(1) BWS: Spike Spiegel
This is the beginning to my "Boys with Spunk" Archive. I'll be posting an entry dedicated to a different boy every now and again, whether they be fictional, non-fictional, an actor, an artist to merely an anime character ;) They won't be necessarily hot/sexy/drop dead gorgeous, but they have the "there's-something-about-him Mary" feel. Well, to me.
Feel free to voice your opinion, agree or strongly disagree with me. I don't care. Just remember this is solely my opinion and my flailing enjoyment. ;)
"They say hunger is the best spice."
Spike Spiegel; Cowboy Bebop
**SEMI SPOILERS UNDER CUT**
No one will ever define lazy-swag, unless you're Spike Spiegel. ;)
Spike: Ever heard this story?
Jet Black: Huh?
Spike: There once was a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived & lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he really didn't care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat which meant he was free. He met a white female cat & the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed & the white cat grew weak & died of old age. The tiger-striped cat cried a million times, & then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
Jet Black: Yeah. That's a good story.
Spike: I hate that story.
Jet Black: Huh?
Spike: I never liked cats, you know that.
Jet Black: Oh yeah, that's right.
If you don't know who Spike Spiegel is, he's the main protagonist well, one of the mains from my favourite anime of all time, Cowboy Bebop. An anime wayyyyyy before Naruto, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist etc. Anywho, Cowboy Bebop is basically an anime set in 2071 about a misfit team who chase criminals not for justice, but for money in their pockets. However, majority of the time they're paying for damage and complaining about themselves dying from starvation. I don't think I can ever write a proper review for Cowboy Bebop since it's so amazing and because I'm meant to be ranting on about Spike, and not the most amazing anime ever.
Spike is 27 years old, born on Mars. Just like the anime, it's hard to ever accurately describe Spike without you watching him in action. He's always wearing that blue suit and known for his crazy mess of green hair. He often is portrayed as very relaxed, smooth, goofy, sarcastic and frustrated whenever he's with his team - well, more at Faye, Edd & Ein since Spike lists women with 'attitude', children and animals dogs? as three things he dislikes.
"You're all instinct and impulse."
Jet Black; Cowboy Bebop The Movie
His facial expressions are beautiful in this anime. Usually Spike has a somewhat languid obnoxious image, but when for example he sees someone from his past again, his facial expression changes. You can see he's somewhat remorseful as opposed to his usual sarcastic, fooling-around attitude.
Before then he was part of a syndicate with his best friend and ex-lover, Julia. I don't like giving much stuff away about this, but basically everybody thought that Spike was dead. In some sense, Spike is dead. He's in the present, but he lives in the past - or the past ends up catching up with him one way or the other. Any flicker of his past, and Spike becomes more lively, reckless and dangerously meddlesome.
"I’m just watching a bad dream I never wake up from."
Spike Spiegel; Ballad of Fallen Angels (Session 5)
"I’m not going to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive."
Spike Spiegel; The Real Folk Blues Part II (Session 26)
Throughout the anime, you gradually piece out Spike's past. It's only until the very last episode that there's clarity. The creator was smart about it. And in Cowboy Bebop The Movie, Spike mentions something about Julia despite never really talking about her in the series...
"When I was younger, I wasn’t afraid of anything. I didn’t have the slightest fear of dying. No reason for it. I thought that if I die, that’s fine with me, any time at all. But then I met a certain woman and it changed. I started to think that I wanted to survive. For the first time, the idea of death began to scare me. It was on my mind. Never felt that kind of feeling. Almost paralysed."
Spike Spiegel; Cowboy Bebop The Movie
The way he fights is always fun to watch. He's very smooth how he delivers kicks and punches, that it's almost like he's dancing (even when he's pickpocketing). In Waltz for Venus, Roco asks for Spike to be his 'sensei' and begs for Spike to train him.
This is one of my favourite quotes...
"You’re tense, I’m calm. You apply excessive force; I control that force through fluid motion. That means relaxing the whole body so it can react instantly without resistance-no, without thought. Do you see now? It means becoming like clear water. Water can take any form. It drifts without effort one moment, then pounds down in a torrent the very next."
Spike Spiegel; Waltz for Venus (Session 8)
Just watch the below gifs of how he fights. All gif`d from Session One: Asteroid Blues.
I'm not sure if it's still in the process/works, but Keanu Reeves is meant to be acting his part in a live-action movie one day. Ever since I saw the first episode of Lucky Seven, I just thought Eita's fighting is EXACTLY how Spike would fight. xD
Anyway, this post isn't complete without a shirtless, ab-friendly & smoking gif xD I admit, I hate smokers - but I still find smokers intriguing for some odd reason. Haha.
& this is also my favourite fan art of him too.
I think I've officially completed my gushing for today. He's just all sorts of amazing and rewatching the bebop movie recently is really tempting me to rewatch the whole anime all over again. Spike is such an eccentric character and it's always a pleasure watching him in every episode.
(Click here to see the BWS index for other editions)
Feel free to voice your opinion, agree or strongly disagree with me. I don't care. Just remember this is solely my opinion and my flailing enjoyment. ;)
"They say hunger is the best spice."
Spike Spiegel; Cowboy Bebop
**SEMI SPOILERS UNDER CUT**
No one will ever define lazy-swag, unless you're Spike Spiegel. ;)
Spike: Ever heard this story?
Jet Black: Huh?
Spike: There once was a tiger-striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived & lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he really didn't care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat which meant he was free. He met a white female cat & the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed & the white cat grew weak & died of old age. The tiger-striped cat cried a million times, & then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
Jet Black: Yeah. That's a good story.
Spike: I hate that story.
Jet Black: Huh?
Spike: I never liked cats, you know that.
Jet Black: Oh yeah, that's right.
If you don't know who Spike Spiegel is, he's the main protagonist well, one of the mains from my favourite anime of all time, Cowboy Bebop. An anime wayyyyyy before Naruto, Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist etc. Anywho, Cowboy Bebop is basically an anime set in 2071 about a misfit team who chase criminals not for justice, but for money in their pockets. However, majority of the time they're paying for damage and complaining about themselves dying from starvation. I don't think I can ever write a proper review for Cowboy Bebop since it's so amazing and because I'm meant to be ranting on about Spike, and not the most amazing anime ever.
Spike is 27 years old, born on Mars. Just like the anime, it's hard to ever accurately describe Spike without you watching him in action. He's always wearing that blue suit and known for his crazy mess of green hair. He often is portrayed as very relaxed, smooth, goofy, sarcastic and frustrated whenever he's with his team - well, more at Faye, Edd & Ein since Spike lists women with 'attitude', children and animals dogs? as three things he dislikes.
"You're all instinct and impulse."
Jet Black; Cowboy Bebop The Movie
His facial expressions are beautiful in this anime. Usually Spike has a somewhat languid obnoxious image, but when for example he sees someone from his past again, his facial expression changes. You can see he's somewhat remorseful as opposed to his usual sarcastic, fooling-around attitude.
Before then he was part of a syndicate with his best friend and ex-lover, Julia. I don't like giving much stuff away about this, but basically everybody thought that Spike was dead. In some sense, Spike is dead. He's in the present, but he lives in the past - or the past ends up catching up with him one way or the other. Any flicker of his past, and Spike becomes more lively, reckless and dangerously meddlesome.
"I’m just watching a bad dream I never wake up from."
Spike Spiegel; Ballad of Fallen Angels (Session 5)
"I’m not going to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive."
Spike Spiegel; The Real Folk Blues Part II (Session 26)
Throughout the anime, you gradually piece out Spike's past. It's only until the very last episode that there's clarity. The creator was smart about it. And in Cowboy Bebop The Movie, Spike mentions something about Julia despite never really talking about her in the series...
"When I was younger, I wasn’t afraid of anything. I didn’t have the slightest fear of dying. No reason for it. I thought that if I die, that’s fine with me, any time at all. But then I met a certain woman and it changed. I started to think that I wanted to survive. For the first time, the idea of death began to scare me. It was on my mind. Never felt that kind of feeling. Almost paralysed."
Spike Spiegel; Cowboy Bebop The Movie
The way he fights is always fun to watch. He's very smooth how he delivers kicks and punches, that it's almost like he's dancing (even when he's pickpocketing). In Waltz for Venus, Roco asks for Spike to be his 'sensei' and begs for Spike to train him.
This is one of my favourite quotes...
"You’re tense, I’m calm. You apply excessive force; I control that force through fluid motion. That means relaxing the whole body so it can react instantly without resistance-no, without thought. Do you see now? It means becoming like clear water. Water can take any form. It drifts without effort one moment, then pounds down in a torrent the very next."
Spike Spiegel; Waltz for Venus (Session 8)
Just watch the below gifs of how he fights. All gif`d from Session One: Asteroid Blues.
I'm not sure if it's still in the process/works, but Keanu Reeves is meant to be acting his part in a live-action movie one day. Ever since I saw the first episode of Lucky Seven, I just thought Eita's fighting is EXACTLY how Spike would fight. xD
Anyway, this post isn't complete without a shirtless, ab-friendly & smoking gif xD I admit, I hate smokers - but I still find smokers intriguing for some odd reason. Haha.
& this is also my favourite fan art of him too.
I think I've officially completed my gushing for today. He's just all sorts of amazing and rewatching the bebop movie recently is really tempting me to rewatch the whole anime all over again. Spike is such an eccentric character and it's always a pleasure watching him in every episode.
(Click here to see the BWS index for other editions)