The director of the classic anime series 'Cowboy Bebop', Shinichiro Watanabe, follows up with 'Samurai Champloo'. As in his previous series, Watanabe mixes genres and attitudes into a cohesive whole. 'Samurai Champloo' is set in feudal Japan, but combines that with a hip-hop soundtrack and attitude. 'Samurai Champloo' finds three characters journeying through the countryside. The dissimilar warriors Mugen and Jin are held in uneasy alliance by flaky Fuu, who leads them on a quest to find the mysterious 'samurai who smells of sunflowers'. In 'Volume Four', it has become rapidly apparent that the travellers are magnets for trouble no matter where they go, as Mugen is roped into a foolish raid on a merchant's ship, and the group discovers a strange prize while out fishing.