The other day I learnt that the word "satire" comes from latin, and is ultimatly an old dish "satira" with many mixed ingredients. According to another thread in this forum "Champloo" is supposed to be something similar. Perhaps it's a very far-fetched pun, and "Samurai Champloo" actually means "Samurai Satire"?
Just a thought Perhaps somebody has already thought of this. If anyone has any thoughts about it, you're welcome to comment.

An interesting coincedence at the very least. I wonder how the etymology worked.

I don't know if Samurai Champloo exactly falls under "satire" even though it's humorous... it seems more like it's honoring Japanese history as opposed to being sarcastic or derivative about it. (unless I've been totally clueless, which may be the case)

Hey Valde,
Have you by any chance learned the background of the word "satire" from the introduction to the book "The Invaders Plan" by L Ron Hubbard?
Its the first book in his Mission Earth series.
I just read the intro a couple of days ago and learned the same lesson it seems.


In any case, its an interesting connection you are making.
I would agree with YouRTheMachine though.
I don't think Champloo satirizes the culture or the hisory at all.
A playful look/interpretation maybe.

It sure is a nice medley though, and I belive its good for you.
So keep on enjoying!

Samurai Champloo has a "Champloo" of both historical and satirical comments in the storyline and information involved. It makes me wonder if Watanabe is poking fun at the civilization of today's youths, and their morals compared to what was believed back then in Japan. A bit of symbolism involved...or he was aiming for some originality in new genre/music fusion.

You're right, it's probably just a fun coincedence. From one thing to the other, have anyone ever tasted "champloo"? Is it good?

From what I've heard, is Champloo is a random mix of a bunch of different foods. Say you're working in an oriental restaurant, and there's 6 woks going with different dishes, and when they're all given out to their customers there's some left of each. Then you take em all, throw them into one wok, mix it all around and that's a champloo. I also think the dish originated in Okinawa, and didn't the trio start out from there?

Or I could have been hideously misunderstanding and it's just the japanese word for stir-fry. Now, if Satire originated from the word Satira like you said, and Satira is a dish made with a big mix of different stuff.... Then the title would just work on so many new levels of brilliance.

<==EDIT==> Haha... just read that other thread, guess pretty much everything I said here was already stated. =P