| For most people anyway. Since there are people who dislike Cowboy Bebop for whatever reason. |
| It's undoubtedly good, but certainly not the best. My personal favorite is Code Geass. |
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| Cowboy Bebop is godlike. Shinichirō Watanabe can do no wrong. |
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| Awesome? Yes Great music? Yes Great characters? Yes Best anime? no. There is no such thing as a best anime, at least for me :P But it's easily a top five/ten/something anime, and great in whole. |
| best anime ever might be a little bit exaggerated, but I think it's absolutely one of the greatest |
| Rating something as "the best" is quite complicated for me. There are so many different genres and stuff... It's godly tough... For sure in my top something. I was amazed. Don't believe I watched it 9 years after is was released. |
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| Probably not the greatest, but definatly will be forever be in my top 5! <3 much love for this series. |
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| A very good anime for sure with awesome character but for me is far from being the greatest anime of all time |
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| One of the greatest. Or at least better than most shit out today. :/ |
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| surely one of the best animes, music great, animation great, plot great |
| How can this anime be the best? It doesnt even have a story! >.< |
| It is a cool and good anime, I realy liked the ending.. Hate the endings which you only have to read the manga or you have to make a definition of what happend in the end yourself.. so it was good, but not best imo :p |
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| Once again, since this anime doesnt have a story? It's the same as watching Simpsons or Sienfeld. Stories is what makes animes good, thats why this anime is epic fail. |
Pewdie said: Once again, since this anime doesnt have a story? It's the same as watching Simpsons or Sienfeld. Stories is what makes animes good, thats why this anime is epic fail. Pewdie, you gave to Clannad 9 points and yet saying that Cowboy bebop doesnt have a story. You have got some guts. |
Pewdie said: Once again, since this anime doesnt have a story? It's the same as watching Simpsons or Sienfeld. Stories is what makes animes good, thats why this anime is epic fail. While I don't think Bebop is the greatest thing out there like many do, I hardly consider it epic fail. I love many series that have no ongoing, coherent plot, just because they're very enjoyable to watch. Episodic shows are fine, if they're done right. Bebop was done right, and will forever be engrained as a classic due to its timing, coming out when anime was just starting to really take off outside of Japan. Mushroom Samba still stands as one of my favourite singular anime episodes of all time, even if I don't think the series as a whole is a masterpiece. <3 |
| To me, its far from it. |
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| I love this anime ,I like ED, I love the opening song I love bass guitar melody in this song:D and i love ending song Real Folk Blues. |
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| Sure is, up there with Ghost in the Shell SAC. |
| Maybe not the best ever, but definitely one of the greats. For something that is ‘old’ to still be as popular and well known as it is today; you have to give it some credit for that. |
| Not the best, but one of the best. I like that there aren't that many main-characters, but the interaction is still interesting at the end of the season. Love the jokes. |
| Not best, but most likely the most universally enjoyed. The concept of "best", is and always will be a subjective matter. |
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| Yes, it's the best. By far. Without question. Without HESITATION. NOTHING even comes CLOSE to this anime's combination and perfection of all genres smacked into one pile of bittersweetness. |
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| yes cowboy bebop is the best anime ever for me with out a doubt |
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| Cowboy Bebop is great and all, but even putting it in a top 10 anime list would be very generous. |
| yes best anime eva |
| Best anime ever? No,but it was pretty good. |
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| I would have to say that, so far..Cowboy Bebop is the..best anime I have seen...It's like no other..it's hard to explain..it's so gosh darn hipster :) I'm struggling to watch other series because Cowboy Bebop hits them out of the park. |
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| meh, it is an okay anime. But I don't think is one of the best. I guess personally it doesn't keep my interest. A little dry... |
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Kanashimi said: It's all a personal opinion, theoretically, the show is still very successful for being produced in 1998 (I believe?). It could be argued that it had an original plot with life-like yet eccentric characters but, at the same time all the more lovable for being all too human. I don’t think the animation was breath-taking, and the music was above a seven below an eight for me. It had a memorable ending, and a remarkable impact with it’s on and off again run on Adult Swim. Music below an 8? This was the best, most powerfully used soundtrack I've heard outside of a Studio Ghibli movie, and it rivals those of Joe Hisaishi himself. Even those who try to detract from this show can't deny the music is stellar. OT: Cowboy Bebop is up there. Up there in the top 10 it becomes pretty hard for me to pick a clear winner, both because they're all so good and they're very different (I have Ouran High School Host Club, Eureka 7, Bokura Ga Ita, and Bakemonogatari up there with Cowboy Bebop, for example). |
judojon said: Definately one of the best. Barely loses out to FLCL for me. are you kidding me? best anime...no...3rd best from everything i watched :),or maybe 2nd,but not first :P |
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| Well, I finally got around to finishing Cowboy Bebop. Had trouble getting past the 2nd episode but it was good after that However, watching this, and enjoying it, it really left me wondering, "how the hell is this considered one of the best animes of all time?" It was good, I gave it a 7, but I just couldn't bring myself to rate it higher. Yes, all of these ratings are subjective and opionated, but there was so much that made it undeserving of those 10's. Admittedly, I rated some things as 10's in my list which is really arguable, but I guess right now the focus is on this anime. Cowboy Bebop's central theme, characters, overall story line, and episodic stories were all massive cliches. They've been done in movies, tv shows, animes, comic books, and videogames thousands upon thousands of times before SPOILERS Spike being a top ex memeber in the syndicate. An ex cop gone vigilnate, a girl who lost her memories. All been done before. Don't get me wrong, they were great characters who were likable. Not by any means original Taking random storylines...like, boy helping his blind sister through illegal means. Lots of episodes had these types of known and familiar cliches Spike holding unto his past with Julia, been done The villian, Vicious, ex Commrade gone evil. Been done. Cowboy Bebop certainly executed these cliches really well, don't get me wrong. But it was so incredibly far from original that I don't see how it's deserving of a 10 rating. Or even a 9. However, good animation for it's time, a great soundtrack, and a good cast helped it Truth is, most stories in just about anything have been done millions of times already, so it's pretty difficult to come up with a "unique" storyline, but Bebop still stuck with the really cliche that we've seen. Guess that's why I think this good anime is really undeserving of the title, "masterpiece" |
| Up to personal taste, but IMO right up there with LOGH, Evangelion and the original Macross as some of the best stuff ever made. Let's remember that some of the rankings here at MAL reflect the taste of people over the last 3 or 4 years. Most of this stuff will be easily forgotten. It's the series that stand the test of time that can be called true 'classics'. |
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PianoBlack said: It's really disappointing and sad that numerous people can't appreciate that this is one of the best anime series ever, if not the best (I believe it is #1). This show LITERALLY has it all: the plot, the characters, the animation quality (some of the best quality even TO THIS DAY), the music (Yoko Kanno), the director (Watanabe), and much more that I'm not mentioning. And to everyone mentioning Champloo and Bebop together just because Watanabe directed them both, just please stop. Bebop is on a completely different level. It's about taste... I would say Bebop lack plot, was bored at some moments. The animation was indeed great for that time, and characters are pretty damn good. I wouldn't put it in my top 10. But my opinion doesn't matter to anyone just as somebody else's opinion doesn't matter to me :) |
drinkbeer said: It is a good anime, wait until you finish to say it is overrated.this anime lacks a plot. i have watched till episode 9 and i am feeling so bored. the first few episodes was ok, the animation was great for a 90s anime, the characters are ok. i think this anime would be ok if its a 12 episode series. 26 episode is way too long. how am i going to carry on watching an episodic anime for 26 episodes? at the end of the day, what is the overarching objective of this anime? to pursue the bounty of the day for 26 straight episodes? -_-!!! i started watching this anime with high expectations due to the good praises and good ratings of it, but i am very disappointed. this anime is highly overrated. And never go into an anime, with preconceptions like it's rated high so it must be good, it will ruin some good anime for you. |
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