Old school anime fan here (maybe more like...just...OLD anime fan here). Enjoyed watching through your Evangelion reactions last year. Really hyped you two are doing Bebop now. Looking forward to this ride, because you guys are so thoughtful and analytic, while still just ENJOYING what you're watching. This is gonna be fun. ^_^
You speaking about the story having confidence is great. I don't see a lot of ppl talk about stories like that, but it's clear that a lot of storytellers don't have confidence in their story, characters, world, etc. and they feel the need to rush everything. They are scared the audience will get bored or realize the flaws in their story so they try to distract you with fast pacing and spectacles so you don't have time to properly digest what is actually going on and if it is actually good. Mushoku Tensei is one of the shows that is current and I feel that it is confident enough to spend time with it's characters and the world instead of speed running the plot. What makes the problem worse is that anime and manga just keep getting more and more generic. Lot's of stories are very unoriginal. Then on top of that the author instead of at least making the characters and world interesting, they speedrun through the plot. They destroy any chance of making a good story even if their plot is generic. You can have a generic plot and still have a great story if you spend time with interesting characters and build up the world properly. Most authors are too unconfident (maybe justifiably so if they suck, but if you don't try then you'll never make something good).
missing the code gears, but this still good and i got the new season of code geass to watch, and its not as bad as i feared it would be. not as good as the first onces, but good enough, though Nina is there again lol.
I'm so mad that you haven't seen Cowboy Bebop. Especially you Josh as we're of similar age and this was constantly rerunning on Adult Swim for like a decade. But I'm so happy I get to see your first impressions of this masterpiece. What a timeless gem. It inspired so much that came after in. Shinichiro Watanabe truly did create a new genre. And the music! Yoko Kanno did the opposite for Cowboy Bebop what Yoko Ono did for the Beatles. Her composition along with the Seatbelts creates so many varied songs she's a genius! Best anime soundtrack ever. Can't wait to see you two enjoy this!
Amazing reaction one of the best animes ever! I think that the gunfights and gun animations in general are really realistic! Its interesting to see a futuristic enviroment with 80s - 90s guns!
Phase difference space gates are never explained in the story, but are only explained in commentary books. According to the "blinking universe theory" that was discovered in 2007, this world blinks in a 1/48 second cycle, and there exists another dimension called "phase difference space" that appears when this happens. The size of this space is 1/240, and by traveling within this phase difference space, you can reach your destination 240 times faster than if you were traveling in normal space. The phase difference space gates make this possible, and it is now possible to travel at high speeds between the entrance gate and the exit gate. It is like a highway in space. Each gate is made up of multiple huge rings, and each ring is responsible for accelerating and decelerating, collecting tolls, etc. The toll is automatically paid by money card when passing through a device called a "credit sensor" on the toll gate ring (similar to ETC). In addition to being used as a highway, they are also used to make it easier to guide sunlight to areas of space far from the sun, such as the Jupiter sphere, where sunlight is difficult to reach. Director Watanabe has stated that he came up with the idea for the gate after seeing the gaps between frames of film.
If you want to check Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapure (heads up, it has INSANE amounts of fanservice) you definetely have to watch the Lelouch of the Re;surrection movie first.
One of the goats of space opera anime along with Outlaw Star Space Battleship Yamato and Legend Of The Galactic Heroes an the best space western Trigun
41:32 with on-point riffing like that, I am convinced of a good time following the rest of y'alls content, so that's a subbin'~ Bebop is one of those anime that leans a bit farther past the line of "important anime" into "really good damn anime". This meaning the sort of important that the Beatles or film noir or _shonen_ anime classics are. Not everyone's cup of tea, but undoubtedly the big game changers that paved the way for many others. Cowboy Bebop stands on its own in this category as yeah, something not everyone can get it into, but is downright meteoric in its reputation and influence, coming and going. You're gonna be in for quite an adventure with this one, so be ready for it to answer all the questions.
Of course he bothers you, because he is supposed to bother. He killed his father in 10, and kept this secret for 7 years because the Kirihara covered up the cause of death. Suzaku is a tradegy of a boy who is taught to be a just man. He considers himself guilty and trying to atone his sins by being the best he can without taking personal responsibility for his actions.
I started watching "Cowboy Bebop" just after the turn of the century on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. After CN began using "Cowboy Bebop" as a space filler, I went looking for physical media. When I visited the Bandai website, was dumbfounded to read that they had NO plans to make/market "Cowboy Bebop" DVDs. An eBay search yielded a bootleg set from Singapore, which I watch from time to time. (An official Bandai compilation I bought is useful only as drink coasters!) A bit later, "Firefly" popped up on Fox TV, and I was in seventh heaven...until those nincompoops cancelled Josh Whedon's Space Cowboy series.
You watch anime and yet have never seen cowboy bebop?!!!...blasphemy!! Kidding enjoy a masterpiece of a series guys 😊 fun fact some of the episodes names are named after songs.
this anime is a masterpiece, one of my all time favorites, it's shame the HD remaster has the worse sound. if you can track down the original 98 episodes it's worth it. The voice acting is the same but the actually sound effects and background sound are much better, the world feels more authentic and lived in.
One of the best things that goes over the head of everyone during this final arc, ONLY Suzaku Kururugi (White Reaper of Britannia) and Lelouch Vi Britannia (Treacherous Emperor) (Both played by lelouch and Suzaku as the image for the Evil Britannia) are really the only people of the main cast who died. No one died from either side except from that dumb Diethard (fcker dont know which side he is on the whole time).
I started watching anime like dragon ball, sailor moon, yuyu hakusho after school but it wasn’t until cowboy bebop I fell in love with it. I’ll never forget staying up past curfew to watch it on school nights. The intro ughhh tank kills it I love the blues and just the music in general and the old animation is nostalgic.. the characters and setting are amazing and the episodic nature but underlying plot that’s there.. it’s just chefs kiss. I’m glad that yall are watching and hope it brings you joy!
Ooh y'all are starting a straight up anime classic. Are you planning on reacting to the movie when everything for the original series has been finished?
Code Geass connection! In this case the team had just finished the big anniversary project Macross Plus and enjoyed working together so much they, like CG, proposed this to Sunrise and got approved to do whatever they wanted so long as they had marketable, toyetic mecha.
14:24 я только сейчас осознал, что фраза "Это не я тот кто не прав. А весь этот мир", весьма распространённая. Как минимум она есть ещё в Токийском гуле. И.... Мне понравилось как там её обыграли в финале. В код гиассе, немного другой подход, но тоже интересный.
Fun Facts: (1) Spike wearing the poncho in Episode 1 is paying homage to Clint Eastwood's "Man With No Name'" character (also a bounty hunter). (2) 1 Woolong is the equivalent of 0.01 cent U.S.D. Thus, 1 million Woolongs is around $10,000 dollars.🤑💰💸
I've read that Woolongs are the equivalent of Japanese Yen, NOT U.S. money. It's a Japanese series, why would they base the monetary system on an foreign monetry system?
@@Otokichi786 The amount was the answer I got when I Googled "how much is 1 Woolong worth?" Also, nationality in the series seems ambiguous and open to each person's own interpretation. An example is Spike being Jewish, yet he practices the philosophy of Chinese Kung Fu.
Weelll the thing is there is an OVA.... I highly recommend that you watch it. That last remark by C.C. at the end of the episode somewhat preludes to what is revealed in the OVA. No, I will not spoil it for you.
Some people will tell you the movie takes place before the series ends, but it was made after the series ended and that is when it is meant to be watched. Don't try to squeeze it in the middle.
Agreed, it builds on an understanding of Spike's character that you can only gain from watching the original series prior to the film even if the film canonically takes place before episode 21 I believe.
Be prepared for surprisingly high quality animation because this show sometimes decides to go crazy out of nowhere (hyped for the jazzy space moments) Cowboy Bebop is so good edit: Corgi edit 2: Abdul falling straight to the police station has got to be the funniest way to lose a bounty, the guy "turned himself in" before Spike could even get his bounty lmao edit 3: Spike and Jet already struggle with money to eat and they'll need to feed the dog too now lmfao
