Okay so over the last week or so I went on a rewatch of Cowboy Bebop after a few years, and its still the hardest hitting piece of media I've ever seen that never loses its stopping power. In fact, it usually gains stopping power the older you get purely because of the theme of carrying the weight of your past and still managing to move forward. And as is tradition I like to watch video essays of people to get their perspective on the show and what they take from it. Its all subjective but to see how its effected so many people in similar ways gives me comfort in a way and stumbled upon this one. And I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen on the show, not only that but from a man that i'd expect to have 100x the subscribers based on the quality of his upload. Not only that but on my multiple watched of the show, it's only now that I understand the idea behind his eyes. I always thought it was a purely metaphorical statement and theme but the way you explain it here makes so much sense to me. Even if its wrong and not intentional it's still my headcannon from now on. It would make sense that a mechanical eye made specifically to see whats in front of you and only that could maybe not be able to project memories and live within them. It may be stupid but I like the idea. This was a fantastic video and I'm a big fan of your humour and the way you edit alongside your perspective on this show. I hope you seriously blow up because you definitely deserve it :) p.s sorry for the essay i get carried away when talking about stuff i enjoy and cowboy bebop got me in that mood again to reflect and express yknow
Hey bro thank you so much for this loved reading it and totally vibe with your personality at least what I got from it through reading this you just seem like a guy I’d get along with really well I also get lost into talking about things I’m really into so I appreciate that thank you for that ! And that’s awesome that you got something new from the video that’s always great to hear from a video I made and yeah I definitely think that’s the point of the eyes the fact that it’s the cybernetic one being the present eye works to well the fact that it can like you said see only what’s in front and that it’s an eye that can’t in a way hold the sight of the past but also it just makes so much sense that a eye made of technology would be represented as the present thank you for the comment man ! Sorry about the terrible way i type online I don’t really worry about periods or commas most of the time lol so my comments can be confusing
@@InternetPitstop I'm glad you enjoyed reading my ramble, because I definitely appreciate the reply too :) And dont worry about the way you write because I relate to that way too much. It takes me 2 minutes to write a passionate, semi coherent paragraph and takes me a further 10 minutes to edit in the punctuation in an attempt to make it readable and digestable aha :D Not only did you connect to the show in a way similar to me and many others you offered me a new perspective on a part of the show I wasnt a huge fan of to make more sense at least in my head and I appreciate it a lot. Keep doing what youre doing man and hope to see more of you in the future, preferably with the subscriber count you deserve :)
At some point, if enough people have the same subjective experience, then there’s someone objectively true about it. At least objectively consistent, which Cowboy Bebop is. It really is a masterpiece
Yep. Each time it hits like a truck. A slightly different truck from the last time. Each time I see something new, reflect on some new things in my own life. Each time I tell myself that I won't watch it again, but I know I will.
This is the best Cowboy Bebop video I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched several video essays about this show but I’ve never really understood the ending until now.
Yo thank you ! That’s a high honor and don’t sweat it I honestly never fully understood it either like even the og upload of this video I had a different idea on it which is why it was reuploaded to add in the correct info I got wrong on the first lol
Hello everyone ! I actually have reuploaded my cowboy bebop analysis video with some added changes because it came to my attention that I got some things completely wrong with my analysis of Spike. The idea that I could be possibly spreading misinformation on this show and its characters and someone could watch the vid and then possibly continue to spread that misinformation really bothered me. So I thought the best decision was to reupload it with the correct information. I'm sorry I messed up first analysis and all that yanno lol and its important to me that the video should be accurate even if that means changing and reuploading it all together. I understand a lot of you probably already saw it and this might just be a slightly altered version but I would really appreciate it if you all could check out the new upload of it to get the right info and also watching all the way through would help it not lose the same traction and views that the original had also really makes me sad to lose a bunch of your amazing comments that I loved on the original so if you can drop a comment and if not I totally understand thank you so much. New video next Wednesday! or next next Wednesday lol
🫡🫵 Just popping in to say I’m the 69th like on this comment. I am honored to accept this award from the academy, truly, and I’m sooo happy everyone got together and decided that we’d leave it at 69 likes forever, kewl kewl.. 🥸 PS I just found your videos and they are pretty great. The content, editing, script, performance, and general vibe gives off the impression that you’ve been doing this a lot longer than you have, which is awesome. If you allow me to put on my critics hat for just a moment, it’s a very mild critique, and it’s that the audio quality and audio levels could be dialed in a bit better. It’s not at all bad! Just could be better. 🫣 Keep it up! (literally and figuratively) 🖖✌️🫶
Did you ever watch Digibro's video on bebop back in the day? I think it was titled "you're going to carry that weight". Your analysis reminds me of his in a few ways (in a good way).
@@InternetPitstop Survey-Question (just go with it, please): Wouldnt oyu prefer it if we had Leaders who know the Internet but didnt embarass-themselves inside-it - or is that just me? I mean, we live in the Internet-Age and so much Data is available+understood. It's not like Rain was understood by People 10000 Years ago: For Example (and just an example!) Prisons. I mean, we just know America's Prison-System is extremly primitiv. That aint a theory or a wild guess, cause other Nations just do it blatantly better. They know better and the USA could just copy them, but do Politicans even know that?? Do they ever watch 'Second Thought' lay out all the facts and Data about this or other stuff?
@@loturzelrestaurant I’d say yeah I would prefer that cause it’s such a prevalent part of society and even ppls identity these days it’s not like before where your internet self and real self are separate as time is going on the 2 are interconnecting more and more and to have leaders from a completely different era of time who don’t even understand any of today’s tech I remember seeing a clip of some senate dude asking a Facebook exec to “end finsta” and even as the exec tried to explain why that makes no sense it didn’t get through to him old Senator's who don't understand technology in general can't really legislate successfully for the future I think I’m thinking either put some term limits or just add in sone younger ppl who do understand this stuff to help
the line "You're gonna carry that weight." always kinda had a double meaning for me. Not only are you gonna carry the weight of everything you've been through and hopefully learn from it, you're also gonna remember this masterpiece for the rest of your life and hopefully learn from it. p.s. I know this video is months old at this point, but I just found your channel and I wanna say I love it. It has such a cozy vibe, it's like the embodiment of the nostalgia that all those lofi streams wish they had. You're the first youtuber that I can actually relate to, especially since I'm pretty sure you're only like 2 or 3 years older than me. I literally went back and watched all the videos you've made except for like 1 or 2. Thanks for everything you've made, if you keep it up, I think you'll make it big.
This is something I saw another commentator say and I feel compelled to mention it here. In the episode "sympathy for the devil" before the kid dies he says something along the lines "Do you know the relief that you feel when you die?" Spike grabs his harmonica, throws it up in the air and pretends to shoot it "bang" and said "as if". In the end he says "bang" again meaning he now truly feels the relief of death after a never ending life.
Fun fact, Tom from Toonami and Spike Spiegel are the same voice actor. Hes voice acted in so many of the shows I watched as a kid that Steve Blum is the narrator voice in my head now lol.
I also got nakeyjakey humor from this which is amazing because i feel like its hard to find. Also very chill vibes and great takes, this is the first vid I've seen and now im subbed 👍
not gonna lie, I shed a tear or 2 ( or 10) over your interpretation of "You're gonna carry that weight." I didn't realize how badly I needed to hear that. Thank you so much Pitstop
A lot of video essay channels just feel like robots reading information from Wikipedia with clips of the topic. The reason why I loved this video is because you incorporated your personality bad humor into it.
"Leaving with Julia means escaping the past trauma for him" So wonderfully put - so many of us probably stuck in this hazy present with minds in the past - if only that 1 thing could be put right it would mean no more pain
When Spike tells Faye "Forget the past it doesn't matter" because he knows what pain not being able to live in the present causes. When spike talks of his eyes one seeing the present and one seeing the past it's always been interesting to me and reminds me a lot of a Gurren Lagann quote from Kamina that is english dub only in the heavily edited Bathhouse episode "There are some things I've just got to see/All of You Bastards Put Us in Hot Water" (so it's non-canon but it fits the show so well, don't make me fight you irl) in the recap talking about how the village leader of Adai had enough fighting spirit to pilot a gunmen and defeat a beastman was proof he should have had hope instead of condemning their village to live underground with a population below 50. "Tell me Simon, you know why people have eyes in front? it's because you have to move forward to see the landscape in the distance..." "yeah if you had eyes in back all you could see is your home town getting farther away, you can't move forward like that, if your eyes are in front, what you see in the distance keeps getting closer, that's what lets people move forward" I think this quote really plays off the idea of being stuck in the past like the bebop crew and how those who can't forget their past are damned to longing of their homes lost to time. This is why Faye shoots the roof in an attempt to bluff to keep Spike from leaving, because the bebop crew is her future, it's truly something they all should have been doing, looking to the future to make a life for themselves instead of looking to the past as their homes dissipated into nothingness. First Jet with his ex-wife and the pocket watch frozen in time there was no place for him to return to. Just like Faye we when we look to the past we have nowhere to return to, the past is the past because it's gone, that's why it's so tragic when spike says "I'm going to find out if I'm really alive" because we all know why Spike is leaving, he's attempting to go out in a blaze of glory because now that Julia is dead, he too has no place to return to. There's also the Dream metaphor too but I'm sure this comment is already unread-ably long so I'll just start speed running some cool notes. There's a book/teachings called Hagakure which the author's(Yamamoto Tsunetomo) critique on Bushido, just to quickly quote the wikipedia on the topic since I'm not a great writer, describing Hagakure the wiki says: "Written during a time when there was no officially sanctioned samurai fighting, the book grapples with the dilemma of maintaining a warrior class in the absence of war and reflects the author's nostalgia for a world that had disappeared before he was born." Another quick quote: "The book records Yamamoto's views on bushido, the warrior code of the samurai. Hagakure is sometimes said to assert that bushido is really the "Way of Dying" or living as though one was already dead" in comments he also mentions Samurai having to view themselves as already dead, living in a dream. Bushido is a concept that for the most part applies to spike, he seems to want a more honorable life than the one he had in the syndacate and he seems to have an undying loyalty to Julia he goes to die for his Lady. In this way both spike and Vicious' lives embody to Hagakure style Bushido, as well as the show making a lot of commentary on what it means to live that way. Source: It was revealed to me in a dream after my like 15th rewatch. tl;dr I'm a big fucking nerd and I went a bit 4:30
Spike could've benefited from things we know now. I don't really want to call him a 'simp', but he built his personality around the heartbreak he himself chose (remember that Julia was Vicious' girl). Jet gave him a chance to escape his old life, and found a family in Ed and Faye. But he chose to go back and throw his life away. "I am not going out there to die, I'm going to find out if I'm really am alive." But you were, Spike. Living day to day with people who actually cared.
That’s honestly the saddest part is that us as the viewer see him grow to care for the members of the bebop but he didn’t choose them as his present he chose Julia and you’re right I wouldn’t call him a simp but damn it would’ve been cool to see him find a new life with his friends lol
Spike only felt alive when he was with Julia. He said himself his life was an endless nightmare and he was specifically talking about his life without Julia.
Not caring about anything and being bored of life because he can't get over his past of not being able to escape with a woman? And then being easily sprung into action at the mere mention of that woman's name? Yep. Toooootally not simp behavior
Vicious didn't own Julia. He just acted like he did. Nobomoto and Watanabe said that Julia is Spike's woman and you see that in her actions. She disobeyed Vicious and went on the run to protect Spike. Julia loved Spike and Spike loved Julia more than he loved anyone on the Bebop.
As someone who was raised by this anime since the age of 6 and is now 27, I deeply appreciate how clearly personal and charismatic this review is. Great job! Definitely subbing, expect you to reach 50k very soon or I’m suing RU-vid
I’ve watched a few Bebop analysis videos before this one and I gotta say, this is definitely the best analysis I’ve ever seen of Bebop. I really love how you interpreted “You’re Gonna Carry That Weight”. That line now inspires me to keep moving forward in life no matter how hard it can get. Thank you for this. Amazing video!
Thanks man its great to hear that my interpretation is liked by fans considering it’s such a subjective thing ! But thank you for this comment man it really means a lot
Another banger bro, you’re on a kingly streak right now dude. Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be a successful youtuber like in less than a year
Samurai champloo is made by the same people and is also a character study. It’s not as great as cowboy bebop don’t get me wrong, but it was still a fabulous show that doesn’t get a lot of love. Would love if you had anything to say about it
Bro too many people slept on cowboy bebop, good for u for picking it up when u did. Honestly this is one of the few anime that brings tears to my eyes. "Whatever happens, happens" = "it is what it is".
This, out of all the other video essays was perhaps the clearest one. I love this anime and the growth it's recently got in being heavily discussed on, but yours really stands out in terms of truly getting to the point in a clear way, while also having a lot of topics surrounding it without being too bogged down or focusing way too much on one. Awesome vids, surprised you don't have hundreds of thousands more on subscribers ._.
I enjoy hearing others get such deep meaning out of Cowboy Bebop, it truly is something special. You know you've made something so good when people can get such important themes out of your show in only a single season.
My man you can't just hit me with the smooth, deliciously heart-wrenching tragedy of Cowboy Bebop AND Eye Of Truth in the same video. I have reached a level of cathartic vibing I never thought possible. As someone with CPTSD, Spike has hit me harder than any other anime character. Maybe any character period. I've been told my entire life that I'm laid back, aloof, adaptable, even intimidating in some cases. It comes from being so used to chaos and trauma that it barely phases me in the moment. I fight disassociation on a regular basis. My laid back personality was forged by having to learn how to control my emotions to an unrealistic degree from an early age, and going through personal emergency after personal emergency as an adult. Internally, danger alarms are ringing and my mind is reminding me of past experiences. It's not a fun existence, but I do my best to get by.
Damn bro I thought some eps of cowboy beebop was boring filler but realizing that it only felt that way because the characters couldn't move forward really hits. This vid opened my eyes. I'm now seeing cowboy beebop in a different light and I only just recently watched it.
I've always felt that it was ironic that the man who "can only see the past out of one eye and the present out of the other" didnt know what he had until it was truly in the past. He didnt see the present for what it was at all. He was too focused on his loss and took it all for granted.
Such a beautiful analysis of Spike Spiegel.....he is a tragic and iconic character trapped between the hard walls of the past and future, stuck in the present as you said. Really makes the entire perspective and approach to his character so interesting and relatable, his love for Julia and feud with Vicious really bring his character to the climax. Have never seen any content better relating to the cool man himself, great work! The perspective that Spike operates in a dream like sequence so often is quite interesting too.
Cowboy Bebop pulled me out a pit of despair when I dropped out of college. Life was falling apart, but this kinda helped sew it back together. Only to be wrecked all over again by the end of the series, but it felt like a necessary hurt, if that makes any sense.
You have such a sweet attitude, your sense of style is fantastic as well. Very unique and unusual approach to put yourself in the front of things you're reviewing. Creative Even not a native English speaker, like me, it's extremely clear what ideas you try to convey. Instantly subscribed. Keep producing good content, you'll gain a lot if subscribers! Kudos
I’m embarrassed of how many of your videos I‘ve binged so far. Seriously your content is GOLD your references are so on fucking point. You’re my greatest inspiration. When I start making RU-vid videos, I hope I have half of your confidence/editing skills. You’re actually nuts bro
I had this video in my watch later playlist for so long, and i regret not watching it sooner due to how insanely high quality your videos are. I've been an avid viewer ever since, thank you for all the great vids
Freaking cried while watching this. To k ow true love is to know true pain and Spike really knew pain. Both past and present heart ache… yet he still smiled through it and didn’t curl in a ball and fade away…. Be alive and face the demonds... This guy is my hero man.
Hell yeah I’ll watch this vid again, I’m so on it! BEST CHANNEL ON RU-vid! Really awesome of you to admit when you made some errors in the previous upload of this and go back and fix them. Especially when you had a good amount of views on the last one. I’m sure it’s not easy and a huge bummer to have that happen, but mad props for doing it.
Man I subbed for this video. In the middle of watching it, the British accent made me feel like you really grasped the complexity. 🤣 I agree completely, watching Bebop at 16, then 30? It's like an awakening.
Is it weird that I'm a millennial but had the same experience as a 10 yr old kid discovering the masterpiece that is CBBB through Adult swim ? I swear this anime seduced me with how fascinating it is. I could/and have rewatch the series over and over and never be bored ❤️
The first time I watched this video, it inspired me to rewatch Cowboy Bebop. I can confirm the 2nd viewing of Cowboy Bebop 4 years after my initial viewing “Hit Different”. Thanks IP
I cried like a BITCH during the end of bebop. Iv never watched another show that had such natural and real characters. It still feels like jet is out there in the bebop looking for the next crew.
Man, the algorithm has something against you because you should have way more subs than this. This shit is like main lining nostalgia to me and Im here for it.
6:17 Not naive at all. Just listen to the story of The Chinese Farmer. You cannot know what's "Good" or "Bad", all you can know is "Maybe". There is also the quote "Que Sera Sera". You make a great argument and I don't think you're wrong, but what I am saying is that that kind of outlook isn't a bad one...maybe. If anything, it seems that Spike's outlook is quite healthy. In the end, he does resolve his past :D Happy ending. 13:03 beautifully said. 18:04 Oh Wow! How beautiful and poetic. I had no idea. Man, all of your videos are so good. I believe this one stands above the others though because it seems that you truly got the message within this anime, something that I'm sure many, including myself didn't really get fully. This was such a delight to see things in a different perspective explained so well. You keep doing that actually. You're very good at explaining things. Well done.
I didn't get into anime until my mid-teens and I believe this was the first anime I ever finished (being in the middle of a couple lengthy shonnen series at the time). I've felt for a while that I was just too young to appreciate it at the time. Haven't rewatched it yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so.
I feel like I can just re watch all your videos every week. I’m so happy to discovered this channel m. Makes me feel like I belong. Like I’m not alone in these opinions.
Like you, I grew up the same way in struggling to watch Bebop against strict parental rules. It's been years, and after watching only the dub multiple times, I'm looking into finally watching the sub. This is easily the best Bebop video I've seen, and it was very nostalgic. Kudos for making me see many things I missed when I was younger. In terms of character analysis, there are many characters in Ashita no Joe and Legend of the Galactic Heroes that would make for very interesting and new character analysis content that hasn't been done before. I've tried myself, and those can get wilder.
With my pc being out of commission last week I got the chance to catch up on some anime. After watching season 3 of doctor stone, I wasn’t sure what to watch but decided why not watch bebop. And damn, it blew me away, everything from the characters to that absolutely bussin soundtrack are great. The abrupt departure of Ed and Ein kinda caught me off guard, and it was almost weird seeing the bebop so empty by the end. Great video, would love something about Samurai Champloo
Like you did with Berserk, you should absolutely breakdown the soundtrack of Cowboy Bebop at least the songs that highlight the soul of the show. There are ones on the main album that are obvious treats of the highest caliber (Tank, Rush, Cosmos, absolutely Space Lion, Memory, etc.) but there are some on lesser known albums that are so special. “On the Run” the theme of pierrot le fou is a song that incapsulates pure horror in music like Murder does in Berserk. It made that episode feel like I was a kid watching something late at night on adult swim that I was certainly not supposed to be watching. And “Goodnight Juila”. I have not and it’s my opinion unless I hear something godly elsewhere that there is no song in anime that is more emotionally beautiful and sad at the same time. The cosmic feelings of loneliness, sadness, hate, pain, reminiscence of memories fading like tears in rain, this song compiles them all and it’s not even that long. To do that in such a short time is a testament to Yoko Kanno’s skills. Definitely think about it and listen to those songs if you haven’t before. Your videos are the best and you should have much more than a million subs
"you're gonna carry that weight" punches me right in the soul. Just like you i was a kid when i first watched this. I barely even understood what i was watching. Decades later, those words are alot heavier.
hey man i love your videos and i went back and binged watched all of them. Hope u keep gaining the subs and keep up the great work. ps u always drippin :)
this guy is actually insane, thanks youtube for reccomending me this guy, it really reminds me of nakey jakey but at his own style and makes it unique, keep it up your content is insane
The real rite of passage for anime youtubers inst just making a video on Bebop, its making a video on the show and putting both space lion and waltz for zizi in the background
