You're Gonna Carry That Weight
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The one note that betrays Jet and Spike aren't as detached to Ed, Ein, and Faye leaving is, in my opinion, the fact that they filled Ein's bowl with eggs. Why would you put eggs in the dog's bowl unless you were hoping, on some level, it'd come back?
Well they don't think Ein is leaving he runs off with Ed. That said nice observation it definitely still works to that point.
Tricky. Poor, but the beef man. Gotta get by, but at the same time...you gotta get by, you know what I mean?
I mean how much can you ignore the "beef" in bell peppers and beef, of a dog bowl?
SageOfTheWest exactly. And it's completely in character that they would just eat the eggs. It would be strange and out of character for either of them to openly acknowledge their sadness. So they sit, and they eat, hoping someone will return and intervene. But no one does.
ajbolt7 It was really sad
That scene was so sad, but man the moment they started eating the eggs from the others bowls... I cried so hard
Spike hates women, and animals.
The pain brought from Julia's past
and the story of the stray cat
And Spike also hates children. Especially boyish looking hacker girls who sleep 16 hours a day and walk barefoot.
She has a point. Name checks out.
Well, seeing as how "women with attitude" is subjective. I was always left to believe it was just women in general.
Only American Women xD
how do you know the cat was female?
It still leaves most anime in the dust.
OroborusFMA I haven't even seen this yet and I agree
The first adult series I've watched, as a kid. I've seen somepe really good and memorable series, but Cowboy Bebop is still the jewel in the crown.
Seriously i don't know how people watch other anime besides GITS. Everything now a days I cant get past two episodes without saying "this is trash". Everyone talks about how dragonball is so good but i think that its mostly nostalgia. As a kid I liked it but now its whatever. When I watched Bebop as a kid and as an adult now its awesome every time.
It's because now it's aimed at the younger and depending on the show, hornier, demographic as compared to the demographic that bebop was trying to appease to. It's all about the anime you watch. The way I see it there's two sides of the spectrum, the serious, emotional thought provoking side with the likes of steins;gate, cowboy bebop, death note, akira among others and the side that's just to watch for fun or the mindless stuff that's just action you know? this is reflected everywhere in the world lol
@Michael Satnik Watching through the original Dragon Ball (not Z) still holds up as an incredible journey, and I can say that without any nostalgia-bias as I only watched the series for the first time a year or so ago. It takes a little while to get into but would definitely recommend it. There's something special about watching Goku grow up from a small child, naive to the world, to an increasingly powerful and responsible young man
The author himself actually states that he has not made up his mind about whether Spike did really die or not. It is up to the audience's interpretation which is part of what makes this show so good. Of course, his death would make sense thematically and most people probably interpret it this way. After all, he does not have much to live for after Julia's death. Yet you still can't help but hope for him surviving this and overcoming his past.
Xanarchy mentioned this in a comment on here "Spike doesn't necessarily die. It's up to the viewer, stated by the creator himself, and by his opinion he thinks that Spike is most likely just asleep, and the people that think that are probably right. I believe he has collapsed out of exhaustion."
It’s very much a choice placed upon the viewer. Do YOU let the past haunt and kill you or do you move forward and continue?
in the end I was waiting for Faye and jet to come get him and hoping they would all get together and get ed and ein too... but then the credits rolled and at the end w him sleeping and then it says you’re gonna carry that weight, I was struck with overwhelming sad .. I like to think that’s what happened after the show and they got back together but idk he could’ve just died😭😭
Keep dreaming, space cowboy.
Yeah the smile on his face could also be him smiling at the drama of his past finally being resolved. It’s a pretty interesting interpretation
Well... for me , Cowboy Bebop is about hard life, hard luck, hard ghosts chasing you, bad choices and worse decisions, the regret and the pain, the lost happiness out of blindness and pride, and how to survive all of it, how to keep on running and running, knowing someday they'll catch you up, and then you have to deal with all of it, all the pain, the grief, the regrets... someday all the rain will pour down on you, and you'll have to endure o surrender... that´s why you have to carry that weight, the weight of your story, your choices, your darkness... yours only.
This comment is beautiful. Thank you very much
Explained perfectly !
Hard ghosts
You described my life. I’ll definitely watch this video.
*Anime
One of the best video you've put out yet, in my opinion.
Thank you, Digibro.
Was about to comment this, but i really felt it! Great stuff!
Watched it twice, love Digi's narrative style.
this is at least my 5 time watching it by now
(sniff) beef for everyoneeee
I just finished it today after 20 years of seeing it for the first time. It's so beautiful how as a young man I identified so much with Spike and how important his pursuit of love and his past were to him. But after seeing that scene with the eggs yesterday, just turning 40, having done so many things, having met my wife, growing our family, and having that sense of home, I identified much more with Jet. I didn't get that scene when I was younger, and yesterday I cried for a completely different reason than I did back then.
Little things that touch my heart like the three old men reminiscing or how the host of the bounty hunter show pickups his mother to care for her after having lost his career are so much more powerful now than when I was a Kid.
Can't wait to see it in twenty more years maybe I'll get more about Antonio, Carlos and Jobim or the old mechanic in "Wild Horses".
Beautiful comment
faye crying for spike in the end just before his assault was really heartwrenching
Same with Jet & Spike laughing with each other before Spike goes off to face Vicious.
I'd have to put out the "see you space cowgirl, someday somewhere" for my sad moment
That fucking got me dude ^
norb like.. erect?
Just realised how bad that sounded haha
"I'm always haunted by having seen cowboy bebob, but it such a pleasant way." I've never heard someone describe watching all of cowboy bebob beeter.
The episode with Ed & Ein leaving fucked me up for years. Nothing ever hit me that hard, even family dying. Cowboy Bepop shuffled my emotional priority lmao
I believe it's Memories.
Yeah that was really sad, I cried only two times on video games and shows, once when Ed and Ein left, and at the Walking Dead Season 2 game's end. Both ends with a cliffhanger, because you don't know where they went, which makes it much sadder.
the saddest part is that they will never find the father. They will Keep Walking forever and forever on that terrible planet...
Shadow111111 ein's got data dog nose powers bruh. they'll find the dad in a day.
:( I hope it.
And I hope he wont leave them alone again...
as they're stress eating eggs, the lyrics "ease my mind" play during that scene. One of the top 3 scenes in the whole show.
"You're gonna lift that weight." - DigiBRO
"Swoll bro"
SpiceTrade Magnate DigiGROW
Spike: Do you even carry?
everybody wanna be a space cowboy, but nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight
thats true cuz DIGIBRO IS PART OF THE BODY IMPROVEMENT CLUB!
I finished Evangelion the day you last published a video for it, and started Cowboy Bebop last night, the same day you made a video about it.
Amazing. We are connected, in some impossible, telepathic way.
or those are just two super popular shows. I would almost be more surprised if no videos were made in that timespan lol
SLAY 'EM
No. Too much of a coincidence to have it be a Digibro video both times.
It's just great to feel that I'm not alone in discovering more of these productions, even decades after they first aired.
Every video Digibro releases produces a new discussion. Videos and accounts with subscriber bases are amazing that way
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Opinions on the ending vary widely. I think it's pretty happy, and certainly congratulatory.
Bebop is also a rare instance of an anime with a story that actually ends. It's a complete work that doesn't go the safe road, but instead treads a believeable path that is familiar to us.
In high school. I wore suits because of spike lol. I lost a shit ton of weight(129). I was always lightly into martial arts. One of the few times a piece of media is embedded in my soul.
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I'm pretty sure "You're gonna carry that weight" is also a reference to the Beatles song of the same name, right at the end of the Abbey Road medley. Considering that was more or less the band's farewell album and the medley is a collection of unfinished songs that would never be finished because of the impending breakup, Carry That Weight is a particularly sad song given its placement. Indeed, John, Paul, George, and Ringo would all pursue solo careers afterward but none of them would ever reach the same legendary heights as the group that gave them such fame in the first place. Not only does the reference elicit a similar feeling of finality (Spike's death means the Fab Four of this universe will never get back together) but it also hammers home the point of the whole series: you can never truly escape your past.
I'm not sure how many other Beatles references are made in the series but considering how much of its atmosphere leans so heavily on blues, jazz, and rock from a certain time period (how many episodes are named after Rolling Stones songs?), I wouldn't call this particular choice of final words a coincidence.
That's some great information to know!
morpheusdreamer Hey, thanks! Sorry for the late reply. :)
Cowboy Bebop, Calvin and Hobbes, Black Jack, Vagabond and Real. They have influenced me more than The people around me.
@spaceman spiff that is EXACTLY WHY they used those words from the Beatles. You are spot on.
Episode 24 had a song with a very similar melody to ‘come together’
I’m laying in bed. Can’t sleep as always and find a commentary that perfectly sums up everything, growing up, serving, finding myself and wondering what’s always made me feel different than my peers. Thank you.
I thought this video was gone, and I couldn't tell you how happy I was to see it coming back. It always gave a good cry when I need one.
Coming back to this video 6 years later, I still agree. The series is much more understandable the older you get.
I love this video. I show friends cowboy bebop. And then I require them to water supeyepatchwolf’s video and this video. I keep coming back
Ngl episode one is really the perfect start for the show, it gets you instantly hooked
The ending of Cowboy Bebop isn't even that bad of a spoiler the way Cowboy Bebop is you would kinda expect it
You so smart please explain how heart surgery is sooo obvious
the fact that the GREATEST show based on jazz ... is SO jazz itself! . its amazing
For the guys complaining about the spoiler, you shouldn't watch the analysis of an anime if you haven't finished seeing it yet. I saw the thumbnail of this video when it came out and I thought to myself "I really want to watch this right now, but I'll make sure I'll watch *after* I finish Cowboy Beebop, because I'm sure it will spoil something". And so, after I finished watching it today, I watched this video.
exactly!
I just finished the last episode and came back to watch this
Yeah I didn’t watch the show but still watched the video. Did I get spoiled? Yeah! Do I complain? Nah it’s my own fault hahahaha
Spike doesn't necessarily die. It's up to the viewer, stated by the creator himself, and by his opinion he thinks that Spike is most likely just asleep, and the people that think that are probably right. I believe he has collapsed out of exhaustion.
Spike lost the things that gave him life, Julia. He has loved and lost. In honoring what he has lost, Spike gives up his future to his past. His guilt and self-loathing says "No, don't move on. Die here with your past." Jet can find his way into the future, even if he's hurt by Spike's death. His sense of duty propels him. Spikes self-loathing sinks him and it's easier than coping with Julia's death.
Jet is different from Spike. Jet has gained his identity as someone to rely upon and it's given him life. Not spike. The past in one eye, the present in another. He's dead already, from the start. He's dead, he's just waiting. He smiled as he died, because being alive became too painful.
Julia comes back and shows him the way along with the embodiment of every negative attribute that he has:. "let's end it, now." and he does. One last glimpse at what his life could have been, Julia. One more second of being in the old neighborhood, with shopkeepers peeping in on Spike and Julia's love.
One last desperate glancing touch against another path, a happy one (one second of knocking on heaven's door) and then he meets his destiny with gladness.
Finally, it is over. It's all just a heavy weight that one will ALWAYS tire of carrying. Enough. This it it, the finale. One can carry it no longer. Goodbye, Faye. We fit so well, were it not for my past...were Spike not so shaped already.
"I don't feel a thing and I've stopped remembering"
spike wanted to die
@@Abgef Hi Abgef. I understand your overall malaise over Spike; if you're ever in a reflective and brave mood, look into the wiki (not Wikipedia, but the Cowboy Bebop Wiki -- it's expansive, but also full of commentary by the creators and the first person who would know best of all: the man who created and wrote it). Sometimes quoted, remember, these are usually done with numbered footnotes that lead back to the full article (or will give you the data to follow it using 'The Wayback Machine'.)
[Side-note: Have you seen/considered "The Cowboy Bebop Movie"? Remember, that movie *is* part of the story arc; the Wikipedia page "List of CB Episodes" -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cowboy_Bebop_episodes -- states that the movie takes place between episodes 22 and 23. (Actually there are at least 6 Wikipedia pages on CB; one on the anime itself, one on the movie, the "List of CB episodes," the "List of CB Characters," the "List of CB Chapters," and the "List of CB Albums," which is surprising in number for an anime that ran a single season. All music by Yoko Kanno and/or "The Seatbelts," (which is Kanno's group/ensemble) and various solo artists (if you've seen otherwise, you'll want to look into Kanno's history, and the fact she both wrote -- and performed -- under 'alias' names at times.)]
The writer of CB has stated on numerous occasions that the ending does not mean Spike is dead. Many people suggest that the show gives a huge hint, if you watch the final credits all the way ti the end, a single star falls from the sky. This is a reference to the two-part episode "Jupiter Jazz," in which the native character has the following exchange with a young tribal member.
*Young kid:* A star just fell from the sky.
*Laughing Bull:* That is not an ordinary star, my son. That star is the tear of a warrior.
*Kid:* What warrior is it?
*Laughing Bull:* A lost soul who has finished his battles somewhere on this planet. A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm where the Great Spirit awaits us all.
Many fans insist the fallen star is proof that Spike is dead -- yet this claim has a flaw. We know for sure Vicious died. If both Spike *and* Vicious are dead, why didn't *two* stars fall? And going by description, Laughing Bull's explanation of the event -- the quotes above were referring to Gren, a warrior who fell before his 'mission' was complete; the definition also describes Vicious, who died before he (and a very large, well-placed mutiny crew) was able to complete his plan to kill or overthrow the Van and thereby take over the leadership of The Red Dragon Syndicate.
Spike's outlook is completely different, right from the beginning: Episode one shows him doing a martial-arts workout (according to the writer, Spike is a follower of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kun Do; in the episode "Waltz for Venus," Spike quotes Master Lee while explaining the "Philosophy of Water" to young Rocco, who wondered why his move had failed against an attacker. Watching Spike from beginning, it's obvious that Spike is not actively 'pining away' for Julia, even when similar situations evoke memories of her (like when Faye is humming to him while he's been injured and is bandaged from head-to-toe; he merely makes a comment to Faye that she sings off-key (compared to Julia).
If you see the movie, it implies that Spike has obvious interest in another woman (Elektra Ovilo) ... I won't add to that, as I don't want to spoil the movie for you in case you haven't seen it.
Even at the two-part climax, despite romantic overtones, Spike makes it clear that his main objective is not to win Julia back, in fact he makes it clear when he says he won't ask for her help with his plan; and his plan is obvious that he seeks to avenge the nurders of Annie/Anastasia and the capo that evidently raised Spike and Vicious together ... and lastly, Spike has been shot or incapacitated numerous times without being dead. It's odd to me that fans continue to insist Spike is dead, despite the writer himself insisting otherwise, I think "that weight" is a rather big wink to fans from screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, as you could also interpret it as "that wait," since Nobumoto wraps the end of CB with all four main characters very much alive.
Over a decade ago came the announcement that the movie version of CB was in development with Keanu Reeves set to star. You'll find multiple videos on this website where Reeves openly admits he has been signed -- yet over a decade later, they are still waiting for the same roadblock to clear: a script from Keiko Nobumoto. There's always been the rumor that she may come out with a new anime season, or that the film itself will begin where the anime left off, which could also lead to more future episodes of the crew of the Bebop.
Lastly, Nobumoto wrote one other anime screenplay, *Wolf's Rain,* an 'under-loved' work, in my humble opinion (despite its flaws). After airing in Japan, Nobumoto was so concerned that people did not seem to grasp the true ending, that she stated that it, too, would be made clearer someday. Why say, "it too," unless she was also referring to Bebop? As far as I know, *Cowboy Bebop* was the only other screenplay she's written to date, and the Wikipedia page that points it out states it was last updated on 6 April 2019, at 00:02 (UTC).
@@Abgef You don't just die or not because you feel a certain kind of way. Either he got hurt enough to cause fatal bleeding or organ damage enough to kill him or not, his guilt and self-loathing or whatever wouldn't determine whether that was the case.
@@Abgef Except Spike doesn't spare a single thought for Faye. Not a one. He was thinking about Julia the entire time. Immediately after he walks away from Faye, he's thinking about how he fell in love with Julia and how he made love to Julia. The song that plays is literally about how he will love Julia until the end of time itself. Check out the lyrics.
See You Space Cowboy
Everything is already over,
You say with closed ears
The words only flow
Towards a tomorrow without peace
On the night when even prayers have disappeared
What will you believe in and where will you go?
A shooting star the color of tears passes by now as if laughing at me
There's nothing that won't change
Yet even if my life ends
This love will not disappear
It's something that will live forever
Even if dreams are hidden in darkness
I got a rainbow
In my hands...
The voice that crosses the inside of my chest
Tells me that there are also things that won't change or disappear
On the morning when we pray before the truth
Love will return here once more
Love never dies
Love never feigns
Love never ever fades away
If someday my life ends
This love will not disappear
It's a thing that will live forever
Escaping the darkness
When we've passed the illusion
Frozen in time
On the other side of the rainbow, love will be waiting
Thousands of lights will be waiting
You got a rainbow
Rainbow in your hands...
www.animelyrics.com/anime/cbebop/cbsysc.htm
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its not actually confirmed that spike is dead the director said, its really all up to you, thats the whole point of "your gonna carry that weight" when the native sais the star of a warrior is fading away an then it fades at the very end, the whole point is that that couldve been either spike or vicious
you just gave this show another beautiful layer. thank you. thank you so much.
That's not the point at all. Vicious's star would have never faded. He was a pitiful soul who did not believe in anything. This was repeated multiple times. His star would have fallen.
Just watched the final episode of the series not 10 minutes ago. I've been feeling emotions that I never knew existed before. Talk about a cartoon hangover, this is more like a cartoon hole in my heart.
This show and Neon Genesis have really gotten me into anime, and I'm really glad it was you, Digi, that got me to watch them.
Careful, the hangover I got from this show has had me hooked on anime for 11 years, and honestly few stories have held up to this.
"You're Gonna Carry That Weight" was also the last song that The Beatles recorded together.
It comes in the form of a couple songs, including "Golden Slumbers"
It's written about the journey and development they've had together, and how no matter where they go, what they do, who they become, they'll always carry the weight of who they were.
that nerdwriter influence
Which means he's becoming more popular, a good thing.
Except I think most of us knew Cowboy Bebop was tragic; nerdwriter doesn't speak to a knowledgeable crowd, because of the range of topics he covers in the humanities. I think that hurts Digibro's message.
I dunno, I feel one could get what Cowboy Bebop is just by watching this, maybe it's me being a weird schizo but I can't not dip myself in the pathos
Yes but Nerdwriter actually says something more than, "The Feels, they hurt me!"
TheOfficialAkatsuki im still waiting for nerdwriter to make a video on cowboy bebop
Well shit, I just randomly came to revisit one of my favorite videos, only to find out the creator will be making all of their content private in a few weeks. Well, I should just say thank you for making this, it's truly beautiful. Good luck on your future adventures, Beatrice.
Signing off on my favorite video of the old, mythic era. I'm going to carry the weight of this fading away one day, both from the internet and in my memory. I think it hits even harder now than it does when it came out. I think it'll forever hit harder and harder the more time passes. That's what this mythic era of video making is all about, I feel. This impromptu, emotional performance is what made engaging with analysis all the more... worthwhile.
Let's move forward and fake our way into accepting the past.
That first episode of bebop is one helluva start, tho. I agree that Asimov isn't a very interesting side-story, but geeze the characterization of the crew, and the set up of the fighting style, it's freaking mindblowing. This is always the first episode I show to people who aren't necessarily curious about the plot. Especially if they've heard of the show and are still skeptical. Spikes charisma and wit and snark almost always hooks their attention by the episodes end and drags them in.
When I think of Cowboy Bebop, I always think of the scene where Spike squares up with Asimov after disguising himself with the poncho and the sombrero. "You trust your eyes too much, Asimov -- You're not a chameleon, ya know!"
The most nostalgic, tear inducing video ever made by Digibro.
Cowboy Bebop was written as a statement about the early days of the "Lost Generation," the consequence of the 80s bubble, and the way people who were not employable needed to live. Sorry to be commenting about a month late.
This show is the most simple and the most deep shit I've ever seen, it's so relatable that is scary in a way
I know it's sad. But this video really helps me sleep. It gives me the same vibes as the slow/ sad episodes of bebop, it's really comforting yet sad in a way
I don't think it's that commonly spoiled, people are pretty classy when it comes to Bebop.
But I think that "it's fine to spoil this because it's very old and everyone does it" is a meme that needs to die so...
Edit:disclaimer here since people are still commenting on this: I HAVE seen Cowboy Bebop, years ago even, I didn't comment here because I was angry that something was spoiled for me, I commented on the notion that people often spoil CB because I've never actually heard anyone say "and when Spike dies at the end". So thanks for recommending it to me but it's alright ok, now you know.
I think people being afraid of spoilers is the meme that needs to die.
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Because it doesn't at all affect one's enjoyment of a show?
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Not that you were wrong to spoil it, someone who hasn't watched CB probably won't watch this video
+onled1 I haven't watched Cowboy Bebop and I watched this video. Studies actually show that being spoiled positively affects viewer enjoyment of a work, though, and thanks to this video, I actually kinda wanna watch Cowboy Bebop now.
Darth Vader is Luke's father.
I have been really depressed recently and what you said really made me feel alot better about things
thanks
(long time subscriber and just wanted to let you know that)
I wish the showmakers of the live action had watched this video. "Cowboy Bebop lives on suggesting" - something that they just didn't understand at all after putting us through hours of heavy expository monologues.
This is exactly why so many people relate with the main characters. What you've made me realize (and it might surprise even you) is that people who relate to a character like Radical Edward do so for pretty much the same reasons they relate to any of the other main four. What I like most, though, is how even people who relate to Vicious really ultimately do so for those same reasons, too. We're all running from the world and our past while finding the way to live in it, a way that is often times the only way for the kind of individual a person happens to be. There comes a time when we all realize "nature" and "nurture" are identical forces bearing down on us through different methods, there is no "versus" between them, and the only way we can truly continue a life in this world is by removing the "versus" between ourselves and that world. The tragedy is that by making peace between oneself and the world, you risk making that world a more hostile place for others.
I don't know how to say this. I recently finished the show and appreciated it very much. However, it didn't impact me much, nor made feel strong emotions, except for episode 24, which stung a bit in the heart. I didn't understood why, thinking I was some kind of heartless monster ( which I probably am :p ). But now, thanks to your video, I think I can understand. I think I understood unconsiously what it was all about, that life is sad and we must deal with it. Which is why at the end, when the show tells the viewer "You're gonma carry that weight", I felt like replying "Ok. Don't worry, I can do it".
Heh, I think that was pretty much my reaction at first too. It is one of those shows that gets better for me each time I rewatch it.
+Thanatos388 this so much
Well that's the point of the show! to make you feel however the fuck you want!
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
You could say it was just one of the many sob stories you see frequently, like Spike and Jet do. But of course we are talking about fiction here, is not like they add to the amount of sad pasts that will remain there without ever geeting full closure -------- Oh who am I kidding, mine was and endless wait when the manga of Umineko reached it's final arc hoping that they would bring light to a certain plot point that I just couldn't stop thinking about. I guess some fictional things just end up becoming too real, as if being "real" depended on your influence and not on your existence.
Can I like this more than once? I need to like once for every tear shed. Also the bebop OST in the background really made it.
Bravo. Just bravo.
Its not about the message, but about the narrative and gritty confesional feel to it.
Well done, well spoken and written and everything. Just sweet. Made me nostalgic without feeding me the story a
second time.
And this is totally absent from the Netflix version
I watched Bebop's premiere on Adult Swim as I learned about it months prior. I fought sleep to watch it every Sunday and still listen to the OST. 15 years later though I've never fully rewatched it. Why? Because Bebop was the first series to emotionally hurt me for weeks. I just couldn't let go and now when attached I will avoid a final episode and or never rewatch a show. I bought FMA 2003 Bluray sets in Sept. I have yet to rewatch it all because in 2001Bebop taught me that I can never move on so don't revisit the past, it'll weigh you down.
I discovered the series the same way, but the first episode I found was the one with Pierrot Le Fou. Yeah...
Holy shit, are you me?
Hell of a way to get introduced to seinen. I had no idea what the fuck is happening. Next day, I wasn't entirely sure it wasn't just some fever dream.
what a great video, i just loved how digi just talked and felt so natural and peaceful with that beautiful ost in the background and all of those great memories of watching one of the greatest shows ever created
That was a touching summary of the series. "Comedy" always comes to mind when I think of Cowboy Bebop, but, as you say, there is this underlying sadness beneath all of that silliness and mayhem that I wasn't conscious of. Anyone who's watched the series can feel it's there, but when someone (like yourself) describes it, I finally realize that these characters are hurting. Thanks for making the video.
Also, how come that cigarette was floating in zero grav, but the characters are completely grounded?
Oh my God ... now I can't get that out of my head.
They wear magnetic shoes.
it was just very low gravity.
enough to keep them standing on the ground, but not enough to make the cigarette fall to the ground before being caught.
or they're wearing magnetic shoes
The episode with the space truckers established the magnetic shoes.
Of course, the smoke rising from the cigarette in zero gravity makes little sense, since gravity's downward force on a fluid is what makes buoyancy work in general.
It's one of the most minor nitpicks I could make about a show, but it still makes for a decent opportunity to tell everyone to find a video of a fire set in a zero-gravity environment.
Perhaps it's worth pointing out that Spike is not, in fact, wearing shoes there.
Don't quote me on this, but it might actually be possible to ground yourself in zero-G. How it is that you can maintain that while performing martial-arts practice is beyond me however.
I think this is the best analysis of CB I've ever seen. The show is like music without lyrics in a way; it focuses on the raw emotions and feelings, rather than a cohesive story.
This was brilliant. I absolutely loved it. I have never seen such a perfect analysis of Bebop. But also... The narration, the monologue, the insight into the speaker's mind... It's so fitting for the show. He really captured the essence of what the show is about, and what I think it did for a lot of us. This has instantly become one of my favorite videos on TH-cam, and I can't lie, I feel better for having watched it. I'll be honest, I'm mourning the loss of a little sister, and I have been for the past year. And I'm not going to say this video patched me right up, fixed all my feelings. But... It gave me a sense of perspective, that I hadn't come across before, in all my mourning. I feel like, there are other people out there who understand, and there are characters out there who understand, and there are people who made these characters, who also understand. Well, I don't want to gush too much. But I really think this whole video was beautifully done, and I'm touched.
The weight got a little bit less heavy. Thank you.
It's funny watching this after that drunken God of War rant.
What rant?
speeddevil4040 On his other channel DigiBroAfterDark
"I have no regrets"
-Digibro after DigiBroAfterDark
"Owww"
-Digibro
Oh man. When that track at 3:09 starts playing, the tears start falling. Bebop will genuinely never be topped. So real. So gritty. So relatable.
I found this video in my favorites from two years past, and... this video is the best I've struck mining the blast from the past
I still can't watch more than 15 seconds of this video. I don't need to know what you have to say about Cowboy Bebop; your tone of voice plus the pitiful Faye soundtrack playing in the background is enough to bring me to tears. I don't know if you feel moved by the same aspects of this amazing anime as I do but it doesn't matter. I know, already in the first 15 seconds, that you are indeed moved by this wonderful piece of art and music and drama; so much so that I feel as though I need not clarify my own emotional response to this video. You capture it already so well.
Yo...despite that you didn't watch the whole video...that explanation is very spot on! Had you watched the whole thing, the feels would have gone waaaay through the roof! :O
probably still my favorite vid
I watch my patients move from healthy, to long-term care, to hospice so often these days that I’ve had a really hard time actually dealing with the death around me. Sometimes you have to draw the line for what you’re gonna carry with you.
This video is on a list of videos that I watch regularly because I want to remember the theme and emotions it gets at. Probably one of my favorite videos. (:
"wow... maybe i'll watch this show... NOPE HE DIES NEVERMIND KAY."
Why would that stop you?
on one hand i'm not about that sad life (i already got one of those. ba dum tsh.) but it's still tempting because of the whole concept of carrying on through tough shit.
Spike's death is actually left in the air. The whole ending is about him finally being free and able to let go, and it makes a great amount of dramatic sense that this is because he died, but that's certainly not the only interpretation.
i'll probably still watch it but i'm on the fence.
You should! you will really miss out if you don't tbh
Best anime ever made
maaan you really did a great job putting those feelings into words :) You certainly carry that weight. Every time i think about that phrase a tear comes up....
I've rewatched this show so many times and it always fills me with dysphoria. It's really the only show that makes me feel bad for not only the characters, but also some of the bountys they go after. A lot of them are supposed to be villans but we end up finding ourselves afraid for them as well and hoping things turn out okay. We're all gonna carry that weight.
See you space cowboy...
Your the best commentary I met. I love the mixing.
For clarity, I only watched Cowboy Bebop and then the movie for the first time properly about a year ago. Cowboy Bebop is a strange one for me, because I can see how it stands out, but I've never really connected with it. Perhaps it's because I've always heard about how good it is that it just didn't live up to my expectations or something, but I think I'm pretty good at tempering such feelings and making sure other people's impressions don't cloud my own when I experience it for myself, so I don't think it's that. I thought the series was nice and everything, but I never really saw or felt what made it a classic. Maybe if I watch it again when I get older? I mean I'm turning 21 this year, and my mindset is mature enough (though still naive in ways that I can and can't see right now) that I would think I could connect with the series at least on some level, but maybe I just need to live more.
I can't quite pinpoint if I will never enjoy the series in a way that puts it above some of the other things I've seen, or if there is just something wrong (not literally) with me, which I know is a common thought to cross the minds of people who don't end up liking popular things as much as others do. I'd say it's more the former, but who knows. Part of me wonders if it's because I'm not the most sympathetic person. I mean I can sympathise, cry like most do, think about what feelings people and characters must be going through and then perhaps replicate it for myself through understanding. But to me, not getting hung up on problems of old just seems like a given to me. Like what else are you supposed to do? I mean sure you feel bad from time to time, but you move on so long as you have some desire somewhere within you to keep going.
I can't work out if that makes me a strong person, or just ignorant or something.
Anyway, my basic point being, that I never saw what made Cowboy Bebop so great.
A huge part of what made it great at the time was that it was a level of quality that anime generally didn't have back then. The show is about three years younger than you are.
I think it's still a pretty strong classic now, thanks to its quality soundtrack, decent animation, its ability to mesh goofy mayhem and seriousness in an entertaining way, and how it generally approaches... well... humanity.
Doesn't mean you'll definitely connect with it, or that it'll automatically be your favorite (I still think it's probably one of the best anime ever created, and I could probably come up with a list of at least five I personally like more!). I mean, you even said it yourself that you saw how it stood out. Now imagine that there are people who can connect with it, maybe some of them even learned a bit from it (as obvious as the importance of moving on might seem, it's still something people have to learn how to do, in more than one sense of the term).
nya~ Yeah, I forgot to mention that the animation was one thing that I noticed was impressive considering the time it came out.
It is said that it was Cowboy Bebop that introduced anime to the west...not sure how that was possible as Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, AKIRA, Pokemon and other immensely more popular animes had already established themselves. Regardless for a lot of people it's what got them into anime and I'd say it might've set a standard that is rarely reached in terms of strong thematic storytelling
jay kj Thanks, that better helps me understand why it has the cult following that it does. I guess the fact that it had more mature themes made it catch people who were perhaps turned off initially by the more cartoony animes of the time. I've been into anime for almost as long as I can remember, so I guess I just forgot to consider that Bebop was what helped breach the gap for a lot of people.
cowboy bebop did strike a certain niche that DBZ, Pokemon, and Sailor Moon didn't. it was dark, serious, and pretty human. back then, not every genre was covered like it is now.
Never have i ever felt so much emotion while watching boiled eggs get eaten. I thought about it too much.
That last song "Blue" gets me every time. I'm a grown man but every time I hear that song I bawl like a baby and can't help it. Great video by the way. Made me more appreciate the setting up of the series within the first episode.
Kind of just came upon this by accident but this was lovely! The thoughtfulness and your insight made a very meaningful video.
I'm drunk and this video almost made me tear up
What a coincidence, I'm drunk and I've just watched the last session, finished the series. And I don't feel anything sad, I just feel inspired.
Right on. Maybe my favorite animated story of all time, and I think you nailed it.
The last two episodes really pull the whole thing together.
I haven't even seen Cowboy Bebop and you made me cry. Wonderful video, you've convinced me to go and watch it! :)
I felt more watching this video than I did watching Cowboy Bebop. I still haven't figured out why I thought it was such a bore, but both times I've finished it I just couldn't get myself to care for anything that happened in it. Normally I'm pretty good at explaining what I do and don't like about things, but I just care so little about the contents of this show that I would've forgotten about it entirely if it weren't for its popularity. The mystery of my lack of interest in it compared to just about everyone else has caused me to attempt to watch it a bunch of times over the years, with only two attempts resulting in getting to the end.
Normally this is the part of the comment where I'd say that you helped me clear up my own thoughts about something, but for once I can't. You explained the reason the show sticks with people incredibly well, but I doubt you'll ever be able to explain why it doesn't stick with me.
It's probably because to you it wasn't anything new. Most people that regard it as a legend do so because it was one of their first views on anime or the genre. I think i would've appreciated it more had it been my first time viewing something of its type.
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I've considered that, and I can't definitively disprove it, but I've seen plenty of other shows that weren't necessarily anything new to me, but were still incredible in execution and made me fall in love with them. I don't think I've seen all that much that's really like Cowboy Bebop, either. Hell, I'd say that the setting even seems like something I should really like considering other things I enjoy. Even just the cool setting, visual style and amazing music would generally be enough for me to fall in love with a show.
I used to think that it was the episodic nature, the lack of a main story thread, but I've since really enjoyed other episodic shows so I doubt that that is the reason.
Most shows I can enjoy just because of the things I do like about them, but for some reason with Bebop I just can't enjoy it despite thinking most of it is really impressive and appeals to me.
TMTLive Have you tried watching the movie? I didn't really feel phased by the conclusion of the the show until I watched the movie. It's nothing out of this world but I think it's worth the watch.
ANGELXZONE
I started it once but didn't finish it. Maybe I'll try again one day.
I felt pretty much the same way. I just never had a reason to care about anything that happened in Cowboy Bebop, even though it was obvious, from the way the show presented itself, that I was supposed to.
i'm going back and watching the series again to catch all the little details and cinematography in the show i forgot when i was younger. just by episode 6 i've noticed so many small editing details and shot motifs that happen in split seconds that most of us wouldn't notice or care to notice.
those little shadows inside the cathedral in the perfect angles that were there to resemble those early flashbacks. the camera being given a filter for different character perspectives at different times. blurring effects on foreground imagery to show a sense of mystery and unclear information to the subconscious of the audience (notice how as the episodes progress, things in the foreground get less blurry and more defined while background elements fade away, allowing the audience to focus on the characters in a more direct and close feel, like we have visually been pulled closer to the result of what happened.)
there is a clear effort to mirror 2001's space station aesthetic, and also an effort to make action scenes at a higher frame rate, giving us a clear defined style of static imagery and action imagery, letting us know when to more clearly focus on the motion as opposed to the settings.
sorry if i get lost in writing this. there is just SO MUCH motif in the actual design of this show that organizing it gets a little tough.
Aw man, the very same way you discovered Bebop is how I did, same episode and all. It all looked so new to me, dark yet sleek, very visually pleasing. I was just a kid then, but I knew I had found something great.
At the time of this comment Dec 7, 2018, I have watched this video atleast 10 times. The first time I saw it was not long after it's release. Just a few days. But I keep coming back. You so perfectly discribe how I feel about the event that is cowboy bebop. I will carry that weight, that's life right?
Thank you.
My all time favorite anime.
The real folk blues the best closing theme.
"When on a day to day level, there life is really about trying to get some damn beef in that bell-peppers and beef." - Right there. I mean, if you didn't already have me from your how to recognize stuff, this has me. Got a new subscriber here I say.
Just came across this while trying to find a clip to explain Cowboy Bebop to someone who had never seen anything from it, and damn.... This video gave me all of the feels. Thank you for this beautiful commentary on a wonderful series. I still get feels every time I hear anything from Cowboy Bebop's soundtrack.... Hell, the TH-cam editor for one of my favorite league streamers used Tank Tank during a sequence in one of their videos and the nostalgia hit me like a brick.
I haven't watched the whole series till this day. Too heartfelt.
Same EXACT discovery, not kidding
About five minutes before in the same episode.... then got yelled at for being up to late.... xD
Didn't know spike dies... Thanks digi
To be completely fair, that spoiler is over 15 years old. There were also multiple points before that where you could have jumped off. Like when he started talking about episode 24 which is 2 episodes before the end, when he starts talking about the last two episodes, or even when he mentions the fact he was about to spoil something if you were quick enough. Also, if you really didn't want to be spoiled on Cowboy Bebop, you really shouldn't have watched a video about it. I know that's kind of harsh, but if you don't want to be spoiled on something, then you should avoid absolutely anything about it that you can. At least that's my two cents on the matter.
Dude, it's like saying Kylo Ren killed Darth Vader's father you can't say this stuff man
+MrCactuar13 ...huh? Maybe I'm missing something here, but I have no idea what you're talking about or who you're talking to. (Although I think it may be me?) Also you're spoiler is incredibly confusing and wrong. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's the point, but still.
TL;DR: I'm confused.
There has to be a point where you can avoid a video just because it's based off of a show you haven't finished going from the thumbnail and the cryptic title. Idk about you, but if I haven't finished Bebop, I would've seen this video in my feed and just watched it later. It's not like Digi tied you down and gave you the spoiler himself, you pretty much went into this video and mindlessly watched it without thinking of the implications of the cryptic title. I'm not trying to say that you are at fault, but the responsibility does fall on your shoulders to avoid such things.
you fucking piece of shit kid! go watch it now!
I occasionally watch this because it speaks to me. Reminds me of my childhood and everything I've thought when I was child watching this for the first time.
Man I remember when the show ended with episode 26, seeing that final scene I remember sleeping off and on and I was four at the time, but I was vaguely awake throughout the episode and the last shot of spike falling down on those steps and that song "blue" playing and I could not tell whether I was sad or gloomy by what I was seeing. At one hand, I'm too young to understand yet at the same time I pondered whether or not if this feeling of pity was what life would become later for me. God I miss that time, 2001-2003 were the best for me when it came to late night TV. Thank fuck I had a father who didn't care about what I was watching in those days!!!
You know whats fucked up? There are some kids on MyAnimeList who are completely fine with this new garbage direction anime has gone in. They sit around and watch countless, dumb, slice of life shows about high school. They think that Bebop is an overrated show. What? There hasn't been a better show since Bebop. This isn't even an opinion, Bebop is a work of art, the rest are just enjoyable shows.
Different people in different stages of life will appreciate different series and themes. High school slice-of-life stories can easily resonate very strongly with someone approaching adulthood. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
fucking people who have taste that isn't mine smh
There is if its influencing the all of anime in the wrong direction. Studios make more money from producing slice of life anime than anything else. To a point where all other genre of anime is suffering.
TheAnesthetics western fans don't contribute to the market in any significance and 2nd the 3 best selling shows this season aren't SOL
World-wide, people spend more on anime goods than Japan does. The reason anime like One-Punch Man are successful, is because of world-wide viewership. Most people in Japan don't even watch anime. lol.
Good review! I'm crying
But I'm I the only one who wants spike to live!!!
I must have watch this video like 200 times and shared it to many. This video hits every point so well.
Digibro ... your commentary was well written, and told with so much heart. Thank you. It was a beautiful expression of your opinion.
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"I think that I will always be carrying that weight, for as long as I live, as much as I don't want to."
Oh boy.
I keep coming back to this video over and over and over again and I don't know why
I'm late to this. But I didn't want you to stop talking. It felt like you knew how I felt and how I interpreted the series. I'm going through a rough time and your voice in this helped more than you may ever know
I've been binge watching your videos for throughout my night, and I wanted to thank you. They're very well done, and give a calming break of relief between work.
SPOILER FOR COWBOY BEBOP!
I never really perceived Spike as "dead". He has quite a few near-misses throughout the series, and I could honestly see a continuation that starts with a heavily bandaged Spike scolded by Jet... I think, rather, the ending was made to be ambiguous, letting the viewer decide their interpretation. Of course, when Watanabe was questioned about it, he replied " I like to think he's sleeping"
Watanabe started telling people that BS nearly a decade after the series aired. He has made multiple contradictory comments. Even the song that plays while Spike is thinking about Julia and then attacking the syndicate is about how he will love her after his own death and be with her in the after life. Get real.
See You Space Cowboy
Everything is already over,
You say with closed ears
The words only flow
Towards a tomorrow without peace
On the night when even prayers have disappeared
What will you believe in and where will you go?
A shooting star the color of tears passes by now as if laughing at me
There's nothing that won't change
Yet even if my life ends
This love will not disappear
It's something that will live forever
Even if dreams are hidden in darkness
I got a rainbow
In my hands...
The voice that crosses the inside of my chest
Tells me that there are also things that won't change or disappear
On the morning when we pray before the truth
Love will return here once more
Love never dies
Love never feigns
Love never ever fades away
If someday my life ends
This love will not disappear
It's a thing that will live forever
Escaping the darkness
When we've passed the illusion
Frozen in time
On the other side of the rainbow, love will be waiting
Thousands of lights will be waiting
You got a rainbow
Rainbow in your hands...
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That is the best explanation on the last message, "You gonna carry that weight".
Thank you. This really added clarification. The egg scene really makes sense now.
Loved your analyses! Love bebop. What do you think of wolfs rain? Would love a vid on that !
love this video. I dont really think enough can be said for Cowboy Bebop, it came to Toonami at a time when I was young enough to be enthralled by a cartoon, but old enough to appreciate the quality of its music, and now that I'm 35, it still gives me that pit in my stomach when I think back on some of the more tragic events and themes. Goddamn. such a great show...
Hauntingly beautiful.