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| I have to say that this is probably the weakest volume of Cowboy Bebop Remix so far, at least as far as the writing goes. The animation and direction by Shinichiro Watanabe is spot on as usual, but the writing seem to be running out of steam. But still, Cowboy Bebop on a bad day is better than 90% of other anime on a good day!
The first episode follows two storylines as Spike tries to get his Swordfish fixed by an oldtimer mechanic after crashlanding on Earth. Jet and Faye meanwhile are trying to track down some bounties who infect spacecraft with a computer virus and then rob them. Episode 20 is by far the best installment here. Spike happens upon the scene of a killing by the assassin "Mad Pierrot", a cackling creepy psychotic superhuman killer, who murders anyone that sees him at his work, which now includes Spike! You can tell that the staff pulled all the strings on the budget that they could to pay for this awe-inspring 22 minutes of kinetic energy. Things are pretty much downhill from there as Jet receives a mysterious message from an old acquaintance in Episode 21, only to learn that he's dead and someone is trying to nab his young daughter. The episode becomes a bit of a lecture on Feng Shui and becomes boring and trite. "Cowboy Funk" concerns a bored playboy named Andy who wants to be a cowboy, or bounty hunter. He doesn't really have all his marbles, so he takes the term literally, even dressing up like a Wild West cowboy, complete with six shooters and horse! He's such an idiot (Faye says she reminds her of Spike) that he just keeps getting in the way of the Bebop crew capturing the loony "Teddy Bomber", a terrorist who plants explosive Teddy Bears as a protest against society. This episode was ok and I appreciated the humor but it was just a bit over the top for me. While not the strongest volume in this series, anything Cowboy Bebop is considered classic in my eyes. Bebop is to anime what the Beatles are to music. Innovative, mainstream, pioneering, well-done, classic, and a blueprint for everything after it. I just thought the characters suffered because of the dumb plots in most of these episodes. The 5.1 is worth buying this series over....if you have a 5.1 system. The English dub is THE best dub for a Japanese anime ever. I NEVER listen to English dubs on anime, because this is the only show where the English is actually better than the original Japanese vocal track. This dvd does feature a bonus "episode" entitled "Session #0". Don't worry, this isn't some lost episode. Instead, it is 22 minutes of behind the scenes footage Japanese cast and crew production and interviews along with some music videos set to the anime. This is one of, if not THE greatest shows of all time! I would also recommend the anime Samurai Champloo. |
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