8.2/1012 votes#1 - Evanescent Encounter (2)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/2005
Jin enters a bloody grudge match with the man responsible for the ruin of his rep. Meanwhile, Mugen races to save Fuu from the clutches of a sadistic madman bent on bloodshed.
Director: Kazuto Nakazawa
Writer: Shinji Obara
8.0/1012 votes#2 - Elegy of Entrapment (2)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/2005
Mugen's has his own deadly run-in with the same blind beauty that sent Jin plummeting towards a gruesome end. Who is this seductive assassin, and why is she targeting the Champloo crew?
Director: Akitoshi Yokoyama
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.8/1013 votes#3 - Tempestuous Temperaments
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/20/2004
Fuu is a part-time teahouse worker whose life changes forever when two vagabond warriors, Mugen and Jin, stumble into her place of business and end up in hot water with the local magistrate.
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.7/1012 votes#4 - Evanescent Encounter (1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/2005
As the crew draws ever nearer their final destination, Fuu makes a bold and startling decision. Elsewhere, unnamed adversaries pursue the travelling trio.
Director: Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.6/1013 votes#5 - Hellhounds for Hire (2)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/17/2004
The paths Mugen, Jin, and Fuu follow bring them together again, but their reunion is put on hold when an untimely mistake intensifies the struggle between two clans fighting for control of one city.
Director: Hirotaka Endo
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.5/1013 votes#6 - Redeye Reprisal
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/3/2004
When Mugen wounds an enemy's arm, it sets off a dangerous chain reaction. Fuu is kidnapped, and two deadly assassins are dispatched to make short work of vagabond Mugen and ronin Jin.
Director: Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.5/1013 votes#7 - Hellhounds for Hire (1)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/10/2004
After leaving the domineering Fuu behind, Mugen and Jin arrive in town. Once there, it's not long before they're hired on as bodyguards by the two clans that run the city.
Director: Shintaro Inokawa
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.2/1013 votes#8 - Stranger Searching
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/1/2004
Mugen and Jin loses their weapons and their appetites - in an rice-eating contest, and the only way to get them back is by posing as tour guides for a mysterious European with a penchant for man love!
Director: Akira Yoshimura
Writer: Shinji Obara
7.2/1013 votes#9 - Elegy of Entrapment (1)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/2005
Mugen defends the honor of beautiful blind songstress, but when the when the trio of wanderers becomes a quartet, Fuu will be faced with an impossible decision.
Director: Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto
Writer: Shinji Obara
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"Evanescent Encounter (2)" is the best rated episode written by Shinji Obara. It scored 8.2/10 based on 12 votes. It was directed by Kazuto Nakazawa. It aired on 3/12/2005 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Elegy of Entrapment (2)".