime. The last three episodes made me see that men are just perverted creatures. So does this episode. It’s such a shame. It is because that I know it gets better, otherwhise this anime might would have been dropped. And yes, I’m prudish. Fuu, Mugen and Jin need money to cross the ferry. They have all their own ways to do so. Mugen just robs people, Jin makes a bet in a chess play, Fuu goes modelling. It’s only a shame that she doesn’t realise on that moment that she is modelling for pornographic pictures.

Mugen, after robbing some guys, buys some food, eats the food, and then reminds himself that he needed money for the ferry. So what do you do then? YES! You rob some more guys!^^ He crosses Fuu and some weird guy, and is off again.

Fuu is kidnapped after her painting is finished. Otherwhise. She is tricked. She gets really angry, also when she finds out that she will be sold as a slave to European Ships. European men… Sign. The weirdo is really down because of this and he thinks that he should rescue her.

After slapping him, Fuu wants to know how many were before her. We don’t really get an answer because the two of them are caught. Fuu is kidnapped again. The Weirdo is beat the hell out of him. But, luckily he runs into Mugen, and Mugen solved the case easily. Jin wins the chess game, and they have the money of the ferry. The weirdo is off to Holland. The End. Again. I liked the fact that there were European artist named, like Gaugain and Vincent Van Gogh, the only problem is that those Japanese don’t know how to pronounce their names. The fact that I really disliked was the fact that was lain on men. I like those small things of Mugen that he decides to rob people, but the rest.. I don’t give a shit.

With this part, we end one arc, and the journey continues. We know the cliffhanger of last episode, Jin and the Brat are in the brothel, Mugen is in the brothel, everybody meets, they fight, Jin and the Brat run, after his sister Suzu refuses to come back. Suzu has to work, because if she runs away, her father will be killed. And that is something Fuu just can’t understand. Suzu asks if Fuu has a family, she hasn’t. Everyone left in her family she hates, sees them as a burden. We will learn more of that during the serie.^^

Mugen is meanwhile pissed off, because his boss won’t let him fight anymore. He just uses Mugen, and Mugen doesn’t appreciate that. He walks away, even that he knows that some guys will be after him. He only enjoys that. Meanwhile the meanwhile, Suzu has some rude custumors in the time that her little Brat is in the area. The brat stabbed the custumor to death. This leads to some problems, because someone has to pay for this. The father of the brat is the same leader of the Kawara clan, so he has to make contribution for it. But the other clan has something nice too:
They are going to gamble. If Kawara loses, the father has to commit suicide. If they win, they win the brat, but they lose the island. Both of the parties have to come with a dealer, but the Kawara has no dealer, so they are in a disadvantage.

Mugen, meanwhile, is out of town, but that’s why I love conscience. He goes back, to rescue Fuu. Fuu, runned away. ‘BAKA!’, Mugen gets angry and they all go to the gambling thingey. But because there is no dealer, the Kawara clan sees Fuu as a dealer.

And there you are, in the company of two clans that can easily kill you, including Jin. What do you do?  Yes. You bluff youself right through it. And so does Fuu.^^ And she really looked cool, I have to say. The Kawara clan loses, the father commits suicide. A fight is on the lose after Mugen busted in. Nobody came after him, he said, so he came himself. The three are together again, on the way for the samurai that smells like sunflowes. Suzu is out of the brothel, and a happy ending. How nice! 

This episode was on the one hand hilarious, the other hand pretty perverted. Men.. they only think of one thing… This episode made me realise that woman are SO much better then men, because men are plain, just are some idiots that can not think of others. They can only think to serve themselves. This episode made that clear. Mugen and Jin run away from Fuu because they couldn’t stand her anymore, leaving Fuu, pretty pissed off. When she finally got into town, she got a nice warning. Be careful of pots.

That pot. Because she has no money to pay for it, they have a nice job for her. Guess what…-_-.. Men…

Meanwhile, Jin and Mugen have both joined some kind of clans. Mugen joined the badguy because he got free crabs (Mugen does everything just to eat), Jin requested a job for a bodyguard for a brat.

That brat. The brat is with the other clan, so we have both fronts. The clans ruin the city, especially the evil clan that Mugen joined. They send every girl to the.. well, you know, joining Fuu. Men… they all think the same.

And of course, both of the clans go to the place where Fuu’s working. She hates the job, who wouldn’t, but she found herself a friend, and they go working together. Fuu to pay the money for the pot she broke, the girl for the debth of her father. The brat, is the same brat as the little brother of Suzu. But he doesn’t understand the situation. He tinks with force you can solve anything. But some things just can’t be solved. The brat that hired Jin had the most funny idea to get in, and it was SO funny to see Jin. And of course, when the three realise that they all are there.
‘What are YOU doing here?’ Ghehe^^

Of course, anybody would get annoyed when a bird graps your food^^

Mugen, Jin and Fuu are on their journey. When they stop at a teahouse to get something to eat, and to get robbed by a bird^^, they hear some rumours of an ogre in the area. This thing must be destroyed, and Mugen does everything for food, we can conclude that. After giving Fuu some sake, she falls asleep and it’s up to Jin and Mugen to carry her to her dormity. Mugen meets a woman on the way, and we can all guess what Mugen is up to. Men…

Jin, meanwhile, takes a bath and sees a samurai. He has some information, so he follows the samurai. It turns out the samurai is taking a contract killing. His employer would like to see Jin death. The employer is the same bastard from the previous episode that lost his arm. Mugen is poisoned by the bitch, and Fuu is kidnapped by the bastard and the ogre.

The Ogre is scared that anybody sees his face, because he was picked on it because of that. He was almost killed. He killed a lot. He is alone. Fuu isn’t scared of him, but she says that he really has sad eyes. The ogre isn’t a bad person, he has just bad experiences, and so he can’t trust anyone anymore. For Fuu denying that she is scared of him, that must mean a lot to him.

Meanwhile, Jin is fighting for live, Mugen tries to save Fuu, and the bastard is trying to be a son of a bitch. They all succeed. The ogre kills the son of a bitch because he wanted to kill Fuu, Mugen kills the ogre because he just wants to kill an ogre, Fuu is sad because the ogre is killed, because the son of a bitch is killed the rentmurderer takes of and leaving Jin. The end. I suppose^^.

Fuu is on her normal day in the tea shop, with some really annoying custumers. When Mugen, the idiot, comes in, he offers her to get all those bastards out of the way, if he get’s 50 dango’s. When Fuu is threatened by them, she has no choice. Mugen destroys them all. The son of the emperor, in the shop, is scared and says that his father and some samurais are on his way.

Meanwhile, the samurais are killed by Jin. Jin enters the teashop, and the two start fighting, because Mugen just wanted a strong opponent.

The place is set on fire, and Jin and Mugen are left behind. After some funny moments, Mugen wakes up and sees himself in a torturecentre, for a nice spending for the night. So is Jin. The two declare each other as lunatics, and in the morning they are sentenced to death. If it isn’t for Fuu. Fuu comes by in the night, offering to get them out of there, if they help her find a samurai who smells like sunflowers. But, the guards see her, and she has to run, leaving a suprises Mugen and Jin behind.

The next morning, Fuu saves them, they toss a coin and are bound to join Fuu. This is very interesting, and it is a idiotic trip. Yes. I’ve seen it before.