Cowboy Bebop Animated Series Review
Posted by Kushal | Filed under Uncategorized
Cool. That’s the only word to describe Cowboy Bebop. Cool visuals, cool choreography, cool ships, cool clothes, cool bad guys – even cooler extras and guest characters!
The story isn’t anything to write home about (I know I’m going to get a lot of grief for that comment) but the overall construction oozes sophistication at every turn. Even the opening sequence is worthy of a modern art award.
A couple of hundred years from now humans have spread across the Solar System and settled just about everywhere. Crime is rife and the powers that be have glamourised the capture of criminals across the planets. They have a regular TV Spot where they advertise new bounties on criminals.
The Bebop is Jet’s ship. Along with his partner Spike (on the right here) they chase bounties to survive. Along the way they pick up a few stragglers and spice things up a little. Spike is gunfighter and a martial artist with precision control and timing (usually!). Jet is an old ex-cop with metal arm and massive build – he owns the Bebop.
Spike story develops a little too late in the series for my taste but there are plenty of adventures up until that point. The reason for my dislike of the story structure is the sudden endings towards the end of the series, almost as if the producers told the writers to tidy up the story before the final curtain call. Not that this diminishes the experience of the series at all. It reckon it will always be in the top 5 of most peoples favourite series. Quality Anime.
There is a Cowboy Bebop Movie that I will review seperately.
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