I’ve been watching 1998’s Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim over the past several months (at one episode a week with 26 episodes, it can take a while) – finally finished them last week.

This is a great anime, if you like bounty hunters in space and don’t mind occasional crazy violence (and that they don’t usually explain a lot of what’s going on – you have to infer or watch all the episodes to really get it). The main characters’ backstory are slowly revealed throughout the entire timeline, and even though Spike’s fighting abilities seem a bit beyond his outward appearance – it still works. And the overall visuals are pretty much pre-CGI – now rare for a space-opera but like Akira – the animation is more than adequate and well done.

I think the only real downside for me was having to watch it dubbed in English – I prefer watching them in Japanese with subtitles to get the flavor of the original actors/authors as possible. But that wasn’t really too big a deal here.

The other downside is that now i’m done with the main anime’s on Adult Swim – I’ve seen Ghost in the Shell at least twice all the way through; I tried to watch an episode of Big O but just couldn’t get into it – and the others they show aren’t really of interest – doh!

check it out in any event – i’ll be headed back to Scarecrow myself….

candybowl

Tags: '10s, 90's, Anime, computers, fantasy, freaks, fun!, sci-fi

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