Samurai Champloo:
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sword
Once upon a time, in a magical land known as Japan, shortly before the Meiji Restoration, there lived a girl named Fuu. Fuu had lost her parents and was taken in by a family to work as a waiter at their inn.

Unfortunately, things didn't always go well for Fuu and, to make a long story short, the inn ends up getting destroyed. Fuu, however, manages to save the lives of two swordsmen, Jin and Mugen, who had previously been at each other's throats. In return, she makes them promise not to fight until they help her find the "samurai who smells like sunflowers."

Who exactly the samurai is, why Fuu wants to find him and why Jin and Mugen decide to help her instead of cutting off her head remains to be seen. That's what Champloo is all about!

Before long, however, it becomes obvious that there is something majorly sinister going on: Jin's got his own bloody past and, since sunflowers were brought to Japan by the Dutch, it would seem Fuu's samurai has international connections...