So remember that time three years ago when I wrote about the Buffista F2F? No, you probably don't. But that's why I link! Since these posts are like the sequel! Every year, the Buffistas descend upon an unsuspecting city and rock out, and this year, we gathered in Seattle. Which, luckily, contained other people I wanted to see, so it was all sorts ( Read more... )

Trigun is another one of those very popular animes that even non-anime fans may have heard of. Like Cowboy Bebop, it's a space Western.

Trigun is the story of Vash the Stampede, also known as the Humanoid Typhoon, who has a $$60,000,000,000 (sixty billion double dollar) bounty on his head due to the amount of chaos and destruction he leaves in his ( Read more... )

I had never heard of Samurai Champloo until I discovered it listed as one of the influences on Avatar, in addition to Cowboy Bebop and FLCL. Then, when I started my recent anime kick, multiple people recommended I watch it after Cowboy Bebop, including rachelmanija, who named it her second-favorite anime ever, and that woman has seen fifty billion of the ( Read more... )

In 1998, the work, which became a new genre itself, was called Cowboy Bebop: the world's first sci-fi noir kung fu Western mixtape.

Sci-fi: The Bebop is a spaceship! And, see, the story takes place in the future, and spaceships travel through hyperspace gates, and we've colonized the whole solar system, and it's all very well thought out, with ( Read more... )

I'm nine episodes into Cowboy Bebop and really liking it! I'm watching it subbed, even though dubbed won the poll, because I am a fan of principles, even when they're made-up. People were right about it being very episodic, but there are little hints of backstory regarding Spike and the worldbuilding that intrigue me amidst the entertainment ( Read more... )

It's time to remind you all that I do watch more than anime!

But, um, first, a question for the anime crowd.

After I finish The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (which I am more than halfway through and love SO MUCH already), I am going to watch the famed Cowboy Bebop. Now, I was all set to watch it in Japanese with subtitles, but I hear that the ( Read more... )