Cowboy Bebop is indeed a grand show. I'm also a big Ghost in the Shell fan, although it doesn't quite hold up to the original manga, in my opinion. Same with Akira... Do yourself a favor and read all six volumes of Akira. It's simply fantastic.

I suppose I need to watch more of the recommended anime shows out there. However, I did happen to watch all six episodes of FLCL, which I found to be amazing. It's one of those shows that you either love, or absolutely hate, tragically, so I've had difficulty introducing my friends to it... *sigh*

No, I completely forgot about Cowboy Bebop OMG! *points to avi image sarcastically*

There are plenty better anime out there, but GITS, Cowboy and Trigun are great gateway drugs...I mean...shows into the wider range of anime besides what fucking 4Kids and Shonen Jump put out. Now go pick up a copy of Genshiken [comedy], Gankutsuou or Sai Kano [sci-fi action drama {+Romance for SaiKano}], Haibane [fantasy drama ], or King of Bandits Jing or Excel Saga [Action comedy]. And by pick up a copy I mean "Check out on Youtube".

EDIT: And TeaParty, you can't really blame Akira for being like that. It's a feature film over a ton of books made in the EIGHTIES! For a retro anime movie, it's pretty good. Still, you are totally right, the books are obviously better than the movie, like in most cases.

Oh, and if you can't get into anything outside of the CB realm, then watch Samurai Champloo and GunXSword. [GunXSword hasn't been translated yet, but there are a TON of great fansubs out there for it.]

i'm not an Anime fan by any means but i LOVE Bebop. it's the only Anime i will go out of my way to watch. i haven't seen anything else like it.

Never really seen the series of Cowboy Bebop, watched the film. It was fun though i didnt feel much attachment to the characters obviously. One day i'll get round to watching all the series.

I Loooove Ghost in the Shell in all its incarnations. The oshii films are abit more philosophical than the series. Noticed some of the grievances people have about the series, it not being accessible if you only watch 1 or 2 episodes. In that case watch all of it!! The laughing man story of the first series is amazing as you see everything unravel.

One i havent seen anyone mention is Ergo Proxy. It can be abit unevenly paced and confusing but its a good watch none-the-less. And an IG productions short everyone should watch when drunk is Dead Leaves!

Will definitely check out Cowboy Bebop with all these people recommending it.

I personally am a big fan of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. The animation is amaaaaaazing, and the voice actors actually do a good job. It's quite a creepy film though...

Still watching it!! It was among the few animes I watched but I couldn't get enough of it! Beautifully written and so well put together! I loved every second!

I can't say enough about how much I loved Cowboy Bebop. Every once in a great while I dust a DVD off and enjoy another episode all over again. It had everything; awesome art, deep characters, action, the best music ever. And it never took itself too seriously.

Bebop is good, with all that Jazz and Noirish elements, but I prefer Champloo (cue a mob yelling "FREAK!!") I think the reason why Champloo isn't so popular is that the english cast are soooooo crap. I mean I've watched the whole series in both english and japanese with subs and I found the english voice actors terrible. Mugen and Jin were barely distinguishable and Fuu just sounded weird.
Also a lot of the conversations follow a rhythm that isn't very noticeable and the english dubbing doesn't follow it so it lacks that hip-hoppy feeling that one gets from the original voice track, that and I've been told that there a lot of puns with language that don't work in english as well.

I had seen other animes before, but Cowboy Bebop was my gateway to other animes. In my opinion however, Firefly has more elements of Outlaw Star then Cowboy Bebop.

My friend who hates anime considers Cowboy Bebop worth watching, it's so awesome it makes people who don't like anime like it.

I want to see it but never have.

I will now get the theme song.

twilight_dweller:
Anyone remember Cowboy Bebop? An amazing anime in my opinion. Good plot. Good action. A kick ass theme song.

Had pretty much everything. ^_^

Remember it? I have the box set on my shelf!

Cowboy Bebop is amazing, my favorite anime by far.

It's a media crossover like nothing I have seen before. It plays out like a TV show (always the same ending, stay tuned for next week), every episode is a homage to a different musical genre and to top it off, it's animated.

It has a somewhat shaky story and not all of its characters are developed enough (I always felt that Faye in particular was tacked on), but as an experiment in style and combining different types of media into one, it has no equal.

Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun. all mentioned yay :3 Hmm...Fullmetal Alchemist was pretty great too, funny and serious at just the right moments. What else, oh right, anyone here watched Azumanga Daioh? Addictive surrealist cotton candy if ever there was one :3

GothmogII:
anyone here watched Azumanga Daioh? Addictive surrealist cotton candy if ever there was one :3

Isn't that the one with Ebichu, the Housekeeping Hamster? That's some fucked up shit. Pretty funny too.

poleboy:

GothmogII:
anyone here watched Azumanga Daioh? Addictive surrealist cotton candy if ever there was one :3

Isn't that the one with Ebichu, the Housekeeping Hamster? That's some fucked up shit. Pretty funny too.

Not as far as I'm aware...this is it:
For those not aware. It's not a typical School Girl fanservicy anime, although it does make joking refrences to those kind of anime at times. Otherwise, Azumanga is an anime based on the everyday lives of six high school girls. 'Slice of life' stuff with an odd surrealistic filling going throughout. Highly recommended it! \o/

Oh yeah, I think I know that one. There's a male teacher with glasses who sweats a lot because he's sort of... er.. likes.. very young girls, right?

Eyclonus:
Bebop is good, with all that Jazz and Noirish elements, but I prefer Champloo (cue a mob yelling "FREAK!!") I think the reason why Champloo isn't so popular is that the english cast are soooooo crap. I mean I've watched the whole series in both english and japanese with subs and I found the english voice actors terrible. Mugen and Jin were barely distinguishable and Fuu just sounded weird.
Also a lot of the conversations follow a rhythm that isn't very noticeable and the english dubbing doesn't follow it so it lacks that hip-hoppy feeling that one gets from the original voice track, that and I've been told that there a lot of puns with language that don't work in english as well.

Terrible voice actors? 'Tis not so sir!

As far as I know, Mugen was voiced by the one and only Steven Blum; the same talent that voiced Spike Spiegel. Personally, I was happy with the voice acting, or at the very least, I've seen much worse.

poleboy:
Oh yeah, I think I know that one. There's a male teacher with glasses who sweats a lot because he's sort of... er.. likes.. very young girls, right?

Yup, Mr.Kimura. He luckily doesn't get too much screen time, but when he is on, he's freaking hilarious xD