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Cowboy Bebop
I'm watching this now and it bothers me that there's no discussion for it yet.
I'm looking to purchase this but good friggin' god is that expensive! 30 bucks a DVD, 6 DVD's - 180 bucks for A SERIES?!
Yeesh. That's some brutal shit right there. Any advice on where to get it cheap?
I'm looking to purchase this but good friggin' god is that expensive! 30 bucks a DVD, 6 DVD's - 180 bucks for A SERIES?!
Yeesh. That's some brutal shit right there. Any advice on where to get it cheap?
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Ebay isn't all bootlegs and is by far the cheapest. It just takes a little time to find a good listing. Look for one with a photo of the DVDs attached. Most bootleg listings seem to just be a picture from the series' promotional art or something - not of actual discs in cases.
With Anime you always have to ask yourself if the price that is asked is really worth it and you couldn't spend your money in a better way. Unfortunately, most of the time Anime is just way to pricey. So far I found only a single series that was worth full retail to me which was Black Lagoon at "only" 23€ a disc.
With Cowboy Bebop I can't really give you a good option, but in my opinion, if you are american, Netflix is the cheapest way to legally watch the series. If you really want to own it I would wait for the price to drop or a sale on RightStuf or a similar site.
I'm grateful to Netflix for Cowboy Bebop and Trigun, two shows I'd have never seen if I had to buy them.
Canada :(
Trigun
I got it all on a whim at an FYE in New York somewhere just across a lake in Ontario - Watertown? Anyway, I was looking at the anime which was all stupidly expensive but TriGun was there and both collector sets were half off for 50 bucks each - all of TriGun for 100 bucks and a couple useless do-dads... not too bad, considering.
..We may possibly have Netflix, but I doubt it.
If I was organized, I would be all on top of that faster than I'm on a lot of your moms. Hey-ohhh. Anyway, it stinks... :(
Kage, I am in Alberta and can't get Blockbuster :( Why won't Netflix even let me watch it on my computer? Seriously.
If I was organized, I would be all on top of that faster than I'm on a lot of your moms. Hey-ohhh. Anyway, it stinks...
Kage, I am in Alberta and can't get Blockbuster
Why won't Netflix even let me watch it on my computer? Seriously.
So am I. =< In GP. Eeevil GP. ><;I dunno, I just remember some commercial, somewhere, about blockbuster or something. I never used it. *shrugs*
Reference, not caught.
Why don't you like Calgary is what I'm asking.
This is for two reasons: because many such things in Japan are, in fact, ridiculously expensive, due to the realities of the Japanese economy, and because, despite the markdown (oddly enough) we usually get in America on licensed anime, all costs for foreign goods are rising due to (surprise!) our terrible, terrible dollar.
That being said, anyone who hasn't seen Cowboy Bebop ought to buy it, if only to encourage (in theory) further development of similar shows.
When it came out on DVD, I didn't mind dropping the $30 on each DVD. I even dropped the $20 to get the cool looking box to hold them. It was an impulse buy, and I couldn't help myself. Luckily it was a good purchase because they stopped selling those boxes, and seeing some of the prices on amazon, it's ridiculous.
Anyways, me and 2 of my friends two of my friends and I just got done watching the entire series. We watched it over the course of 3-4 sitdowns (I don't remember exactly...). It was their first time seeing it, my 2nd/3rd (I've seen some eps only twice, some 3-4 times...so it's between 2 and 3).
One of my friends liked everything but the ending. He didn't really say what he didn't like about it other than he thought it was too melodramatic / there wasn't a big enough climax...
The other didn't like the series at all. First off, he doesn't really like the episodic-ness to it. He says that the main story was too short and not fully fleshed out. He says the characters were hard to care for (Julia and Vicious I can kinda agree with, since they were only in like 5ish episodes each, but for Jet, Spike, and Faye you've just gotta be shitting me). He also overanalyzed the entire motherfucking series. From questioning how Spike survived getting shot so many times all the way down to shit as minute as "a shotgun shouldn't have that kinda range".
So fellow forumers, please tell me that I'm not the only one who thinks they're both fucktards.
P.S. Yes I know people are entitled to their opinions....but sometimes opinions are fucking stupid. Plus, the logic they used to back up their opinions can be refuted to a degree.
edit: Yes I knew I was using improper goddamn grammar. That's more slang than a grammar mistake, IMO.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of the internet, I'm going to have to say that, at least with what I've seen of the show, I agree with your friends on some points and am personally unimpressed with the show as a whole.
The episodic nature of the show does bother me especially when so much of the attention is placed on the side characters. It's very hard to care about people that have been introduced 10 minutes ago and will never be mentioned again, regardless of their fate, at the end of the episode.
Everything returns to a baseline setup at the end of every episode, so there is no real chance of anything significant happening in any episode that is not related to the main storyline. As such any tension or interest is gone in episodes not related to the main story (which are the vast majority of episodes in Cowboy Bebop). There's not even a lot of character development that I could see. Various episodes do reveal or clarify various facets of the main characters' already deep personalities, but it's not very interesting because the decisions that those facets result in are ultimately meaningless within the context of the show and the character remains unchanged at the beginning of the next episode.
In any case the point that I was going to make, which I seemed to have strayed from, is that it is perfectly legitimate to dislike cowboy bebop, and there may be logic behind opinions other than yours.
Come back with your opinion fully formulated (yes, type an essay if you have that much to say) once you have watched the entire show, don't bother with this half-way nonsense, it's neither a preview/first-look or review, so it must be nothing.
It is something. It's his opinion of the first 18 episodes of Cowboy Bebop. All in all, he just said that he finds it perfectly understandable for someone to dislike Bebop.
The thing I wanna know is, what do all the Bebop haters have in common?
if your idea is that everybody who doesn't like it has something in common with every other person who doesn't like it, you are sorely mistaken. Opinions are different, there are flaws in every show, I have explained the flaws that bother me but someone else who doesn't like it may dislike it for completely different reasons.
if your idea is that everybody who doesn't like it has something in common with every other person who doesn't like it, you are sorely mistaken. Opinions are different, there are flaws in every show, I have explained the flaws that bother me but someone else who doesn't like it may dislike it for completely different reasons.True, but I bet that there's something they have in common outside of obvious things.
Dislike of the art style?
Desiring moar shonen fighting, which Bebop delivers very little of (at least tournament style fights)?
Who knows.