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I dare you to name a cooler anime than Cowboy Bebop
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Yes, don't forget End of Evangelion though. It was an inspiration for Adolescence Apocalypse for one thing, but also an essential piece of that series as well.
(The funny thing is that even though they both seem to overwrite some things, they both fit into a singular canon near perfectly if you think about them closely haha. Oh and just to be clear I mean EoE+NGE's TV ending fit perfectly together, and Adolescence Apocalypse+Utena's TV ending fit together. Not that Utena and Eva somehow exist in the same universe haha.)
I've been watching a lot of Lupin recently and awaiting the new movie. Its such a fun show. Jigen is my dude.
would love to nominate GIT's but theres like a whole song about not being cool (unless that in itself is cool).
An interesting note to add here is I recently showed a friend of mine the first 7 or 8 episodes of Bebop and although she liked the first episode every subsequent one lost more of her interest. I think it was possibly the combination of Faye's provocative clothing and that at least early on the Bebop crew is basically constantly complaining about each other and Spike and Jet often have this "women, you can't live with him, you can't live without them" attitude that turned her off from the characters.
Basically, the crew is a lot more angry, self isolating and ticked at each other early on at least than I remembered and that attitude from them ultimately is what made her drop the show. She liked the group dynamic in Samurai Champloo a lot better, although so far she's only seen 1 episode of it.
To be fair, Faye, while a great character in my opinion, does end up in a lot of typical damsel in distress situations. Not that she ever comes off as helpless, she's just the bait more often than I remembered, and combined with how she flaunts her body all the time, I can see why someone would lose interest before seeing the depths of her true character.
I had never read so much Spike slander before this thread yeeeesh. He's "cool" to me in the same way that Japanese wrestler Tetsuya Naito is - they just seem so unbothered and over everything but "well we still have to participate in all this madness so might as well be one of the best at it."
Maybe they haven't seen it? I still need to get around to it.
Yeah, she's at least on par, though in a totally different way. Touga (because of his redemption throughout the series but particularly the movie) gets perhaps too little credit as well.
It's kind of funny actually I haven't seen anyone say Akira. Not that I'd necessarily put it up there though. The manga's better, but one key issue is that Kaneda's still mostly just a punk in over his head. Kei and Chiyoko are cool though. Tetsuo's just a whiny damaged baby.
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Air Gear definitely went places.
Wow, I'm glad I stopped reading when the swedish localisation got cancelled.
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Haven't even seen this show but I damn well know that this is the right response.
I'll echo Gurren Lagann as well.
Out of the answers in this thread, there are two which I consider to be a straight-up mood; Lupin the 3rd although the quality of his slickness depends on which of his series/movies you're watching, and FLCL, which only hits real nice if you're feelin' the indie rock sensibilities.
just pulled up real folk blues on spotify and i got sucked into a time machine back when life seemed simpler.
Im not sure if Cowboy bebop is the coolest or not, but a lot of my childhood memories are tied into cowboy bebop somehow. Thats pretty cool to me!
Of anything I've seen, Black Lagoon and Samurai Champloo are on the same level.
Their action sequences and characters are cool. as. hell.
Their action sequences and characters are cool. as. hell.
I think CB takes the cake but posting some honorable mentions that either had very cool parts or were cool as a whole that I didn't see mentioned before
Darker Than Black was cool af (ignore 2nd season, it never happened) - fight clip, spoilers: https://youtu.be/OH7VTC_szRw
Bonus points for Spike look alike: Speed Grapher
Had promising concept, cool opening and setting as well as some good scenes (liked it but it was aimless and a little boring at parts): Joker Game
Yuasa, crazy animation, GOAT Op: Kemonodzume
Creepy cool? Cool girl on bike? Boogiepop Phantom
Trippy techy cool, not because of chars or situations but because of the visual representations: Paprika (no more embedding: https://youtu.be/yn7U1KIGeuQ
What if Any Lee was cool and anime? Ergo Proxy (no more embedding: https://youtu.be/oAXrRWLKzko)
Also Durarara
Darker Than Black was cool af (ignore 2nd season, it never happened) - fight clip, spoilers: https://youtu.be/OH7VTC_szRw
Bonus points for Spike look alike: Speed Grapher
Had promising concept, cool opening and setting as well as some good scenes (liked it but it was aimless and a little boring at parts): Joker Game
Yuasa, crazy animation, GOAT Op: Kemonodzume
Creepy cool? Cool girl on bike? Boogiepop Phantom
Trippy techy cool, not because of chars or situations but because of the visual representations: Paprika (no more embedding: https://youtu.be/yn7U1KIGeuQ
What if Any Lee was cool and anime? Ergo Proxy (no more embedding: https://youtu.be/oAXrRWLKzko)
Also Durarara
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Exactly.
And the OP still remains victorious.
...I really hope the people saying things like SAO, MHA and Fairy Tail are just joking but it's always hard to tell. I wanted to call out someone claiming that Terror in Resonance is cooler than Cowboy Bebop but I haven't watched it, I'm only aware of it's reputation as being "the first bad Watanabe anime".
Nah, Champloo still holds up beautifully. Fear not.
So does the soundtrack btw.
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Her name is KokoI don't think the anime Jormungand as a whole is cooler, but Koko Hekmatyar is an arms dealer and is pretty fucking cool.
She is loco
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CB is definitely very cool overall. And I don't even particularly think of Spike as a cool character to have that opinion. It's the overall aesthetic, mood, music - the interactions between the characters, the word itself which is slightly falling apart. I don't get the male power fantasy view of Spike - in fact Spike always turned me off because I know he was based on Bruce Lee and I would have rather had Bruce Lee as Spike. Jubei from Ninja Scroll or countless "reluctant" heroes from the 80's and 90's action anime are better than spike in that male power fantasy regard.
However, you can't go wrong with Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust - Yoshitaka Amano artwork that animates. It just doesn't get better than that.
However, you can't go wrong with Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust - Yoshitaka Amano artwork that animates. It just doesn't get better than that.
I don't know if it adds to the "cool" factor but to end that entire show with a black screen and "you're gonna carry that weight". Fam... that hits
Yep. The team behind Cowboy Bebop instantly surpassed themselves with Samurai Champloo.
