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The crew of the Bebop is once again ready to take control of space, bringing bad guys to justice and trying to make some cash while doing it. Join the always cool Spike, investigative genius Jet, the fabulous Faye, the amazing (but weird) Ed and the super-smart Welsh Corgi named Ein as they try to make a buck in the year 2071. How do they do it? They re bounty hunters. But then again, you probably wouldn t be reading this if you didn t already know that…Now, for the first time in North America the entire Cowboy Bebop Remix series in one package!!!… More >>
Cowboy Bebop Remix Complete Collection
Where to begin on this stinker? For some reason, everyone likes this crappy anime, failing to realize that it has no plot, crap voice acting, cheesy violence, and no nudity, unless you like man-boobs. Every episode involves some sort of emo anorexic named Spike who goes around hunting people while getting shot many times, only to die by getting slashed at the end, Faye, who is just there for some eye candy, Jet, who is useless, and Edward, who is some sort of an autistic savant boy who has spent too much time on the internets. Also the music is crap. Why would you listen to jazz? If Nickelback played music on this show, I might give more stars.
For good anime, check out anything that 4kids, the best anime company ever, made. Rating: 1 / 5
This anime wasn’t very good. Its quite hard to describe it seeing as the the story is very sporadic and just not very interesting. The main villain has no personality and seems to just want to kill people. One episode might be incredibly stupid(an androgynous child searching for food) while another might be really violent(fat killer assassin in a top hat who cries like a baby). People seem to think that the characters are incredibly developed but there not. There back stories are never really explained, only hinted at, and its hard to care for them because they are all either jackasses, idiots or both. I love humor in my anime but this one just wasn’t very funny.
The worst part about this anime is the first episode which is great but basically sets you up for disappointment. I’d recommend passing this anime by, and buying something else. Rating: 1 / 5
Don’t get too excited , the one star is for being the lucky chump who got the box set missing CD five and six . Thanks Bandai , thanks a lot .
But don’t worry , Amazon did refund me . THEY’RE THE BEST .
As for the show , it’s a must have for mature anime fans . The familiar film noir private investigators mode of the episodes , the cool characters – ex-cop , ex-mob , the vixen , the tom boy and the small dog , the cool music , Courtesy of the talented Yoko Kanno , the not so future future , Shinichiro Watanabe’s directing and Mars . What’s not to like ?
Nice extras . If Shinichiro Watanabe made commentaries for all the episodes , it would’ve been a great extras .
And thanks Bandai , thanks a lot . Rating: 1 / 5
Cowboy Bebop is commonly hailed as one of the best anime series of all time, but with its utter lack of cohesive story or character development, Cowboy Bebop proved to be (with the exception of perhaps five out of the series’ twenty-six episodes) painfully insipid. Many would argue that the series requires neither of these common necessities in good storytelling, which is true provided that each episode of the series was entertaining enough to keep viewers watching. However, the vast majority of the episodes range from unoriginal to comedically contrived. Cowboy Bebop certainly is “The Work Which Becomes a New Genre Itself,” attempting a jack-of-all-trades-yet-master-of-none-approach with sci-fi, drama, and comedy. Its sci-fi repeatedly breaks its own metaphysics (a la random feng-shui magic introduced late in the game), its drama refuses to give insight into its characters, and its comedy, at which it is most successful, still frequently falls flat.
A common hindrance in anime is that the stories can get so bloated with its agenda or characters’ melodrama that maintaining the viewer’s interest gets lost in the shuffle. The staff of Bebop seemed to take this problem to the other extreme as the series suffers from morbidly deficient storytelling. One character’s entire backstory is a string from one cliché to the next, starting with his lone righteousness in a corrupt police system to when time figuratively, and tritely literally, stops for him due to his estrangement from an old flame. Another backstory, or lack thereof, is meted out in dialogue-starved shreds of flashback with viewers left to fill in the blanks in the narrative. Whereas some might confuse such moves as artistic, the result comes off as lazy, wherein the creators themselves did not want to put the effort into piecing together their own puzzle. This would not be such a problem were the audience not expected to care about the characters and their pasts, although the dramatic tone of the closing episodes would suggest otherwise. Furthermore, there is little point in watching the sessions in any kind of order, as the series generally has no more continuity than Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The series is not completely devoid of merit, however. The best five episodes (2, 9, 17, 18, and 22) truly compose the Best Sessions with rare moments of genuine humor and, in the exclusive case of “Speak Like a Child,” genuine poignancy. Also, the series boasts an impressive and eclectic soundtrack by the peerless Yoko Kanno who unfortunately seems to curse nearly every project she works on, bestowing on them scores that few series have lived up to (with the notable exception of the first Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series).
Even at a reduced price and with remastered audio, the grand total of four fun episodes and one fleshed-out character makes this series hard to recommend. The product is a ham-fisted juggling act between comedy and drama that leaves viewers with little to no emotional investment in the characters. Rating: 2 / 5
I first caught an episode or two of Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. I’ve been hooked ever since. Rating: 5 / 5