Cowboy Bebop

[RufusMcLaser]

I can't say enough about how much I loved Cowboy Bebop. Every once in a great while I dust a DVD off and enjoy another episode all over again. It had everything; awesome art, deep characters, action, the best music ever. And it never took itself too seriously.

 

[Eyclonus]

Bebop is good, with all that Jazz and Noirish elements, but I prefer Champloo (cue a mob yelling "FREAK!!") I think the reason why Champloo isn't so popular is that the english cast are soooooo crap. I mean I've watched the whole series in both english and japanese with subs and I found the english voice actors terrible. Mugen and Jin were barely distinguishable and Fuu just sounded weird.
Also a lot of the conversations follow a rhythm that isn't very noticeable and the english dubbing doesn't follow it so it lacks that hip-hoppy feeling that one gets from the original voice track, that and I've been told that there a lot of puns with language that don't work in english as well.

 

[unholy vagrant]

I had seen other animes before, but Cowboy Bebop was my gateway to other animes. In my opinion however, Firefly has more elements of Outlaw Star then Cowboy Bebop.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

My friend who hates anime considers Cowboy Bebop worth watching, it's so awesome it makes people who don't like anime like it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I want to see it but never have.

I will now get the theme song.

 

[SaintWaldo]

Anyone remember Cowboy Bebop? An amazing anime in my opinion. Good plot. Good action. A kick ass theme song.

Had pretty much everything. ^_^

Remember it? I have the box set on my shelf!

 

[poleboy]

Cowboy Bebop is amazing, my favorite anime by far.

It's a media crossover like nothing I have seen before. It plays out like a TV show (always the same ending, stay tuned for next week), every episode is a homage to a different musical genre and to top it off, it's animated.

It has a somewhat shaky story and not all of its characters are developed enough (I always felt that Faye in particular was tacked on), but as an experiment in style and combining different types of media into one, it has no equal.

 

[GothmogII]

Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun. all mentioned yay :3 Hmm...Fullmetal Alchemist was pretty great too, funny and serious at just the right moments. What else, oh right, anyone here watched Azumanga Daioh? Addictive surrealist cotton candy if ever there was one :3

 

[poleboy]

anyone here watched Azumanga Daioh? Addictive surrealist cotton candy if ever there was one :3

Isn't that the one with Ebichu, the Housekeeping Hamster? That's some fucked up shit. Pretty funny too.

 

[GothmogII]

anyone here watched Azumanga Daioh? Addictive surrealist cotton candy if ever there was one :3

Isn't that the one with Ebichu, the Housekeeping Hamster? That's some fucked up shit. Pretty funny too.

Not as far as I'm aware...this is it:

For those not aware. It's not a typical School Girl fanservicy anime, although it does make joking refrences to those kind of anime at times. Otherwise, Azumanga is an anime based on the everyday lives of six high school girls. 'Slice of life' stuff with an odd surrealistic filling going throughout. Highly recommended it! \o/

 

[poleboy]

Oh yeah, I think I know that one. There's a male teacher with glasses who sweats a lot because he's sort of... er.. likes.. very young girls, right?

 

[Billy_Pilgrim]

Bebop is good, with all that Jazz and Noirish elements, but I prefer Champloo (cue a mob yelling "FREAK!!") I think the reason why Champloo isn't so popular is that the english cast are soooooo crap. I mean I've watched the whole series in both english and japanese with subs and I found the english voice actors terrible. Mugen and Jin were barely distinguishable and Fuu just sounded weird.
Also a lot of the conversations follow a rhythm that isn't very noticeable and the english dubbing doesn't follow it so it lacks that hip-hoppy feeling that one gets from the original voice track, that and I've been told that there a lot of puns with language that don't work in english as well.

Terrible voice actors? 'Tis not so sir!

As far as I know, Mugen was voiced by the one and only Steven Blum; the same talent that voiced Spike Spiegel. Personally, I was happy with the voice acting, or at the very least, I've seen much worse.

 

[GothmogII]

Oh yeah, I think I know that one. There's a male teacher with glasses who sweats a lot because he's sort of... er.. likes.. very young girls, right?

Yup, Mr.Kimura. He luckily doesn't get too much screen time, but when he is on, he's freaking hilarious xD