Cowboy Bebop

And yet from an animation/design perspective it was one of the best in the series. There's not a dodgy looking frame in the entire episode. Doesn't it bug you when a throwaway episode looks better than an "important" one?

Bebop is a roaming type of series. From a structural standpoint, many episodes feature writing that essentially go nowhere. Some episodes are merely mood pieces, and some are essentially stories written around a single gag.

I agree with someone else in here that overall, Samurai Champloo probably had tighter writing.

But Bebop goes to show you that memorable characters (and memorably character DESIGNS) go a long way. Faye, Jet, Spike and Ed are iconic. Put a them in a picture full of 1000 anime protagonists and you'd spot all four of them immediately. They're that recognizable, and you definitely can't say that for about 90% of anime out there.

I did and still do believe Bebop is a show that hangs much of its strengths on its style. But that's okay, because WHAT STYLE IT IS!
 
I remeraber watching this show about two months or so ago.
I enjoyed it but I don't think it's as great as most people make it out to be.

I would say this show is overrated.
 
It seems to leave a different impression on a lot of people, I have talked to lots of people who dislike this anime and I have talked to many people who claim there is no anime that could touch Bebop. I'm in the group of people who love the anime but realize there is better out there, all in all I would place it in the top 10 of all time and thats a tough list to make.
 
I gotta say, I really think so. Bebop is just so haphazard and strange, a thrown together mess of an anime that somehow works. You can't set out to build a show as awesome as Bebop, and trying to piece greatness together generally doesn't work. It has very little in the way of an overarching plot, its inconsistent in tone and mood, but the animation and the music and the casting and the characters and the direction and the story... all the pieces just fell into place, and I don't think anyone could have expected it to work as well as it did. A show like Bebop just happens.

Maybe, I dunno, a hundred years down the line, the stars will align and another show like Bebop will appear. Maybe it'll be in a thousand. Maybe it'll be next year. Maybe it'll never happen. Who knows.
 
I think a lot of people are drawn to the characters and little things happen in every episode that make you care for the characters even more, sometimes things happen that make you feel sad for them like when that tape is discovered of Faye and we got to see her as an innocent kid. Story's like this make you want to reach out to the charachters and show your support and then you suddenly realize that you can't because they are not real people. It's strange how that happens to me sometimes, more so in anime than with anything else.
 
I don't know about that. The thing is, there are about 50 other anime out there where I've been more "attached" to the characters than Bebop. From a pure substance and emotional complexity standpoint, Cowboy Bebop is merely middle of the pack IMO.

I think it just comes down to Cowboy Bebop simply being "COOLER" than 95% of the anime out there. It just oozes "style". That, and the timing of the show's exposure to the U.S.. It was one of the first shows on Adult Swim, and it was a perfect show to begin with if you were a newbie and wanted to try an anime. Cowboy Bebop makes the viewer think they're "cool" because the show is so cool itself. Anyone can pick it up and not feel erabarrassed at themselves for watching it. Don't underestimate that factor--a lot of people like to watch stuff that makes them think they're "cool" by watching it.

I wouldn't say Cowboy Bebop is "dreadfully" overrated, though. Perhaps A LITTLE overrated, yes, but not dreadfully so. Definitely the fans tend to overstate its strengths and ignore its weaknesses, but it really is the perfect "entry" anime and one of the few you can watch with just about ANYONE.

There are many anime out there I like better than Cowboy Bebop but very few of them I can watch along with anyone other than myself. Bebop is really the exception to that rule.
 
Cowboy Bebop = best anime TV series ever! Got to watch my DVRAB again sometime.
The characters and settings are so awesome and the ending was satisfying. Both English and Japanese versions of the show are equally good, which is not something I can say about most animes.


Coincidentally, I'm currently checking out Machiko to Hatchin, the newest series from the same creators.
 
Well it's all in the eyes of the beholder, the events mentioned in my last post are reasons why I fell in love with the series and with the characters, the series has drawn out emotion in me more so than most anime but there has been anime's that I have cared for the characters more than in Bebop. All in all it's definatly one of my top tier anime series that I can go back to over and over again, but like with anything, it isn't without it's weaknesses.
 
Ah, the classics never die....they just keep getting better and better and I feel that Cowboy Bebop can be considered an anime classic due to it's huge fanbase, good DVD sales and it's presence within the anime community. There really isn't much bad to say about Cowboy Bebop, it's one of those anime that I can watch over and over and I really fell in love with the core cast (yes, even Ed), and the music that came out of this anime is some of the best of the 90's, much better than most of the Poke`Mon and Yu-Gi-Oh anime's that were popular at the time. I would give this series credit with popularizing anime with an older audience, but there were other anime's that helped with that feat as well, this just happens to be one of the "big guns" of the late 90's when anime was getting hot in the U.S and Bebop definatly helped with lighting that fire.
 
I was watching Bohemian Rhapsody last night and heard a piece of background music I wasn't familiar with.
It was during the part where Faye and Spike were searching for Hex in the space junkyard.
I looked it up in the anime guide and the song is called "A Horseshoe Crab and An Ancient Fish". Anybody know what soundtrack it can be found on? I checked all the CRAB I have and couldn't find it.
 
I watched Cowboy Bebop: The Movie a while back and well, it ranks easily in my top 5 best films ever along with Black Hawk Down, Jarhead and The Dark Knight.
 
Wow, you must have liked it a lot. I didn't personally enjoy the movie as much as the series but the movie is watchable in my opinion, I just was not drawn into it nearly as much as the rest of the series though.
 
It really is quite a good action movie, Cowboy Bebop: KOHD. It may kind of feel like an extended TV episode, but it works very well as a "B" action movie.

It isn't close to my top 5 best, though. But I thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
I also thought Knockin on Heavens Door was one of the greatest anime movies out there, but I haven't seen many anime movies to begin with. Like G.I. said, the action scenes were great, and it introduced one of the greatest female characters, Electra.

I have to put this movie on my blockbuster list since it's been a while.
 
The Music of cowboy bebop is 420 for the soul, there are one epsoide that makes me kind of cry It is wear Chess mater hex and the bebop crew will not do the bounty because the man is to old and just pieceful and playing chess.

and ed finally wins over chess master which turn out to the old man's last game.. But when they made bebop the should have made a epsoide wear Spike and jet met for the frist time.. and the last epsiodes just end with spike, falling on the stairs of Saying "Bang" and you are left wondering about jet and the bebop.. Since ed went to find her dad and fay when to find out or to catch up on the past, that she had forgotten about..
 
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