Bang.     Jul 10, 2007     reviewed by hitachiin_love    
(Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star Vol. 01)

I love this book and I wish the second book I had wasn't stolen from me. -_-'' You do have to like action in order to like this kind of anime though. It's focused around a group of 4 bounty hunters: Spike,Faye,Ed, and Jet. (And Ein, being technical:D)

hitachiin_love also recommended: s-cry-ed, trigun, saiyuki,
Is this review helpful? Yes | No

I love this one!     Jul 12, 2007     reviewed by hitachiin_love    
(Cowboy Bebop: The Movie: Knocking on Heaven's Door)

I have this one and I love it!!!! You do have to see the whole first series though to undertand it. If I could, I'd give it 8 stars! It's about the group of bounty hunters trying to find the cause of a bioterrorist attack on Haloween.

hitachiin_love also recommended: Trigun, Saiyuki,
Is this review helpful? Yes | No

Space Cowboy     Aug 02, 2007     reviewed by Toushiro41    
(Cowboy Bebop: The Movie: Knocking on Heaven's Door)

The movie is action packed and also has an awesome storyline. The action scenes are great and the theme of the series hasn't changed so watching the first series wouldn't matter too much because their still the same. The Bebop gang is still after bounties but this time it’s the biggest bounty of all as they search for the man who unleashed an unknown deadly disease that claimed over 500 victims.

Toushiro41 also recommended: Trigun,
Is this review helpful? Yes | No

I wish I still owned this book!     Jul 12, 2007     reviewed by hitachiin_love    
(Cowboy Bebop Vol. 02)

I'm so mad that this dumb girl moved with it and never returned it to me. There's only one more book in the original series and it just consists of various bounties for the group to track down and get the bounty off of.

hitachiin_love also recommended: Trigun, Saiyuki,
Is this review helpful? Yes | No

Tale of two formats     Jul 14, 2007     reviewed by larryniven    

I have to divide this review up into an anime review and a manga review, because they're significantly different. To begin with, the anime (including the movie):

***** out of ***** There's not one bad thing I can say about the Cowboy Bebop anime. To begin with, the music is a joy. Yoko Kanno, no jazz expert, composed several CDs worth of fantastic music, ranging from fast-paced bebop to a particularly entertaining hard rock track. The music, together with Shinichiro Watanabe's super-cool directing style, makes the Cowboy Bebop universe totally realistic and very easy to get into.

But that's not all the series has going for it: the main character, Spike Spiegel, is, to be straightforward, a total badass. He's a bounty hunter (badass) who owns spaceship (badass), knows all sorts of martial arts (badass), and has his own personal nemesis (badass). He and the other main characters fit right into Watanabe's noir-esque universe, and they develop at the natural pace of the series. Their adventures and misadventures develop not just our understanding of the characters, but also our understanding of the world around us.

The animation is high-quality, the acting is spot-on, and the series has enough subtlety and deep meaning that you'll want to watch it more than once. This, to me, is almost the perfect anime. Unfortunately, the manga doesn't quite keep up:

**.5 out of ***** Adapted from the anime, the manga presents a few original stories. All the main characters are back, looking just like they did in the anime. The problem is that the entire atmosphere gets lost in translation. There's no music, first of all. The deadpan humor of the original series gets thrown off by the author's brighter sensibilities. The plotlines fail to take advantage of the dark tone that the anime established. In general, it just doesn't feel like Cowboy Bebop. If this was its own series, unconnected from Watanabe's work, it would've been entertaining enough to get 3 or 4 stars. But it just had too high of a mark to hit. Definitely watch the anime, but only read the manga if you absolutely must.

larryniven also recommended: Samurai Champloo, Outlaw Star,
Is this review helpful? Yes | No

Good Series     Aug 05, 2007     reviewed by The Furry Panda    

Cowboy Bebop is a good anime, and a good manga. You dont have to have seen the anime to understand the manga. The Manga is just like a filler, random bounties and stories.

The Furry Panda also recommended:
Is this review helpful? Yes | No

OK but to short     May 23, 2007     reviewed by nintendan    

it is a good manga but the 3 i read where just random story's i really liked them but when i found it was three mangas long i found it felt like i kick in the.... because i was hoping for more

nintendan also recommended: bobobo bo-bo bobo,
Is this review helpful? Yes | No