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: Bandai
: Anime, Science Fiction Anime
: 125 min.
: English, Japanese
: English, Japanese
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While looking for the bounty of a criminal named Decker, Faye and Spike stake out some locations. Spike encounters a tough-talking truck driver named VT, who travels with her faithful cat, Zeros. Nicknamed "the Heavy Metal Queen," she has a deeply felt resentment toward bounty hunters, but Spike manages to charm her. Faye and Spike both gets their ships wrecked, causing a nagging Jet to have to fix them. With VT's help, Faye and Spike chase Decker into the Linus Mines, an unstable asteroid area. With failing weapons systems on both ships, and Decker hauling a shipload of explosives, VT, Faye, and Spike have to make a daring escape. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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| Made me into a Cowboy Bebop fan
by hneline1
February 5, 2003 - 11:30 PM PST
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6 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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There is an episode on this DVD that made me into a Cowboy Bebop fan. I had seen several episodes before and recognized this series' uniqueness -- an outstanding jazz and funky blues scores by Yoko Kanno, a hip integration of animation with music that is very rarely achieved, and characters who had personalities and cool style. However, I thought that it's portrayal of humanity was rather dark and that didn't attract me.
"Ganymede Elegy", the last episode in this volume, mesmerized me. It's the story of Jet, a bounty hunter and grizzly ex-cop, and Alisa, the woman whom Jet loved and who left him years ago without saying goodbye. To complicate matters, Alisa has a new man in her life. The tale is touching, smart, mature, and tough to resolve. Just like real life. So, perhaps humanity can be dark, but there is power in a tale that draws us in and shows us something about ourselves.
Cowboy Bebop is one of the anime that I recommend to newbies who say that they don't want to watch kids fighting monsters or kids piloting giant robots. The main protagonists here are adults. The stories are character driven and the consequences are logical. It's science fiction (bounty hunters in space) but the focus is on the people, not the technology. The English dubbing is excellent. And it's mostly episodic, so you don't have to watch 26 episodes to finish a storyline. C'mon, don't you want to be a Cowboy Bebop fan too? |
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