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The anime is licensed by Bandai. Starting in 2003, Bandai released the show in North America as six individual Region 1 volumes, followed by a complete six-disc box set in November 2004. Later, the series premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block on May 28, 2005, after select episodes had been aired on Adult Swim's Video On Demand service for nearly a year. On September 27, 2005, Bandai re-released s-CRY-ed under the Anime Legends banner, in three two-disc volumes, followed by the Anime Legends Complete Collection on October 24, 2006. On April 8, 2011 Sunrise announced on the official S-CRY-ed Japanese website the series would be re-released and remastered in a two movie release comprising the entire series and promised new footage, titled "S-CRY-ed Alteration" as part of the S-CRY-ed 10th anniversary Project.

A young woman named Fuu is working as a waitress in a tea shop when she is harassed by a band of samurai. When a mysterious rogue named Mugen enters the shop, he offers to get rid of the band of samurai in exchange for food, but instigates in a brawl instead. Jin, a young ronin in samurai garb, enters the tea house in the midst of the fight. Mugen attacks Jin after he proves to be a worthy opponent and they begin fighting one another, ignoring a fire that started during the brawl. They both faint from smoke inhalation. When they awaken, they find they have been arrested for the murder of Shibui Tomonoshina, the magistrate's son who had burned to death in the fire, and are to be executed. With help from Fuu, they escape and Fuu asks them to travel with her to find "the samurai who smells of sunflowers," a mysterious man Fuu can give little description of, but whom she insists she must find, as she thinks he's her long lost father. They agree to join her, with Fuu making in the condition that they are not to duel one another until the journey is done.

Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー Samurai Chanpurū) is a Japanese anime series created and directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. It was broadcast in Japan from May 20, 2004, through March 19, 2005, on Fuji TV. Samurai Champloo has earned Watanabe a renown title in the anime and Japanese television communities.The show was produced by studio Manglobe.