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| Cowboy Bebop Characters 8 Story 7 Music 10 Artwork: 9 Raw enjoyment (AKA: Kneejerk Anime Rating): 8 Total Overall: 8.4/10 Overall Rating: 8/10 Overall, very enjoyable show. I’d definitely recommend it to people that haven’t watched it before. I won’t go so far as to say it was a masterpiece; I think really overall was very good with some great moments/aspects sprinkled in to make it worth the watch. Full review in spoiler tag below. Completely subjective :P : |
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| It was sad, but it was a happy kind of sad. Bittersweet ending... "And the work which has become a genre unto itself shall be called: Cowboy Bebop" |
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| A solid finale to end this series. Although the story and characters aren't fully explored, I'm really impressed anime can pulled out something like this; the direction is one of its kind and the soundtracks are amazing. |
| noooO~ spike~ :( |
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 already knew what was going to happen. but here i am again... sobbing cowboby bebop simply manages to perfectly pull of all kinds of genres and themes throughout the series which is what makes it such a damn good series. this is topped with a fantastic and loveable cast of characters and rounded of with an unbelievable soundtrack not to mention kawamoto's fantastic character designs. |
| That was a great ending to a good show. If only each individual episode throughout this series contained more plot-relevant information, the overall intrigue of Spike's backstory would have been less boggled down by almost half the episode count being "filler". |
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| Wow. Such a great finale! Loved it <3 One of my favourite episodes ever! :) |
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| Hello. I started this show on a whim during July 2013 and then put it on hold. Then I finished the rest during October 2014 to today. It's good. It's a classic. Yup. However. My main issue is that some episodes are extremely boring and pointless while others are great. Another show I'd compare this to is Darker than Black. Similar action, genres, and direction. And another show I want Bebop to be similar to is Psycho Pass, where all of the episodic/fillerish episodes were near the beginning while the more intense and main story episodes came in later, which is what I wish this show had. And some of the characters were just really unappealing (the bald guy and Ed). Faye grew on me, eventually but at first, I didn't really like her at all. Btw, I watched the dubbed and the voices fit so perfectly. One of the best dubs I've watched. |
| "Spiegel is definitely dead"... C'mon, people, don't be so close-minded! The episode doesn't give us definite evidence whether Spiegel survived or died. "His star faded after the end-credits"... we don't know if it was Spike's star. It could be anyone's star. (A lot of people just died at that moment.) It might very well have been Vicious' star. I personally have decided that... Spike slowly wakes up on the couch at the Bebop, all bandaged up (it's not like it's a first). He then spots Faye who has fallen asleep on the chair. He slowly gets up, despite the agonizing pain throughout his body, and walks over to where Fay is sitting. Spike then bends over so close to Faye's face (word-play not intended) that she can feel his breath onto her lips. Thus causing her to wake up by the sights of Spike's eyes staring right into hers... "I realize that all I need is one eye to see the future" Then Jet, Ed and Ein enters the room and a loud reunion commences as the camera zooms out. - The End - |
| If only that had happened would be cool but im still satisfied with how it ended :D |
| Yeah, I think Spike falling over is more like he just badly injured. I took it as an ambiguous ending. |
| Great to see I'm not alone. Spike has previously been injured worse in the show and still survived it. It's what we choose in our minds that decides the fate of the Bebob crew (although it would be interesting if they finally decided to make a sequel season that developed the characters and their relations). |
| Greatest ending to the greatest anime to have been ever made. |
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| Life is just a dream, you know |
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| Fuck that ending killed me. I felt like I was shot over a dozen times. Great build-up, and fantastic finish. But I still wish he lived. What's going to happen with Faye??? Oh well..This series was superb. 10/10 Thanks for the ride Cowboy Bebop. I will miss you for decades to come. See you Space Cowboy. |
| The ending was perfect. The show was a masterpiece. And if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go cry myself to sleep. |
| Alright, so is Spike dead or not? I've always personally liked the idea of him being dead. As in, I found it poetic and well told (I did not want Spike to die and it made me sob the first time I saw Bebop). After purchasing the Bluray last week and rewatching, I'm still firmly convinced that Spike is dead, and that it ties up the story better than him being alive. It just seems to tie up what he says earlier in the episode: "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive. I have to do it, Faye." IMO it ties that up very well, as just as soon as he finds out he's really alive he dies. It seems poetic, and it seems fitting that those would be his last words to Faye, who's been searching for what her meaning is over the course of the series. If Spike is alive, what's happening to him now? With Spike being dead, we have closure of Spike's story in particular, and can then speculate on the rest of the crew. With Spike alive, we can only be left to assume that more adventures are being had (that we would then be missing out on, mind you). To be clear, I'm not hating on the people who say he's alive. As someone who loves the character, I'd certainly be happy if he were alive. I just don't think it makes sense with the way the series was ended. Thoughts? You're gonna carry that weight. |
| Wow what an ending! Have mixed feelings btw. First off why the killed Julia so early!?! Just as when we're about to know more about their past, she passes away by a random gunman. I was hoping she would make and see Vicious vs Spike and maybe Vicious killing her with his hands. I never knew Spike had a prosthetic eye, so that's why they were showing in the early episodes when he was being experimented on. So Faye and Jet probably knew Spike would die if he continued, so that's why Faye tried to stopped him at all cost. She knew he may end up like her, where despite knowing the past, it's already too late and the damage was already done a long time ago. It's rare to see Faye cried like that. Man i do give Spike the balls to go all guns and blazing by himself(with the help of Shin at the end). He went on badassery and assassinated everyone like they were nothing. Man Shin got killed too, i know they're trying to make it where anything can happen and your life can be taken like that. Still Shin was awesome unlike his brother Lin. The final battle battle between Vicious and Spike was good, but i was hoping it would be much longer than that. Guess they wanted to make it realistic where one move can end a life like that. Spike even had a handicapped with his left eye already busted and wavering down. And now their both dead. I actually thought Spike would take over the syndicate, but i guess the syndicate are no more now. Poor Faye and Jet. I guess they're the only ones who know off the incident along with those remaining members. I feel kinda mixed right now. One part i'm sad Spike died(never saw that coming tbh), the other part it was just too fast and it seem he really went his way to his grave. Still i do praise it for having one of the badass endings of all time. It could have been good ending or sad ending, but they chose latter and made it sad as hell. I do praise Yamadera, Kouichi for his excellent voice as Spike. He really fits this role perfectly and just as good of main character as her Major Kusanagi did ^^ Same as Ishizuka, Unshou and Hayashibara, Megumi as Jet and Faye respectively. One thing i was kinda expecting was the return of Edward and Ein. I guess they're truly gone with his father and all. And yes Spike is truly dead, not only the villager mentioned about Spike's star already fading away as time goes on, but his star also disappeared near the end so yeah he's pretty much gone. I do have to wonder why Jet was called Running Man? I guess all he did was run away from death multiple times like he did in the past? Bang.. You're gonna carry that weight huh Spike? The show had potential to become one of my top 5 Anime's of all time, but the showed only had few "Complex" episodes and mostly the middle consisted of "Stand Alone" bounty episodes. If they made the series dark and featured maybe 3-5 episodes of light hearted episodes, this would definitely become one of my favorites of all time. So i would give this a 9/10. Love the character designs though, very unique and distinct. I'll be watching the movie after this, but it seems a midquel which is fine by me. So i'll try to watch that in the coming weeks. Now after this, i'm thinking of watching Outlaw Star! Especially seeing the BD's and it look gorgeous and 10x better remaster than Cowboy Bebop did. Also the Funimation release was definitely disappointing. I have both the English and Japanese BD's and damn they screwed up a lot of scenes with the Funimation version. I do love the Amazon Exclusive Edition with the chip board box and artbook and all. Good bye Spike. Shame you had to leave Faye and Jet behind. Just as when Faye realized where she belong, your no longer her. See You Space Cowboy! |
This was such a great ending. Cowboy Bebop was so entertaining to watch! I am sad that I finished it already. |
| Damn.. That was quite a lonely ending |
| Please don't hate me for this but I honestly don't love this series much. I don't hate it and it was fun at times but it spends less than a 4th of the series talking about anything relevant to the Spike plot line and in the end we still don't know what this was all even for. So Spike wanted to leave the group with Julia but Vicious stopped her? If she didn't want to kill him why not run away with him like planned or at least run away on her own in the hopes they'd meet up? Also why kill Julia after killing the elders? It seems like there was no reason for it besides "he's a psychopath" and it just felt kind of empty. Also whether or not Spike died what about everyone else? What happened to them? It's a fine series overall but I think it could have really benefitted from a little more focus and maybe replacing some of the random nonsense episodes where they chased lame bounties with ones focused on Spike and his past more. Just to be clear I don't dislike the ending because Spike likely died. I dislike it because it left too much unanswered and vague. |
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| Well done, Spike. You went out with a "Bang!" You're gonna carry that weight. 9/10 |
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| Wow...this is possibly the best anime that I've ever seen. |
| Just Another Cowboy who couldn't run away from his past. |
| Awesome ending. So that's where that screenshot where Spike holds his hand like his gun comes from. Nice to finally know the context. I guess he is dead. Vicious too. Although I would say this is the best anime ever as many people say it is. I disagree entirely. Nonetheless it still very good. I am glad I saw this. There's a lot of things I like and didn't like about this anime. That characters, music, action, and some of the comedy I liked. Some episodes really damn great! The ED "The Real Folk Blues" is amazing. I love that song. But the stuff I didn't like was the lack of character for Vicious and Julia. We BARELY got to know them and appeared was too few many times. I didn't really care when Julia died because I don't really know her. I also didn't like that some episode just weren't as good as others. I also didn't really liek the episodic way this anime was. The best episode was when there was an actual plot. "Bang." See you space cowboy. You're gonna carry that weight. Time for that movie. |
| I am sad. |
| I've just finished this anime. Some episodes are weak and silly, some episdoes are pretty good, but mostly are decent and nothing spectacular. Main charachters are great, cool and any of them has something special. Overall really good anime, but not masterpiece and this last episode isn't one of the best endings in anime (can't stand with ending in Haibane, EoE or Steins). Weak 7/10 |
Scribbly said: This is a complete classic, I'd give it 10 out of 10 but unfortunately most of the middle episodes weren't up to the quality of the amazing ending. There should have been more story expansion and less comedy episodes, it pulls off serious better. Well that's my two cents. This |
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| Beautiful. Beautiful songs, beautiful animation, beautiful ending, just beautiful... Bang... |
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| The star fading at the end... See you, Space Cowboy. Somewhere, someday. |
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Onodera-chan said: I believe Spike actually died in the first episode (church shoot out before meeting up with Julia) and every other episode after was just a post life dream of his, including Jet, Faye, Ed, Ein and the others. This was slightly hinted through out the series. wow. call me slow, but I didn't realize it until now. It makes sense...holy shit. "It's all...a dream." "Yeah...just a dream." |
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| Amazing solo fight scenes done by Spike. Great anime overall, but falls short of a 10/10. |
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| Damn! that was some sad ending! Definitely one of the best Animes out there! |
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| This series is something else. Second watch, and I felt like re-descovering the episodes, with all the small details I did not pay attention to the first time. Lots of themes visited, lots of genres, different pacing, various atmospheres, this show has it all and is constantly exploring new things throughout the episodes. The characters were another strong point of this. Even Faye grew out on me at the end. I decided to hold my choice between giving this a 9 or 10 for after watching the finale again. Well screw this, 10 it is. |
HapHazrDOct 4, 2015 2:57 PM
| Great Anime , and nice ending , great music and OST , really a calssic anime some episodes were not a good quality but most of them were this episode could have been better if it had more emotions in it the only part where i got sad feels is in the last 2 minutes. Spike for sure is the best character in cowboy bebop 8.5/10 from me , a must watch for any anime lover SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY |
| Truly amazing series. Old but Gold. I really love how they portrait Julia death, it's both beautiful and sad kind of mix feeling. And then the way Spike act after her death. I pick Cowboy Beboop in 2011 (the year i start watch anime) but i drop it instantly, cause it's not my cup of a tea, back then i still hot for action shounen shit. lol silly me. |
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| Overall very nice ending. OST was great. Decent show. Some filler were hits and misses but I still enjoyed the ride. |
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 I was so sad those last few minutes and I waited for the end so I can cry, and then this happened and it kinda finished me. And I am a big fan of The Beatles so yep, it helped. The thing is that I watched it long ago, and I postponed those last two episodes cause I didn't want it to end, and with Ed gone, nothing made sense (I took it personally cause I really loved Ed and Ein and I got sad), so I finally got courage to watch it a month ago, just so I can be sure when I say that this is a masterpiece, and God, was I right. |
-Celestial- said: I know I know i'll get criticized for this, but I still feel like something is missing. (...) Anyway, I wanted more backstory. I'm curious to see how Jet and Spike first met, and all the dirt on the syndicate with Vicious and Spike fighting side by side. Basically, they told us a lot with this ending, but didn't explain much, and that bugs me. Lastly, I would have preferred more closure. Like some people have mentioned in this thread, what happens to Faye? Maybe a final discussion with Jet and Faye would have been cool. And I really liked Ed and wanted to see both Ed and Ein in the finale, even if it was just for a minute to show them with Ed's dad. This could be good ... if it wasn't cowboy bebop The show always missed this sense of ''deepness'' for the characters and even the plot , this is intensional ; even the visuals enhance that . Bebop tells a story focused on events in the best slice of life way . For this , closure is not necessary . Life is just a dream after all |
ButhumuDec 4, 2015 9:40 PM
| Fun series, but I thought I was going to get more of a story than episodic episodes. This was more like a serious version of Space Dandy which was also a good show. 8/10 I thought from how everyone was always praising this I would give it a 10, but nope. Since the ending is pretty much ambiguous I'm going to go the angst route and say he is dead. Cause mmmmm angst. I really loved the final ending theme it matched the final moments perfectly. |
"What has two arms, two legs, and is alive? Not your favorite character lol! xD" |
Roloko said: 8/10 I thought from how everyone was always praising this I would give it a 10, but nope. Give it a few years, you'll appreciate it more. I gave it an 8/10 as well, and I have no real intention of adjusting that score, but it HAS become one of the anime that I always remember and stays with me. Score doesn't say everything in my case. |
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| Fantastic episode. Spike is a complete badass and his fight with Vicious was top-notch. Spike's dead ;_; BANG!  5/5 |
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GoldenDevilGamer said: *maybe* dead, because not even Watanabe knows.Fantastic episode. Spike is a complete badass and his fight with Vicious was top-notch. Spike's dead ;_; BANG! 5/5 |
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| Saving the best episode for last. 8/10 as a whole. |
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| This was great. Easily 9-9.5/10 for me. The only reason I don't rate it 10 is because I felt some of the middle episodes weren't up to par, but I digress. This is one of the best finales I've ever seen in any story, in any medium. It fits so perfectly. Great show. "Bang" So long, space cowboy :'( |
| I thought the first half of this show was quite dull & boring tbh, didn't like most of the episodes but the second part got much better especially these last few eps with the background story, devloping the characters etc. I can see why this is a classic in some peoples eyes even though I think it's quite overrated it's still a good show, 7.5/10. |
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