Cowboy Bebop If a continuation, how and with whom?

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  1. Yellow_13

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    Since it is unknown whether or not Spike Speagle truly died in the final episode (26 the real folk blues), and since he has survived much more than a throwing knife in the shoulder and a bullet in the arm, the potential for a sequel is out there. :dizzy2: If there were a continuation to Cowboy Bebop, who should it be continued with and how? :glazed: :anime:
     
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  2. Izzy

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    Y'know...there's about 15 different threads about this very same subject.

    And, in each one (well, nearly) the outcome is the same: Cowboy Bebop's done. In terms of music, there's really nowhere else to go. The series has hit its high crescendos and its low ballads.

    If there would be a sequel, then that renders episodes 24 through 26 a moot point and useless in the series.

    What's your obsession with sequels anyway? Anime isn't exactly like american cartoons. They won't make it longer just because the public likes it ALL the time (with the exception of Dragon Ball Z and Naruto and a few others). Cowboy Bebop had a definite end. Not a CLOSED end, because there's some loose ends to tie up...but what anime doesn't have that?

    Love Hina and Cowboy Bebop are certainly two of them. And Kare Kano's anime iteration. And...well....A LOT of anime series.
     
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  3. Dante

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    Okay, and exactly how much crack did you smoke before you posted this? Set aside you completely ignored the fact that Spike was just ****ing gutted, but you also can't seem to grasp the various (and quite bloody obvious) factoids placed through the entire series strategically up until the last episode to try and get it through the thick skulls of nimrods every where that SPIKE REALLY DID DIE. He HAS no reason to live anymore; he lived through so much because his life wasn't complete, his mission, his goal was not finished. But now with both Vicious and Julia dead, the only two things that truly mattered to him, the two things that were keeping him alive, he can die in PEACE because he could not die before until he finished his task.

    LET IT GO MAN. Spike is dead. End of story. If you're that obsessed with him write a Yaoi about him placing yourself as a lover or something but please, for the love of God, just admit it and get over with it. You're in denial, and frankly, it's SAD.
     
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  4. Yellow_13

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    Bullet in arm + Throwing knife in shoulder + Katana slah in leg DOES NOT = gutted
    :anger2:
     
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  5. Izzy

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    Let's clarify this. I don't remember watching it, since it's been so long, so I'll just start it off.

    What version did you actually watch? Did you watch Cartoon Network's version? Or the original DVD release?

    Just because it's "Adult Swim" doesn't mean they don't edit further. I mean, they *DO* put swimsuits on Ryoko in Tenchi while she's in the onsen.

    Now that I've started it, you and Amon finish it off, civilly.

    However, I'm of the knowledge that he DID die. If he had anything else to come back for, sure, let him live again. But he didn't. Jet and he were friends, but not so deeply entrenched friendship like what Vicious, Spike, and Julia shared amongst each other...before all the bad stuff.
     
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  6. Dante

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    Oh no, those three do not.. but the ever obvious scene of Vicious' katana ripping right through Spike's abdomen like a Thanksgiving turkey with an almost astronomical amount of blood squirting forth like a turkey baster just as he is shooting Vicious... that WAS him being gutted...

    But, y'know... all that blood and the absurdly obvious scene of Spike being cut is just oh-so-easy to miss after all.

    [/sarcasm]
     
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  7. Shenlong

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    Supposedly, according to the official site (http://www.cowboybebop.org), there WILL be a continuation of the series. It's planned to be called Cowboy Bebop U.T. However, it will not involve the original Bebop crew at all. Instead, its gonna be about VT (the space trucker from "Heavy Metal Queen") and her bounty hunter husband. Sorry to those who wanted to know what happens to the Bebop crew. :sweat2:
     
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  8. Nephilim_X

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    That sounds more like a spin-off than a sequel.
     
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  9. Yellow_13

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    Whatever.
    :dizzy: You are probably right. I wouldn't know for sure, however, because I wasn't watching the "Kill Bill" version of the 26th episode :anime: . That and the
    fact that my eyes turn to paste when I stay up till 4:00 a.m. watching an anime :glazed: !
     
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  10. Hice

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    If they ever would do a sequal, Spike is dead, let him go.

    I think it would be better to go about maybe 20 years in the future and have Edward as an adult still bounty hunting.

    Who wouldn't wanna see Edward as an adult beating up criminals?!?!
     
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  11. Dante

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    Me.

    Ah, so you mean you weren't watching the real thing, just the dubbed and edited version on Adult Swim? Well why didn't you just say so? :D You're still wrong. S'all that matters.
     
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  12. Yellow_13

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    Dude, Amon, you just don't understand what what I am saying. You must have been eating a crack laced donut while watching cowboy bebop. Compared to all of the other injuries that Spike had received in this show, the ones in the finale equate to a five year old getting a papercut and dropping dead instantaneously. It is impossible unless they sever their own head with a sheet of lethal paper, but that would probably take at least a millenium to complete.

    I will say this once, and only once. I am ignorant. I am so unbelievably arrogant. I have no freaking clue which version of this show I was watching, or if I just did some bad shrooms and was watching gay porn. I have to say, that, it would be perfectly clear if that was the case. However, being gutted by someone elses manhood, well, I just don't see that happening. Maybe for me, when I put it in the pencil sharpener, though.

    Whatever the case, I am sick of my $#!t, and, you win. I will stop making such a big frieking deal about this, I am a rancid sack of animal fescies!!! I haven't even heard this much petulant whining from my 7 year old brother, for God's sakes.

    [edit by DL: Don't be such a ****, don't insult other members needlessly, and don't judge bebop solely on the CN/AS dubbed version.]
     
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  13. Dante

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    Okay, now YOU need to calm down, little buddy. Take a chill pill.

    In case you haven't noticed, YOU'RE the one whining and bringing animal FECES (not fescies) and sexual preference into the mix, so step off.

    Ask anyone who's seen the actual episode, not the dubbed **** on [EDIT] Typo, meant Adult Swim [/EDIT] and they will tell you the truth.

    The moment Spike tells Vicious "Let's end this" and they through their weapons back to each other, while Spike is shooting Vicious, it can clearly be seen that Vicious' katana is clearly and obviously slicing open Spike's abdomen, his stomach really. Now, this is more clearly evident if you watched the real thing, say on a DVD or Sub-titled or even in Japanese as opposed to, say, a Dub on Adult Swim, because we actually see the massive amount of blood-flow that is even clearly visible in the dark background.

    Perhaps it is YOU who needs to calm down and get your facts straight before you come in here and getting pissy with me just because I proved you wrong and everyone knows it.

    Do yourself a favor, go out to Suncoast or Best Buy or something, fish out twenty bucks or so and buy the last DVD of Cowboy Bebop and go watch the final episode. Maybe you'll get a clue.

    Anyways, since you had to act like such a child about this I'll be reporting you.

    Thank you and I hope you've enjoyed your time here. :)

    [Another EDIT] In fact, actually, I specifically remember even seeing this scene in even the dub on Adult Swim... so, yeah... inexcusable, man. [/EDIT]
     
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  14. Mordeth

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    Spike died

    duh

    i mean.. the end just doesn't make sense if he lives

    the SERIES doesn't make sense if he lives

    my gods.. how can you miss something this basic?
     
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    edits

    CN/AS does not edit key eps of CB. Ballad of Fallen Angels and Real Folk Blues are unedited by CN/AS because they are key eps. Other eps are edited because they want to be able show these eps.

    Amon right, Yellow wrong.

    BTW Amon Sena. What the hell. Sena is Robin's last name. Amon's is unknown. WTF?
     
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  16. wing_goddess

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    a continuation would just ruin the series.

    MY REASON: none, i don't need any, you know i'm right.

    and Spike is dead. so what if his injuries in episode 26 wasn't severe as previous incidents he's had. what? do you want him to have died with more pain and suffering you evil people?
     
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  17. Genghis Khan

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    Spike is dead.

    1)Did you miss the star reference? If you stayed and watched the whole ending song, you see a star fall. They wouldn't put that in if it wasn't significant.

    2)Juliet died. Spike said in CB the Movie, he hadn't been afraid to die, then he met her and THEN he had a reason to live. Now she's gone, he has no reason to continue.

    3)Anime isn't always accurate on how much blood there is in the human body, but generally not that innaccurate. Suffice it to say, even Spike has limits.

    4)Those weren't his only injuries. He got injured before even reaching Vicious. He couldn't even use one arm, for Pete's sake!

    I could go on. But there would be no point.
     
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