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The series was only allowed to be aired past 12:00 am in Japan for the network deemed it too graphic for prime time television.

Steven Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee and Melissa Fahn voiced the main cast for Cowboy Bebop as well as this show.

The story takes place around the year 1780.

The legendary Nujabes featured on the soundtrack.

The word "Chanpuru" used in the series' original title means "something mixed" in Okinawan; it's also the name of one of the representative Okinawan dishes, which features a mixture of Okinawan, Japanese, Chinese and American elements in a similar fashion to the anime itself - a mixture of samurai cinema with Western, buddy comedy and other genres.