Jin

Jin of Samurai Champloo. First impression: quiet, calm, cool, reserved, efficient. Well educated, lean and skillful samurai. A ronin (wandering samurai), a strict follower of bushido. A fugitive. His name means "compassion", according to some sources, it is one of the bushido principal. Jin is a former student of Mariya Enshirou the master of The Sword of No Abiding Mind or Mujuushin Kenjutsu. In the past, Mariya, under the pressure of Kensei Kariya Kagetoki, wanted to change his dojo into an academy of assasins which was come to disagreement to Jin. One night, Mariya was killed by Jin in his attempt to eliminate Jin because of Jin's rejection of Mariya's future plan on the dojo. Killing his own master had made Jin became the fugitive to his own dojo because every students of the dojo want to take revenge of his doing.

Jin is another cool guy from a cool anime, Samurai Champloo, a mixture of hip-hop, gravity and ukiyo-e. It has developed in modern art style but yet shows deep roots of Japanese culture. Jin is a vintage, classic Edo style samurai with a touch of modern style, his glasses, who is accompanied by two characters who is opposite to him, Mugen and Fuu.