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Cowboy Bebop Film's American Premiere Announced
From the Big Apple Anime Site "The Big Apple Anime Fest 2002 (BAAF 2002) is proud to announce that the festival will premiere the theatrical English dub version of "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" on August 30th, 8:00pm at Loews State Theater (Virgin Megastore) in New York City's Times Square. At the premiere, Cowboy Bebop director, Shinichiro Watanabe, score composer, Yoko Kanno and character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto will be on hand to meet their legions of fans." That's a show worth seeing.
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Region 2, no dub, no sub, has been available for a while.
If you want to import it from Japan, of course.
You probably meant something a little more accessible.
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I am a huge Bebop fan (as I'm sure many here on Slashdot are), and since I'm only a couple hours from New York, I may actually be able to attend this.
For those who have not seen CB: drop what you are doing, go out, and pick up all the episodes and the movie on DVD. You will not regret it. This is what movie-making is all about.
Cowboy is also known for its excellent English dubs. Many fans prefer the English voice acting (at least for some characters) to the original Japanese soundtrack. If you were disappointed by the dubbing of Akira, do not dispair: Bebop really is better.
My one reservation is in regards to the graphic violence that pervades CB. It is really a cultural thing, and won't be very shocking to anime aficionados. However, it is likely to put many American viewers off. Hopefully, they will remove some of the more gruesome scenes, or perhaps reanimate them so as to be less offensive to a sensible audience.
See you space cowboy... (that's what it always says after each episode!)
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We had her as a guest of honor at OTAKON a few years back, and she was really nice.
Hopefully she'll do some live music at the NYC con.
Gotta finish the graphic for my Cowboy Bebop "best of" CD... (Note: I bought all the Japanese CDs, so don't even start...).
Jon Acheson
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I'm asking because Bebop has a pretty wide variety of episode styles. Some are cops and robbers in space, some are fairly violent, and others are just a lot of fun.
I recommend trying a couple more episodes, especially since you're watching for free.
As for anime in general, one of the big deals is variety. Anime is FAR, FAR more varied than you seem to be giving it credit for. There are kid's shows like pokemon, but there are also shows for older audiences. There are shows for guys, and shows for gals. There are dark, violent thrillers, but there are also flowery girly romances, and everything in between.
One of the problems I find with people's view of anime is that it is formed by looking at what they see in video stores and comic shops, and the selection there tends to be skewed towards the violent, R-rated type of thing because that's what the shop owners think their audience is. A vicious circle, really.
Three quick films for you to try to rent:
Princess Mononoke - Violent, but also amazing. Humanity vs. Nature in a powerful story that examines both sides of the issue, and allows the audience to draw their own conclusions. By Studio Ghibli, probably the best animators currently working on Planet Earth.
Kiki's Delivery Service and Totoro - By the same people that did Princess Mononoke, but these are both for children. Kiki is a young witch out on her own, but all she can do is fly a broom. So she starts a messenger service... Totaro is about two little girls living in the country who encounter a friendly and magical forest creature in the woods. Both are probably in the kid's section of your local Blockbuster.
Jon Acheson
All opinions expressed herein are my own, and not those of my employers, who are appalled.
You can pick up a nice region-free copy from Image Anime here in NYC. Subtitled, 5.1 surround, it's nice! There will be a US release next year with the same astounding English-language cast from the original series translation, so you can wait for that copy to come out as well. It's a really great movie, more of the same from the series. Great music, and they really kick the animation up a notch.
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Actually according to "anime fan laws" Distribution of fansubs/bootlegs is supposed to stop when the title is LISENCED, not when its released.
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Of course, most people dont give a crap either way anymore and you can still find it
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Next Saturday night, there will be another 3 hour block of Cowboy Bebop from 11pm-2am
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That night's schedule is thus:
11:00pm Honky Tonk Women -The introduction of Faye
11:30pm Sympathy for the Devil -The secret of a child prodigy and what happened to earth
12:00am Waltz for Venus -One man's attempt to set things right
12:30am Black Dog Serenade -What happened to Jet
01:00am Pierrot Le Fou -Why you shouldn't build a homicidal maniac
01:30am Brain Scratch -Online cult (everquest maybe?)
With the exception of "Honky Tonk Women" all these episodes are rather dark in tone (especially Pierrot Le Fou, which is one of my favorites of the series). They are also rather standalone, as opposed to last Saturday's, which covered the underlying main plot of the series.
Although I haven't seen these episodes in their dubbed and edited form, from what I've seen of other episodes and Adult swim in general, minus some blood, these episodes should be rather intact and definitely worth seeing if you haven't.
1. Anime are not necessarily cartoon "dramas". They are cartoons, period. Anybody who likes to think they are by definition the more mature counterpart to our American toons is deluding themself. And anybody who's actually been to Japan can tell you that they use the word "anime" to refer both to Cowboy Bebop and Tom & Jerry.
2. Not everyone in Japan watches anime. If by that you mean "there are people from every age and gender group that watch anime in Japan", that's fine, but we have that in the USA also. What a lot of American anime fans don't like to admit is that it is (outside of hentai) children's entertainment. You are expected to "grow out" of anime in Japan by a certain age, and if not, you are labeled the "o" word that American fans ridiculously don with pride. Reading manga is OK, even into old age, but anime, for right or wrong, is treated differently. The only acceptable anime for an adult to watch would be Sazae-san or Salaryman Kintaro or the like. It is NOT accepted for an adult to be a fan of Pita-ten, or Tokyo Mew Mew, or Chobits, or Sailor Moon or whatever. Just watch the commercials found in anime, even the "adult" anime that shows at 2 in the morning on TV Tokyo, and you'll see who it's aimed to.
Having said that, I have seen all of those shows, liked them quite a bit. I'm just not trying to justify my social deviance, whatever that term means.