My SD F3 Regs were more Whole Black Buds with white frosted coating.
My SD Fems seem more pinkish/purple hue with black tips on the Bud.
EoF - I can't recall a "good" spot to start on Champloo as it's been a while. It is a short series (24eps If I remember) so skipping episodes has a higher chance of drastically change the story, unlike those of which have hundreds of episodes like Naruto, Bleach and alike..
I'd say try skip an ep or flick half way through one and get a bit of a kick start!
If that doesn't take your fancy, I've just starting rewatching Black Lagoon
http://www.animefreak.tv/watch/black-lagoon-episode-1-english-dubbed-online-free Another short anime but has a second season and perhaps an OVA. Good anime if you like guns, gangs/organizations, various race pirates on now day tech ships. (Not Bearded/Eye Patched/Peg Legged chumps lol)
Then there's longer mainstream animes, Bleach and Naruto;
Naruto: read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto then you can probably just skip sagas of the main story as they interest and bore you.
Here's a fight from the more recent series of it with the characters older and better animation(Naruto Shippuuden), Brother vs Brother. Good anime if you like Ninjas, physical/chi like and crazy mind attacks/techniques and story line.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacO_X0mTaw
Bleach - Good anime if you like people with power levels OVER 9000!! haha.. Huge swords/killing intent/blood/storyline/fight your way up the ranks to save the day stuff. Here's an older fight but a good one. Recent animation is much better in this now also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IellOoWipqc
Pick your poison, hope something passes the time for ya.
Both are far ahead of me now as I've become distracted with growing and vaping green..
BTW - Since you like Afro Samurai, just thought I'd mention there was a movie released after series. Not as good though:thumbs: