Firefly & Cowboy Bebop

POSTED BY: ianw
UPDATED: Sunday, April 9, 2006 22:18
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IANW

Friday, April 7, 2006 6:10 PM

i'm assuming that the readers do not know what cowboy bebop is. It's a cartoon/aname from japan that takes place in the future. Earth had an accident with a worm hole gate that destroyed half the planet and it's now recovering while the other planets were teraformed.

Like firefly, the solarsystem cannot be governed by a police force exclusively, so the main characters are bounty hunters on the ship bebop (hence the name)

anyway, it was created in 1997 and it has english translations- because of it's similarity, i bet a lof of FF fans would love this aname series as well!

It has a lot of similarities to firefly in respects that japaneese/english cultures will mix in space.

take a look see and tell me what you think!

KUANGZHEDE

Friday, April 7, 2006 6:33 PM

I can't beleive I forgot abou this show. The theme song "Tank" is know at war with the "Hero of Canton" in my head.

Cowboy Bebop is an excellent show.

Kuang Zhe De

REYNOLDSSTYLE

Friday, April 7, 2006 6:34 PM

i know it and love it...

another anime show that is great and is like firefly is "trigun". i actual think it is closer to firefly in the fact that it is a true sci-fi/wetern...cowboy bebop (despite the name) is more of a film noir.

i love them both and if you like one you will prolly like the other.

just throwing it out there.

ROLANDREYNOLDS

Friday, April 7, 2006 7:09 PM

Solid anime. One of the best out there. Rockin' music, funny, engaging. Just throwing my voice into the mix.

DAYVE

Friday, April 7, 2006 7:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ianw:
i bet a lof of FF fans would love this aname series

i'm right there with you...excellent anime - cool movie, too....the opening title sequence is beautiful...
i like listening to it in japanese - don't mind reading the subtitles...and i'm picking up a little of the language as well....

count me in

AENGUS

Friday, April 7, 2006 7:52 PM

Cowboy Bebop is indeed very good. Another one that I have come to enjoy, and I would like to see from the beginning in order, is Full Metal Alchemist. Very emotional series, good characters, and I think FF/S fans would like it as well as Cowboy Bebop.

DAYVE

Friday, April 7, 2006 7:56 PM

i've seen a little of FMA...need to check out more of that one....i've been an anime fan for a while and i'm always looking for new stuff...thanks for the reminder

LANCER

Friday, April 7, 2006 9:20 PM

belive it or not, Firefly is acctually very similar to the Anime "Outlaw Star"

Well, here I am

CHANNAIN

Friday, April 7, 2006 9:22 PM

Actually, there were some distruntlements back when the show was on the air about the simularities between Cowboy Bebop and Firefly. There were even some out and out accusations of plaigerism.

It's cool that it's being brought up again, though.

I saw one episode of it and I agree to the simularities, for sure. But JW had this idea going in Titan A.E. as well. There's a scene in that movie that is practically an animated blue-print for the landing on Perspehone in the BDM.

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IANW

Friday, April 7, 2006 9:38 PM

ya know, I was going to strike on the two series' similarities, but there's a also enough differences to not make them similar.

For example: main characters in CB are bounty hunters- completely legal.

main characters in firefly, crew of an unregistered cargo ship -breaking registration laws minimally

setting in CB is earth's solar system

setting in Firefly, distant solar system

you get my drift.

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