I honestly don't see how this doesn't have more views. it fits the anime so perfectly. just how they are always roaming and that's "no place for a hero to call home"
Well, 200k plus is cool but Cowboy Bebop isn't mainstream popular, and it is mainly just playing music over the scenes rather than more complex editing with the song
When I first started it I was dam only one season. But I couldn’t ask for a more perfect ending. I love it the way it is. Lighters up for the bebop boys 🙌
What a anime, this one is the most prominent for me (like many people) by the story of this anime, that's not just a story of an hero but a group. And I guess that's the power of this one, in all case well done for the montage man 😉
It's the authenticity of the characters that gives it that power, they don't lie to themselves or each other and people usually admire that vulnerability in people because they too scared to live that way. But yeah it's the characters n, they are people you could bump into today in public and have no idea what the fuck is going on or what they're fighting because they don't rely on others to fight their battles, clean up their messes, or to come and save them. Death is inevitable and they've made peace with it maybe even finding comfort in it. So they're not trying to live up to some crazy expectations or trying to be absolutely good. No they embrace their darkside and use it a lot to their advantage. Their not bad people but their not good people either... They're just people; messy and nuanced. That's what makes the show special and feel like you know these people . Maybe that will give some insight on why you wanna like other things but find yourself not connecting . Probably because they're not being who or what they truly are or at least not showing it.
beautiful AMV, I was about to say that was not the name of the song but I see you explained in the description, again amazing amav and thank you for sharing
Wow. I never realized it before, in all the times i've watched the show...Vicious is afraid of Spike. he has been for years. Something about that moment when they were fighting back-to-back just brought it home to me.
In Session 1, Laughing Bull foretells of Spike's death being brought on by a woman. Laughing Bull: Swimming bird will meet a woman. The bird will be hunted by this woman. And then death. Spike: One more time. Laughing Bull: What's that? Spike: I was killed once before by a woman. Spike is speaking of Julia. Losing her love was so painful as to be considered a form of death. He was left in a detached dream-like purgatory from that day on. In Session 26, Julia is shot in front of Spike. White doves fly by in slow motion. Horror, shock, and agony are expressed in Spike's left eye. He screams her name, drops his weapon, and runs to her. He takes her in his arms. Hears her last words, which are inaudible to the audience. Spike looks down at his lost love and then up to the sky. The camera is now focused on Spike's right eye, which is shaking in a disturbing manner. The camera zooms into Spike's pupil and everything fades to black. The next scene is of Laughing Bull predicting Spike's imminent death. Holding Julia's coat, Vicious speaks of Spike. Vicious: A beast that has lost his place. He has nowhere to return to now. He will come. Vicious is both right and wrong. Spike will come, but he does have somewhere to return to one last time. Two rose petals are shown blowing away in the wind. Spike returns to the Bebop and tells Jet a story. An allegory about his life which he uses to explain why he will never return. Spike: There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life. Jet is keenly aware that Spike's death looms in the horizon. He is wary of the tale's implications. When Spike gets up to leave, Jet asks him one last question. Jet: Is it for the girl? Spike: [beat] She's dead. There's nothing I can do for her now. This is true. Julia is dead. There is nothing Spike can do for her. This does not lessen the impact she has on the events that are about to unfold. Jet understands this. Upon hearing of Julia's death, he has a resigned if devastated reaction. He knows exactly what this means for Spike. Faye confronts Spike while holding him at gunpoint. She knows that he is marching towards his death. Faye: Where are you going? Why, are you going? You told me once, to forget the past, ‘cause it doesn’t matter, but you’re the one still tied to the past, Spike! Spike does not deny this. Instead, he explains the truth about his eyes. The camera spans from his left eye to his right eye. Spike: Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. Faye: Don’t tell me things like that; you’ve never told me anything about yourself, so don’t tell me now! Spike: I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over. This is not the first time Spike has expressed this sentiment. One of his most revelatory quotes was said in the teaser for Ballad of Fallen Angels. Spike: The music box is broken, or is it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air. I wake suddenly from my dream. There is no music box! And yet there it is. A tiny one nestled in my hand. And I awaken from my dream again. As if I were peeling an onion. It’s a dream no matter how far I go. I can never reach reality. Trapped in an endless nightmare. Spike is so affected by the loss of the woman he loves that even an item she once possessed haunts him. It is her death that has finally woken him from his detached dream-like state. Faye shares with Spike that her memory has returned. She explains that there was nowhere for her to go back to. She pleads with him to stay. Spike ignores her please and instead leaves her with these parting words. Spike: I’m not going there to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. I have to do it, Faye. Faye is not comforted by this statement. The audience should not be comforted either. Spike's words eerily echo what Jet said to him in session 25. Jet: Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive. Faye cries and shoots off her gun. An act reminiscent of the 21-gun salute that is used in the military to honor the fallen. Spike walks away from Faye without looking back. He is never shown thinking about anyone from the Bebop again. The song "See You Space Cowboy" plays as Spike leaves the Bebop. "Everything is already over", You say with closed ears The words only flow Towards a tomorrow without peace "There's nothing that won't change" 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 Rainbow in your hands... The camera zooms in on Spike's left eye. The eye that sees Spike's past. The lyrics begin as Spike is recalling romantic memories of Julia. He thinks of the first time he saw Julia and was captivated by her beauty. He thinks of a time when he made love to Julia and she cradled him in her arms. Given that Spike confided to Jet just the previous session that Julia was a part of him, the image shows a moment in Spike's life when he felt whole. Spike: She was a piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that I had longed for. The song continues to play as Spike attacks the syndicate. It is a ballad of undying love alluding to lovers being reunited in the afterlife. When Spike faces off against his hated rival, Vicious makes a proclamation. Vicious: So, you're finally awake. I told you before, Spike. I'm the only one who can kill you and set you free. Spike does not deny this. But makes a proclamation of his own. Spike: Those words apply to you as well, Vicious. During their fight, there comes a moment where the two disarm each other by swapping weapons. Vicious getting Spike's gun and Spike getting Vicious's katana. It is at this moment that Spike makes a statement of great significance to both men. Spike: Julia passed away. Let's end it all. Vicious: If that's your wish. The rivals return their weapons. Spike shoots Vicious but gets sliced across the abdomen. Vicious's death comes quickly, while Spike lingers as was foreshadowed. Vicious: Don't forget, a snake's venom poisons slowly after the bite. Spike watches Vicious's body fall to the ground, spends but a few of seconds looking at him, then looks up to the night's sky. The camera is focused on Spike's right eye. Now calm. Spike sees Julia. This is the first time in the entire series that Spike is shown seeing Julia with his right eye. In session 13, during an auditory flashback, Spike and Julia discuss his eyes. Spike: My left eye sees the past. Julia: What about your right eye? We do not hear his response. In the penultimate scene of the series, we are specifically shown what Spike sees with his eye that sees his present. He sees her. In Spike's vision, Julia is cast in a white light. She says her last words to Spike, this time they are audible to the audience. Spike is shown reflected back in Julia's eye. He glumly concurs with her. Spike is then completely engulfed by a blinding white light. The scene fades to white. This light is reminiscent of the divine light that is cast upon a soul that is ready to ascend to heaven. Julia: It's all a dream. Spike: Yeah. Just a bad dream. From white we transition to the final scene of the series. It is now day. A white light is now cast over the entire syndicate. Spike smiles, points a finger gun at the remaining syndicate goons and says "bang". This is a callback to Wen from session 6. As Wen was dying he asked Spike if he understood the relief that came with one's own death. In response, Spike threw Wen's harmonica up in the air, pretended to shoot it while saying "bang", but then said "as if". When Spike says "bang" this time he is acknowledging that he now understands that relief. Spike falls to the ground. He is never shown moving again. White doves are shown flying over Spike's body. White doves also flew by Julia when she died. The camera follows an ascension into the heavens, while the song "Blue" plays. The song's lyrics allude to a soul ascending to heaven. Free Wanna be free Gonna be free And move among the stars You know, they really aren't so far Feels so free Gotta know free Please Don't wake me from the dream It's really everything it seems I'm so free No black and white in the blue Everything is clearer now Life is just a dream, you know That's never-ending I'm ascending At the end of the credits a star goes out but never falls. In session 13, Laughing Bull informs the audience to what a falling star truly is. Laughing Bull: The tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battle. A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm. Where the great spirit awaits us all. Given that the star we are shown does not fall, it is reasonable to infer that the soul the star belonged to did make its way to the great spirit that awaits us all. That soul has broken away from the cycle of death and rebirth and is never coming back. As was foreshadowed to happen to Spike in the fable of the tiger striped cat, who followed his love into death and never returned.
You really brought back so many memories both from C.Bebob and some very personal. You really did connect the dots as far as the series goes including some very insightful details. Thank you, it was like watching a short episode of the best parts of bebob in my memories.
I never walk into a place I’m not prepared to blast my way out of if I have to. My friend says I always scope out the exits and pick a table where I can watch people walk in. I tell him “ these days you gotta give yourself every edge you can get”
Yeah yeah, you preach hatred 🥱👌. I took your last place to hide, I get it you like the dark, mortal enemies since Finishing me brings back the dark sooooo original 🥱🤝. Questioning is a cute bandage on the knees you fell for them on huh. 😎.
I miss the age of AMVs, these are still works of art
Age of AMVS, wdym ?
@@vegetaspride2890 Early TH-cam was a wild place
@@grendel7716 tbh it wasnt so long ago. Few years back.
I miss it too
@@grendel7716 Can you elaborate ?
I honestly don't see how this doesn't have more views. it fits the anime so perfectly. just how they are always roaming and that's
"no place for a hero to call home"
Uc
FAX MAN
Well, 200k plus is cool but Cowboy Bebop isn't mainstream popular, and it is mainly just playing music over the scenes rather than more complex editing with the song
Cuz the people who actually listen to this song listen to the one with borderlands in the background
@@Henbotalso no one in this vid is a 'hero' so the song doesn't fit
"you going to carry all that weight?" "See you later space cowboy"
Dope. Good job Cowboy
Thanks mang
🥰
@@rumgut1987 l
Aaaah thank you thank you thank you
When I first started it I was dam only one season. But I couldn’t ask for a more perfect ending. I love it the way it is. Lighters up for the bebop boys 🙌
Great AMV. Perfect song choice for Cowboy Bebop and good editing. Good work!
"This is my first ever AMV so any and all feedback will be appreciated" : Nailed it.
This. This is so good. Perfect AMV if you ask me.
What a anime, this one is the most prominent for me (like many people) by the story of this anime, that's not just a story of an hero but a group. And I guess that's the power of this one, in all case well done for the montage man 😉
It's the authenticity of the characters that gives it that power, they don't lie to themselves or each other and people usually admire that vulnerability in people because they too scared to live that way. But yeah it's the characters n, they are people you could bump into today in public and have no idea what the fuck is going on or what they're fighting because they don't rely on others to fight their battles, clean up their messes, or to come and save them. Death is inevitable and they've made peace with it maybe even finding comfort in it. So they're not trying to live up to some crazy expectations or trying to be absolutely good. No they embrace their darkside and use it a lot to their advantage. Their not bad people but their not good people either... They're just people; messy and nuanced. That's what makes the show special and feel like you know these people . Maybe that will give some insight on why you wanna like other things but find yourself not connecting . Probably because they're not being who or what they truly are or at least not showing it.
@@Scarethelocals love yours point of view
@@BatonKB I appreciate that very much!
Man i love this amv snd cowboy bebob but this make want to play botderlands 2
It's so good, i really really enjoy it❤❤🔥
video worked really well with the song. thanks for making this
Love it. ❤
Great job!! I enjoyed it!!
Damn, this is perfect
This is perfect🖤🖤🖤
One of my Favorite Songs and Anime Combined
Thanks and good work
I love this show and I really like this song from the movie Faster with the Rock
Very well done.
You did amazing work on this ☺️
beautiful AMV, I was about to say that was not the name of the song but I see you explained in the description, again amazing amav and thank you for sharing
Years later and I still love this song
You gonna carry that weight
Hell!!!! Yessss🤘😈
This was beautiful to watch.
Now this song make wanna see bebop
Beautifully done
Can't believe Netflix screwed up so bad with this show...
AMV was perfect, enjoy for listening thank you.
That was nice!
This I listened to once I played Borderlands. Very nice ember barries👌
Joyaza crj 😎
Wow. I never realized it before, in all the times i've watched the show...Vicious is afraid of Spike. he has been for years. Something about that moment when they were fighting back-to-back just brought it home to me.
Bang!
In Session 1, Laughing Bull foretells of Spike's death being brought on by a woman.
Laughing Bull: Swimming bird will meet a woman. The bird will be hunted by this woman. And then death.
Spike: One more time.
Laughing Bull: What's that?
Spike: I was killed once before by a woman.
Spike is speaking of Julia. Losing her love was so painful as to be considered a form of death. He was left in a detached dream-like purgatory from that day on.
In Session 26, Julia is shot in front of Spike. White doves fly by in slow motion. Horror, shock, and agony are expressed in Spike's left eye. He screams her name, drops his weapon, and runs to her. He takes her in his arms. Hears her last words, which are inaudible to the audience.
Spike looks down at his lost love and then up to the sky. The camera is now focused on Spike's right eye, which is shaking in a disturbing manner. The camera zooms into Spike's pupil and everything fades to black.
The next scene is of Laughing Bull predicting Spike's imminent death.
Holding Julia's coat, Vicious speaks of Spike.
Vicious: A beast that has lost his place. He has nowhere to return to now. He will come.
Vicious is both right and wrong. Spike will come, but he does have somewhere to return to one last time.
Two rose petals are shown blowing away in the wind.
Spike returns to the Bebop and tells Jet a story. An allegory about his life which he uses to explain why he will never return.
Spike: There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
Jet is keenly aware that Spike's death looms in the horizon. He is wary of the tale's implications.
When Spike gets up to leave, Jet asks him one last question.
Jet: Is it for the girl?
Spike: [beat] She's dead. There's nothing I can do for her now.
This is true. Julia is dead. There is nothing Spike can do for her. This does not lessen the impact she has on the events that are about to unfold. Jet understands this. Upon hearing of Julia's death, he has a resigned if devastated reaction. He knows exactly what this means for Spike.
Faye confronts Spike while holding him at gunpoint. She knows that he is marching towards his death.
Faye: Where are you going? Why, are you going? You told me once, to forget the past, ‘cause it doesn’t matter, but you’re the one still tied to the past, Spike!
Spike does not deny this. Instead, he explains the truth about his eyes. The camera spans from his left eye to his right eye.
Spike: Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.
Faye: Don’t tell me things like that; you’ve never told me anything about yourself, so don’t tell me now!
Spike: I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over.
This is not the first time Spike has expressed this sentiment. One of his most revelatory quotes was said in the teaser for Ballad of Fallen Angels.
Spike: The music box is broken, or is it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air. I wake suddenly from my dream. There is no music box! And yet there it is. A tiny one nestled in my hand. And I awaken from my dream again. As if I were peeling an onion. It’s a dream no matter how far I go. I can never reach reality. Trapped in an endless nightmare.
Spike is so affected by the loss of the woman he loves that even an item she once possessed haunts him. It is her death that has finally woken him from his detached dream-like state.
Faye shares with Spike that her memory has returned. She explains that there was nowhere for her to go back to. She pleads with him to stay.
Spike ignores her please and instead leaves her with these parting words.
Spike: I’m not going there to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. I have to do it, Faye.
Faye is not comforted by this statement. The audience should not be comforted either. Spike's words eerily echo what Jet said to him in session 25.
Jet: Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.
Faye cries and shoots off her gun. An act reminiscent of the 21-gun salute that is used in the military to honor the fallen.
Spike walks away from Faye without looking back. He is never shown thinking about anyone from the Bebop again.
The song "See You Space Cowboy" plays as Spike leaves the Bebop.
"Everything is already over",
You say with closed ears
The words only flow
Towards a tomorrow without peace
"There's nothing that won't change"
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
Rainbow in your hands...
The camera zooms in on Spike's left eye. The eye that sees Spike's past. The lyrics begin as Spike is recalling romantic memories of Julia. He thinks of the first time he saw Julia and was captivated by her beauty. He thinks of a time when he made love to Julia and she cradled him in her arms.
Given that Spike confided to Jet just the previous session that Julia was a part of him, the image shows a moment in Spike's life when he felt whole.
Spike: She was a piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that I had longed for.
The song continues to play as Spike attacks the syndicate. It is a ballad of undying love alluding to lovers being reunited in the afterlife.
When Spike faces off against his hated rival, Vicious makes a proclamation.
Vicious: So, you're finally awake. I told you before, Spike. I'm the only one who can kill you and set you free.
Spike does not deny this. But makes a proclamation of his own.
Spike: Those words apply to you as well, Vicious.
During their fight, there comes a moment where the two disarm each other by swapping weapons. Vicious getting Spike's gun and Spike getting Vicious's katana. It is at this moment that Spike makes a statement of great significance to both men.
Spike: Julia passed away. Let's end it all.
Vicious: If that's your wish.
The rivals return their weapons. Spike shoots Vicious but gets sliced across the abdomen.
Vicious's death comes quickly, while Spike lingers as was foreshadowed.
Vicious: Don't forget, a snake's venom poisons slowly after the bite.
Spike watches Vicious's body fall to the ground, spends but a few of seconds looking at him, then looks up to the night's sky. The camera is focused on Spike's right eye. Now calm.
Spike sees Julia. This is the first time in the entire series that Spike is shown seeing Julia with his right eye.
In session 13, during an auditory flashback, Spike and Julia discuss his eyes.
Spike: My left eye sees the past.
Julia: What about your right eye?
We do not hear his response.
In the penultimate scene of the series, we are specifically shown what Spike sees with his eye that sees his present. He sees her.
In Spike's vision, Julia is cast in a white light. She says her last words to Spike, this time they are audible to the audience. Spike is shown reflected back in Julia's eye. He glumly concurs with her. Spike is then completely engulfed by a blinding white light. The scene fades to white. This light is reminiscent of the divine light that is cast upon a soul that is ready to ascend to heaven.
Julia: It's all a dream.
Spike: Yeah. Just a bad dream.
From white we transition to the final scene of the series. It is now day. A white light is now cast over the entire syndicate.
Spike smiles, points a finger gun at the remaining syndicate goons and says "bang".
This is a callback to Wen from session 6. As Wen was dying he asked Spike if he understood the relief that came with one's own death. In response, Spike threw Wen's harmonica up in the air, pretended to shoot it while saying "bang", but then said "as if". When Spike says "bang" this time he is acknowledging that he now understands that relief.
Spike falls to the ground. He is never shown moving again. White doves are shown flying over Spike's body. White doves also flew by Julia when she died.
The camera follows an ascension into the heavens, while the song "Blue" plays. The song's lyrics allude to a soul ascending to heaven.
Free
Wanna be free
Gonna be free
And move among the stars
You know, they really aren't so far
Feels so free
Gotta know free
Please
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seems
I'm so free
No black and white in the blue
Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream, you know
That's never-ending
I'm ascending
At the end of the credits a star goes out but never falls.
In session 13, Laughing Bull informs the audience to what a falling star truly is.
Laughing Bull: The tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battle. A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm. Where the great spirit awaits us all.
Given that the star we are shown does not fall, it is reasonable to infer that the soul the star belonged to did make its way to the great spirit that awaits us all.
That soul has broken away from the cycle of death and rebirth and is never coming back. As was foreshadowed to happen to Spike in the fable of the tiger striped cat, who followed his love into death and never returned.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts
You really brought back so many memories both from C.Bebob and some very personal. You really did connect the dots as far as the series goes including some very insightful details. Thank you, it was like watching a short episode of the best parts of bebob in my memories.
Never heard this song before, but I love it,
Damn man this song brings me back to bl2 days... Damn good days
bl2 is still my favorite game by a long shot, might just be nostalgia but god damn the memories are just so good.
No plAce love it zar8ota
See you space cowboy.
Excelente!!
SPIKE SPIEGEL LIVES
Shit slaps 🤠
Hasta la próxima vaquero espacial (aún duele el final)
Nombre del anime?
@@cherckverdolagues4092 Cowboy Bebop, a masterpiece of animes
@@emanoelg7804 gracias bro
Song is called short change hero
Hunk Hunk Hunk thy love ❤
borderlands intro song??
The name of the song is short change hero.
Song and artist please?!
Ain't this from borderlands?
Short change hero.
Nice
Shaggy beats goku😎
Anime name
Welcome to Pandora kiddos
Nice videos
You got him Spike
This song hits different...
2024
Still the best
💪🔥👍
Gold
...Bang.
Да не умер он в конце "Бибопа"
I'm sorry the moment the song came on I'm thinking Borderlands
you can just say short change hero
Rebecca is going to superjail!
Tvd?
See you space cowboy
see ya space cowboy
"There's no place for a simp"
Wut
*cough cough*
Borderlands
*cough*
Anyone else recognize this from borderlands?
Borderlands 2 trailer
intro too
Hey you guys😂
Borderlands 3 opening
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B.m.n.B.
Borderlands does it best
Thru blue's.
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I never walk into a place I’m not prepared to blast my way out of if I have to. My friend says I always scope out the exits and pick a table where I can watch people walk in. I tell him “ these days you gotta give yourself every edge you can get”
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Yeah yeah, you preach hatred 🥱👌. I took your last place to hide, I get it you like the dark, mortal enemies since Finishing me brings back the dark sooooo original 🥱🤝. Questioning is a cute bandage on the knees you fell for them on huh. 😎.
I reject this premise, too cliché.
This song does not fit with Spike, you should know better.
Nice
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