I'm not particularly fond of anime, but this anime has left a deep impression on me.
The characters and background music in it are hard to guess that this is a 2004 anime. The entire anime is written around "Samurai looking for the smell of sunflowers". The conversation at the beginning was refreshing to me, "How is it? Do you regret it? Do you want to kneel down and beg for mercy to me now? To a bastard like you, you should bow your head and admit your mistakes and live on, it's better to kill me happily." Isn't the personality of being free and easy and not succumbing to the enemy the samurai spirit of that era? The three main characters in the film have their own personalities. Xiaofeng is not as gentle as the women of that era. She is independent and vulnerable, but her vulnerability is never shown in front of outsiders, because she has taken care of her sick mother since she was a child. After her mother died, she worked in a tavern until she met Wuhuan.
No illusion is a self-righteous, funny. He was rude in his mouth, but he was still kind in his heart. The least talkative person in the film is Ren. On the surface, he is particularly cold, but I don't know why Ren would never let him be hurt if he wanted to protect someone. Actually soft inside.
It's weird that three of them with completely different personalities go to find the Sunflower Samurai because of a bet. And Feng didn't tell them who the Sunflower Warrior was, so they went looking for it without hesitation. In fact, it wasn't just for the gamble. Wuhuan and Ren were more willing to protect the little girl and didn't want Feng to be hurt before they went to find it together.
The music in the film is also a highlight. Different from other animes, the type of music used in the film is jazz hiphop. There is a feeling of being separated between reality and the Edogawa era, and it feels really special. What attracted me was the lines in the film. This is the success of this anime. It keeps telling the audience some truths in the process of looking for the sunflower samurai, so that we will no longer be obsessed with real things, and let us not be so depressed about our own lives. The whole show made me feel open-minded. Not afraid of death, or what is the difference between life and death for a samurai? They have gone through a lot along the way, their ups and downs or some of the ups and downs we have to go through in our lives. The truth told to us is not to say some nonsense like other animations, but more to teach us to learn to be open-minded. This is the world, don't try to change it. We just accept it calmly. "I don't care whether I will enter hell or not, anyway, living is no different from hell." This sentence Wuhuan said made a deep impression on me. The world is just like that and it won't change for you at all.
At the end we finally know that the samurai with the smell of sunflower is Xiaofeng's father, and I think Wuhuan and Jin have already guessed it. Because of his own reasons, Xiaofeng's father was afraid that the enemy would kill Xiaofeng's mother and daughter, so he chose to leave them and prevent them from being hurt. Xiaofeng is not ready to forgive his father, so Xiaofeng seems to understand something when his father is dying. There are not too many lines in the film to describe this scene. When his father died, Xiaofeng really lost a family member in this world. But Xiaofeng doesn't seem to be sad. In the end, the three companions went their separate ways, without words or sorrow. According to the title "Chaos Warrior", the world is chaos, there is no real good and no real bad.
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