Jin

Jin is one of the main male protagonists of Samurai Champloo. He is one of Fuu's two bodyguards, along with Mugen, and a former student of kenjutsu who, after killing his own master in self-defense, fled and eventually became involved with Fuu and Mugen. During the title cards, his totem is a koi fish. Jin is a bespectacled young man with long black hair that is tied in a low loose ponytail with two strands framing his face on either side and dark-brown eyes. In the anime and manga, young girls and women find Jin attractive and handsome that Fuu also admits this in her diary in The Disorder Diaries. His attire is a simple indigo blue haori that is adorned with multiple symbols that are four squares in a diamond formation on the right pec, sleeves and back of his haori and a white keikogi and hakama. He wears a teal beaded bracelet on both his wrists, which are actually Buddhist prayer beads. His pair of glasses is purely ornamental as Mugen later found out after getting a chance to peer through them. Unlike Fuu and Mugen, Jin is a calm and collected guy under the most dire of circumstances as he leads both Fuu and Mugen to confide in him. However, his stoic demeanor can irritate his companions since he responds to their thoughts with sighs or grunts. By his own admission, Jin has spent most of his time focusing on improving his skills and almost no time at all on cultivating friends. This lack of companionship means that he values the friendship of Fuu and Mugen as he seems genuinely saddened when the three part ways. Although the two annoy him on occasion, he is often willing to take on an extremely deadly opponent alone in order to allow them to escape. Jin also seems annoyed by those who use their martial arts skills to oppress people, especially those who proclaim that they are doing it in service of their lord. Jin will often remark that there is no honor in serving a cruel tyrant. When Jin was 18, Enshiro Mariya (Jin's sensei) told him that he was going to change his dojo into a school for assassins. When Jin opposed the change, Kariya Kagetoki, who was pulling Enshirou's strings, ordered him to kill his star pupil and intended successor. However, Jin instead killed Enshirou and fled the dojo. Throughout the series he is hunted by his former classmates at the dojo as well as several other ronin who wish to kill him and make a name for themselves. It should also be noted that he rarely smiles throughout the series. This could be because of the loss of his parents at an early age, the enormous amount of training and being rejected by his classmates.