Samurai Champloo/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Mugen's and Fuu's bickering is Belligerent Sexual Tension.
  • Is Rodriguez a virtual non-factor, or the Plucky Comic Relief superstar of the episode?
• Complete Monster: Mukuro. Also the three brothers.
• Crazy Awesome: Mugen.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: "That is the man I am going to marry."
  • Jin saving Shino in "Gamblers and Gallantry."
  • In the last episode, Jin and Mugen admit they consider each other friends.
  • In episode 24, Fuu is feeling melancholy because their journey is coming to an end. She leans into him and Jin puts a comforting hand on her shoulder.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Pretty much the entire soundtrack, and with Nujabes' involvement, it's no surprise. There's also the haunting song that Sara sings as part of her traveling performer act and the one that plays over Mugen's flashbacks to his youth with Koza and Mukuro.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Sara. Also, Yatsuha and Yukimaru make an appearance in a lot of fanfics for such a relatively small fandom. Probably for shipping reasons, but still...
• Evil Is Sexy: Hotaru.
• Hollywood Homely: Shino and Yuri.
• Ho Yay: Actually played straight (no pun intended). The Dutchman comes from a sect who believes that enlightenment can be obtained through homosexuality. There's also the Jin/Yukimaru subtext, even though Jin has sex with women on multiple occasions and actually falls in love with a brothel worker in one episode. Mugen and Jin arguably count as Foe Yay.
• Incest Subtext: Totally one-sided, thankfully. At one point in "Misguided Miscreants", Mukuro caresses Koza's face. The implication that the two are Not Blood Siblings does little to allay the Squick.
• Iron Woobie: Mugen. The Misguided Miscreants two-parter revealing his backstory gives him plenty of reasons to feel sorry for himself, on top of being betrayed by his childhood friend/possible love interest and nearly dying. But at any point does he let it get him down? Hell no. The man simply does not give a fuck.

Mugen: "I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there."

• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Mugen.
  • Kohza.
  • Fuu, as well.
• Large Ham: Bundai and Manzou the Saw.
• OT3: The main three, of course.
• Moral Event Horizon: Umanosuke chased down Fuu, molested her, knocked her out, then tied her to a cross and beat her in the last episode.
• Nightmare Fuel: The zombie episode, especially the credit ending. Also, the way the counterfeiter was going to torture the secret police in episode 15. It involved molten gold and a funnel. Truth in Television in case you were wondering.
• The Scrappy: Kawara Sosuke
• Stoic Woobie: Jin.