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Just finished Cowboy Bebop...

T'Chakku

T'Chakku

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Damnit, Spike.

What an amazing series. Awesome soundtrack, characters and action. There's not a ton of worldbuilding but you do get a good sense of the history of the places the series went to.

This one's been in my backlog for a while. The Super Eyepatch Wolf video is what me finally decide to jump on it. If you haven't seen it yet, get to it. Only 26 episodes and there was only one I didn't like (episode 22, with the cowboy).
 
Ylor

Ylor

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Oct 25, 2017
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I would pay money to be able to watch Cowboy Bebop again for the first time
 
okayfrog

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All these years later and it's still my favorite anime series. Amazing stuff. I feel like there's actually a great amount of worldbuilding, it's just done through the environment most of the time rather than exposition.

 
Yabberwocky

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Oct 27, 2017
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Aw, man. What a series. Still hurts.

If you haven't watched the movie, OP, definitely give it a watch. I'm surprised by how well it still holds up, actually. It works as a longer episode to the series in a way, and has some gorgeous animation and art direction. (Plus, dat soundtrack.)
 
Admiral Woofington

Admiral Woofington

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i have it on blu ray limited edition. they'll bury me with that anime

on my tombstone they'll write

"Here lies Woofington
A fucking Weeaboo"
 
Talal

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One of the greatest works in all entertainment history. A 10/10 masterpiece.
See you, Space Cowboy....
 
Inuhanyou

Inuhanyou

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Oct 25, 2017
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You gonna carry that weight OP

I first saw it 16 years ago when it first premiered on cartoon network...it feels so long ago now, i remember the teaser commercial
 
Heckler456

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Oct 25, 2017
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I've tried finishing it twice, but always throw in the towel somewhere by the end. I should give it another shot now that it's up on Netflix.

That being said though, I just started watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and that show's pretty great!
 
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T'Chakku

T'Chakku

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yabberwocky said:
Aw, man. What a series. Still hurts.

If you haven't watched the movie, OP, definitely give it a watch. I'm surprised by how well it still holds up, actually. It works as a longer episode to the series in a way, and has some gorgeous animation and art direction. (Plus, dat soundtrack.)
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Had no idea there was a movie. Will definitely check that out.
 
Inuhanyou

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Transhuman said:
Nah, Boogie Woogie Feng Shui was the bad episode.
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No, the episode with the immortal kid was the weakest one(although the moon explosion lore building was great

Of course we're talking about CB, there are no real "bad episodes"




Fuck i'm getting nostalgia feels now, still one of my favorite "random promo commercials" of all time, Adult swim in those days was truly the successor of toonami, williams street did great work
 
Disco

Disco

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Oct 25, 2017
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GOAT anime show. That jazz soundtrack and the whole kung fu noir vibe of the thing was so good

Loved the homages to Batman the animated series and Alien as well.
 
HStallion

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Now watch Samurai Champloo OP. Its from the same director, Watanabe, and many of the other creative team behind Cowboy Bebop. Its a Samurai show with a hip hop soundtrack and theme with an incredible OST by the late great Nujabes. Its also a similar series in that there is a loose plot about a girl searching for her missing father, a Samurai who smells like Sunflowers and enlists the aid of two very different wandering warriors to help her. Its got a ton of one off episodes covering a wide variety of themes and stories from totally hilarious too very serious and even episodes about baseball and zombies.

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VeePs

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Next up OP, is Samurai Champloo.

Episode 14 still gives me chills.
 
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T'Chakku

T'Chakku

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HStallion said:
Now watch Samurai Champloo OP. Its from the same director, Watanabe, and many of the other creative team behind Cowboy Bebop. Its a Samurai show with a hip hop soundtrack and theme with an incredible OST by the late great Nujabes. Its also a similar series in that there is a loose plot about a girl searching for her missing father, a Samurai who smells like Sunflowers and enlists the aid of two very different wandering warriors to help her. Its got a ton of one off episodes covering a wide variety of themes and stories from totally hilarious too very serious and even episodes about baseball and zombies.

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Champloo's in my backlog. Maybe I'll move it up
 
AnansiThePersona

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The best episode had to be Ballad of Falling Angels. That was the first episode I watched randomly on Adult Swim and after a few years I finally watched to whole series. The moment with Spike falling out of the church fighting Vicious is Top 5 Anime Moments for me.
 
Friggz

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Heckler456 said:
I've tried finishing it twice, but always throw in the towel somewhere by the end. I should give it another shot now that it's up on Netflix.

That being said though, I just started watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and that show's pretty great!
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It's on Netflix??

The real folk blues is one of the greatest songs every recorded. The show brings me back to a happier time in my life.
 
greenbird

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It pretty much did everything right, and spoiled a lot of future good anime for me by setting the bar so high.
 
peyrin

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oh hey I also saw this for the first time earlier this year to finally get it off my backlog. Not quite an all-time favorite but it definitely lives up to its reputation.

Also yes the Cowboy Andy ep is the clear dud in the series.
 
Super Corpse Soldier

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Inuhanyou said:
No, the episode with the immortal kid was the weakest one(although the moon explosion lore building was great

Of course we're talking about CB, there are no real "bad episodes"




Fuck i'm getting nostalgia feels now, still one of my favorite "random promo commercials" of all time, Adult swim in those days was truly the successor of toonami, williams street did great work
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Sympathy for the Devil is not particularly good. But Boogie Woogie Feng Shei shouldn't exist.

It's basically an entire episode of Jet trying to hook up with a teenage girl before she goes her own way like every Cowboy Bebop one off characters. Even has nightmarish cringeworthy lines like "I'm not too old to be your boyfriend."
 
pikachief

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peyrin said:
oh hey I also saw this for the first time earlier this year to finally get it off my backlog. Not quite an all-time favorite but it definitely lives up to its reputation.

Also yes the Cowboy Andy ep is the clear dud in the series.
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Cowboy Andy is my favorite episode and the only one my wife liked lol
 
peyrin

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Super Corpse Soldier said:
Sympathy for the Devil is not particularly good. But Boogie Woogie Feng Shei shouldn't exist.

It's basically an entire episode of Jet trying to hook up with a teenage girl before she goes her own way like every Cowboy Bebop one off characters. Even has nightmarish cringeworthy lines like "I'm not too old to be your boyfriend."
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This sure is a major over-simplification of the main plot about her relationship with her dad.
 

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I tear up a little when I know someone just finished the last episode of CB. It's just so damn good. I don't know how many times I've rewatched the series.
 
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