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Disappointment in Cowboy Bebop?

jl07045 wrote:

Actually I purposely disregarded it because NGE is no different from any other controversial work, anime or not.

I don't care what your excuse is. I've been watching anime longer than most people on this site and if I say NGE, I mean it. Surely you have the intelligence to realize if I meant other series, I'd have been more general?

Perhaps I'm giving you too much credit.

Holy thread derailment, batman

Give it up, man, if somebody refers to NGE as "any other work" they're obviously a child, save your reply fuel for when he actually reaches the age of enlightenment.

dirkusbirkus wrote:

Holy thread derailment, batman

Yeah... listen, kiddo, here's 5$, so beat it, we'll give you our signatures after we adults are done talking.

Sebow wrote:

dirkusbirkus wrote: Holy thread derailment, batman Yeah... listen, kiddo, here's 5$, so beat it, we'll give you our signatures after we adults are done talking.

The dollar sign is supposed to go before the number.

Maybe Cowboy Bebop did not have a huge effect on the industry, but it most likely had an influence on the anime watching community in the west. It is rather interesting that you could also say that some of the settings were pretty easy to conect with a western audience, due to some names, music and such.

Spike used a gun while his enemy was the one with a sword, the japanese usually have a tendency of makeing the villains are the ones with the guns. The sword can be considered as being much more honorable, that they keep to a code and use their own strength, while the use of guns can be dirtier, even the most skilled and honor bound samurai could die from a gun. In the west it can often even be reversed, the use of guns can be a show of being part of the new age, pistols especially show that they do have skill that they don't have to rely on machine guns. Swords could say that they are out of sink with the time, perhaps that they belive in survival of the strongest.

You know, not enough people beat each other to death with sticks these days.

Hence the redaction...

I recently bought and watched all of Cowboy Bebop after hearing absolutely nothing but praise of it by just about all of my favorite anime critics. I finished it, and I felt a little dissapointed. I knew many things going into it, that the music was a big part of the story, that the characters were the main draw, and that it was mostly episodic in nature, but I still didn't really get into it very much. There were parts that I really like, like Pierrot le Fou, Speak Like a Child, The Real Folk Blues, and The Ballad of Fallen Angels, but most episodes left me feeling... "meh".
It's odd too, because I see no reason intellectually why this didn't work for me, I loved all the characters, I really enjoyed most of the music choices, and when it really delve into Spike and Viscious' story, I got into it quite a bit. Still, almost every episode left me feeling nothing. A lot of the dialogue was fun, but most of the stories seemed superfluous without any real depth or emotional draw. I find that rewatching some episodes help me enjoy them more, but I can't help feeling like I'm missing something. It has been hailed as the anime messiah, but I wouldn't give it more than a 6 or 7 out of ten. So what do you think, ANN community, am I missing something (in which case please explain to me) or did any of you feel the same way?

dirkusbirkus wrote:

Holy thread derailment, batman

Yeah... listen, kiddo, here's 5$, so beat it, we'll give you our signatures after we adults are done talking.

Cowboy Bebop is only very popular in US. It did horrible in Japan. Just like EU thinks Saint Seiya and Captain tsubasa are very good anime, but Americans think those sucks. No big deal.

I wish people would stop repeating the "fact" that "Cowboy Bebop did terribly in Japan". It did well in Japan, enough to warrent a movie. It just did better here.

I wish people would stop repeating the "fact" that "Cowboy Bebop did terribly in Japan". It did well in Japan, enough to warrent a movie. It just did better here.

fine, it did well in Japan, but there is a huge different between Japan and US. Didn't Bandai said that they sold over 1 million Cowboy Bebop dvds in US?