Samurai Champloo 11
Oct. 17th, 2004 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseWhoa.
Jin.
We hardly knew you.
You were supposed to be gay and slashable.
Even Mugen commented on it.
Instead there was great sexiness of the m/f persuasion and snogging. (and, nekkid post-sex Jin.)
Lucky Shino.
Aside from that, I had a lump in my throat from all the understated sweetness - Jin had more lines in this ep than in any other. That was a kickass episode. What a great moment when Shino threw the money back in her husband's face.
And poor Fuu - she's got such a crush on Jin, but it's obvious that's not going anywhere. It's not even like Vash/Meryl, where by the end of the series there's a reasonable justification for pairing them up re: him coming back. With Shino waiting in the wings, and with the unemotional Jin displaying such a strong reaction, there's no way that is going anywhere.
I do like Mugen the best of all the characters, I think. He's so unashamed of himself, tells it like it is with a cocky attitude and that laid-back Spike Spiegel cool.
Jin.
We hardly knew you.
You were supposed to be gay and slashable.
Even Mugen commented on it.
Instead there was great sexiness of the m/f persuasion and snogging. (and, nekkid post-sex Jin.)
Lucky Shino.
Aside from that, I had a lump in my throat from all the understated sweetness - Jin had more lines in this ep than in any other. That was a kickass episode. What a great moment when Shino threw the money back in her husband's face.
And poor Fuu - she's got such a crush on Jin, but it's obvious that's not going anywhere. It's not even like Vash/Meryl, where by the end of the series there's a reasonable justification for pairing them up re: him coming back. With Shino waiting in the wings, and with the unemotional Jin displaying such a strong reaction, there's no way that is going anywhere.
I do like Mugen the best of all the characters, I think. He's so unashamed of himself, tells it like it is with a cocky attitude and that laid-back Spike Spiegel cool.
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Date: 2004-10-17 12:58 pm (UTC)So? He's just bisexual and slashable. Problem solved :)
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Date: 2004-10-17 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-17 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-18 07:04 am (UTC)Here's Jin, so far portrayed as a supernaturally calm, grounded and centered samurai who is not to be messed with on any level. Very little gets a reaction out of him, unless his compatriots try to take his swords away (again,) which gets - at best - an eyebrow twitch. And yet, he lets himself get beat up over Shino and swipes Mugen's winnings without apology to spend the night with her. I never expected that he'd be so enamored of her as to help her escape. Jin doesn't even draw his sword to kill at the end of the episode until Shino isn't there to see it any more.
So, in summation, *heart heart.*
Also, I loved Mugen and the bug. That was tremendous. It was good comic relief for Jin's situation.