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Cowboy Bebop - See you, Space Cowboy@jauregui981624d
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  1. Cowboy Bebop (saison 1)@florenceboens1675d

    Bonsoir à tous,

    Cette nouvelle série est adaptée de l'anime japonais du même nom. Aussi bien la version anime que la version "film" sont disponibles sur Netflix depuis le 19 novembre 2021. Nous n'aimons pas les animes, donc on a regardé la version filmée.

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    L'histoire se déroule dans le futur, après l'effondrement. La planète Terre n'est plus la seule à être habitée par les humains. Les autres planètes telles que Mars ou Vénus ne demandent pas à ce qu'on s'équipe de combinaisons d'astronaute, l'air y est tout à fait respirable.

    Les personnages principaux sont devenus des mercenaires de l'espace. Ils pilotent des navettes spatiales et d'autres engins comme on conduit une voiture ou qu'on roule à vélo. Ils ont chacun leur passé, mais ils ne le connaissent pas toujours et préfèrent parfois le cacher à leur coéquipier, en attendant de trouver le bon moment pour le lui révéler.

    Sachez qu'il n'y a jamais de bon moment et qu'il vaut toujours mieux mettre les choses au clair directement, même si ça fait mal, plutôt que d'attendre qu'un ennemi l'utilise contre vous.

    Le scénario et les personnages sont originaux, c'est assez divertissant. Je la déconseillerais tout de même aux moins de 16 ans pour les vues de sang lors des combats mortels (décapitations) et pour les moments de sexe. Il y a 10 épisodes pour cette première saison et la fin laisse la porte ouverte à une suite. Si suite il y a, ce qui est très probable, elle devrait débarquer au même endroit vers novembre 2022.

    Pour le casting, John Cho est Fearless/Spike Spiegel. Vous l'aviez peut-être déjà vu dans la série Charmed originale (1998), dans la série Sleepy Hollow (2013) ou encore dans la saga Star Trek (depuis 2009). Daniella Pineda interprète Faye Valentine, mais a notamment joué dans Jurassic World. John Noble (73 ans) joue ici le petit rôle de Caliban, père de Vicious, mais personnellement, je l'ai réellement découvert dans la série Sleepy Hollow (2013), en outre, il apparaît dans différentes séries, comme Elementary où il incarne le père de Sherlock Holmes.

    On a trouvé le début de la saison mieux que la fin, mais nous nous plairons quand même à regarder la saison 2 dès qu'elle sera disponible.

    A bientôt, Restez prudents pour vous-même mais aussi pour vos proches.

    Florence

    Source photos : images Qwant autorisées

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  2. Cowboy Bebop: See you space Cowboy@freddbrito1706d

    Cowboy Bebop from the first moment I saw it became my favorite anime, it is in my Top 1 favorite anime without any doubt and that is something that will last for many years, that's why although in principle a Live Action adaptation of this series could be a good idea, due to the plot, characters and scenery that this mythical series presents, after seeing some scenes of what we will be able to witness in its next Live Action, I think that in the end it will not be a good idea, although I will talk about this a little later.



    For some years now I have stopped watching anime as actively as I did before, now I only watch one or two anime a year and sometimes I have stopped watching them, as is the case of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, I started watching this saga at the beginning of this year (or I think at the end of last year, I do not remember exactly) and I left it on pause, although I will resume it again at some point this year (I hope so). But my reason for stopping watching anime is lack of motivation, although from time to time I watch some chapter of the One Piece anime, but only to make a comparison with the manga, since, for some time now, I find it much more comfortable to read manga than to watch some chapter of some anime. However, this year I watched the Jujutsu Kaisen anime, which is a manga I follow weekly (just like One Piece), and its anime adaptation was 10/10.

    But why am I talking about this, if the post is supposed to be about Cowboy Bebop? And is that, despite my lack of motivation to watch anime, Cowbop Bebop is a series that I watch every year without fail, at some point each year I always return to this series that impacted me and marked me so much since the first time I saw it. There are several factors that make Cowbop Bebop my favorite anime, from its story, characters, but especially: Its music.

    The music of Cowbop Bebop is simply AMAZING. One of those soundtracks that captivate you with its first bars, a style of music that fits with the melancholic, sad, full of action and space travel narrative that only this anime has. Cowboy Bebop is an anime that attracts you with just the first seconds of its opening and, in a way, represents the narrative tone of what we will see throughout its chapters. If I could only choose one melody from Cowboy Bebop, it would undoubtedly be: Space Lion, since it is such a relaxing, thoughtful and spiritual song, that it is impossible not to get into its melodies. It is the melody I would like to play at my funeral (and I say this very seriously).


    That's why I doubt that its Live Action will be at least half as spectacular as the anime (Although it will have the original soundtrack of the anime.), even though I would like its Live Action to turn out to be something of great quality, since, as I said before, Cowboy Bebop has everything necessary to have a good quality Live Action, due to its plot, characters and aesthetics... but, we all know how Live Action of videogames or anime turn out to be, in most cases (a piece of crap) and being Cowboy Bebop Live Action a Netflix product (remember what happened with the Death Note Live Action) even though it looks "good" in terms of aesthetics, I have little hope for this next adaptation.

    However, although this next Live Action adaptation may possibly be a piece of crap (although I really hope it is not), this does not take away all the merit of this spectacular anime and it will not "destroy childhoods" as I am sure many people will say after watching this new series, since, regardless of how the result of this Live Action is, the essence, the spectacular, spiritual and representative of this work, still remains and will remain, both in its anime and in its music.

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  3. [ENG + ESP] Cowboy Bebop (7/10) - "Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils."@dedicatedguy1796d

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    It has been a while since I wanted to watch this series and I finally did. Shortly after becoming interested in the anime genre, I have been discovering a bunch of cool series, and Cowboy Bebop is considered a classic of the genre.

    The anime series that hooked me up was a little-known suspense show called Another. It surprised me how this genre could create really suspenseful moments because I have never watched in my life a suspenseful story using animation, only in live-action movies or series. However, now I can say with confidence that anime can evoke the same intensity and feelings as any live-action production. Maybe the only exception could be pure horror, I haven't seen pure horror in any anime. I watched a series some time ago called When They Cry, that had some shocking horrific moments but I don't think that one belonged to the horror genre, and it had much more silliness than needed.

    After Another, I watched several other great anime series. Parasyte was amazing, with excellent dialogues, action scenes, touching moments, and an unforgettable soundtrack song you can hear here. Another cool series I watched was Serial Experiments Lain, this was a mystery series and every fan of the Matrix trilogy should check this one out. Attack on Titans is deservedly considered as one of the best anime of all time and I loved it as well, so many epic moments in this one.

    Before watching Cowboy Bebop, I was expecting it to become one of my favorite ones, the premise and settings looked like something I could really enjoy and it is fair to say I was quite hyped about watching this one. Sadly, for reasons I will explain below, this is the anime series I have enjoyed the least. But before talking about that, I would like to briefly mention some of the main names associated with this series.

    Main names associated with the series

    The series has 26 episodes and the number of people who worked in it is incredibly large. Therefore, I will only mention the only director that worked in all 26 episodes, and only the writers that also worked in all 26 episodes.

    The director is Shin'ichirô Watanabe, this is a guy with extensive experience directing animated films, and he even directed 1 of the stories from the Animatrix anthology film, the one called A Detective Story. That film was a great experience and it provides more information about the intriguing world of the Matrix trilogy. He also directed the Cowboy Bebop movie, which I plan to watch one of these days. His last work as a director was in 2019 where he worked in the series Carole & Tuesday.

    When it comes to the writers, there are 2 of them that participated in all of the original episodes. The creator of the show is Hajime Yatate. This person has a lot of experience working as a writer, he started in the late 70s and he has worked in more than 100 productions since then. It is fair to say this person is highly creative. However, the great majority of his work isn't very common and Cowboy Bebop is the first story I watch created by this person.

    Keiko Nobumoto is the other writer, this person has been working since the 90s and has participated in over 20 projects until now. I have only seen 2 stories created by her, one of them is obviously Cowboy Bebop and the other one is the film Tokyo Godfathers, which also left me feeling a bit disappointed. I guess this person creates a type of anime I don't really enjoy so much.

    Ha pasado un tiempo desde que quise ver esta serie y finalmente lo hice. Poco después de interesarme por el género anime, he estado descubriendo un montón de series geniales, y Cowboy Bebop se considera un clásico del género.

    La serie de anime que me enganchó fue una de suspenso poco conocida llamada Another. Me sorprendió cómo este género podía crear momentos realmente de suspenso porque nunca en mi vida había visto una historia de suspenso usando animación, solo en películas o series de acción con actores reales. Sin embargo, ahora puedo decir con confianza que el anime puede evocar la misma intensidad y sentimientos que cualquier producción de acción real. Quizás la única excepción podría ser el horror puro, no he visto horror puro en ningún anime. Hace algún tiempo vi una serie llamada When They Cry, que tuvo algunos momentos espantosos e impactantes, pero no creo que esta perteneciera al género de terror, y tenía muchas más tonterías de las necesarias.

    After Another, vi varias otras grandes series de anime. Parasyte fue increíble, con excelentes diálogos, escenas de acción, momentos conmovedores y una canción inolvidable que puedes escuchar aquí. Otra serie genial que vi fue Serial Experiments Lain, esta fue una serie de misterio y todos los fanáticos de la trilogía Matrix deberían verla. Attack on Titans se considera merecidamente como uno de los mejores animes de todos los tiempos y también me encantó, tiene muchos momentos épicos.

    Antes de ver Cowboy Bebop, esperaba que se convirtiera en una de mis favoritas, la premisa y la ambientación parecían algo que realmente podría disfrutar y es justo decir que estaba bastante entusiasmado con ver esta serie. Lamentablemente, por razones que explicaré a continuación, esta es la serie de anime que menos he disfrutado. Pero antes de hablar de eso, me gustaría mencionar brevemente algunos de los nombres principales asociados con esta serie.

    Nombres principales asociados a la serie

    La serie tiene 26 episodios y la cantidad de personas que trabajaron en ella es increíblemente grande. Por lo tanto, solo mencionaré al único director que trabajó en los 26 episodios, y solo a los escritores que también trabajaron en los 26 episodios.

    El director es Shin'ichirô Watanabe, este es un tipo con una amplia experiencia en la dirección de películas animadas, e incluso dirigió una de las historias de la antología de Animatrix, la que se llama A Detective Story. Esa película fue una gran experiencia y proporciona más información sobre el intrigante mundo de la trilogía Matrix. También dirigió la película de Cowboy Bebop, que planeo ver uno de estos días. Su último trabajo como director fue en 2019 donde trabajó en la serie Carole & Tuesday.

    En lo que respecta a los escritores, hay 2 de ellos que participaron en todos los episodios originales. El creador del programa es Hajime Yatate. Esta persona tiene mucha experiencia trabajando como escritor, comenzó a finales de los 70 y ha trabajado en más de 100 producciones desde entonces. Es justo decir que esta persona es muy creativa. Sin embargo, la gran mayoría de sus trabajos no es muy popular y Cowboy Bebop es la primera historia que veo creada por esta persona.

    Keiko Nobumoto es la otra escritora, esta persona ha estado trabajando desde los años 90 y ha participado en más de 20 proyectos hasta ahora. Solo he visto 2 historias creadas por ella, una de ellas obviamente es Cowboy Bebop y la otra es la película Tokyo Godfathers, que también me dejó un poco decepcionado. Supongo que esta persona crea un tipo de anime que realmente yo no disfruto tanto.

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    To summarize, this series has a director and writers with a lot of experience, but the majority of their other productions appear to be of medium to low quality. Maybe my expectations about this series were wrong after all.

    What was the series about?

    Cowboy Bebop is about the life of the bounty hunters group in the future, where humanity has developed technology that allows us to easily travel through space and visit other planets. What these bounty hunters do, is simply hunt down criminals and deliver them to justice, just like in the wild west, where there were notices about wanted criminals, and anyone could hunt them down.

    In this case, these notices are delivered using a computer, and then any bounty hunter can just look for the criminal and catch him. Sometimes the series was a bit funny because some of the criminals were very easy to catch, and if the police are looking for them this should mean they are very talented criminals with a lot of resources to protect themselves, but for these bounty hunters it was easy peasy most of the time.

    The series begins with only 2 characters in the spaceship, and later on, there will be a woman joining them and then a talented hacker kid. This character, the kid, was extremely annoying. I don't know why but the creators of this show made this character super silly, always saying nonsense and acting in a very strange way. The series would have been much better if this character was written differently.

    Each episode has a story different than the one from the previous episodes. It almost felt like an anthology series but with the same characters. There is no continuity between episodes whatsoever. They are in chronological order, but the plots are independent for the most part. Each episode shows one different mission project for the bounty hunters, and only a handful of episodes provide new information about one important background story.

    What I enjoyed the most about the series was the creativity in some of the enemies they encounter and that they need to hunt down. The series is futuristic so this gave them a lot of room to create very unique villains. One of my favorite ones was a character that appeared to be a small kid but was really possessing the mind of not only an adult man but a very ancient one. They will also need to battle against important terrorists that want to destroy humanity with an eco-terrorist attack.

    Evil hackers, drug dealers, assassin groups, debt collectors, corruption, all of that is present during the 26 episodes the series lasts. My favorite episode was with a villain named Mad Pierrot that appeared to be a supernatural being. The third screenshot of my post shows that villain and the settings for the final battle of that episode in a very creepy amusement park that could give chills to normal people.

    En resumen, esta serie tiene un director y escritores con mucha experiencia, pero la mayoría de sus otras producciones parecen ser de calidad media a baja. Quizás mis expectativas sobre esta serie estaban equivocadas después de todo.

    ¿De qué trataba la serie?

    Cowboy Bebop trata sobre la vida del grupo de cazarrecompensas en el futuro, donde la humanidad ha desarrollado tecnología que nos permite viajar fácilmente por el espacio y visitar otros planetas. Lo que hacen estos cazarrecompensas es simplemente cazar criminales y entregarlos ante la justicia, al igual que en el salvaje oeste, donde había avisos sobre criminales buscados y cualquiera podía cazarlos.

    En este caso, estos avisos se envían mediante una computadora, y luego cualquier cazarrecompensas puede simplemente buscar al criminal y atraparlo. A veces la serie era un poco graciosa porque algunos de los criminales eran muy fáciles de atrapar, y si la policía los está buscando, esto debería significar que son criminales muy talentosos con muchos recursos para protegerse, pero para estos cazarrecompensas era trabajo fácil la mayor parte del tiempo.

    La serie comienza con solo 2 personajes en la nave espacial, y más adelante, habrá una mujer uniéndose a ellos y luego una talentosa niña hacker. Este personaje, la niña, fue extremadamente molesto. No sé por qué, pero los creadores de este programa hicieron que este personaje fuera súper tonto, siempre diciendo tonterías y actuando de una manera muy extraña. La serie hubiera sido mucho mejor si este personaje estuviera escrito de manera diferente.

    Cada episodio tiene una historia diferente a la de los episodios anteriores. Casi parecía una serie de antología pero con los mismos personajes. No hay continuidad entre episodios en absoluto. Están en orden cronológico, pero las tramas son independientes en su mayor parte. Cada episodio muestra un proyecto o misión diferente para los cazarrecompensas, y solo un puñado de episodios proporciona nueva información sobre una historia de fondo importante.

    Lo que más disfruté de la serie fue la creatividad en algunos de los enemigos que encuentran y que necesitan cazar. La serie es futurista, por lo que les dio mucho espacio para crear villanos únicos. Uno de mis favoritos era un personaje que parecía ser un niño pequeño pero que en realidad poseía la mente no solo de un hombre adulto sino de uno muy antiguo. También necesitarán luchar contra importantes terroristas que quieren destruir a la humanidad con un ataque eco-terrorista.

    Hackers malvados, narcotraficantes, grupos asesinos, cobradores de deudas, corrupción, todo eso está presente durante los 26 episodios que dura la serie. Mi episodio favorito fue con un villano llamado Mad Pierrot que parecía ser un ser sobrenatural. La tercera captura de pantalla de mi publicación muestra a ese villano y la ambientación de la batalla final de ese episodio en un parque de diversiones muy espeluznante que podría dar escalofríos a la gente normal.

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    As the series advances, we will slowly learn some info about the past of the main characters. Some of them hold secrets, grudges and are looking for revenge against old enemies. All of this will be properly explored in the series, and the main story finished after the movie, which I haven't watched yet.

    The series had good potential to become a really great show, but it required better dialogues and a more integrated storyline. The fact most episodes could hardly relate to one another or build upon each other storylines was strange. This is the first time I see a series that isn't like an anthology being written almost as if it was an anthology. On the other hand, the fact these people could easily beat the majority of the criminals felt a bit exaggerated.

    The series could have been much better, and in the end, I was kind of disappointed by it. I still plan to watch the movie but this is in no way as good of a show as the ones I mentioned at the beginning of the post.

    How was the quality of the animation and the writting?

    The animation was very good, especially taking into account this show is from the 90s. I like the creativity in designing a bunch of gadgets, characters, different places, all of that was great. The problem was with the writing of the show. The writing determines the personality of the characters, and they damaged the show by making the kid character all annoying and silly.

    The number of different stories the series explored was good, but I would have preferred to have a show with somehow linked stories, instead of something resembling an anthology.

    Final thoughts

    Cowboy Bebop wasn't what I expected, maybe my expectations were too high after having seen so many great anime series and films. I wouldn't recommend this show to scifi fans nor to people looking for a serious anime production. It has the same type of silly moments present in the series When They Cry, but that one at least had a bit of suspense and horror to compensate for that, this one only had action scenes and it didn't feel enough.

    The good thing is that there is a live-action remake in the works, and maybe that series could be serious enough to really enjoy. Sadly, I can't recommend this show, maybe only to kids that could certainly tolerate the silly moments this series has. But for adult audiences, this series has little to offer.

    A medida que avanza la serie, poco a poco aprenderemos algo de información sobre el pasado de los personajes principales. Algunos de ellos guardan secretos, rencores y buscan venganza contra viejos enemigos. Todo esto se explorará adecuadamente en la serie, y la historia principal terminará después de la película, que aún no he visto.

    La serie tenía un buen potencial para convertirse en un gran show, pero requería mejores diálogos y una historia más integrada. Era extraño el hecho de que la mayoría de los episodios apenas pudieran relacionarse entre sí o basarse en las historias de otros. Esta es la primera vez que veo que se escribe una serie que no es una antología, casi como si fuera una antología. Por otra parte, el hecho de que estas personas pudieran vencer fácilmente a la mayoría de los criminales se sintió un poco exagerado.

    La serie podría haber sido mucho mejor y, al final, me decepcionó un poco. Todavía planeo ver la película, pero este no es un show tan bueno como los que mencioné al principio del post.

    ¿Cómo fue la calidad de la animación y la escritura?

    La animación fue muy buena, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que este show es de los años 90. Me gusta la creatividad al diseñar un montón de artilugios, personajes, diferentes lugares, todo eso fue genial. El problema estaba en la redacción. La escritura determina la personalidad de los personajes, y dañaron el programa al hacer que el personaje infantil fuera molesto y tonto.

    La cantidad de historias diferentes que exploró la serie fue buena, pero hubiera preferido tener un programa con historias vinculadas de alguna manera, en lugar de algo parecido a una antología.

    Reflexiones finales

    Cowboy Bebop no fue lo que esperaba, tal vez mis expectativas eran demasiado altas después de haber visto tantas grandes series y películas de anime. No recomendaría este programa a los fanáticos de la ciencia ficción ni a las personas que buscan una producción de anime seria. Tiene el mismo tipo de momentos tontos presentes en la serie When They Cry, pero esa al menos tenía un poco de suspenso y horror para compensar, esta solo tenía escenas de acción y no era suficiente.

    Lo bueno es que hay un remake de acción en vivo en proceso, y tal vez esa serie podría ser lo suficientemente seria como para disfrutarla de verdad. Lamentablemente, no puedo recomendar este programa, tal vez solo a los niños que ciertamente podrían tolerar los momentos tontos que tiene esta serie. Pero para el público adulto, esta serie tiene poco que ofrecer.

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    The Best
    Lo Mejor



    • There were several cool villains.
    • The premise has a lot of potential.
    • Hubo varios villanos geniales.
    • La premisa tiene mucho potencial.

    The Worst
    Lo Peor

    • The kid character ruined the series.
    • The episodes were pretty much independent for the most part. Which makes it impossible to develop more complex storylines.
    • El personaje infantil arruinó la serie.
    • Los episodios fueron prácticamente independientes en su mayor parte. Lo que hace que sea imposible desarrollar historias más complejas.


    Review: AAA
    In numbers: 7/10

    Crítica: AAA
    En números: 7/10
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  4. Cowboy Bebop Anime Series Review: 90's anime at its finest@namiks3082d

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    Composed of 1 season with 26 episodes, Cowboy Bebop is an anime I absolutely love from the late 1990's. It's a genre of Japanese animation that has sadly been long forgotten; drowned out among fan-service and an era of merchandising.

    Cowboy Bebop is entirely self-aware; it takes pride in how unique and artistic it is. It may just be a story of a group of outcasts coming together to be life-on-the-edge bounty hunters, but it displays this world and set of characters as western-like, with smooth jazz accompanying the action as if their work was a form of art.

    Its universe holds similarities to various stories within science-fiction. It's a blend of William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' and Mamoru Oshii's 'Ghost in the Shell', with its own western themes added in. Its colour palette is toned, gritty, and shows signs of wear throughout time. This is a universe that has peaked and is in a slow decline. Crime is forever evident through drugs, crime syndicates, and prostitution.

    The season starts off introducing these characters to us--their backgrounds all completely different--as we see them come together and claim bounties in an anthology-like manner, careless and just letting life take them wherever; although it changes once we learn more of Spike's past, and how it's slowly coming back for him. The first few episodes slowly set things up for this narrative, with minor moments that reference his past as a criminal in a large syndicate, and how he faked his death in order to escape with a woman he loved.

    Everything neatly leads up to a conclusion that has become famously known within Japanese animation, reminding us that we're "... going to carry that weight" of the past into the future.

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