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Summary: the best anime collection ^_^
Review: i bought the cowboy bebop perfect dvd collectioin box set and i am SO HAPPY with it. i love it, my friends and i watch it a lot it's the best anime series. this dvd box set is uncut and i definately recommend it
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Summary: Trancends Anime
Review: Cowboy Bebop isn't just good anime. You'll read a lot of reviews that compare it to other groundbreaking anime like Akira and Ghost In The Shell, but that sells this excellent series short.'Anime' describes not just a style of animation, but a collection of story conventions, none of which appear in Cowboy Bebop. There are no tentacled monstrosities, no Megacorporations conspiring to destroy NeoTokyo, no weird nature spirits being corrupted by consumerism. Instead we're left with one of the best TV series' ever. Almost everything that happens will make perfect sense to the average western viewer, and it all stands up to any modern TV series... Because unlike all of these excellent shows, Cowboy Bebop switches tone, scope, and genre with almost every episode. One episode is slapstick farce, one is romantic soap opera, one is nail-biting action, one is tense psychothriller. And Cowboy Bebop never misses a beat, each episode is finely crafted with a level of detail given each 22 minutes that you'd normally have to watch an entire series of to see on HBO. Cowboy Bebop also has something all other western shows lack; Yoko Kanno. Her music is sheer genius. She works playfully and seriously in every style, and thus fits these fantastic stories that are sometimes insightful, sometimes meaningful, sometimes sublime, sometimes ridiculous. Cowboy Bebop loves its own soundtrack and devotes one or two scenes each episode to showcase the music. The director intentionally lets Kanno's music come to the fore and orchestrates several scenes with no dialog in order to let the music shine. Few shows do this, and Cowboy Bebop does it well. The emotional impact of each episode is raised to new levels though the use of her music, and you'd be a fool not to buy the soundtrack. The series is a Sci-Fi romp set in the near future, our solar system. The main characters are bounty hunters (called 'cowboys') onboard a spaceship (the Bebop) owned by an inveterate jazz aficionado who dreams of Charlier Parker. 'Bounty hunter' may evoke dark mysterious characters like Boba Fett, and the main characters here *do* have mysterious pasts and they *are* lethal killers, but they're entirely human, living day to day on the few bounties they bring in. The characters can be serious, funny, sexy, goofy. . .everything you'd expect from realistically drawn characters who are, at the same time, lethal killers. Don't mistake this for Anime, it obliterates the genre conventions and comes screaming out of the gate with a refreshing collection of stories that will make you pound your cable box and scream "why can't it all be like this!?!" The director and writer are aware of what they've created, these characters are living day by day, achieving nothing significant in their lives, yet they're having a great time and we have a great time with them. We don't want it to end. The main character asks us, "Don't you want to hang out with us and waste your life away?" The answer, of course, is 'yes,' and the writer knew it when he wrote it. One aspect which is decidedly *not* western, is the ending. This show ends the only way it could, the most fulfilling way possible, and when the credits roll for the final time, you'll feel like you lived an entire lifetime in the past few hours. And what a lifetime it was...
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Summary: Great............
Review: COWBOY BEBOP ROCKS! I love the show. Its great having the DVD box set so when I want to watch a episode of cowboy bebop I can just stick it into my DVD player and watch it. There is also great interviews,picture gallerys, and trailers! Plus the box looks cool and it comes with the first cowboy bebop cd. Great great great and great item! I think anyone who likes Trigun, Outlaw Star, and Gundam Wing should look into the great jazz music and great plot of the shows.
P-E-A-C-E
Matt
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Summary: Even anime haters will like this show.
Review: With a few exceptions-- Akira, Princess Mononoke-- I've never held Japanese animation in all that high of a regard. Maybe it's the fault of dumbed-down American dubbing and editing, but most Japanese cartoons left me scratching my head at best, diving frantically for the remote at worst. I'm happy to say that Cowboy Bebop is, to this picky gaijin, as smart and fun a series as any from the good old U.S. of A. (Which I hope won't be taken as a lefthanded compliment by anyone from its country of origin.) The excellent English dub, with wryly naturalistic voice acting and well-translated dialogue, definitely contributed to my enjoyment of the series, but it's plain to see that Cowboy Bebop is great entertainment in any language. The characters are quirky, well-defined, and almost immediately endearing. The crew of the Bebop is a hapless and hard-luck bunch, seemingly doomed to get their man but never their reward, and the prickly buddy chemistry between lead heroes Spike and Jet (silly names, I know) is a big part of the series' charm. Sure, there's a resident improbable anime babe with legs up to here, but her combination of con-woman guile and well-hidden emotional scars makes her interesting in spite of her ridiculous getup. Even Edward, the hacker girl in desperate need of a massive dose of Ritalin, is given delightfully fluid and goofy body language to compensate for her annoying hyperactivity. The animation is movie-quality, with at least one crackerjack action sequence per episode. There's plenty of "science" to go with the "fiction," creating an impressively realistic and well thought-out view of life in space. The series as a whole is moody and atmospheric, and makes excellent use of authentic-sounding jazz and blues on its soundtrack. Best of all, it boasts a genuinely intelligent wit; an episode in which the crew is menaced by an unknown alien pays deadpan homage to Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick alike, and features a hilariously inventive explanation as to the monster's origins. If you do decide to spring for the DVDs sight unseen, know that you're in for a smart, fun ride you won't regret.
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Summary: Anime's savior.
Review: Cowboy Bebop is the savior of anime. Released in 1998, nothing as good has come before or since. It throws characters from Lupin the IIIrd into outer space, gives them John Woo and Robotech action sequences, dialogue from Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard, and cinematography that approaches the stylistic flair of post-modern greats like Quinten Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh. Not to mention the fantastic bluesy music by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts. With a budget of over [money] per episode, this is the one series you should see above all Japanese animated works. It sets the benchmark for the field.
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Summary: Dont buy it for the box
Review: What makes this purchase worthwhile was that frankly... its Cowboy Bebop. Chances are if you're looking to buy this boxed set, then you've already seen the series, and you don't need me to give you a synopsis of it. Word of advice: The boxed set's DVD's inside are identical to those that you would have bought individually. When they say 7 discs, its the six DVD's you would normally see in the store (each a different color), and then the sixth disc is the original soundtrack. In other words, you are not really paying for any new media. Around my area, the Cowboy Bebop DVD's sell for about ..., so buying the boxed set was a bargain. However, if the price of 6 DVD's individually costs less than the posted price, then you'll be paying a premium for nothing.
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Summary: Hard to explain...
Review: If there ever was a show that I belived to be the greatest of all time, this would be it. With that said you know this review will be nothing but prasie, but dont scroll away just yet I have plenty more to say. To start, Cowboy Bebop takes place many years from now, normaly that can hurt a show but with this you'll like what you see. The time they live in is very much like out own, guns use bullets, not lasers, are computers, but no gigantic ones nor robots, and style very much exists. Dont let the fact that this takes place in space scare you either, the way space travil is perceved is very, very realistic. Spike Spiegel is the hero, but he isnt alone, theres plenty of character development from everyone. Spike is a man that anyone can like, he keeps his cool in bad situations, knows loads of matial arts thanks to jeet kune do, and knows just how to use weponds the cool way. His partner Jet Black isnt a thing like him but they work so well together. Jet is an ex-cop who now partnered up with spike to become bounty hunters using his ship The Bebop. He is balding but not all the much older then spike, he tries to be the brains of the group but can be often seen using brute force. Faye Valintine is the woman of the group, she is rude and paranoid, but she comes through when needed, trust me, you've never seen one like her. Speaking of something you've never seen the last and youngest member of the group is Ed, a 12 year old girl (yes girl) who is a genuis hacker who might just be insane. She is unlike all the other character because she does all the anime stuff, eye effects, crazy teeth, and yes of corse the random screaming of lines. To try to explain the plot of Cowboy Bebop to someone whois never seen it, would be to ruin it. All I can say is that cowboy bebop makes a fan out of anti-anime people. The music in this show is great that I bought all of the cd's. It isnt your normal anime sound track because it's all jazz, and some of the best jazz I've ever heard. By all means pull out your wallet, because you wont be disapointed, this show in the end is beautiful, inspiring, funny, action packed, mystrious, and calm. To put in other words I have never seen another show in all of the world that has ever made me so happy to talk about. If you are considering buying it, waste no time, if your not intrested, buy it anyway, you wont regret it.
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Summary: one.
Review: cowboy bebop is the ONLY tv show. there are no others. this is my honest opinion. after having seen cowboy bebop, there is no other show worth watching. cowboy bebop encompasses everything a television show needs to be. this is not a mere cartoon. it's art. it goes beyond every piece of film released, ever.
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Summary: Forget what you've seen on Cartoon Network's 'Adult Swim'...
Review: This is, quite possibly, the best anime ever produced. The story is set in the future. The Earth has been rendered virtually uninhabitable by a star gate accident. Humankind has terraformed several of the nearby planets and escaped to them. Of course, escaping the Earth is one thing; escaping humanity is another... Among the crowds of villains and victims, two bounty hunters set off on a quest to (literally) keep the bulldog fed. Along the way they pick up a couple of women (in the most unconventional sense). While all of them think they are in pursuit of happiness, they gradually come to realize they are instead running from their respective pasts -- and their pasts are catching up quickly. Set to a largely instrumental, jazzy, and original score, with beautiful artwork, creative story lines, introspective philosophy, quirky humor, fast-paced spacecraft and faster hand-to-hand combat, Cowboy Bebop is everything anime was meant to be. If you are genuinely interested in a series that exceeds your expectations, escape to Cowboy Bebop.
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Summary: Cool!!!
Review: Great series with a good mix of comedy and drama. You grow to love that characters.
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