Cowboy Beebop

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:37 am

starting tonight, MTV (here in holland) is gonna show Cowboy Beebop once every week, and im kind of curious

anyone here know CB? any opinions? (and yes xylene, i know i know, anime sucks)

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:28 am

One day about a year ago I got really, really sick. So sick to the point where I couldn't move from the couch. With nothing else to do but lay on the couch, I started watching my Cowboy Bebop box set that I had recently purchased. I started with the first episode and worked my way through the entire series in one day.

Anyway, it's a good anime, and defintately better than most. Most of the shows stand well on their own, so if you are a person that just watches anime on TV, and doesn't care about a continuing story, this is great to watch. Some episodes do connect to one another, but not as much as some other animes. Its worth a watch, and is a show you don't have to feel bad about if you miss an episode or two.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:38 am

cool

as i said, MTV is airing it friday nights, and as it so happens, tonight im free, and im gonna watch it, but its cool that missing an ep isnt that bad

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:13 am

Missing most episodes isn't too bad. There's about 5 in the series that are truely important, and the 2 middle and 2 end episodes are continuations. At least from what I can remember. It's been over a year since I watched it all.

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:18 am

Thanks for making this thread Freeze

Normally I don't watch tv at all, only the news when I have the time and don't have anything else to do. I can't stand MTV/TMF anyways because of the music. I've heard quite a few good things about Cowboy Bebop so I'll make sure I don't miss it.

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:37 am

The series is nice, but...

Spoiler!

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:49 am

Thanks for the clear spoiler tags...

Perhaps it's a good idea to leave some space blank next time or put it in an undreadable tiny font (so that ppl can copy/paste it to notepad or something)

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:54 am

What, you read it?

Disheveled DrFreeze · Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:05 pm

hey Cid, didnt know you were dutch too, where do you live? im in Dongen, noord brabant (between breda and tilburg)

and i cant stand mtv/tmf/the box most of the time either, i just stumbled across it in the paper this morning

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:16 pm

neoak wrote:What, you read it?

Uhm, yeah... I see you edited your post now

Nevermind, I'll be happy just as long as you don't give me Berserk spoilers

Hopefully I'll forget what I read when I'm watching the show.

Freeze, check your pm box, we pmd in Dutch some time ago

Other than that, you could've seen it underneath my avatar.

I'm from Polsbroek, it's in the middle of nowhere, only 2000 inhabitants :p It's near Schoonhoven and Lopik. On the border between Zuid Holland and Utrecht.

It's good to know I'm not the only one in Holland who's interested in DC.

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:35 pm

Sorry, but i set the spoiler tags so people wouldn't read it. Oh well.

That is not the heavy spoiler. The heavy is what happened with Ju...

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:48 pm

It's cool

I just happen to read fast so spoilers wrapped up in tags in a way like you did before the edit won't prevent most ppl from reading it I think.

Let's get this back on topic.

I think it's nice to see a decent anime on tv here, all we got before was Dragonball Z and Pok?mon

I also saw a few episodes of Gundam Wing, which was very interesting, but it was all shown on kids' shows, at the wrong time of day.

Sir Slash · Post by **Sir Slash** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:54 pm

its pretty good...short

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:57 pm

good series. one of the best dubbed animes out there. I have all of em on dvd. the movie is quite good also.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:31 pm

Watch it, its as simple as that, reminds self to start getting the remastered dvd's

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:07 pm

I just saw the first episode.

My first impression was WTF?!?!

Mainly because of its setting. I'm already looking forward to next episode because I love the style of this one.

Btw, I'm glad I could hear the japanese voices, but I regret there are dutch subtitles. I prefer to read in English. I'm not used to hearing japanese and reading dutch at the same time. Having to read dutch draws my attention more than having to read english. In the beginning I noticed how I was translating the dutch sentences to English

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:06 pm

yeah, im used to english subs too

and i agree on the WTF, and for some reason the show didnt exactly draw me in at all, somehow i didnt exactly like it, that and the 5-7 min commercial brake in the middle

Nemesis · Post by **Nemesis** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:34 pm

I bought the whole series on dvd....it's amazing....

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:11 pm

Cid Highwind wrote:Nevermind, I'll be happy just as long as you don't give me Berserk spoilers

My only spoiler is that you shouldn't watch the last 3 episodes of that series. The series is great, but what happens in the last 3 episodes pretty much ruined the series for me. All I will say is that if you plan to finish the series, plan to start tracking down the manga.

Post by **Quzar** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:24 pm

I stand by the fact that he doesn't die.

My favorite episode is Ballad of a Fallen Angel (15?) the one with the church fight. The music is amazing there.