is it true that japs hate Cowboy Bebop
Is it true that japs hate Cowboy Bebop
Probably. Too western, not nip enough.
They don't care for it because it's western pandering trash.
No.
Go back to Yea Forums loser
yeah spike is a hapa chink.
nope. made their top 100.
It sold better than Gundam Wing and Cardcaptor Sakura.
considering how there are almost no other anime like it in terms of story or character/world design this wouldn't surprise me.
Not enough giant robots, loli ninjas or convoluted plots featuring young boys entertaining tournaments and fighting demons for the them
Anecdotally, I know more than a few Japanese people who love it.
>Good characterization
>Cowboy Bebop
Good Joke, Spike was a mary sue.
>I was born watching anime and totally didn't emerge from the toonami-popularizing-anime-in-the-west era
You don't know what that means.
>mary sue
How? He got his ass handed to him several times and dies at the end.
He thinks that a character being a badass means he's a Mary Sue.
Lurk more.
dilate
It's one of the best-selling anime of all time. Yea Forums only believes Japan hates because in the early 10s moepigs made up a story about Japan hating it to attack "Yea Forums" with and Yea Forums was and remains too casual to realize they were lying
but it could be vicious as well who died, since there was only one star falling from the sky
but there's no point in arguing since it was supposed to be open ending
>Being american
They all died id say. Vicious, spike and the thot. All dead.
Not all Japs..
Did Faye die from being frozen too long?
remember when Yea Forums was funny
Nope she lived as far as i knew. I was speaking about Julia or whatever her name was. The girl they were fighting over
JULIA IS NOT A WHORE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
japan unironically hates good anime
She was user dont tell me you blocked out certain scenes.
Wow they hated it so much that an original series was able to immediately fund a high-budget feature length movie the very next year!
No. It sold well for its time and with rereleases.
It's true that Japs see it as just another (good) late 90s anime, rather than an iconic revolutionary anime like the West does though.
>being American
Not just well, it's in the top ten of all time
Wait.. you're telling ME that Japs are NOT BASED???
wtf i hate anime now?!?!
The Japs have shit taste so probably
Bebop was pretty popular in Japan. It's just relatively unique and twenty years old at this point, so if you compare it to an entire genre or long-running series, of course it gets discussed less.
It's also "artsy", in the sense that it ended where it ended very intentionally and didn't leave much room for spin-offs or a continuation.
Because Japan already got their own favorite gun-toting, wise-cracking protagonist that doesn't have B-movie tier plot tied in.
Spike looked like a twink faggot next to this Chad.
>B-movie tier plot tied in
But Bebop's plot puts most anime to shame. Actually, it's one of the few anime that has unquestionably good writing.
Japs have notoriously shit taste
Are we seriously shitting on cowboy bebop? What has this board come to you contrarians have absolutely zero self awareness
It's B-movie tier, man. Just your typical Western movies trope with some sci-fi thrown in. Compared to any good stuff like LoGH, Monster or hell, some of the better City Hunter arcs, Bebop has the plot of a cheap pulp novel sold in airports.
Yea Forums is one of the worst boards on this shitty website so it's not really surprising. It's autism incarnate.
Bebop is mediocre as hell, unless you're American. This place can only go to shit once any fucker dared to dish any Leiji's works
>Just your typical Western movies trope with some sci-fi thrown in
Seems like you missed the point of Bebop and took it as face value. It's a commentary on the monotony of life and it embraces all of the layers that come with trying to find meaning in life.
>Are we seriously shitting on cowboy bebop?
>What has this board come to
I don't agree with it but a large proportion of Yea Forums's been shitting on Cowboy Bebop for nearly 15 years now. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's a beloved anime by normalfags so elitists and gatekeepers pretend to hate it or nitpick it more than it deserves to keep normalfags with entry-level tastes out since discussions of popular classic anime tends to turn into an echo-chamber of the same discussions for decades on. Most of the people on Yea Forums who criticize it harshly probably don't actually hate it or care about it much.
I don't know, maybe I don't get all the subtexts but the overall plot is just forgettable as hell to me. I can only remember its good animations or some good cinematography here and there.
If you like the commentary on certain aspects of life, check out Galaxy Express.
The elitists attitude of Yea Forums in particular is pretty baffling. It feels like it's more prevalent on this board than any other (at least the other boards I go on). Sure, we all have those popular pieces on entertainment that we don't care for, but people going out of their way to try and discredit something just because it's popular is weird to me. Entertainment can be both popular and great, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
There's quite a few anime out there referencing it. The last that comes to mind is Space Dandy. I'd say it's quite fondly remembered in Japan.
We just want to keep the normalfags and crossboarders out, please understand. Also, kill yourself.
You better make sure not to visit /m/
Elitism is a good thing though. It keeps retards out.
I like Cowboy Bebop but look at the state of any other popular anime website that doesn't allow blatant elitism and contrarianism; People make the 2000th thread about Cowboy Bebop and have the same discussions people had 20 years ago, or "I just watched Cowboy Bebop for the first time and I'm going to ask a basic question that's been answered repeatedly".
I love Cowboy Bebop but if Yea Forums lacked elitism then most of the board would be indistinguishable from MAL or r/anime in the anime being posted.
>How? He got his ass handed to him several times
>spike losing to a guy once(twice if you count the movie) means that he's not a mary sue.
>We just want to keep the normalfags and crossboarders out
But you ignore the daily Dragon Ball Super threads, which is arguably the most bottom of the barrel series in recent years in terms of how vapid and lifeless it is.
>Elitism is a good thing though. It keeps retards out.
Elitism itself is retarded, therefore it actively keeps retards in since only retards would act like elitists.
So when does Naruto start to claw neji?
What year do you think it is? Nothing like that happens anymore; the people who grew up with Toonami aren't teens anymore. This is just like how Yea Forums's "elitist" newfags kept going after Gaia because "that's what Yea Forums does" for years after it had stopped being relevant to anything
Yes, but that was in the long long ago.
>I love Cowboy Bebop but if Yea Forums lacked elitism then most of the board would be indistinguishable from MAL or r/anime in the anime being posted
Seems like you guys are doing a pretty bad job of gatekeeping then
But it's still recent and airing. It's not like something that's been over for 20 years and had discussion exhausted.
If you say you watched the show, I know you're lying.
This is some Yea Forums tier contrarianism going on
what was the story behind these three?
Spike was going to be promoted by the dragons, Vicious cucks him with some blonde whore he was also fucking, tells her to kill Spike, she fails to do so and that's why Spike and Julia go into hiding separately?
Or was it that they were just beefing over that whoo-ah? until cuckspike says "I'm not built for this thug-life" and goes away?
It's also the most normalfag series you can get
Yea Forums isn't contrarian, Yea Forums is just retarded. I swear most the people on that board wouldn't be able to tie their own shoe laces
It not that elitism is bad, what annoys me is "i'm blatantly lieing about my feelings towards this show to seem cool" i do agree that we dont really need to discuss the show further seeing as its been talkes about to death and newfag threads are annoying just like with nge this summer
>fundamentally flawed character with emotional hangups that led to numerous poor life choices
>"DUR HE'S A MARY SUE BECAUSE HE'S GOOD AT FIGHTING"
>I don't agree with it but a large proportion of Yea Forums's been shitting on Cowboy Bebop for nearly 15 years now.
Nah, Cowboy Bebop was unironically considered one of the best anime here back then.
>just like with nge this summer
NGE threads have always been daily. It's probably the most discussed show on this board.
Shitting on Bebop was a moepig thing, not "Yea Forums". It's not one person now and it wasn't back then, either
>this show is popular in the West so it's bad!! my taste is unique and special!!
this is the board that pretends every day it's the best on Yea Forums lmao
>this same board has daily aot threads
>But you ignore the daily Dragon Ball Super threads
Ignore? They are a regular source of despair. However, there's nothing to be done - mods protect shitter battle shounen and thus Yea Forums is indefinitely infected.
We don't do that anymore. No one could pretend 2019 Yea Forums is good
I grew up on bebop tenchi dbz and inuyasha. I'm old as fuck now and I still love them
>this same board has Dragon Ball threads that devolve into Yea Forums tier shitposting
inb4 SEETHING
I don't think it's good, just the least offensive.
if only you knew
Unironically is a moepig thing. They act like hating the board subject is a "Yea Forums thing" and therefore nothing should ever be criticized. In reality they just don't want to be reminded of the reality that what they watch on a day-to-day basis is bottom barrel garbage. But of course when it comes to non-moepig shows, then it is okay to shit on them to artificial and forced degrees because "muh gatekeeping".
No they just dont have the same level of love for it the average normalfag westerner does.
The people that say that are the same that claim the director prefers the dub but never give proof of it.
Dragon Ball threads are an art.
No.
Stop making shit up
>Probably. Too western, not nip enough.
Japs love western things though, they LOVED GitS movie with Scarjo.
>However, there's nothing to be done
So why are you getting hung up people discussing good anime?
But he didn't lose to other people just twice... did you even watch the show?
What the fuck am I reading. Is it summer or has this website just been dead for years now? The elitist attitude of Yea Forums is in our DNA. Get out.
Dude it's august, we're almost free.
Those edgy faggots made it so I can't post roflcopter anymore without catching shit.
Yurusenai
At least back then Bebop actually was popular with the Yea Forums demographic so it was somewhat justifiable. Now the invaders don't even know about it. But it doesn't matter, Yea Forums's carcass isn't worth protecting anymore
imagine being so young that you don't know what Bebop is, they are old enough to post here now
Cowboy Bebop has better animation than 90% of the shows released since it was produced
>we need to keep newfags out hence why I'm going to shit on good anime because being such a contrarian is cool and Yea Forums culture
k
And a lot of 80s anime have better animation then 100% of the shows produced after them. That bubble did great for them
I wish I could go back in time... This is not the future I signed up for
The flashbacks are very vague but I always thought it was that Julia was fucking Spike behind vicious his back and vicious didn't really care he just saw Julia as a whore and nothing more when he got mad was when he found out Spike was trying to take Julia and run away from the syndicate considering that at one point they were seemingly best bros you could see why he was upset
But it's an elitist attitude applied poorly. It's like half assed elitism.
I am better than you because I have watched way more anime and have bought way more merchandise than you could ever afford. I have gone to Japan multiple times and have even learned the language. You are nothing but a stupid newfag that doesn't deserve to breathe the same air as someone as high level as me. You should probably go back, littlefish
Imagine still believing summerfaggotry is a thing. It may have been before the massive newfag invasion of 2007 but since then it's been summer all year round, people just kept repeating le summer meme for years because it's what anons were talking about when they found Yea Forums
It's literally summer, newfag. Don't you have some college to apply to?
Summer does have its perks
He's right though. There so much normalfagging that it may as well be summer 24/7 here.
he meant that summerfag is an outdated meme moron
thank phonefaggotry for allowing normalshits to post there all year long btw
I for one am enjoying watching this ship sink and burn
Cellphones did ruin the internet, sadly.
>The last that comes to mind is Space Dandy.
Made by the same guy, so this hardly counts as a cultural reference.
I fucking hate it. This place used to be so much fun it was a more than adequate substitute for online friends. Now it's shit and there's nothing to fill the hole it left
>I for one am enjoying watching this ship sink and burn
I haven't got enough investment in Yea Forums to really care, but I think the forced elitism is pretty funny at this point all things considered
Maybe make some real friends. You'd be surprised by the amount of people that are into anime and manga. Even if they don't like the same shit as you they'll be willing to check out series you recommend.
>The elitists attitude of Yea Forums in particular is pretty baffling
It's the unwritten rules through which Naruto discussion (was) forbidden; it's honestly not even that bad and possibly good but it brings way too many idiots to allow.
Look what happened with shounen and discussion quality. Though I guess the barn door has been open for years now so I guess we can start admitting Coaubayu Beepboppu was actually pretty good.
No. Cowboy Bebop just isn't that well known in Japan.
I've tried a bunch of places but most of them are even worse than neo-Yea Forums. Only one that wasn't pure cancer was the AB forums and they only get a few anime related posts a day
Just do what I do and read more. Reading is the answer to having no life.
The population of fags has critical mass in battle shounen threads but not in bebop threads.
If you count the movie, the first guy he loses vincent, then it's ed's dad. Apart from those 2, who else? I don't really count Tongpu, but that's just me.
>Dude it's august
OOOOOOOO CAAAAANADAAAAAA
Now it's just frogs and feels men
I wish i could go back in time.
Spike and Vicious are the same person.
>tfw Bebop is unironically 2deep4 most people
>naruto referenced cowboy bebop
>fucking naruto
this gif will enable more of those underaged newfag shounentards into destroying the board even more
Naruto's oldfag now bro.
No, they're just indifferent about it because it doesn't have enough waifus in it.
>Posts this 80s-90s shit instead of Lupin
You had one job you cringey pretending fuck
Man, Bebop's writing isn't that great, it's not bad but you're overrating.
The characters just aren't that impactful or memorable.
The episodes aren't memorable enough like in something like say Batman TAS.
Are you a newfag?
This board has always shat on Bebop.
>Bebop has the plot of a cheap pulp novel sold in airports
This is not a problem in and of itself. The problem is that Bebop's writing and characters just aren't that entertaining.
IMO Bebop peaked with Asteroid Blues and never got as good as that again.
Batman TAS for example is the same kinda pulpy show but it has aged much much better than Bebop.
Ghost in the Shell?
More like Ghost in the Shit. Shitty Blade Runner rip-off is shitty.
This is taken from a Bruce lee movie you idiot.
based
Low quality anime has produced low quality fans otherwise known as moefags
Oh please, all Yea Forums ever discusses is flavor of the month garbage and good obscure shit never gets attention.
Don't try and act like you're above normalfags because you're not, you're not any less of a pleb than the typical narutard.
too bad thats all japs want to be.
That just isn't true, but Yea Forums is only one level above the Narutards but acts like it's genuinely elite
How is the regular DBS thread any worse than 20 fucking masturbation threads over generic moeshit?
Don't kid yourself, Yea Forums is not a high quality board, Yea Forums is absolute garbage and totally reflects the terrible state of the anime/manga industry today.
>It's also the most normalfag series you can get
Hah no.
Cowboy Bebop really isn't that popular except among oldfags nowadays.
He got his belly sliced, he is dead af. Check video. There is no open ending, he dead af. You are gonna carry that weight
>It's not like something that's been over for 20 years and had discussion exhausted.
Shut the fuck up please.
Plenty of old ass series still get discussed here despite them being dead as fuck. Most notably that overrated piece of shit Evangelion.
Pretty sure it's Spike who cucked Vicious by stealing Julia off of him which is why Vicious wants to kill Spike.
Eva doesn't count and neither does LOGH
Bebop has the best animation I've seen in a TV anime bar none.
Name me one 80s TV Anime that comes close to Bebop.
You can't because all of the good 80s shit were expensive OVA's and the TV shit looked average as fuck.
I suppose that's true but then again Narutards don't pretend to be anything they're not so that's an extra point which brings them level.
>This board has always shat on Bebop
>implying
This meme that Yea Forums hates CB is only not true and was created by moefags back in 2009 to scare of newfags.
Yes it does no matter how much you wanna waifufag over Asuka or Rei.
LOGH? What are you talking about?
This board constantly shits on that too, only Monster gets more "itt overrated shit" posts than that.
I actually think Yea Forums is maybe two levels above narutards (do those even exist anymore?). Kyoanus lickers/Triggerniggers are one level above narutards and Yea Forums is one level above them. The pretentiousness knocks Yea Forums down to the Triggernigger level
A lot of moefags hate on this series which you can't deny.
Some of them probably haven't watched the series and are just hating on what they perceive to be "dubfags" but some of them just hate the show in general too. And then there's the soap opera crowd which can't get into episodic series.
It'a my 30th birthday. I guess I'll watch Bebop and drink to celebrate
>Kyoanus lickers/Triggerniggers are one level above narutards and Yea Forums is one level above them
I disagree here. Fuck Kyoani and especially fuck Trigger.
Both of these are reddit as fuck especially the latter.
Naruto and its fags might be bed but I'll take plebs over these redditors anydays.
Cowboy Bebop is a good B action movie in anime form. Those who pretend that it's something more are retarded ironic weebs. Likewise, those who say it's shit are dumb contrarians.
There, I solved it.
The problem isn't that it's a B action movie
See
exactly. Plus DBS threads can have discussion, during manga chapter threads. Now compare that to moeshitter threads where all discussion can can be summed up as "my wife (X) is cute!"
Not at all.
It's not that they hate it; it's more that it's not as fondly regarded as it is in the West due to being split cour and being part of some really packed seasons.
The quality was so much higher back then.
It makes me sad.
They loved western FMA/B and Kekkai Sensen
Both of them are shonenshit and pretty much don't feel western in their characters and storytelling at all. They were as western as the Espadas in Bleach being Spanish.
>being part of some really packed seasons.
I always forget that it had problems with censorship too.
It initially was broadcasted in TV Tokyo but the TV Station deemed it too violent to air so they had to cancel 5-6 episodes in and find another TV Station that was willing to air it.
They eventually aired the whole thing from the beginning in Wowow which I'm sure meant a lot of loss in viewership and ratings and such.
That has to be a pretty big factor which people don't really take into account.
Forgot to mention that Wowow was a Premium Channel as well which meant you had to subscribe to it.
Why do you think it's purely about some objective measure of discussion quality? Your culture is not Yea Forums's culture.
wtf the future sucks
>anyone who criticizes my show is a contrarian!
>popular means good!
Apparently TV Tokyo only aired 16 out of 26 episodes, which is crazy. That's over a third of the entire series.
Japs hate everyone
>Trigun
now THAT'S some overrated westaboo-pandering garbage right there
>t. haven't seen Space Dandy
young japanese people are intrigued by western stuff, they basically see us as zoo animals. So no, that's not the reason.
>being American
It was the best selling anime of 1998 in terms of home release sales, and that's just one factor. You also have ratings, pachinko stuff, merchandise, music, the film, references, etc. It's not as iconic as it is in the West, but it's not like it's some obscure "hidden gem" or "it got ignored by Japan but us superior Westerners discovered it" series (quite the contrary in fact). Anecdotally, when I visited Japan a few years ago, Bebop ads were still common in pachinko parlors, so it must have had at least some kind of lasting impact.
When I went in 2014 pachinko parlors were all about Macross Frontier
Stop being a pseud if cowboy bebop is B movie tier City Hunter is literally Z movie tier.
You will probably be shit on but I agree, trigun is mediocre at best
I would have felt bad for Vicious had he not done the same thing, actually much worse, to Gren.
Julia was with Vicious. Vicious scouted Spike and took him in. The three of them ascend the ranks. Vicious starts doing Red Eye(you see it on the night stand in the ending song). Red Eye makes Vicious well more Vicious. Julia has an affair with Spike and both try to escape before Vicious goes completely insane. Vicious finds out. Has Julia set up Spike for the shoot out at the church. Spike goes along with it knowing if he doesn't Vicious will kill Julia. And that's what I've pieced together from episode 5 and the ending credits.
>mary sue
a little advice, don't use words if you don't know what they mean, it only shows that you are retarded and should die
>saber marionette or whatever it is called
now THAT is something i haven't seen in fucking years
No, but I think the trigun anime was more popular in the west than in Japan
Everything the moepigs say about Cowboy Bebop is actually true about Trigun
People tend to pretend that Pink Jacket Lupin doesn't exist because it's not Red Jacket or Green Jacket.
I'm surprised that Bebop lost to fucking Prince of Darkness, the movie that killed the Nadesico franchise.
Japan loved it
The problem is that Prince of Darkness was meant to be part of a series of movies, but financially flopped in a way that killed the Franchise.
Nadesico PoD has one internal problem and one external one: those being that it ends at a point where you're supposed to have played the game to fully understand (even though the game hadn't come out yet at the time) and it's very bad for dumb self-inserters. That's it.
Just because they don't obsess over it like America doesn't mean they hate it. It's just another really good show to most people who have seen it.
Why didn't they release the game first, then make the movie? Nadesico seems like a very bad case of poor marketing decisions
>implying
I was renting ranma 1/2 and record of lodoss war before you were born kid.
Didn't Spike cuck Vicious?
You know what I really disliked about Cowboy Bebop? The ending.
All throughout the series, Spike says he's looking back at his past. He has nothing to hold onto. Not even when he meets Jet, Faye, Ein, or Edward. Even EDWARD suddenly up and leaves the Bebop because she has 0 personal connections with anyone onboard to stop her from doing so.
It's like everyone aboard the Bebop are just perfect strangers, which really irked me. And then, towards the end, when Spike goes to the final confrontation with Vicious, Faye realizes the Bebop and everyone aboard it is her family. She begs Spike not to leave, because she knows he's gonna die. And she comes to that heartfelt realization too damn late.
Does Spike give a shit? Nope. It didn't even look like Spike gave that much of a shit when JULIA DIED. He had a more visceral reaction to accidentally being called Vicious than he EVER HAD TO WATCHING THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE DIE RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.
And in the end, Spike selfishly goes off to die.
I just don't get it, anons. I just don't get it. Not since the day I finished Bebop all those years ago did I ever get that ending.
Am I crazy or does the BD have worse colouring than the original DVD release?
I lost so much seed to Faye back in the day. Shame there's not much good stuff besides official art.
I always feel like everything after Jupiter Jazz was a reboot of sorts.
Fun fact: The English dub voice actors for Spike and Julia are both married IRL.
Shit's cash.
And you're doing a shit job at it. Holy fucking shit, /ak/ wasn't kidding about the absolute state of Yea Forums.
and you're bragging about that? I guess it's better than looking in the mirror and seeing all those wrinkles
>shits on cowboy bebop, a genuinely good series, just because it's popular
>meanwhile we have dbs threads on the frontpage 24/7 filled with redditors
The only thing I remember about Trigun is that Wolfwood was a cool guy.
>Saber J to X in the top ten
Japs have so much good taste, holy fuck.
this
Show should have been about Wolfwood doing the hard shit and the tough choices for the common good instead of pacifist pussy letting entire cities get destroyed because he won't kill anyone
This. Even fucking Naruto threads have more discussion and no retarded elitism going on them.
Had, user. Had. The real Jap otaku community was completely destroyed in the 00s and replaced by niwaka who arne't far above Yea Forums's low level
I've sait it once and I'll say it again: Yea Forums has the lowest level of discussion of any board bar the joke ones.
There are three kinds of pople that post here: anime elitists that gatekeep the FUCK outta their hobby because they have nothing else to be "proud" of, literal mouthbreathing autists that forgot to develop any sense of taste and are perpetually stuck in their teens comparing anime to anime and refusing to see anything past that, and lastly people that want to discuss anime.
9 times out of 10 one of the first two will respond to whatever thread you make, and every post after that will be tarnished by the retardation of the first.
You can't discuss anything here unless you adhere to one of these mentalities. It's like an anonymous board where everybody acts as a tripfag.
Fuck all of you.
Peace.
See you back on Yea Forums
>broken man with deep unresolved issues working with a dysfunctional crew that eventually leads to his death is mary sue
Okay
Well, there were some good ones in the 00's but I can't deny that it's been going down on a slippery slope that hit rock bottom on the turn of the 10's.
How does the crew of the Bebop and not Spike's own personal choices lead him to his death?
where the fuck is rawhide kobayashi
No idea what dbs threads are filled with but people who shit on bebop are retards no matter the reason. It's one thing to dislike a good anime and something else entirely to shit on it just to fit in.
Your gay post won't make Faye un-raped, nigger
What if I selfinsert as the rapist?
1/10 bait. Have a (you).
In a dying thread like this, all we can strive for are (you)s
> they LOVED GitS movie with Scarjo
No fucking way. I call bullshit.
dubs and you'll die before this thread does
You're talking mad shit for someone with such a small army
The point of the ending (and the show) was that you can't escape your past, that running away from your past is not possible
They did try to play this show in a kids time slot right when there was a wave of violence going on in japan.
>being American
Ah, this meme. How I missed it.
She gettin' some of that kosher salami
No, it's just not one of the huge franchises that get milked to death. Fortunately.