Hey bro. You think you're really smart, but really, you're just a pretentious child. And vaccines can cause multiple different injuries and to deny that is anti science.
@@MattSpoon07 I think at this stage he's baiting everyone so they comment and he gets more engagement. I unsubscribed to his channel last year when he wished death on Trump's mother (yeah, play politics if you want, but that's just evil)
The badge of honor thing is true. I had a young dude work for me and was obsessed with anime but had never had seen Cowboy Bebop. I literally went out and bought him a copy to make sure he watched it. Apparently even his parents, who were like 15 years older than me ended up liking it too
It's one of the funniest things about showing NGE to newer anime fans, so many shows reference and pull ideas from NGE that it makes NGE feel like an amalgamation of stereotypes and tropes if you don't remind yourself that it came first.
There is something about the song "Real Folk Blues" that really twangs on my heartstrings. From the first time I heard it all the way up until today. It has that kind of melancholic anemoia that few musical pieces are able to carry. I was 16 when i first saw Bebop, and that song has stuck with me since. It reminds me of High School, it reminds me of The Jazz Age, it reminds me of comic conventions, it reminds me of the future. Such a bizarre and specific mixture of emotions and memories, and it feels like it becomes more potent with each passing year.
The translated lyrics bc oyy Too many years have passed since my love for you I have nothing left to keep on this love be lamented Still I can feel the wind blowing deep inside Through these wounds you left in my heart that’ll never be healed One eye of mine can see what tomorrow is But the other eye of mine is still lost in the yesterday Oh, I would give it all just to fall asleep In the cradle of your love like before, sound and peacefully My dried up eyes won’t shed no tears, can anyone please cry for me? THE REAL FOLK BLUES Just tell me now, what is real sorrow like and how it feels A life that’s soaked in mud is not that bad If you live it through just once, with no refrain You gotta end it all, no regrets How come your only hope turns into despair? Let yourself again be trapped in these fake, shallow chances Somebody answer me, ‘What is good, what’s bad?’ Nothing more than the coin in your hand having two sides How many more years have to come to make my scattered heart get healed? THE REAL FOLK BLUES Just tell me now, what is real joy like and how it feels You try to reach for things that shine like gold Don’t be tricked by their flitting light THE REAL FOLK BLUES Just tell me now, what is real sorrow like and how it feels A life that’s soaked in mud is not that bad If you live it through just once, with no refrain You gotta end it all, no regrets
These videos inevitability take me down memory lane. I had a best friend who had the desire to spend ridiculous amounts of money on anime VHS and have viewing hang-outs with his friends. This era was golden college days for me.... Beer, White Wolf roleplaying, and watching a shit ton of anime. Good times.
I think I spent an arm and a leg for Sailor Moon R movie and a few other vhs tapes of random series at a comic book store in jr high. (1999 or 2000) It was part of the money I earned from my paper route.
It takes a lot of skill and courage to create something new, that stand out from all the others, while at the same time being so well-made that it sticks with everyone that looks at it.
Cowboy bebop is like that struggling artist who went on to become the icon of their genre and in this case i'm glad the english voice actors put their heat and soul into it
@@broodo1 Have you heard the newer, acoustic rendition? "Real Folk Blues" For these day recorded during the pandemic? *Kills me*. th-cam.com/video/JUph8T1Ph4s/w-d-xo.html
People made opportunities for Bebop because they saw it and couldn't deny it's perfection. Ever see a piece of art and just know that people need to see it for themselves?
Even my non-anime friends would watch Bebop with me, and enjoy it. Eva on the other hand...well, even people that like anime don't always appreciate how brilliant NGE is.
right away this video was on point lol " i don't watch anime but i have seen cowboy bebop" was like one of the first things a teacher back in high school said to me when i said " watching anime was one of my hobby's" spent most of that class just discussing cowboy bebop now that i think about it lol
I'm surprised anyone, especially Mike, could ignore the music. You didn't even mention the seat belts, who still tour and play bebops ost regularly, reinventing the songs in true jazz fashion, and whooped ass in an online covid concert. They really rocked space lion...If you don't feel space lion your feelers are broken. Have you heard Sax Quartet? There's not many good composers that pulled off that trick. Kano has had successes but bebops ost took on a life, and a career, of its own. As someone raised by a man who loves jazz I've heard a lot of it, and this ost did transcends and exemplifies a genre that most people had next to zero exposure to when they saw they show. By the time Tank! ended for the first time they were officially converted. I can't think of another example of truely modern jazz on this level. It's bold and new while in touch with the roots of the art form and true to the precepts of jazz. The thing is, the anime is the ost, the ost is the anime, that absolute flawless victory is the fuel in the space jet that is bebop. You even experience the anime like a good album. You groove on it, you feel it. Each episode is unique but somehow forming an overall narrative and vibe. You turn them on and nod along, relishing the high points and the lead ups, reveling in how well crafted and masterfully executed these story beats and themes are. You come away with them stuck in your head, not necessarily as a story but as a groove to get lost in, to carry you through your day and become your background music for a while. Bebop is not just a classic anime, it's an ongoing musical phenomenon
The opening and closing songs still remind me of fallng asleep to the show as a kid. I always wanted to stay up for Bebop, even if it was right at the edge of me being awake. The closing song of Bebop & Outlaw star will always be special for me.
Man, these behind the scenes type videos are some of my FAVORITE genres of stuff. I've always loved BP's stuff, but these ones always hit me harder. Finding out the the weird series of steps, the actual backers, because sometimes I forget that media doesn't happen in a vacuum since I'm so far away from it's creation.
When I first saw Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim in 2003, it became my absolutely favorite anime. Been seeking something, anything that gives me the rush that this anime does. I was truly overwhelmed with its skill to make me feel emotionally invested at a time when I never wanted to feel a thing at all due to a lot of personal trauma that I won't get into here. I've seen a lot of anime and rewatched Cowboy Bebop since and I've been trying to find that special anime to top it. For me, I found that Spy x Family is getting there but it's still moving along in manga and on the air. I'm on pins and needles to see how it all comes together which is incredibly exciting. I hope that it does because I love seeing a medium I love keep evolving. The fact that it's taken 20 years for me to even consider something else near the number one spot is a testament to how incredible Cowboy Bebop really is.
No substitute for cowboy bebop but I'd say Trigun is pretty great and a lot of similar themes but more western. Outlaw star to me is similar in a few ways and great on its own.
that was so cool to learn. I consider this and Samurai Champloo both to be my favorite anime, specially after I rewatched them as an adult. I had no idea of any of this.
This channel never ceases to amaze me with how high the quality of knowledge and research is that is put in these videos. I learned so much I never knew about Bebop!
My gateway was Robotech and Star Blazers. I did even know it was called anime back then, tell I bought the Robotech Art books and read in the back about it. My love for anime really started with the original 2030 Bubblegum Crisis and then Sailor moon. Cowboy Bebop came much later, and I was watching it like crazy on Adult Swim. I just could not get enough or bored with it.
Fun fact: Did you know theres an original pencil drawing of Spike in the CN headquarters stairwell? Did you know an intern drew a Calarts doodle with a sharpie over it? Look it up, I'm not making this up. Search something like "spike drawing in cartoon network", it'll be the first result
This is the reason I follow this channel. Stories of passion literally change the world, change history. Artists who know that this may be their only shot and not caring, just putting their whole heart into their stories all the way. There’s not a feeling more pure then passion, the unyielding passion of the artists who make these stories, the passion of the small or large group of fans who adore it, and the passion of those who take the risk to get these stories out. Hell man, this is the kind of stuff that’ll make you cry. Keep it up. See you later, Space Cowboys. Bang.
This is, to me, simply one of the greatest pieces of art to ever exist. Perfect combination of everything involved. Instant classic. Probably one of the best dubs ever done.
I remember when it first came to adult swim I told my mom I was staying up for this show not realizing it came on @12 and had school the next day boy I'm glad I did I witnessed history still till this day my favorite anime and it wasnt even my first anime
"I don't watch anime but I've seen Cowboy Beebop and I liked it." That was my brother. He never got into anime with me but he at least didn't bad mouth it. And the fact that it was constantly playing on Adult Swim meant I always had something to watch if nothing else.
I have never seen all of this information on the history that MADE his so popular be put so well. Thanks for a fantastic video essay! Hope I can get my pacing for the longer projects to flow as well as your work...See You Space Cowboy
I've always been a big fan of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and knew she headed the VA for the show but had no idea just how impactful her being the head was to the vibe of the show. She is such a talented and charming person. I appreciate her work even more. Killer video as usual. hope to someday have the liquid to throw some money y'alls way
Given this isn't your favorite, you did an absolutely awesome analysis and told the story of Bebop in a way that had me on the edge of my seat. Banger as always my guy 🌵👍
Wow, amazing video sir. Bebop is defiantly top tier anime. It's animation alone still holds up today. Much like Akira. Rurouni Kenshin and Cowboy Bebop are what helped solidify my love for the genre. I do watch it at least once a year myself. As I've grown as a person. I've also grown to love the Jazz genre of music. Again, with the help of Bebop. The soundtrack is just, AMAZING!!! I have all the OST's on Spotify. One of these days I will get a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. And yes, he will be named Einstein! I am very much a firm believer that this is a much watch for beginners into the fray of anime. It's essential to watch to see that anime is not just some hokey cartoons for geeks. It's a heavy mixture of Eastern and Western cultures. So much deep themes. Now the Netflix version.....haha.
It's insane how Bebop aired 25 years ago and after decades of seeing anime and seeing quite a good number of masterpieces, I can't think of a single one that can top it. It could be a bit of nostalgia but even after trying to analise it objectively, I still think I haven`t seen a piece of art that trascends it's own medium like Bebop did for anime with many layers of complexity and with so much style.
Goddammit, I've seen this show through three times and I swore I was done. Now I kinda wanna watch it again in hopes that maybe THIS TIME it'll click for me. You are too powerful.
I love cowboy bebop. Rewatched it last year in both sub and dub and bought it physically on Blu-ray. Remember watching on adult swim as a kid and liked it then but appreciated it more as an adult. Also it was nice surprise that Grant was in this video! Brings me back to the old bonsai pop days. 😊
When a reviewer is so incredibly talented as a wordsmith that you can listen to his videos without watching the visuals but still get the entire picture of the episode in question.. that's this channel.
This is my favorite video from you guys in a while. Not only do I love the anime but the "Story You Never Knew" format was great and highly informative. It was fun to hear some familiar voices playing guest roles too!
Thanks for talking about the history of the luck needed for Cowboy Bebop to become such a hit. I wasn't aware of all the details. Cowboy Bebop may not be my favorite anime, but it sure is one of the most unique anime ever made.
What coincidence that this video is the first to come up on my feed just right after I unboxed and display my Cowboy Bebop figures. It is one of my all time favorite anime that I grew up watching as a 90s kid and still watch it like once a year. A true classic and a masterpiece that will live on in the ages to come.
The story that needed to be told about the series that needed to be made. Such passion from the creators, VA, distributors to make and share this iconic piece of art. LOVE IT
What I hear you saying is: 1. It was just (barely) commercial enough to get greenlit. 2. It was noncommercial enough to be left alone by upper management since they never had that much faith in it to begin with. 3. It was good enough to inspire the lower management types most directly involved with it (the animation studio, Bandai Visual, the dub company, Cartoon Network) to make it the best possible show it could be, and promote it in the best possible, practical way it could get an audience. 4. It was really that good.
In high school on multiple days my brother and I wouldn't go to sleep until like 1 or 2 am. It was easy as our parents didn't get home from work until right after the AS Toonami block ended. Even my mom fell in love with Cowboy Bebop and Trigun.
This is so interesting and it explains why it’s kinda forgotten in Japan except for anime historians, but so popular over here. It’s like Evangelion of the west. It’s definitely one of my favorites, and it’s so cool that it was playing for years. I honestly just think that Cowboy Bebop is just good television, anime or not. Also it’s not a seinen.
I caught it halfway through it's first run in 2001 and that was all I needed. And then Adult Swim strates their anime block on Saturdays and I got to see so many more cool series. It's a perfect starter anime because it's both very good and also very easy to watch since it's such a short series.
Thank you bonsai pop. Bebop will probably be relevant a century from now, cant say the same thing for alot of media out there. Truly a timeless classic, and what memories. Grew up watching this with my brother late at night, good times.
My city had anime stores in the 90s. You could buy the anime, but you could also rent it. There was a martial arts supply store that along with selling martial arts gear, rented martial arts movies and anime. There was also a network television station (local, not Sci fi) that showed anime late night on Sundays.
I bought all of the bebop soundtrack cds back in the day. They were all amazing. That being said, what made bebop stand out was how it fused the elements that you mentioned. Yes, Noir, western, action and sci fi had all been done, but it had not been done TOGETHER. Bebop was a fusion of multiple genres interwoven with a jazz type sound. It is the same formula watanabe used for samurai champloo. That fusion was something that hadn't been seen before, and we all loved it. I didn't watch evangelion until several years after i saw bebop.
This story reminds me of how movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" & " AChristmas Story" became traditional holiday season staples because circumstances made it easy for TV or cable stations to air them in heavy rotation during the season.
9/2/2001, Bebop came on adult swim(which was new too atm) was so happy to watch it but 9 days later that happiness was completely overtaken, especially being a New Yorker, and Bebop was put under the radar in my world and I wouldnt discover it until 2003 by my late best friend David. Bebop will always remind me of that awful event that happened a week later bc it really did change so much. This show is VERY special to me for so many reasons and it was nice to learn that anime is beyond fantasy(DBZ). Thank you for this and shout out to Cartoon Network for Toonami/Adult Swim!
At the VERY end of August 2001 I went to The Big Apple Anime Fest where I met and talked to Yoko Kanno and see the North American premiere of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door). I still have my promo poster and t-shirt. It was one of the more amazing things in my life. To see the movie on a big screen and with so many fans will be something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
Growing up where I did, there was no option for toonami and adult swim. Finding anime to watch was typically about watching an AMV downloaded from a sketchy website (which took hours overnight to download a 5 minute video lol), figuring out what in the hell you just watched, and hunting it down. Typically blockbuster or hollywood video would have a few basic shows to start from, and when DVDs started coming out, being able to flip through the previews of other shows on the disc was what gave you an idea on what to try next. But there was a schizm between anime shows. My friends and I were watching stuff like fist of the north star, cowboy bebop, evangelion, gundam, ninja scroll, trigun, etc. To us, this was all that really existed in the world of anime. Anime was art, it made statements, it had an adult feel which made us feel way more mature than we were, and it had storytelling elements that we just didn't see in anything else. And then I went to college, and was like... I love anime! And people looked at me sideways, and I had no idea that their exposure to anime was stuff like dragonball, sailor moon, pokemon... stuff that I was vaguely aware existed, but had no idea of just how large these franchises were. I learned real quick to shut up about my enjoyment of anime, and while I still really enjoyed it and added to my collection whenever I could, it really pushed it underground because it was obvious that the shows I enjoyed were not what other people were watching. Fast forward 10 years, and I found myself moving to the midwest. A far more conservative culture than my Cali coast upbringing, and I was shocked to 'find my people' out here. Part of it was simply because I was older, and the people I interacted with were older, so while in high school they were watching the fluff anime, through their college years they too gravitated towards the more mature and interesting shows. TH-cam had become a thing, making those AMVs much more broadly available before content restrictions killed it, and so their discovery of anime was similar to mine... except instead of getting lucky finding a tape at a rental store, or having to fork over far too much money for a disc, there were lots of hack copies of anime available to watch online. Fast forward another 10 years and I went back to school to re-focus my career track, and I remember sitting in a common area trying to get some studying in, and overhearing a conversation of a jock asking this quiet introverted girl what the good anime shows were to watch next... he was concerned that if he didn't keep up, then his reputation of being cool would be damaged... and I was just blown away. Like, in 2000 me admitting that I liked anime in the general public hurt my reputation because people thought that I was some wierdo who liked overseas kids cartoons. And nearly 20 years later, in a small town jr college jocks were shaking kids down for info on cool anime to watch as a status buff... Somehow I missed the transition between anime being fringe to mainstream. Now, when there is a new person at work, I always ask what their favorite anime is... and I am shocked to always get an answer. Even people older than me in their 40s have a favorite anime. It is wild. Anywho, all of that to say that Cowboy Bebop didn't seem that out of place compared to the other shows I had been watching. If anything, compared to fist of the north star and ninja scroll, it seemed tame. All the same, even with someone who didn't have cowboy bebop shoved down my throat, it was still one of the easier shows to find and enjoy. I think the sound track alone really pushed it forward into my field of view.
I saw it as an angsty teen during its first or second run on adult swim. Those rainy nights, staying up way too late, the melancholy - it felt like it was made for me. Cowboy Bebop helped in some part to shape who I am today.
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Hey bro. You think you're really smart, but really, you're just a pretentious child. And vaccines can cause multiple different injuries and to deny that is anti science.
you're gonna carry that weight ;-;
@@MattSpoon07 I think at this stage he's baiting everyone so they comment and he gets more engagement. I unsubscribed to his channel last year when he wished death on Trump's mother (yeah, play politics if you want, but that's just evil)
The only Iconic end until Code Geass ending, said "hold my beer".
@@Z-Twinturbo Looks like you beat me to it.
I’m a simple man, I see Cowboy bebop. At this time and age I get the feeling of truly understanding the adult characters.
Preach!
Cowboy Bebop is one of very few Animes that is really for adults. Other shows have sex and violents, Cowboy Bebop has style!
@@stadtbekanntertunichtgut hence cowboy = bebop unibomer manifesto o boy it gets wield
@@based_prophet what lol
It's something so surreal, especially when you its late at night and toonami comes on and you suddenly see what it means to be alive
The badge of honor thing is true. I had a young dude work for me and was obsessed with anime but had never had seen Cowboy Bebop. I literally went out and bought him a copy to make sure he watched it. Apparently even his parents, who were like 15 years older than me ended up liking it too
Funny how you described Asuka and Rei as "breaks from stereotypes" in the 90s, and 20 years later they've become stereotypes in and of themselves.
It's one of the funniest things about showing NGE to newer anime fans, so many shows reference and pull ideas from NGE that it makes NGE feel like an amalgamation of stereotypes and tropes if you don't remind yourself that it came first.
There is something about the song "Real Folk Blues" that really twangs on my heartstrings. From the first time I heard it all the way up until today. It has that kind of melancholic anemoia that few musical pieces are able to carry. I was 16 when i first saw Bebop, and that song has stuck with me since. It reminds me of High School, it reminds me of The Jazz Age, it reminds me of comic conventions, it reminds me of the future. Such a bizarre and specific mixture of emotions and memories, and it feels like it becomes more potent with each passing year.
Yoko Kanno is a musical genius, it's that simple
Well said friend, well said
The translated lyrics bc oyy
Too many years have passed since my love for you
I have nothing left to keep on this love be lamented
Still I can feel the wind blowing deep inside
Through these wounds you left in my heart that’ll never be healed
One eye of mine can see what tomorrow is
But the other eye of mine is still lost in the yesterday
Oh, I would give it all just to fall asleep
In the cradle of your love like before, sound and peacefully
My dried up eyes won’t shed no tears, can anyone please cry for me?
THE REAL FOLK BLUES
Just tell me now, what is real sorrow like and how it feels
A life that’s soaked in mud is not that bad
If you live it through just once, with no refrain
You gotta end it all, no regrets
How come your only hope turns into despair?
Let yourself again be trapped in these fake, shallow chances
Somebody answer me, ‘What is good, what’s bad?’
Nothing more than the coin in your hand having two sides
How many more years have to come to make my scattered heart get healed?
THE REAL FOLK BLUES
Just tell me now, what is real joy like and how it feels
You try to reach for things that shine like gold
Don’t be tricked by their flitting light
THE REAL FOLK BLUES
Just tell me now, what is real sorrow like and how it feels
A life that’s soaked in mud is not that bad
If you live it through just once, with no refrain
You gotta end it all, no regrets
These videos inevitability take me down memory lane. I had a best friend who had the desire to spend ridiculous amounts of money on anime VHS and have viewing hang-outs with his friends. This era was golden college days for me.... Beer, White Wolf roleplaying, and watching a shit ton of anime. Good times.
I think I spent an arm and a leg for Sailor Moon R movie and a few other vhs tapes of random series at a comic book store in jr high. (1999 or 2000) It was part of the money I earned from my paper route.
Who are you? You have lived my life.
@@FournierSimon Just your average GenX age weeb and fantasy nerd. :) Being female made me a bit of an oddity, but not too much.
We out here, this channel is a nostalgia blast
You finally did it! Your starting 2023 with a BANG!
Feel that's a cowboy bebop reference 🤣
Cute
It takes a lot of skill and courage to create something new, that stand out from all the others, while at the same time being so well-made that it sticks with everyone that looks at it.
Cowboy bebop is like that struggling artist who went on to become the icon of their genre and in this case i'm glad the english voice actors put their heat and soul into it
Cowboy bebop will always go down as a legendary Anime with a soundtrack like this
All thanks to Yoko Kanno
@@broodo1 Have you heard the newer, acoustic rendition? "Real Folk Blues" For these day recorded during the pandemic? *Kills me*.
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People made opportunities for Bebop because they saw it and couldn't deny it's perfection.
Ever see a piece of art and just know that people need to see it for themselves?
Oh boy, I'm very excited to watch this. Bebop is so freaking good. Oh snap, the guest creators doing voice over is a great touch.
Facts, it's such a unique thing that I want to see more of on this channel.
Even my non-anime friends would watch Bebop with me, and enjoy it. Eva on the other hand...well, even people that like anime don't always appreciate how brilliant NGE is.
NGE is my favorite anime/manga, ahead of One Piece, Berserk, and Vagabond
right away this video was on point lol " i don't watch anime but i have seen cowboy bebop" was like one of the first things a teacher back in high school said to me when i said " watching anime was one of my hobby's" spent most of that class just discussing cowboy bebop now that i think about it lol
I finished watching Bebop last year, and that ending fuckin changed me, good grief
I'm surprised anyone, especially Mike, could ignore the music. You didn't even mention the seat belts, who still tour and play bebops ost regularly, reinventing the songs in true jazz fashion, and whooped ass in an online covid concert. They really rocked space lion...If you don't feel space lion your feelers are broken. Have you heard Sax Quartet? There's not many good composers that pulled off that trick.
Kano has had successes but bebops ost took on a life, and a career, of its own. As someone raised by a man who loves jazz I've heard a lot of it, and this ost did transcends and exemplifies a genre that most people had next to zero exposure to when they saw they show. By the time Tank! ended for the first time they were officially converted. I can't think of another example of truely modern jazz on this level. It's bold and new while in touch with the roots of the art form and true to the precepts of jazz.
The thing is, the anime is the ost, the ost is the anime, that absolute flawless victory is the fuel in the space jet that is bebop. You even experience the anime like a good album. You groove on it, you feel it. Each episode is unique but somehow forming an overall narrative and vibe. You turn them on and nod along, relishing the high points and the lead ups, reveling in how well crafted and masterfully executed these story beats and themes are. You come away with them stuck in your head, not necessarily as a story but as a groove to get lost in, to carry you through your day and become your background music for a while.
Bebop is not just a classic anime, it's an ongoing musical phenomenon
Preach! I was shocked that more time wasn't spent on the music.
Yoko Kanno should get her own episode
The opening and closing songs still remind me of fallng asleep to the show as a kid. I always wanted to stay up for Bebop, even if it was right at the edge of me being awake. The closing song of Bebop & Outlaw star will always be special for me.
Man, these behind the scenes type videos are some of my FAVORITE genres of stuff. I've always loved BP's stuff, but these ones always hit me harder.
Finding out the the weird series of steps, the actual backers, because sometimes I forget that media doesn't happen in a vacuum since I'm so far away from it's creation.
When I first saw Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim in 2003, it became my absolutely favorite anime. Been seeking something, anything that gives me the rush that this anime does. I was truly overwhelmed with its skill to make me feel emotionally invested at a time when I never wanted to feel a thing at all due to a lot of personal trauma that I won't get into here. I've seen a lot of anime and rewatched Cowboy Bebop since and I've been trying to find that special anime to top it. For me, I found that Spy x Family is getting there but it's still moving along in manga and on the air. I'm on pins and needles to see how it all comes together which is incredibly exciting. I hope that it does because I love seeing a medium I love keep evolving. The fact that it's taken 20 years for me to even consider something else near the number one spot is a testament to how incredible Cowboy Bebop really is.
I recommend Trigun cause it's kinda like Cowboy bebop but more western and more theological and philosophical in regards to its themes
Ik im months late but five samurai champloo a try it’s from the same creator the main character is even voiced by Steve Blum the same VA for Spike
No substitute for cowboy bebop but I'd say Trigun is pretty great and a lot of similar themes but more western. Outlaw star to me is similar in a few ways and great on its own.
Love Cowboy Bebop one of my favorites from my childhood and teenage years
29 years old and just watched this for the first time. Grew up watching anime my whole life and this is hands down the greatest.
Every question put forth in the 1st three minutes can be answered with......the duo of Shinichiro Watanabe & Yoko Kanno
The editing on this video reached a new level of engaging, I love the additional voices that were used!!
that was so cool to learn. I consider this and Samurai Champloo both to be my favorite anime, specially after I rewatched them as an adult. I had no idea of any of this.
This channel never ceases to amaze me with how high the quality of knowledge and research is that is put in these videos. I learned so much I never knew about Bebop!
OH THE NOSTALGIA!!! I’ve watched this anime raw in part. Those were the days.
Coincidentally, my wife and I were talking about our mutual love for this anime yesterday.
I hope this channel go big in 2023
Good job on adding additional nuance to Cowboy Bebop's historical context and cultural influence! 👏🏾
Bebop is one of my favourite series in tv history. This was awesome as always
My gateway was Robotech and Star Blazers. I did even know it was called anime back then, tell I bought the Robotech Art books and read in the back about it. My love for anime really started with the original 2030 Bubblegum Crisis and then Sailor moon. Cowboy Bebop came much later, and I was watching it like crazy on Adult Swim. I just could not get enough or bored with it.
I think that's the wrong photo of Jonathan Clements at 5.33. That Jonathan Clements' writes books on finance.
Fun fact: Did you know theres an original pencil drawing of Spike in the CN headquarters stairwell? Did you know an intern drew a Calarts doodle with a sharpie over it? Look it up, I'm not making this up. Search something like "spike drawing in cartoon network", it'll be the first result
This is the reason I follow this channel. Stories of passion literally change the world, change history. Artists who know that this may be their only shot and not caring, just putting their whole heart into their stories all the way.
There’s not a feeling more pure then passion, the unyielding passion of the artists who make these stories, the passion of the small or large group of fans who adore it, and the passion of those who take the risk to get these stories out.
Hell man, this is the kind of stuff that’ll make you cry. Keep it up. See you later, Space Cowboys.
Bang.
This is, to me, simply one of the greatest pieces of art to ever exist.
Perfect combination of everything involved.
Instant classic.
Probably one of the best dubs ever done.
Yeah! Been waiting for this one since Samurai Champloo! Get it fellas
Missed you guys! Let’s start off 2023 right because 2022 ended rough
I may not be a fan but I can't argue with the show's success and popularity and impact on everyone.
I remember when it first came to adult swim I told my mom I was staying up for this show not realizing it came on @12 and had school the next day boy I'm glad I did I witnessed history still till this day my favorite anime and it wasnt even my first anime
Everyone give dude a like so his videos get seen more. He did good work lets help him out.
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Dude had to snipe at ant-vaxers. I’m not claiming the group, but where did that come from?
"I don't watch anime but I've seen Cowboy Beebop and I liked it." That was my brother. He never got into anime with me but he at least didn't bad mouth it. And the fact that it was constantly playing on Adult Swim meant I always had something to watch if nothing else.
I have never seen all of this information on the history that MADE his so popular be put so well. Thanks for a fantastic video essay! Hope I can get my pacing for the longer projects to flow as well as your work...See You Space Cowboy
I've always been a big fan of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and knew she headed the VA for the show but had no idea just how impactful her being the head was to the vibe of the show. She is such a talented and charming person. I appreciate her work even more. Killer video as usual. hope to someday have the liquid to throw some money y'alls way
I genuinely felt like bebop was the best and my fav anime for about 20 years and it's still a one of a kind
Given this isn't your favorite, you did an absolutely awesome analysis and told the story of Bebop in a way that had me on the edge of my seat. Banger as always my guy 🌵👍
Wow, amazing video sir. Bebop is defiantly top tier anime. It's animation alone still holds up today. Much like Akira. Rurouni Kenshin and Cowboy Bebop are what helped solidify my love for the genre. I do watch it at least once a year myself. As I've grown as a person. I've also grown to love the Jazz genre of music. Again, with the help of Bebop. The soundtrack is just, AMAZING!!! I have all the OST's on Spotify. One of these days I will get a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. And yes, he will be named Einstein! I am very much a firm believer that this is a much watch for beginners into the fray of anime. It's essential to watch to see that anime is not just some hokey cartoons for geeks. It's a heavy mixture of Eastern and Western cultures. So much deep themes. Now the Netflix version.....haha.
love the behind the scenes videos, it's hard to find something people haven't talked about with cowboy bebop 1000 times
It's insane how Bebop aired 25 years ago and after decades of seeing anime and seeing quite a good number of masterpieces, I can't think of a single one that can top it. It could be a bit of nostalgia but even after trying to analise it objectively, I still think I haven`t seen a piece of art that trascends it's own medium like Bebop did for anime with many layers of complexity and with so much style.
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I loved Cowboy Bebop! See you Space Cowboy! :D
Goddammit, I've seen this show through three times and I swore I was done. Now I kinda wanna watch it again in hopes that maybe THIS TIME it'll click for me. You are too powerful.
bebop you don't stop, the original bpop bebop vid is in their playlists if you're interested
Bebop will forever be one of my favorite animes, actually just re-watched it recently. Great vid, love your stuff
I love cowboy bebop. Rewatched it last year in both sub and dub and bought it physically on Blu-ray. Remember watching on adult swim as a kid and liked it then but appreciated it more as an adult. Also it was nice surprise that Grant was in this video! Brings me back to the old bonsai pop days. 😊
Slick piece of work that nailed everything about the show. Nice to reminisce about this show.
That concluding paragraph was really well done. Very well-written.
When a reviewer is so incredibly talented as a wordsmith that you can listen to his videos without watching the visuals but still get the entire picture of the episode in question.. that's this channel.
What a joy to also learn Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Steve Blum are married. Spike and Julia are a couple irl now too!
That is the most metal thing ever
This is my favorite video from you guys in a while. Not only do I love the anime but the "Story You Never Knew" format was great and highly informative. It was fun to hear some familiar voices playing guest roles too!
Thanks for talking about the history of the luck needed for Cowboy Bebop to become such a hit. I wasn't aware of all the details. Cowboy Bebop may not be my favorite anime, but it sure is one of the most unique anime ever made.
Between the music and voice actors, Bebop isn't just a mood, but most of them, and all chill.
great video!
And then Netflix fucked it all up.
What coincidence that this video is the first to come up on my feed just right after I unboxed and display my Cowboy Bebop figures. It is one of my all time favorite anime that I grew up watching as a 90s kid and still watch it like once a year. A true classic and a masterpiece that will live on in the ages to come.
The story that needed to be told about the series that needed to be made. Such passion from the creators, VA, distributors to make and share this iconic piece of art. LOVE IT
one of the smoothest and most compelling patreon plugs ive ever heard, well done fr.
I’ve never been so early, so I’ve never given appreciation to videos like this, but this was a great video to start my day! You’re killin’ it!!
Your patreon pitch has gotten pick up artist smooth lol. I barely realized I was being wooed until more than half way through
What an incredible video. This is one of the most thought-out, well-produced and engaging TH-cam essays I've seen in some time. Instant sub.
Cowboy Bebop is above all other Animes in its own class!
Interesting, this is going to be good!
What I hear you saying is:
1. It was just (barely) commercial enough to get greenlit.
2. It was noncommercial enough to be left alone by upper management since they never had that much faith in it to begin with.
3. It was good enough to inspire the lower management types most directly involved with it (the animation studio, Bandai Visual, the dub company, Cartoon Network) to make it the best possible show it could be, and promote it in the best possible, practical way it could get an audience.
4. It was really that good.
In high school on multiple days my brother and I wouldn't go to sleep until like 1 or 2 am. It was easy as our parents didn't get home from work until right after the AS Toonami block ended.
Even my mom fell in love with Cowboy Bebop and Trigun.
Loved this show, only recently saw it completely; love it even more now.
5:40 Geoff from Mother's Basement!
This is so interesting and it explains why it’s kinda forgotten in Japan except for anime historians, but so popular over here. It’s like Evangelion of the west. It’s definitely one of my favorites, and it’s so cool that it was playing for years. I honestly just think that Cowboy Bebop is just good television, anime or not. Also it’s not a seinen.
I caught it halfway through it's first run in 2001 and that was all I needed. And then Adult Swim strates their anime block on Saturdays and I got to see so many more cool series. It's a perfect starter anime because it's both very good and also very easy to watch since it's such a short series.
For some reason that first scene with the rose is bone chilling with the music and the setting
I love the wild arms music in the background - that took me back
Thank you bonsai pop. Bebop will probably be relevant a century from now, cant say the same thing for alot of media out there. Truly a timeless classic, and what memories. Grew up watching this with my brother late at night, good times.
My city had anime stores in the 90s. You could buy the anime, but you could also rent it. There was a martial arts supply store that along with selling martial arts gear, rented martial arts movies and anime. There was also a network television station (local, not Sci fi) that showed anime late night on Sundays.
I bought all of the bebop soundtrack cds back in the day. They were all amazing.
That being said, what made bebop stand out was how it fused the elements that you mentioned. Yes, Noir, western, action and sci fi had all been done, but it had not been done TOGETHER. Bebop was a fusion of multiple genres interwoven with a jazz type sound. It is the same formula watanabe used for samurai champloo. That fusion was something that hadn't been seen before, and we all loved it.
I didn't watch evangelion until several years after i saw bebop.
An amazing anime, and one of those that was my gateway into it.
Along with Ninja Scroll & DBZ.
forever my favourite anime even after 14 years of first seeing it
Woohoo, here we go starting another year with a BANG!
This story reminds me of how movies like "It's a Wonderful Life" & " AChristmas Story" became traditional holiday season staples because circumstances made it easy for TV or cable stations to air them in heavy rotation during the season.
9/2/2001, Bebop came on adult swim(which was new too atm) was so happy to watch it but 9 days later that happiness was completely overtaken, especially being a New Yorker, and Bebop was put under the radar in my world and I wouldnt discover it until 2003 by my late best friend David. Bebop will always remind me of that awful event that happened a week later bc it really did change so much. This show is VERY special to me for so many reasons and it was nice to learn that anime is beyond fantasy(DBZ). Thank you for this and shout out to Cartoon Network for Toonami/Adult Swim!
dont you mean like 9 months later?
@@SteveIsHavingMC um 9/11 buddy...
@@Scantronacon which is 9 months later than 9/2...
@@SteveIsHavingMC 9/11/2001 when the towers fell. What are you talking about?
@@Scantronacon 11th of september, which would be 11/9/2001, yes
at the 1:55 you mention an anime that I really loved, Trigun, I had completely forgotten about it, Thank you!
criminal this doesnt have more views. love you guys. been watching for years
I met Blum, nice guy,he quoted Megas XLR
Been waiting for a video like this for years. Thank you, Sir. 🥃☘️
At the VERY end of August 2001 I went to The Big Apple Anime Fest where I met and talked to Yoko Kanno and see the North American premiere of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door). I still have my promo poster and t-shirt. It was one of the more amazing things in my life. To see the movie on a big screen and with so many fans will be something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
Growing up where I did, there was no option for toonami and adult swim. Finding anime to watch was typically about watching an AMV downloaded from a sketchy website (which took hours overnight to download a 5 minute video lol), figuring out what in the hell you just watched, and hunting it down. Typically blockbuster or hollywood video would have a few basic shows to start from, and when DVDs started coming out, being able to flip through the previews of other shows on the disc was what gave you an idea on what to try next.
But there was a schizm between anime shows. My friends and I were watching stuff like fist of the north star, cowboy bebop, evangelion, gundam, ninja scroll, trigun, etc. To us, this was all that really existed in the world of anime. Anime was art, it made statements, it had an adult feel which made us feel way more mature than we were, and it had storytelling elements that we just didn't see in anything else.
And then I went to college, and was like... I love anime! And people looked at me sideways, and I had no idea that their exposure to anime was stuff like dragonball, sailor moon, pokemon... stuff that I was vaguely aware existed, but had no idea of just how large these franchises were. I learned real quick to shut up about my enjoyment of anime, and while I still really enjoyed it and added to my collection whenever I could, it really pushed it underground because it was obvious that the shows I enjoyed were not what other people were watching.
Fast forward 10 years, and I found myself moving to the midwest. A far more conservative culture than my Cali coast upbringing, and I was shocked to 'find my people' out here. Part of it was simply because I was older, and the people I interacted with were older, so while in high school they were watching the fluff anime, through their college years they too gravitated towards the more mature and interesting shows. TH-cam had become a thing, making those AMVs much more broadly available before content restrictions killed it, and so their discovery of anime was similar to mine... except instead of getting lucky finding a tape at a rental store, or having to fork over far too much money for a disc, there were lots of hack copies of anime available to watch online.
Fast forward another 10 years and I went back to school to re-focus my career track, and I remember sitting in a common area trying to get some studying in, and overhearing a conversation of a jock asking this quiet introverted girl what the good anime shows were to watch next... he was concerned that if he didn't keep up, then his reputation of being cool would be damaged... and I was just blown away. Like, in 2000 me admitting that I liked anime in the general public hurt my reputation because people thought that I was some wierdo who liked overseas kids cartoons. And nearly 20 years later, in a small town jr college jocks were shaking kids down for info on cool anime to watch as a status buff... Somehow I missed the transition between anime being fringe to mainstream. Now, when there is a new person at work, I always ask what their favorite anime is... and I am shocked to always get an answer. Even people older than me in their 40s have a favorite anime. It is wild.
Anywho, all of that to say that Cowboy Bebop didn't seem that out of place compared to the other shows I had been watching. If anything, compared to fist of the north star and ninja scroll, it seemed tame. All the same, even with someone who didn't have cowboy bebop shoved down my throat, it was still one of the easier shows to find and enjoy. I think the sound track alone really pushed it forward into my field of view.
Hype for a new bpop video!
I saw it as an angsty teen during its first or second run on adult swim. Those rainy nights, staying up way too late, the melancholy - it felt like it was made for me. Cowboy Bebop helped in some part to shape who I am today.
Me and you both.
@@stoicbartenderlots and lots of us brutha . We all carry that weight!
Bruh called Shinji a wet blanket hahahahahahahahah. Awesome vid.
Ahh that Patreon slip in was smoooth as butter 🧈
I watched it on Winamp streaming and it was my first anime.
Thank you for another excellent episode 👏