Sunday, September 18, 2011

Cowboy BeBop Episodes Review

About the plot. In a review of this anime usually i see people write about music, about the style of the characters, about the graphics, the plot and the characters themselves are not mentioned. But this is what makes and keeps this anime great - IMO.

Style and music - that's good. And Cowboy BeBop - one of the best TV series, where both would combine music, graphics and overall mood. I personally can recall only one anime - Hellsing, who managed, following a similar formula to get excellent results. But something does not give the Cowboy BeBop be just a picture or a collection of quotations (which he has lots of them). Predictable story - Bounty Hunter in a huge space, just doing their job. Common place opposition of past and present in the fate of each character.Trite ending - the death of one of the main characters.

However, when viewing the Cowboy BeBop from episode to episode there is a feeling that each episode - finished chapter. This is not an indication of their isolation from each other - all the plot developments are easy to read for everyday life. It's about the quality of performance. Where else can boast of such a layout dramas of life in 21 minutes? And now we add to all this music, style, atmosphere ... It turns out a masterpiece, no less.

Cowboy BeBop is very cruel. Death is reduced to ordinary things. The protagonist of Spike does not make the murder a tragedy, such as your Vash the Stampede from Trigun. But death has not yet become something ordinary, even for mercenaries to hunt for criminals. We are shown the time in human history, when people get used to death. And what will happen to people who are accustomed to death. That is what's scary. Postapocalyptic Earth, space science fiction for the entire work are replaced by a utopian idea. Or dystopia. It's up to you which one to choose, because the difference was really small. This can be seen and to humanity in general, and for the characters in Cowboy BeBop in particular. There is no pathos or tragedy. Only situations like these can be achieved in anime, and they are vital to the success of it. Sadly, though, in real-life, the same situations are not replicable.

Cowboy BeBop doesn't teach us anything, because we already know it all. We are just shown a snapshot of life in the future. Shows the cruel life of future, but consistently, carefully and in no way not embellished. There is no single global objective of the series. Those mini stories are not made for us to see characters from different sides. How do you see Spike in the first series, so it will remain thereafter. The past will break into the present, but it will be black and white photograph on the background of colored glossy pages. These images are kept, but they are rarely admired.

Team of the main characters are meet within the series, easily falls apart at the end. Easy - does not mean painless. Even the most indifferent people will become dear to you,when they become part of your habits. Don't even hope - in the case of Cowboy BeBop the main characters will not show us a very warm relationship with each other. They are not married, do not make friends, won't adopt, and so on ... But they have become accustomed. That says it all. As Garcia Marquez said: "All our senses - the habits of different people and things." What is the best show characters of Cowboy BeBop.

This anime  is about everyday life, platitude. About people who live in the past and the present for them is for killing time, they just exist ... If a person is silent, it could mean that he does not want to talk. And not that it hurt, angry, too closed or something. Life is simple. Perceive it should be easy. Nerve cells regenerate very slow...  I can not forgot to mention the humor in the show.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love that opening song. Thanks for talking about this awesome anime.

Scienide said...

This has been recommended to me from another guys as well, Ill watch it for sure once I have the time! Cheers, keep going with the reviews.

Unknown said...

This is on my to-view list. :)
Sound really awesome!

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