![]() Faye Valentine is looking for a petty hacker on Mars and happens to see a truck explode on the highway followed by a long-haired and bearded man walking away from it, apparently unscathed. And as usual, the Bebop crew stumbles across him. The plot centers around the hunt for a dangerous and seemingly unkillable criminal. Instead of feeling like a definitive shift in tone or outlook, the film just looks like an episode of the show if they had a huge budget. Serenity comes close, but Bebop has the edge because all of the main creatives of the series were involved: Director Shinichiro Watanabe, writer Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno along with her band the Seatbelts. Superb.As far as I’m concerned, this is the best adaptation of a television show to feature film ever made. A melodrama, a jazzy jam session, and a sci-fi detective thriller all wrapped into a tight, upbeat package. If you're not a fan of anime because of its tendency to be far-fetched and downright weird at times, Bebop is the right starter series for you. And who could forget Faye Valentine, the eat-your-heart-out sprite of a woman with pizazz, flair, and a penchant for gambling. Ed and Ein, the genius teenage hacker and her supersmart Corgi dog, throw the limits of standard comic relief out the window. Jet Black, the gruff pilot, is truly epitomized in the episode "Ganymede Elegy," where he confronts an old flame. Along with Spike, each part of the ensemble main cast do more than enough to stand out on their own, with perfectly human qualities. The lead character, Spike Spiegel, is as much an antihero in the anime tradition as he would be in a Hemingway novel- witty and gutsy, with a twist of nihlistic worldview. Following the misadventures of a crew of unlikely bounty hunters through the future solar system, Bebop liberally dabbles in jazz, both the music and the attitude. Shinichi Watanabe crafted this mostly episodic anime with a beautiful plot arc that doesn't detract a bit from any moment in the series. Cowboy Bebop should need no introduction it's more than a uniquely defining series on several levels. ![]()
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