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Beyond Anime: The Story of Cowboy Bebop
Not many shows can stand the test of time but also continue to present an incredible number of interpretations long past their conclusion. Cowboy Bebop is such a show, and it is uniquely presented with such a wonderful pairing of dramatic and humorous narrative with an equally exciting soundtrack of space jazz that has made it a calling card that many have gone back to, time and time again, for inspiration and reflection.
But how does a show do this? How can it change people’s perceptions while, in reality, the episodes themselves cannot change?
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What is Cowboy Bebop?
Cowboy Bebop is a Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. It was created and animated by Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno, who are collectively billed as Hajime Yatate.
The series, which ran for twenty-six episodes (dubbed "sessions"), is set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of a traveling bounty-hunting crew aboard a spaceship, the Bebop. Although it incorporates a wide variety of genres, the series draws most heavily from science fiction, Western, and noir films. Its most prominent themes are existential boredom, loneliness, and the inability to escape one's past.
The series was dubbed into English by Animaze and ZRO Limit Productions, and was originally licensed in North America by Bandai Entertainment (and is now licensed by Crunchyroll) and in Britain by Beez Entertainment (now by Anime Limited); Madman Entertainment owns the license in Australia and New Zealand. In 2001, it became the first anime title to be broadcast on Adult Swim.
Cowboy Bebop has been hailed as one of the best animated television series of all time. It was a critical and commercial success both in Japanese and international markets, most notably in the United States. It garnered several major anime and science-fiction awards upon its release, and received acclaim from critics and audiences for its style, characters, story, voice acting, animation, and soundtrack. The English dub was particularly lauded and is regarded as one of the best anime English dubs. Credited with helping to introduce anime to a new wave of Western viewers in the early 2000s, Cowboy Bebop has also been called a gateway series for anime as a whole.
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  • @BNK2442
    @BNK2442 5 годин тому

    I never understood why people talk about "violence agaisnt women" as this big issue. Women have lower chances of being victims of violent crimes.

  • @BNK2442
    @BNK2442 5 годин тому

    Being fair, Rust was just quiting Thomas Ligotti, Eugene Thacker and David Benatar.

    • @BNK2442
      @BNK2442 5 годин тому

      The whole "human conciousness was a mistake" was probable taken from Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against Human Race, and Ligotti was talking about the ideas of Peter Wessel Zapffe, for example.

  • @yourfellowsimmer5368
    @yourfellowsimmer5368 14 годин тому

    My all time favorite Tintin media is the 1957-1964 animated series. I was just watching the full Destination Moon season on UA-cam the ither day. Which I'm assuming is the reason this video showed up in my algorithm

  • @brajkraft
    @brajkraft 21 годину тому

    Intro was hilarious, but I strongly dissagree. I liked this season 4 very very close to how good season 1 was. Give it a shoot atleast. Some more themes is the dealing of trauma through confrontation, family shared pain. And of course the message of keeping on and not letting loss keep you from gaining new value in life. Pretty good stuff that is is useful in life, And personally I loved the ovarnatural elements and horror. And yes those caribou look dopey as hell.

  • @heroedeleyenda05
    @heroedeleyenda05 День тому

    Man that ending really hit hard! I always ponder about what a loss to society it has been to lose patrice. But seeing that montage of him growing up Actually got me sentimental

  • @Coach-DC
    @Coach-DC День тому

    Thank you for this. I've only found Patrice recently.

  • @timidbeauty2355
    @timidbeauty2355 День тому

    Oh I just love him! Love him! I have literally been heartbroken since December 18, 1997. 😍❤️😭💔

  • @F3PIZZA
    @F3PIZZA День тому

    Tally Ho playing cards are what I use, own, and love the most! Originally only available in NYC or specialty stores such as magic shops. The Fan Back specifically is my favorite deck of all time. I’m working on collecting every color ever produced!

  • @mygoogleemail2063
    @mygoogleemail2063 День тому

    I hear echos of Chappelle.

  • @ste8659
    @ste8659 День тому

    to many flakes about the place

  • @Wilde316
    @Wilde316 День тому

    Amazing how all he had to say about grape was that it's funny for men to be graped, everyone would laugh and say it's ok.

  • @italianviking80
    @italianviking80 День тому

    I hope there is another series or movie where Jack escapes the Russian gulag. Maybe bring back Tony Almeida.

  • @Delphius-
    @Delphius- 2 дні тому

    Prime example of how the video creator hears one thing and interprets it completely different than what the Patrice said. Do you not hear the words out of his mouth?

  • @vedji1857
    @vedji1857 3 дні тому

    He’s made me proud of being Australian. Between Smiling Friends and Bluey, we are dominating MSM Entertainment rn.

  • @nikolastarcic9558
    @nikolastarcic9558 4 дні тому

    You really like that phrase "elephant in the room"

  • @tommo9176
    @tommo9176 4 дні тому

    I was in year 10 when this came out (I went to high school in Melbourne, Australia). Oh man. "Puck you Miss" was inescapable.

  • @marcuscicero9587
    @marcuscicero9587 5 днів тому

    always like this guy's stuff. a funny man

  • @marcuscicero9587
    @marcuscicero9587 5 днів тому

    Patrice is my little sister's name

  • @danblair1591
    @danblair1591 6 днів тому

    I’ve realize that ever since I was 18 that entertainment has slowly becoming bad. No it does nothing with the 9/11 atrscks in the USA. That TV got so bad during the Streamkng boom around 10 years ago. Cable TV had to compete yet lost to streamkng. Streamkng slowly made too many cuts aroubd corners, cancelling shows, and removing their best material as time went on, they increased the prices, and added too many commercials.

  • @geraldalbone7
    @geraldalbone7 6 днів тому

    Was a nice touch using creep at the end. Especially after his big spiel on the song and how white people connect with it.

  • @kerobop
    @kerobop 6 днів тому

    My favorite part about these references that separates them from a lot of similar homages is the detail and effort put into making these shots and graphics as accurate as possible for a gag. Even super small things like the texture of the typography in the My Dinner With Andre and Hackers bits or the entirety of stuff like the Daredevil and Goldeneye 64 bits. I just love that Matt and Jay's comedy extends to the visual craft as well.

  • @666DrDr
    @666DrDr 7 днів тому

    Season 1: Some edgelord who read Nietzsche and thinks he's deep spouts off a bunch of empty pessimism that sounds fancy but is only interesting because we know his character realizes he's been full of shit by the seasons end Season 3: Shit actual cops talk about while oblivious to their own role in a (for each of them, intimate) colonial context

  • @whywasmyrealnamehere
    @whywasmyrealnamehere 7 днів тому

    Errrm, then explain why Koala man sucks ASS, dude. It's like season 30 of family guy right off the bat first episode.

  • @DoctorClaw
    @DoctorClaw 7 днів тому

    I never knew this comic earlier in life. I just saw this video and learned about him for hte first time. I feel like I missed out on 1 of the greatest comics to ever live. His views are amazing and how he engaged with his jokes and how he tried to make change. This was a great video thanks for opening me up to an amazing new comic to me but sad I missed him during his actual time.

  • @jed0bread528
    @jed0bread528 7 днів тому

    Of all the ways to 'introduce me' to this... It was 'teesside tintin' dub.

  • @Noneoftheabove783
    @Noneoftheabove783 7 днів тому

    But it had lots of filler haha 😅 the kim plot in season 2, sherry plot in season 3 etc

  • @Noneoftheabove783
    @Noneoftheabove783 7 днів тому

    Love 24

  • @zanem499
    @zanem499 8 днів тому

    TPB is a absolute classic. This show will never get old and I could watch it 20 more times lol

  • @usmanahsan2785
    @usmanahsan2785 8 днів тому

    Season 4 was way better than any other seasons. 5 stars for making it interesting.

  • @christianpoint0888
    @christianpoint0888 8 днів тому

    What was the point of a mixed couple ? Has zero relevance to what you’re talking about !

    • @motioninart
      @motioninart 8 днів тому

      It’s about their difficulties in choosing a title to find?

  • @jolseywales
    @jolseywales 8 днів тому

    Hated? That’s not true. Why whom?

  • @MontyTheMothman
    @MontyTheMothman 8 днів тому

    5:00 The Jester’s privilege.

  • @jcZo23
    @jcZo23 8 днів тому

    Patrice the 🐐

  • @yungty7321
    @yungty7321 9 днів тому

    To paraphrase pro era “those who know DOOM know DOOM it wouldn’t be him if he was mainstream”

  • @user-cl4kr4dj4l
    @user-cl4kr4dj4l 9 днів тому

    This video is horrifying to me. People actually talking about the "philosophy" of comedians!! This civilization is truly doomed. Their jokers are their philosophers now. Instead listening to the clown for laughter and a timeout of daily troubles, they listen to them looking for wisdom and knowledge delivered in a funny way. Wow

  • @Lordjunon
    @Lordjunon 9 днів тому

    This is my favorite TV show. It is so peak absurd.

  • @Messiah114
    @Messiah114 9 днів тому

    Patrice is my number 1 cause he had a philosophical point of view. Truthful to the bone with a comedy effect. Man was pure genius.

  • @GODsARMY121
    @GODsARMY121 9 днів тому

    Patrice O'Neal said a joke about a short lady who got mad if you don't let her clean your hotel room, and thats what my mother do, housekeeping, as soon as she heard the joke she cried laughing. And to this day is our favorite joke. People nowadays are similar to wet paper. P. O'Neal was and will always be one of the greats.

  • @richardwarner3705
    @richardwarner3705 9 днів тому

    It's just a joke MAN!..LIGHTEN UP! FK!! Looks like he went on talk shows that had stupid hosts.

  • @gangsterHOTLINE
    @gangsterHOTLINE 9 днів тому

    Stand-up comedy is such a wild world. I've never felt so much rubber-banding emotionally in any other artform. I think it is humanity at its deepest most vulnerable core. And also at its most enlightened and refreshing. It's so hard to explain, but I respect anyone who gives it a shot. Succeed or fail.

  • @rentin10
    @rentin10 9 днів тому

    This was brilliant. I miss Patrice O'Neal. I wonder how his jokes and viewpoints would have been perceived and if he may have seen things differently in 2024. R.i.p. A huge talent for the world to have lost.

  • @DonnePlummer69
    @DonnePlummer69 9 днів тому

    Bro he’s one of the most loved comedians of all time what the fuck are you talking about

  • @zerohasnovalue1681
    @zerohasnovalue1681 9 днів тому

    Brother I love you!❤️ 👍not feeling gay🤣😂

  • @ashog1426
    @ashog1426 9 днів тому

    Super funny guy rip

  • @tms02
    @tms02 9 днів тому

    He wasn't offensive. People choose to be offended.

  • @fernandocamacho5088
    @fernandocamacho5088 10 днів тому

    Anybody knows the name of the show at 40:09? I would love to watch Patrice talking truth to those cougars lol!

  • @hornfan722
    @hornfan722 10 днів тому

    Patrice truly has a legacy. All of my children will know about him- an all timer in comedy and there’s possibly no death more poorly timed

  • @ibnbrydie
    @ibnbrydie 10 днів тому

    The guy rubbing his face saying when are we going to see something else that relates to me LMFAO😂

  • @NdwwryvsBhdsqqw
    @NdwwryvsBhdsqqw 10 днів тому

    9:07. Wtf is "hate speech"? Is that when you talk about something you dont like because probably almost EVERYBODY DOES THAT.

  • @NdwwryvsBhdsqqw
    @NdwwryvsBhdsqqw 10 днів тому

    I would rather get RAPED than blown up or partially blown up or shot. Folks need to watch the motherfucking 'One' video by Metallica.