So I finally got around to watch Space Dandy. For a bit of context, I watched most of Watanabe's stuff back in the days, loved his Animatrix, Bebop and Samurai Champloo are my favorite anime of all time, and I think this is actually why I did not immediately get my hands on Space Dandy when it dropped.
My stupid brain thought something like "naaah, can't be as good as the masterpieces that are Bebop and Champloo, it looks stupid and I'll probably be disapointed"
......
So yeah I'm a fool.
This is as good as the rest of Watanabe's work, and as I just got done watching it, I class it really high on the list, but this is the immediate satisfaction talking. I don't think that in the long run I'll rank it better than Bebop and Champloo, but it will easily be as good as those in my opinion.
As usual with these shows, the characters are awesome whether you like them or not, which is somehing I find really impressive in those 3 shows. In this one, I did not really like Dandy at first, he made think of a weird mix of Spike and Mugen (which was my initial fear when I first learned about the show before and did not want to watch it), but he quickly develops into his own awesome dude, and by the episode where he wants to use his free visit to Boobies, i was turned on him and liked him already. It only got better with each episode. Meow and QT are really awesome, the guest characters in almost every episodes are also quite good, but the biggest surprise and best character for me was Bea, from the start, so needless to say that I really loved the last episode :) His character is so fun as the villain sidekick, and I love his goofy design.
Soundtrack is as always awesome, perfectly fits the mood of the show and there is not much else to say about it besides that it is great, even if not as godlike than Bebop and Champloo's soundtrack imo, but hey not many soundtracks are ^^
I won't start taking about each episode one by one because then I will never finish this post, all 26 episodes are great to unbelievably perfect for me, if I had to pick standouts episodes I would choose the zombies one, the one with the musical school, the Rose fake boyfriend, the underwear war, meow's planet, the book alien, QT falling in love, limbo planet, and I realise that I'm starting to quote almost every episode lol, and that's not even mentioning the last 3 episodes which are seriously the best, but more on that below.
But what surprised me the most with the show is the apparent nonsense of the story, where they all die in a lot of episodes, and it seems to restart. I don't know how they made it work, because for me that would usually be something that distract me from a show when things really do not make any kind of sense, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for why it happens. But here it worked, I quickly went in "well fuck it" mode and enjoyed the episodes without too much caring about these story point, mainly because the episodes were so fun and enjoyable.
So I was really agreably surprised when they started to drop some hints regarding Dandy, warping, and all of this stuff, because i really was ready for the story making no sense until the end and being an enjoyable and fun sci fi trip. The Episode with Dandy's 4D ex was in my opinion easy lore done right lol, loved the fact that Dandy understood the fabric of space and parallel universes and was like "whatever". And of course that lead to the exceptional last two episodes. I don't know why the trial episode was so enjoyable for me, it was really something, and of course they start dropping that the "pyonmin"(spelling probably) is actually the God particle! And then that last episode, okay I stand corrected, this show makes no sens for 75% of its runtime, but then it becomes a parallel universe/dark matter/ end of the universe joint where even God(which of course was the fuckin' voiceover hahaha that was great !) is involved, and even though anyone could see Dandy's resopne to God's proposal coming, it was so good to witness :) and of course the universe loops, just for the stinger that yeah maybe there could be more Space Dandy someday, even though it's never gonna happen...
So yeah, this show really is something, I'm both mad I did not wtach it way earlier and glad I waited to watch it now, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it back then even with my obviously wrong mindset, but I know it was much more enjoyable now. I'm really gonna miss this show as much as I miss Bebop and Champloo, and always keep these awesome memories of it forever, baby, just like Bebop and Champloo.
THANK YOU WATANABE AND EVERYONE INVOLVED !
Edited because I'm stupid and mistook God particle and dark matter ^^
My stupid brain thought something like "naaah, can't be as good as the masterpieces that are Bebop and Champloo, it looks stupid and I'll probably be disapointed"
......
So yeah I'm a fool.
This is as good as the rest of Watanabe's work, and as I just got done watching it, I class it really high on the list, but this is the immediate satisfaction talking. I don't think that in the long run I'll rank it better than Bebop and Champloo, but it will easily be as good as those in my opinion.
As usual with these shows, the characters are awesome whether you like them or not, which is somehing I find really impressive in those 3 shows. In this one, I did not really like Dandy at first, he made think of a weird mix of Spike and Mugen (which was my initial fear when I first learned about the show before and did not want to watch it), but he quickly develops into his own awesome dude, and by the episode where he wants to use his free visit to Boobies, i was turned on him and liked him already. It only got better with each episode. Meow and QT are really awesome, the guest characters in almost every episodes are also quite good, but the biggest surprise and best character for me was Bea, from the start, so needless to say that I really loved the last episode :) His character is so fun as the villain sidekick, and I love his goofy design.
Soundtrack is as always awesome, perfectly fits the mood of the show and there is not much else to say about it besides that it is great, even if not as godlike than Bebop and Champloo's soundtrack imo, but hey not many soundtracks are ^^
I won't start taking about each episode one by one because then I will never finish this post, all 26 episodes are great to unbelievably perfect for me, if I had to pick standouts episodes I would choose the zombies one, the one with the musical school, the Rose fake boyfriend, the underwear war, meow's planet, the book alien, QT falling in love, limbo planet, and I realise that I'm starting to quote almost every episode lol, and that's not even mentioning the last 3 episodes which are seriously the best, but more on that below.
But what surprised me the most with the show is the apparent nonsense of the story, where they all die in a lot of episodes, and it seems to restart. I don't know how they made it work, because for me that would usually be something that distract me from a show when things really do not make any kind of sense, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for why it happens. But here it worked, I quickly went in "well fuck it" mode and enjoyed the episodes without too much caring about these story point, mainly because the episodes were so fun and enjoyable.
So I was really agreably surprised when they started to drop some hints regarding Dandy, warping, and all of this stuff, because i really was ready for the story making no sense until the end and being an enjoyable and fun sci fi trip. The Episode with Dandy's 4D ex was in my opinion easy lore done right lol, loved the fact that Dandy understood the fabric of space and parallel universes and was like "whatever". And of course that lead to the exceptional last two episodes. I don't know why the trial episode was so enjoyable for me, it was really something, and of course they start dropping that the "pyonmin"(spelling probably) is actually the God particle! And then that last episode, okay I stand corrected, this show makes no sens for 75% of its runtime, but then it becomes a parallel universe/dark matter/ end of the universe joint where even God(which of course was the fuckin' voiceover hahaha that was great !) is involved, and even though anyone could see Dandy's resopne to God's proposal coming, it was so good to witness :) and of course the universe loops, just for the stinger that yeah maybe there could be more Space Dandy someday, even though it's never gonna happen...
So yeah, this show really is something, I'm both mad I did not wtach it way earlier and glad I waited to watch it now, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it back then even with my obviously wrong mindset, but I know it was much more enjoyable now. I'm really gonna miss this show as much as I miss Bebop and Champloo, and always keep these awesome memories of it forever, baby, just like Bebop and Champloo.
THANK YOU WATANABE AND EVERYONE INVOLVED !
Edited because I'm stupid and mistook God particle and dark matter ^^
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