cowboy bebop:
incredibly famous and legendary anime I had yet to really watch, I enjoyed it. Watched the anime + the movie
cowboy bebop is a episodic science fiction anime about a bounty hunter that travels the galaxy in a old ship called "bebop". The plot itself isn't the best, most of the stories are pretty simple, and there isn't that much remarkable about it, however, the character design is pretty good, so it makes up for it. A lot of main character gets introduced fairly late into the story, and I think the anime does a really good job into actually integrating those characters in a way that feels natural. The movie isn't really anything special either, it's just a longer episode with better animation.
I'm not the biggest fan of episodic shows like this one, where all the stories are fairly normal. I think the strongest advantage that the episodic format brings is just being able to make batshit crazy episodes with little repercusion (for example, kino no tabi). Cowboy bebop really doens't do this, the scenarios are fairly contentional, the characters are just regular human beings that just happens to be extremely lucky half of the time. I think I would have prefeered it if it wasn't as episodic, mainly because the part that I enjoyed the most (the ending of the anime) was the only non-episodic part of the anime
The last episode really brings out the themes of a lot of previous chapters and explore them even further. Some chapters really disscuss the topics of separation family, and they even touch death with that becoming virtual episode. The end of cowboy bebop is entirely based on those topics, having everyone leave but spike who is killed is just the best ending this anime could have wished.
by FAR the best of the anime is the OST, it's incredibly good, but unlike other animes with very iconic OST's like initial D, cowboy bebop really doesn't lean into their sound design much, which is a shame
now, this anime popularity really comes from it being exported and adapted into america during an era where anime wasn't mainstream just yet, I don't think this anime really breaks any new ground or whatever, but it is still good
placed in A tier
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next: Mugman Series
still beating summer pockets, wont play danganronpa until I finsih that
incredibly famous and legendary anime I had yet to really watch, I enjoyed it. Watched the anime + the movie
cowboy bebop is a episodic science fiction anime about a bounty hunter that travels the galaxy in a old ship called "bebop". The plot itself isn't the best, most of the stories are pretty simple, and there isn't that much remarkable about it, however, the character design is pretty good, so it makes up for it. A lot of main character gets introduced fairly late into the story, and I think the anime does a really good job into actually integrating those characters in a way that feels natural. The movie isn't really anything special either, it's just a longer episode with better animation.
I'm not the biggest fan of episodic shows like this one, where all the stories are fairly normal. I think the strongest advantage that the episodic format brings is just being able to make batshit crazy episodes with little repercusion (for example, kino no tabi). Cowboy bebop really doens't do this, the scenarios are fairly contentional, the characters are just regular human beings that just happens to be extremely lucky half of the time. I think I would have prefeered it if it wasn't as episodic, mainly because the part that I enjoyed the most (the ending of the anime) was the only non-episodic part of the anime
The last episode really brings out the themes of a lot of previous chapters and explore them even further. Some chapters really disscuss the topics of separation family, and they even touch death with that becoming virtual episode. The end of cowboy bebop is entirely based on those topics, having everyone leave but spike who is killed is just the best ending this anime could have wished.
by FAR the best of the anime is the OST, it's incredibly good, but unlike other animes with very iconic OST's like initial D, cowboy bebop really doesn't lean into their sound design much, which is a shame
now, this anime popularity really comes from it being exported and adapted into america during an era where anime wasn't mainstream just yet, I don't think this anime really breaks any new ground or whatever, but it is still good
placed in A tier
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next: Mugman Series
still beating summer pockets, wont play danganronpa until I finsih that