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Cowboy Bebop Movie comes to the States
birdman666 writes "According to the movie site the movie of the popular anime Cowboy Bebop has finally been set to release in the states in a handful of cities including LA, NY, SF, Seattle and others on April 4. It features all the same voice actors as the Cartoon Network series and is big news for all those Bebop fans out there. As a note the Japanese title of the film was 'Cowboy Bebop: Knockin On Heaven's Door', but has been changed simply to 'Cowboy Bebop: The Movie' for the states." We had a note about the American premiere last summer, but now it's finally open for general admission.
I thought that said CowboyNeil movie and I got all excited... I love p0rn so much!
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I'm glad it is finally getting here. It is a great series, and the movie is damn good. Too bad I already got the movie on fan-sub as a gift, otherwise i'd get it when it came out on dvd...
Why do the yanks always seem to want to change the titles of foreign movies?
Mad Max is soooo much better than road weanie and what was the deal with the "Sorceror's Stone"?
Although I had heard it said that the Americans don't understand/acknowledge philosophy so that is why the change was necessary
Is a crazy 70 year old Japanese professor that only wears Anime T-shirts.
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Who invited all the geeks?
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This sucks. While I'm an ENORMOUS Cowboy Bebop fan, I can't say I'm happy about this. I've been anxiously awaiting the movie for months on end, but it's only going to be available in major cities that gets to see anything they want, I.E NY and Cali. While that's great news if you live in California or New York, it sucks if you live anywhere else. Now I realize it's not practical to put a movie like Cowboy Bebop on the national market in every theatre. I doubt there would be a big turnout in Butt*uck, S. Dakota for it, but what about other major cities, like Atlanta or Charlotte?
I wouldn't be upset normally, but I have a feeling that this theatrical release is big enough to warrant putting the DVD out 6 months after the release.
I know this is going to get marked flamebait, but I have to ask...
What is it that people see in anime? I am actually curious. I have watched several different things, and I have thouroughly enjoyed many, but I have never understood the obsession.
So, what are the qualities that anime fans think raise it up as a great thing?
I've watched the download for ages now and would buy the movie in an instant, if available in my Region.
I didn't enjoy this movie that much. Some movies I can see over and over, but this fell into the 1 timer category for me.
Of course the truely dedicated fans have got the DVD from Japan and just watched it with subtitles (or learnt Japanese) .. and the slightly less dedicated fans have got a DiVX rip of said DVD =)
Ouch - I shouldn't have said that - now the MPAA are gonna get medievil on my ass!
Legal, Medievil, what's the difference? =)
-Trav
I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
that title is just... AWFUL.
btw if you translate the japanese title directly i think it's "heaven's door" - I thought the "knocking no heaven's door" would be a good english interpretation (yes I watched the japanese one)... probably have to do with copyrighted song titles? though AFAIK you can't copyright song titles at all.
ack. that is just whack.
btw, no nudity as far as I remembered (though there was points where Faye was pretty close), so I don't think much will be cut. Violence was not extreme either as well, IIRC;
btw, anybody (who saw it in japanese) knows who sang the opening song? it was in english, but I can't figure it out.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
I for one simply see anime as another medium of creative expression. Many people who don't "get anime" (not you obviously) see it as nothing but a cartoon. That's just ignorant. That's like seeing Saving Private Ryan as "just another shoot-'em-up action movie".
I think one reason anime has such dedicated fans are two-fold.
1. Animation can show things real life cannot either due to technological, financial or time constraints. For example, Cowboy Bebop. If you've seen the series, imagine trying to translate that into a show or movie. You know how much money that would cost? I'd guess upwards of $20 million an episode on average (CG ain't cheap, especially when every second has some).
2. The culture in anime is unique. It's the same reason Star Wars has a cult following. Because anime is it's own little isolated universe. There are things otaku (anime fans to the nth degree) can say/do that another otaku will understand, but a casual observer would say "What the Hell is that?"
I personally think those are huge factors in the fandom of anime, the unique culture it presents and the fact anything they can think up can be done.
It's a clone! I'm sure that at least one word is different! Isn't it???
=)
-Trav
I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
Give us Lupin the IIIrd and Cowboy Bebop! YEAH! I'll gladly usher those days!
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The parent is hardly off topic if you have any clue as to what the story is about(Cowboy Bebop Movie).
It's like me saying, "I like these old school games. Back in the day this was all people needed."
Weak moderation, very weak. Would you rather he spoil the movie??
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
I know I did! I'm a filthy little pirate who's seen it thrice, and will see it once again at the theater, and again when it's finally on DVD.
Is that supposed to be some kind of stereotypical American name?
Hell, we should make a cartoon that makes fun of tradional Japanese heroes! Call it something like Samurai... Samurai Jack!
Oh wait! Crap!
"We had a note about the American premiere last summer, but now it's finally open for general admission"
Using the Taco->English translation on babelfish, it comes out as:
"HAHA BASTARDS, CANT TELL ME ITS A REPOST NOW"
If you had seen the movie, you would understand that this is _VERY_ on-topic... Besides, it's better then posting a scummy spoiler!
-Trav
I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
Because it pisses people like you off.
We like annoying anal-retentive assholes like you who can't get past something simply because it's animated.
So enjoy your pissed-off life and shut up.
thank heaven (since we're knocking on it's door anyway) that the original voices are used... i watched most of the series with subtitles, and then a dubbed episode... beyond the fact that the people who dub voices almost invariably suck more ass than a prisoner named bubba, there's the horribly disconcerting sense that you no longer know the characters... btw for anyone that has watched the series but not the movie (is there anyone?), check it out... it's good
I think they changed it to "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" to make sure that us American's can be sure that it is, in fact, a movie. Who knows, it could be terrorist propaganda or some mix between country music and old school bebop. How should we know?
I got a fansubbed version of it on a CD Xvid compressed fullscreen. I'll say this.... If it comes out in theaters here, I'm watching it, and I'll buy the DVD.
In terms of quality, the animation is beautiful. The storyline, I believe, is the movie between EP 24 and 25 of the Cowboy Bebop series. This explains some weird 'sayings' in the alang=ja,slang=en of the American dvd.
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I just finished watching episode 15 of the series, I pop open slashdot before hitting the sack, and here's news I can use!
Can't wait for Spike-san to 'hit it' on the big screen.
As long as they start off the flick with 'Tank', I'll be happy.
sigs? we don't need no steenking sigs here
Cowboy bebop also has the most rediculously awesome opening title sequence of anything commited to celluloid, ever. IMHO of course.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/cowboybebop/ and yeah I have the fansub but ill still get the dvd once it comes out. No brainer crappy dvd rip vs real dvd with proffesinal translation and a excellent dub cast.
Mod parent up, these dupes need to stop!
So this movie is supposed to take place somewhere between the middle and the end of the series or what?
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Sorry dude - From a post last time this was mentioned:
"Ask DNA"
Words by: Tim Jensen
Sung by: Raju Ramayya
Music by: Yoko Kanno
Performed by: Raju Ramayya and Seatbelts
Like I said... Sorry =)
-Trav
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Why do people like fansubs over dubs, at least for the people who don't know japanese, don't they lose a large part of the dialog due to not understanding the person's inflection/tone. Perhaps that isn't a big issue? I've watched many of both type and end up liking dubs due to that reason.
Well having spent a good part of my live in my homeland the(US) and a good part on the road in other countries I can answer you in this way.
Mad Max was called Mad MAx here. I even saw in the US as Mad Max. The second movie was called Mad Max 2, the Road Warrior. And Road Warrior sounds a Helluva lot better than Mad Max 2.
And Gibson was born in New York, pop shipped the whole family back to Aussie Land cause that was where mom was from and to avoid his sons possible conscription into the service into Vietnam.
And we do acknowledge philossopy. But alchemy? Hmmm.
Movie name changes are made all over the world. They do it so that wherever they are showing the flick can get a general idea of what the original title is about. Somethings cannot be transalates.
Knocking on Heavens door is one of the most famous songs in the US, and in English, so I would venture they did it to avoid confusion. And it is actually quite a beautiful tune.
So you know what? Cool your jets, wherever your are from. People are people. Including this yank with one grampaw from Madrid and the other Cajun French(which is better than regular Frog any ol' day") we is all just people.
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1. Animation can show things real life cannot either due to technological, financial or time constraints. For example, Cowboy Bebop. If you've seen the series, imagine trying to translate that into a show or movie. You know how much money that would cost? I'd guess upwards of $20 million an episode on average (CG ain't cheap, especially when every second has some).
As was just proven this year with Firefly, a live-action TV show that reminded some people more than a little bit of Cowboy Bebop. At $2 Million an episode, it was simply too expensive to stay on the air with as limited of a following as it had. It was cancelled just as it was getting really good.
In addition to the cost savings and subculture appeal, there's one more reason for anime being loved so much by some people in the US. Only the most appealing stuff ever gets exported. Then, once they went through the trouble of translating and exporting it, they carefully market it to the right audience (Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" vs. after-school syndication).
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Ok someone's got to say it...
Faye Valetine is the HOTTEST [anime] chick EVER!!!
and now you can see her [shorts/boobs/ass] on the BIG SCREEN!
Whoohoo!!!
I feel better now.
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That trailer was revolting. I had to contain my digestive track from inverting itself onto the keyboard looking at that sad commercialistic tripe advertisement. Cowboy Bebop has never needed commercials. They more likely drove away fans by making that trailer, then did anything to attract viewers to all 4 cinemas playing it, NONE OF THEM IN FLORIDA!
...Geek Age. It's not clever. It's not ground-breaking. It's not subversive, or enlightening, or even fucking entertaining. It's shitty, *shitty* 'Scooby Doo' (if that's even possible) for the twenty-something dot.com basement-dwellers. They try so hard to convince the World that' anime' is worth more than just a pile of steaming dog shit, but fail miserably.
Fuck your hopelessly-but-never-quite-geek-chic-trendy 'anime', and fuck you.
i mean really? this series has plot holes...
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where did the syndicate storyline comefrom? someone pulled that right out of thier ass. cowboy bebop is just trying to be too cool for my tastes. the kung fu master who doesent talk much and smirks (total lupin ripoff), the preety lady who steals (fujiko ripoff), the young kid who knows everything about computers, and the seasoned vet. plus a pet! wow! interesting charecters? hah
rahxephon is just an eva ripoff, so was betterman, and whole slews of others. Hellsing was pretty good vampire series. love hina is crap, the plot moves so slowly, nothing happened in 70 episodes. inu yasha got too spaced out.
One Piece is good if you like the old fashioned sea-pirates with EXCELLENT charecter backgrounds! tenchi tv and oav were good, tenchi in tokyo series was bad, movies 2+3 were horrible. ranma suffered the same fate as love hina. trigun was good, bad ending. Flame of recca was nice, original, needs a second tv series tho, manga continued story and is now over at vol 33.
other people are right tho, there are thousands of animes that were just so bad, not even the chinese cared to pirate em. i dont think GitS SAC is very good. just a money making deal
I live in Irvine and I love the fact that we get all the limited release Animes... Vampire Hunter D, Cowboy BeeBop, Princess Ahime, the list goes on... but it's a city of like 250,000 people maybe twice that during the day (damn commuters) and NOT a major city. Over 50% of the residents drive a luxury car and pay more than twice what they should for their housing but still...
oh well, I'll just count my blessings. April 4rth will be a very entertaining day!
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Okay so it's not really deep in the normal sense but it is entertaining. I hated my first 6 episodes that i watched. Had a cousin that really liked it...
then something happend and i got obsessed, and made this site dbzn.net
Hmmm... Pie...
Ok, so when do we get to see CowboyNeal? I've been waiting for ages! AGES I TELL YA!
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Honestly, can't someone get it into their head that if it's in a movie theatre, any joe blow could figure out that it's a movie that they're watching? Is the second title "The Movie" really needed? Sheesh.
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Is the movie slated only for those theatres or will it have a wider release after April 4? In Cleveland we often foreign films at the Cedar Lee cinema but I can find nothing about the Bebop movie on their website.
I've seen it, and the nicest thing I can say about it that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Ed is messed up, grapically and character-wise. The computer animation is pretty poorly integrated. Jet's barely in the movie and spends most of it moping around like a schmuck. Faye's top is cut open for no particular reason. Spike's at least about right, but Ein is painfully obvious.
The villain is some kind of nihilistic joke who can't even keep continuity -- he survives, without disfigurement, exploding a grenade in his hand that blackens and twists a nearby metal seat, but takes one bullet in the climax and dies.
Speaking of which, the entire story around the contrived love interest is incredibly hammy, and if anyone didn't see that twist at the end coming you'd best get your eyes checked. Ugh.
I didn't expect the world from this movie, but it didn't come close to matching up with the worst episode.
I eat it up. Gimme that Cheesy animation, those big doe-eyed lanky babes. I yearn to live out my adolescent cream dreams. Yeah!
/.ers including the illustrious leaders?!?!!?!? Oh well, It couldn't be /. without prepubescent cummings and goings, could it?
Mo Mo MO You Ho!
Ain't nothing' like sweet anime babes doing my every bidding!
Oops... Did I just sound like most
Not exactly very ontopic. I guess it's barely topical, but it's like posting "the ring made me invisible!!1LOL!" whenever there's a LotR story. He's just doing a stupid, hey, look at me, I'm geeky enough to know what the hell you're talking about!
Don't mod him up.
Ask DNA by Yoko Kanno :)
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My personal favorite artist. I already have the First Print limited Edition Soundtrack which includes an Ask DNA maxi single
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where did the syndicate storyline comefrom? someone pulled that right out of thier ass. cowboy bebop is just trying to be too cool for my tastes. the kung fu master who doesent talk much and smirks (total lupin ripoff), the preety lady who steals (fujiko ripoff), the young kid who knows everything about computers, and the seasoned vet. plus a pet! wow! interesting charecters? hah
Caution: Possible Spoilers
Spike used to work for the syndicate before he became a bounty hunter. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is tied into the 26 episode series that you would need to watch before dissing such an awesome movie. The characters all have mysterious pasts; Spike is an ex-syndicconstantly refers life as "Watching a dream," ate member, Jet worked for the ISSP (a secret police), Faye lost her memory during carbon freeze and owes a huge debt to the doctors, and Ed is, well.. Ed (by the way, Ed is a she). and then there's Ein, their pet data dog.
A lot of imagery from the series in repeated in the movie too: Spike has 'died' (or close to it) at leaste twice before in the series (i'm not sure where exactly the movie fits in the time line). Spike's philosophy on life, is that he's watching a dream and feels a need to test himself -- to see if he's really alive. He also displays a brilliant array of martial arts , including Aikido.
The only problem I have, is that I'm so used to hearing the Japanese voices that the English ones don't quite fit. And the line in the trailer "I'm just your average bounty hunter"... it's supposed to be "Cowboy". Hence the name; "Cowboy Bebop" ('Bebop', by the way is the name of their ship)
Personally, I can't wait to see it on the big screen, and I'd recommend that you check it out too: you might be surprised.
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Fairly so-so about animé. Live action movies too. Come to think about it, any form of entertainment that doesn't come between 2 covers of paper or on a monitor. I don't even have a tv for goodness sakes.
I love GITS the movie, Stand Alone Complex is ok, if a little convoluted at times. Akira, obviously, and I have fond memories from my teenage years of Crying Freeman, Fist of the North Star, Legend of the Overfiend and a few others.
My wife fansubs a few series, and our hard drive is chock full of many many series. (Over 20gb of pure animé).She reckoned that I would enjoy CB and she was right. CB is the DOG'S BOLLOCKS. And gets the Tenjah-Tenstar official seal of approval.
If ur only so-so about animé, CB won't dissapoint!
Supposedly CN may be showing One Piece sometime in the future. It has also been licenced by a US company, so it will come out on R1 DVDs. One Piece has well over 100 episodes, and is still running strong on Japanese TV.
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The Cowboys Rocksteady and Shredder movie is comming out. The story is loosly based on leader Krang and his gang who are out to take over the west. What they don't know is that Sherrif Splinter and his pose of gun slinging turtles are ready for them and will stop them at any cost.
It's a shame they couldn't get this released in more cities. I'm gonna have to go all the way to Austin to see this, but go I will. Dallas is actually closer but, well, it's Dallas - so I'll go to Austin.
Anyone know if there are full length DVD releases available for this movie or other Cowboy Bebop titles?
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And we do acknowledge philossopy. But alchemy? Hmmm.
What do you mean by this?
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but I want more then they offer"
We dont know how to vote, subsequently we dont get cowboy bebop movies. Maybe if Spike was edited out and re-filmed live as Vin Diesel or something, then this state might just find the movie shallow enough to enjoy. I hate Florida.
That's exactly why I was addicted to it. Granted, my first Bebop viewings were the Cartoon Network dubs (sorry, anime purists -- I don't mind the dubs that much); but I wasn't being spoonfed every last detail and plot point. I actually had to use my own brain!
All the more general plot points came together as I watched the series vigilantly. Not many people lived on Earth anymore due to constant meteor showers and impacts from Moon debris thanks to a major jumpgate accident. Spike belonged to the Syndicate--a mafia-style organized crime family at war with another gang. Jet was duped by his then partner in the ISSP in a Syndicate ambush, thus losing his arm. It's already been posted, but Faye was unfrozen, accrued a multi-billion wulan debt, and holds a personal desire to find our her past.
This list could go on and on depicting what I learned about the Cowboy Bebop universe without -- like I said before -- somebody spoonfeeding me with all the details. I really jived with leaving the unanswered questions unanswered, even past the next episode. The series to me basically was a process, a non-linear thought-provoking character sketch that unraveled like an artichoke, and I think I'm still not to the heart of the matter.
They always have such sweet mouths while at the same time they seem to know everything and have been everywhere. I happen to have information from the U.S. Census bureau that denies your belief as to where the huge asian populations are. But what would the census bureau know. http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/atlas/cen sr01-108.pdf
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These two series were filled with more drama and intelectual commentary than any series ever made in the U.S. When Spike in episode 25 I believe says. "What are you going to do, throw your life away as if it were nothing?!" - Faye "I'm not going there to die, I'm going to find out if I'm really alive." - Spike I thought to myself, with the previous conversation that this is the deepest charachter I have ever come upon. Or in Gundam Wing when Hero gives a ten minute monologue in one of his classes. I thought to myself that no tv show would allow so much talking of one person. Plus in Anime, you ussually need to watch the whole series otherwise it's like reading a book starting at the middle, they ussually have continuing storylines so that you really get to know the charachters as apposed to the 30 minute stories we get in most tv where one episode has little to do with the next and you can play them all out of order and no one cares. Anime is stories, not sit-coms, but true stories, with a hero, a person that even at my age I can envy. And see in that charachter the nobility and heart I would like to find in myself. You see we feed on it even more now, because we are no longer alloted the chances to be heroes, wars are fought from plains and their are no great battles of sword and shield. No memorable moments, and no songs are song to remember the soldiers of old. Anime gives us some of this back. And that is why I love it.
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kung fu master who doesent talk much and smirks (total lupin ripoff),
Tribute, not ripoff. They straight up admit that hes based on lupin.
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I can only assume so, since the Cartoon Network version is all in English. Not that I find that particularly distasteful -- in fact, it's probably one of the best dubbing jobs I've seen to date -- but I also find the Japanese voices more appropriate and in tune with each persons characters (Edward always cracks me up).
As a huge Cowboy Bebop fan, I have to say that the American voice-overs make me cringe. I watched my first several episodes on VHS subtitled, and when I got the DVD box set I checked out the English audio just for shits and giggles. That little experiment didn't last long. Such little things as voice quality and inflection can change a character dramatically. None of the characters seemed to have the right, well, character in the dubbed version.
While it would be admittedly very cool to see Bebop on the big screen, you certainly won't find me there as I find the English voices just a little too painful.
For serious interested fans, the movie is available on DVD (yes, I've seen it - it's great. It plays like a wonderful 2 hour long single episode) in an adequately subtitled format. At any given time there are usually half a dozen copies for sale on EBay.
Watch it subbed, space cowboys.
Actually the line is "Just your average bounty hunter." Both the criminal and his hostage refer to Spike as a cowboy, though.
And WHY are you telling us this?? Are you F*UCKING stupid?
People, you see what happens when someone does nothing but smoke pot instead of going to school and studying? Sheesh, it's these kind of people that make me ashamed to be an American associated with them.
Damn it!!! No Atlanta theathers are showing this. Oh well, guess this gives me a good excuse to visit my friends in DC.
"Why should we leave America to visit America Junior?" - Homer Simpson (talking about Canada)
That's how I feel about Dallas. We Houstonians, people who live in Houston, TX, hate how much attention Dallas gets even though WE are the larger city with the better economy and better attractions, all around better. Maybe it's its geographical location, but no port gets more traffic than our Ship Channel. Now I hear that Cowboy Beebop is going to show in Dallas and not Houston? WTF? Even when there is some sort of music concert the artists go to Dallas instead of Houston and I think, "WTF?" !!
I think the city where JFK and that lousy tv series was based would be avoidable.
Actually, you still can hear inflection/tone in the dialog in japanese, and associate that along with the subs while you read.
:)
I happen to like subs over dubs because I find american cartoons always have cheesy accents which take away from the seriousness. Now, I figure that the japanese is just like this, if I could actually understand japanese, but I can't, so the cheesiness is lost on me.
Some people are very very anal about this (otaku fanboys/girls). I'll always take a sub over a dub if it is available, otherwise I'll settle. Also, I find it's easier to eat food and listen to a dub than eat and try to read subs at the same time
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lots of people are complaining about the title but i hope i'm not the only one who is more upset over the fact that this is a dubbed version. i won't go to see it simply because of that. something is always lost in the translation.
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I am a bit biased about the movie since I dig the series so much, but it is really an impressive feat of animation. IMO the best I have seen in any anime, Ghost in the Shell and Princess Mononoke included. The story is pretty good, but somewhat akin to the X-Files movie - which seems just like an extended episode with nifty effects thrown in. Don't let that fool you though - I think I this thing can stand on its own, and I can't wait to hear it with the English-language voice actors who are fabulous in the series.
If you get a chance to see some of the episodes before the movie you should do so. You'll appreciate more of the in-jokes and understand some of the oddities (like Ed :) ). Chronologically, I think the movie happens somewhere during the middle of the series so it won't give away the end if you haven't watched it all. If you have, don't worry, it will just enhance your appreciation of it.
Here's to hoping it comes to Cleveland.
Though I live in San Francisco now, I still consider myself a St. Louisianan and so must point out that St. Louis is the 18th largest city in the US (by metro-area population, not inner city population, which all major cities have been hemorraging for decades now). What's more St. Louis was the 3rd city to host an Olympic Games, and has one of the best universities in the nation, which means one of the best universities in the world.
Anime topics seem to be posted frequently. Could someone post some quality links that explains what Anime is and how it differs from a cartoon?
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Many of the early releases didn't have very good voice acting at all(kind of like early talking PC games). Also, some of the american actors voices can be kind of grating.
Things have improved in recent years though.
On a side note, watch starwars dubbed in japanese. you would swear you are watching anime, the stormtroopers/lacky guys sound the same as in anime, Darth Vader sounds like yakuza.
I also agree with the poster who said the dub voices often sound cheesy.... yeah, they probably do in Japanese, too, but I am stupid gaijin who likes to hear people talking Japanese. It also feels vaguely educational that way, so that when I'm watching anime instead of doing Japanese homework, I can at least feel somewhat virtuous. Right? Right.
I was at the Anime Expo in New York last summer (which was during the premiere of Cowboy Bebop:TM) and was in the Q&A session with the director Shinchiro Watanbe and the music composer Yoko Kanno (and the character designer, forgot his name. Side note: I was in the same room with Yoko Kanno! woot!)
The name was changed because it conflicted with Bob Dylan's song name. That's all. Rather than coming up with some other original title, Mr. Watanabe decided to use "The Movie."
Moderators should have to take a reading comprehension test.
Is this just an English translation? Explain why this is a big deal. The Cowboy Bebob movie has been available on DVD for years and years.
All the Cowboy Bebop episodes have song titles for their name, and the song ussually finds its way into the episode. They could've at least kept it as a subtitle, seeing as how everyone will just call ti the Cowboy Bebop anyway. On another note, the movie is highly dissapointing when compared to the high standards of the episodes.
Like the above comment says, anime's best when you watch it because it's good. If you're watching stuff because it has to have some deeper meaning, then you're the type of person that convinces themselves that shitty artsy movies are good just because they aren't well liked, or that popular movies suck just because other people do like them.
Think of it as entertainment...it has styles. People like different styles, and this happens to be one that people here seem to like.
However, I don't see why the Bebop movie's generating so much hype. The plot borrows so heavily from Stephenson's The Diamond Age that I knew what was going to happen 15-20 minutes into the movie. I'd rate this movie as being weaker than the good episodes of the series, and since it takes place before the end of the series, it doesn't resolve any of the questions at the end of the series.
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Huh? It says "same voices as the Cartoon Network version", not "same voices as in Japan"
You have bigger cockroaches in Houston, too.
I believe he's referring to the Philosopher's Stone which was sought by alchemists as a means to transmute base metals into gold and/or confer immortality on its holder. It has nothing whatsoever to do with philosophy (or Philosophy, for that matter).
Oh yes, I know the idea behind the Philosopher's Stone, but I don't get the idea of "acknowledging" alchemy...
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Like the states doesn't admit that Alchemy existed? (As in the practice, not that it actually worked.
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To all you Faye fanatics out there, here's a little tidbit you might not have known. =P
Faye is from Singapore, or at least she lived there sometime during her adolescence. In the episode where she receives a Betamax tape mailed by her younger self (before she was frozen), the tape shows scenes from a tropical country, at one point there is a waterfront shot of a statue of an animal that is half lion, half fish. That's a Singaporean merlion. The scene looks almost exactly like the mouth of the Singapore river, there's a big statue of the merlion there.
The merlion appears too in the episode where Faye finds where she grew up. The scenery, architecture and landscape looks very much like Singapore.
aha... I missed that entirely. color me chagrined.
As I stated elsewhere, it likely takes place right before Episode 23. While I don't think there is an EXACT episode of which its supposed to take place between, I know that episode 23 is pretty much the point of no return.
Here's why:
Episode 23, "Brain Scratch" has a segment of "Big Shot", the bounty-hunting show that you see every now and then. At the end of the episode (of Big Shot, not Brain Scratch), we're informed that the show has just been cancelled ("I'M CALLING MY AGENT!"). However, "Big Shot" is alive and well during the time of the movie, which pretty much invalidates the idea of it being anytime after #23.
Er, excuse me. Card Captor Sakura is a very good show, whether or not you like it personally. Please don't lump it in with the nonstop fanservice set.
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