Cowboy Bebop Movie

What kind of review blog would it be, if we didn't include Spike Spiegel and the rest of the crew in our list. This movie appeals to people who don't have any anime or even like it. It is watchable like any kind of movie would be, you will forget that its just an animation. The movie feels like a good extended episode of the series, but you don't have to watch them to be consumed by this great animation.

Cowboy Bebop franchise had many great artists working on the movies and series. This movie was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe. It's one of his most know work, just shows how good he is at what he does. Animation production was made by Sunrise, Bones and Bandai Visual, made by professionals and leads in anime industry, just check their work.

The story is made up in a way so that you don't have to know anything about Cowboy Bebop. Everything is explained about the characters efficiently and simply, so you can jump straight to the main plot of the movie. The timeline of this movie do link to the original series, the events take place between episodes 22 and 23. If possible, it is recommended to watch 22nd episode before watching the movie to get the most out of it. The movie follows a interesting and a deep plot line, maybe not so much like in the series, but interesting enough and with lots of good action included.

We follow a crew of four bounty hunters on a spaceship called Bebop. As they hunt, what seem to be a simple bounty turns out to be a chemical weapon terrorist attack. The government issues a very high reward, the crew wants that reward money and tries to get it, but finds that they have yet again got themselves into very deep and deadly situations. We won't spoil more of of the story, get it, watch it, loooove it like everyone else does.

All cast characters, with very unique personalities on board of Bebop. The character designs were made to look as much live-like as possible. They wanted to have more quality than the series, but keeping all the features. The city on mars looks very believable, with lot of people and bulk daily traffic. They have animated amazing looking Arabic market, with lots of interesting items to purchase, like beans. They even show a bit of a old western movie, they used different type of animation for it. Great stuff, like in a real movie.

Animation style of this anime is unique, it deserves big scores. Very detailed backgrounds and animations. The movie is full of action sequences with unique style of Spike's fighting, especially the final fight with Vincent looks good. The project was done by three great animation studios, they can only be praised for their work, their work always are up for awards and prizes. This is one of their most popular work, famous for many elements, animation is just one of them.

The soundtrack has been released separately, because it was so good. It really sounds very believable, that this type of music would be popular in the future. It of course, includes the classic jazz and blues sounds, just the way Cowboy Bebop series do. We recommend getting it separately if you have spare cash.

Cowboy Bebop is a unique animation that should be sitting in any science fiction fan's movie collection. It has been watched by lots of people who aren't even into animation. It was produced and directed by very famous people, gifted animators and designers. It is worth every single penny and should satisfy both series fans and anyone who hasn't seen Spike and the crew in action before. The plot is quite complicated and the scenes do contain violence, so it is rated for over 16. We also found little good or maybe bad news for Cowboy Bebop fans. The more we watch it, the more we like this movie.


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