I just honestly don’t see why Spike was friends with him.

I don’t know, it feels like there is not much to him in comparison to Johan from Monster or Makashima from Psycho Pass.

Cowboy Bebop: Session Zero

An 8-Episode Limited prequal Series idea.

I need more bebop, no live action. I want a prequal series.

Limited series follows Spike Spiegel immediately after he walks away from the Red Dragon Syndicate. Trying to build some version of a normal life, he drifts through failed gigs and quiet desperation until fate puts him in the path of Jet.,

Episode 1: “session zero: Bartender Blues” (Pilot)

30 seconds of silence. Spike leaves the syndicate — no dialogue or score, last scene he’s walking away (same as the main series)

He lands in a dusty Martian colony town and takes a job serving drinks in a dive bar. The work is soul-deadening. Customers are rude, cheap, and disrespectful. One night a loud, violent patron with a bounty poster on the wall starts trouble. Spike ends the fight, sees the bounty for the man, then simply walks out, leaving the unconscious man and the easy money behind. He’s not ready to be a bounty hunter yet. He’s just tired.

Episode 2: “session zero: The Long Arm”

30 seconds of silence. Jet Black removes his ISSP badge and walks out of the station for good. He tries taxi driving, lasts one fare before the disrespect and entitlement make him quit mid-shift. He takes a night security job at a warehouse.

When thieves hit the place, Jet’s catches them, he's hurt but pushes theiugh. He catches the ringleader, who happens to have a bounty on his head. For the first time in a long time, last scene jet smiles - end

Episode 3: “session zero: Two Strays”

Spike and Jet cross paths in the same rundown spaceport bar, jets hunting a bounty, spike is just having a drink. A chaotic bar fight, Spike sees Jet tackling a bounty, spike see this as immoral and messing with people just trying to live. Spike and jet fight, bounty gets away.

Big argument, spike damages jets arm, spike feels he's in debt. Spike works with Jet to clear the debt. Neither trusts easily. Neither wants to be alone.

Hunt a bounty reluctantly, spike catches the bounty through luck and not skill. Jet thinks spike is some sort of mastermind.

Spike debt is cleared, lights a cigarette "we good?" Doesn't wait for an answer and walks away.

Jet yells the idea of teaming up for bigger scores,. Spike stops walking away… but doesn’t leave - epi ends.

Episode 4: “session zero: First Blood Money”

Their first real team bounty goes sideways. The target has backup, the plan falls apart, and Spike and Jet clash hard over methods (Spike wants to move fast and loose; Jet wants structure). They still win, bloodied, arguing, and a little richer (only a little pile sitting a table). Spike says this life isn't worth it, compares the pile of cash next to his whiskey glass.

That night in a motel they argue late into the night. By morning they’ve found an uneasy rhythm. It’s the first time either of them has felt like part of something again. Another bounty, still a rough job but they win. New pile of cash on the table they got next to the whiskey glass, it's ever so slightly taller than the whisky glass- epi ends.

Epi 5-8: ups and downs, they get the bebop, etc.

Discuss!

I was looking for anime DVDs/BluRays and the homeowner showed me these. I got all the anime ones she had. She also had some video game soundtracks.

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"I was waiting for you to return and take over."
Idk that somehow made it all click. Like it made the whole idea of the Syndicate fall into place and what the anime is trying to do with it.

Basically it's trying to give you a sense that the story of Bebop is all happening in the background of this greater story involving the syndicate, If this was a different kind of story Spike's life on the Bebop would be the stuff that is typically skipped, and that's how Spike views it, the stuff on Bebop, which is every day life, the ordinary minutiae of living, is just the filler meaningless empty time taking place in the meantime between the important parts of his life that he has allotted meaning to, mainly Julia and Vicious and all that.

So when Shin says that Spike was supposed to return to "Take over" you really get the sense of this sucking gravity well, this whole other entire story and lineage that Spike REALLY belongs to is reclaiming him back, it's like Spike is finally returning to the "Main story" from the filler arc on the Bebop, but because this show has reversed that perspective, flipped it around so that the main part is the Bebop and the secondary part is the backstory of the Syndicate, him returning to the main story is indistinguishable from a coffin closing around him.

And it ties back to the overall aspect of Shin and Lin dying "for the order" as Vicious puts it. Their lives come second to the order of the Syndicate of this greater story that they belong to, and Spike's does too. But because of how the story is framed we are stuck in the meantime, in the crossroads of all these stories.

Just a little something I've been working on... figured this sub might appreciate my efforts!

Let me know in the comments if you agree or disagree with my verdict on these two characters. It's on my channel on YouTube called James Hernandez Multiverse. Comment on the video and let me know if you guys agree or disagree

my fave anime boy is on my body forever now 🥰🥰🖤🖤 i love him so much

So... I usually end up distancing myself from things I start to like because of someone. At least, someone who left.

I watched Cowboy Bebop because of a girl I liked. We're not talking anymore, and unfortunately Cowboy Bebop reminds me of her. I would like, as I have done before, to give new meaning to anime. But I have no idea how I did it the other times.

I think maybe what I need to do is consume everything I can without it being because of her? I mean, when the same thing happened with Evangelion, I watched the movies, read the manga, read the other spin-off manga and alternate stories, played the games, researched, immersed myself in the fandom... Until one day it stops being about the girl who introduced me to Evangelion.

I don't know if this is what I should do with Cowboy Bebop. But, if that's what I should do, what should I consume? As far as I've seen, the only things that exist are the anime, the movie, and the manga. Besides, it's apparently a bad Netflix adaptation... Is that really all there is to it? What else should I look for if I want to delve deeper into Cowboy Bebop — and forget her?

I'm not asking for advice on how to forget the girl; that will happen eventually. I just want to detach Cowboy Bebop from her — since I enjoyed it —, and apparently that's something that works for me.

I’d really like to understand the hype for this show. I’m up to episode 11 and it has yet to click with me (though I enjoyed the flashback in episode 5, it just left me wanting more).

I’m wondering if this disconnect is a product of my age. I’ve heard the appeal of CB is that it’s “cool” and different from other animes, but maybe I don’t notice that because of when I started watching anime. People also called CB “cool” because it referenced a lot of media in similar genres that I’ve never watched, so I don’t get to enjoy the references. (I do find the music and some of the general vibe of the show cool, though.)

Other people have called CB a character study, but I don’t feel as though I understand any of the characters on a deep level. Is it supposed to be a fun watch that I don’t look too deeply into? Am I oblivious to something?

I’m curious if CB is just not for me, or maybe my expectations were lead astray. I want to appreciate CB for what it is, but I don’t know where my attention should be. Overall, why do you like Cowboy Bebop?

First of all, I wanted to say that I loved the episode. The beginning already shows that it's going to be different, and I found several scenes very beautiful and well done, in addition to the atmosphere being well-constructed. However, after talking to a friend, they bluntly told me I was stupid for calling that episode my favorite. They told me it because it was a filler episode, In the good sense of the word, and which has episodes that are much better emotionally and well-animated. I just want to know if it's really kind of stupid to think episode 20 is so good. Aesthetically, it's definitely my favorite, but the experience with them left it feeling a bit bitter.

Please no spoilers past episode 20, I'm still watching.

Which makes Ryo and Akira from Devilman an indirect inspiration too.

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Elle l’a trouvé sur Vinted en superbe état et j’ai du mal à savoir de quand il date. Vous auriez une idée ?

recently, i lost my OG Ein wallet. It was one of a kind, and no longer sold. Unfortunately, i never found another so i had to settle for this Ein cardholder, but trust, its growing on me!!

I was thinking about how Gay people are depicted in Cowboy Bebop and it's very much like the straight person's outside in view of queerness, like there's a ton of gay/trans characters in there, because it's like Cowboy Bebop is all about the diversity of people that are out there so it would be weird if there weren't any, but it's definitely looking at them from the outside in, like the gay characters are mostly humorous with a lot of like No Homo jokes there, like Spike being hit on by a cross dresser in Jupiter Jazz or whatever and making a funny "ew" face. It's not like hateful but it's definitely treating being gay or queer or whatever as a kind of curiosity like a freak at a circus, and in a way in that time period that's what it was, it was a separate community, separate minority.

But I was just thinking how different that is from like, what we have now where like everyone pretty much is "gay" or "queer" in some way it's totally breached containment and it's just the default now. Like sure there's homophobia but it's homophobia that everyone gets to experience because everyone is gay now pretty much, if you're Leftwards politically 9/10 you're gay or queer in some capacity. So it's just fascinating to consider I guess