Few shows have ever gotten me the way Cowboy Bebop. I started watching Adult Swim when I was 12 or 13 years old when it first started airing. I was and will always be a night owl. The last show they would air would be this anime cartoon. I was never a huge fan of anime, but watching this show made me a believer. It wasn't just another anime. This show had everything in it. It was about bounty hunters in the future. The love story was brutal. The villian was Vicious (literally). The life story was brutal. What made this show so special was the background of every single major character. You empathized with almost every single character and related to them on the most basic of levels, even Ein the dog.
It's hard to describe this show in just one setting. Jet has a very depressing and hard background as a former cop and it is very hard to find yourself relating. Ein and Edward are orphans who never stop believing in happiness. Vicious is well, vicious as shit. Faye is a 23 year old girl who lost her identity and remembers nothing about who she is. Julia is the girl of my dreams and the most mysterious and tragic figure. And Spike, well if you watched the clip above, you know why Spike might be the greatest protagonist in any television show ever.
Every single part of this show hit me so hard. But the love story between Spike and Julia (you don't see her in the clip she's a tall leggy blonde), is to me, the most central part of this show. Julia was ordered to kill Spike by his former best friend and her lover Vicious, but because she was in love with Spike and not Vicious she let him go, promising to meet him in the graveyard one day again. There are so many symbols and events that lead up to this ultimate meeting and Julia is only really ever in three episodes. But she is clearly such a powerful force behind Spike's reason for living and the show in general.
I can go on and on and on about this show. But really, you just have to see it for yourself. It's on every Saturay on adultswim and I highly suggest you watch it. It's only 28 episodes and each one is better than the last. Like I said, few television shows every move me emotionally but Cowboy Bebop ranks up there and if you aren't moved by at least one scene throughout the entire series, you're probably dead.
- Spike.
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Neer-do-well: Chris
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You talkin smack you little 12 yr-old?!?! Backhand!
