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[edit] Upcoming Announced Cowboy Bebop movie?

Its been a while, but I distinctly remember reading in some anime magazine that there was a new Cowboy Bebop movie in planning which mostly focused on Spike and Faye in some adventure together. I've Googled, but found nothing. Anyone else remember this? No, it was not Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, the article in the magazine came long after that movie was released. Surely I'm not the only one on the whole internet to remembe this? 65.81.8.122 00:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pirated DVD cover lookalike on main page

It's apparent to me that the DVD cover used on the main page is identical to a pirated version from a company called FX. This may encourage readers to buy the pirated version instead of Bandai's official releases. I suggest a different image to avoid confusion, possibly one from one of the six DVDs in the legitimate edition. Also, you can't really tell from the image, but the legitimate edition is rather bulky; it contains six normal DVD cases stacked back-to-back. The pirated edition is a fold-out case, and is much slimmer.
Legitimate edition:
http://i1.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/a8/78/8735_1.JPG
Pirated edition:
http://i5.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/98/fa/19c7_1.JPG
Faucett 17:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Erm, could you fix that Bandai Entertainment link?SuperGerbil 03:05, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Bandai link dead. replaced with ebay link. Faucett 17:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

isn't there also an edition with 3 session DVDs (eps 1-26) and 1 movie DVD that's not pirated? -11 Nov 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.22.77.134 (talk) 14:50, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

There is no legitimate 3 disc edition. There was a collection with only a few episodes called the Best Sessions or something like that, but it is not the image that is shown on the page. Bandai released a remix version that is still 6 discs and has a different. The version shown currently is an illegal bootleg and really should not be on the page as was stated above. It could very easily mislead people in to believing that the "perfect sessions" are legitimate when they are not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.189.253.222 (talk) 03:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reception: Japan

Ok, so I found a source that shows that only 12 episodes of the series were released in the initial Japanese release, and then the whole series was released on the WOWWOW network after it switched. I can't find sources to back the speculation that Eva was the reason that the show almost never made it to air, that the last episode was delivered the day it was meant to air, and that there were intentional problems with the time slot. Can anyone else prove this? Hewinsj 05:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Should it be noted that...

Cowboy Bebop has mainly melancholy themes? I mean, I can't think of a single episode with a happy ending. just bittersweet and tragic ones...shouldn't that be noted? C. Pineda (クリス) 05:27, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I do not find the show to be melancholy beyond expectation. It's endings are not so strange as to warrant particular notice. Perhaps it's unique to someone that only watches media with happy endings. But I think there is plenty of work out there with endings of similar tone to this show. I'm afraid the tone of the endings is just not unusual enough. ask123 14:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not this again

Animax LA didn't air this series in Latin America, it was Locomotion. For next time, for God's sake, to make Wikipedia a better site, RESEARCH MORE CAREFULLY BEFORE ADDING STUPIDITIES. Twicemost 05:55, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. ColdmachineTalk 07:58, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for my anger, it's just that this mix of mistake and confussion is repeated in most anime articles. My complain is because I want this encyclopedia to be more trusty. It is very common to find "it was broadcast on Animax across South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Latin America and other regions" in the articles about anime series. The problem is that some series aren't shown by the same channel in ALL the regions in the planet, and that's the thing I wanted to communicate in the talks of Witch Hunter Robin, Tsubasa Chronicle, Monkey Typhoon and now in here. Look, about WHR and Tsubasa, these series are not even licensed in Latin America, Monkey Typhoon was broadcast on Cartoon Network in LA and Cowboy Bebop was shown only in Locomotion for that region, not in Animax, at least not yet. I will calm down, but only if you tell the one who writes that repetitive sentence that not all the series aired in Animax Asia will be broadcast too in Animax Latin America. Again, i'm sorry for my anger, it's that I know many people that dislike Wikipedia, precisely because of its non perfect information, and I wish with my heart to fiz that (but I can't alone!) Twicemost 00:49, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Actually, any information regarding non-Japanese and non-English broadcasts should not be included on the English Wikipedia per WP:MOS-AM, so it shouldn't have been included in the first place. ANN is a notable source, so it is used as a verifiable reference in several anime articles on the project, but if you see any mistake and if you have evidence or sources to support your point: please feel free to correct it yourself or put it up for discussion on the talk page in a polite and open manner. Thank you. ···巌流? · talk to ganryuu 07:38, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I didn't propose to include other-language information, as you might think, I ONLY said that the infobox is wrong because there are LA flags among the list of countries where Animax aired the series; it is that, nothing more, nothing less. I was proposing a correction, not an addition on information; that's the same purpose of my post in this talk when I found that suspicious piece of information. I know that other-language broadcast info is unwelcome, I already made everyone know it here and here. So, please, read more carefully the posts of someone else before judging the intentions of that user (I now see the kind of person you are, I'm terribly sorry). Twicemost (talk) 04:29, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] woolong

"After the advent of space travel, the bounty system of the Old West was reinstated by the government to help curb growing crime levels. Bounty hunters are encouraged to capture criminals and return them (alive and relatively unharmed) to the authorities for monetary rewards, in part through a regular television broadcast of "Big Shots", a bounty-hunter news program featuring a heavily-accented Mexican and a perky blonde with mostly-exposed breasts. These bounty hunters are now referred to as "Cowboys" in slang. In addition, ruthless crime syndicates have large influence in the Solar System, indulging in such fields as bribery, murder, extortion, drug dealing, money laundering and other criminal offenses. The Woolong is the universal currency, and paper money is less common since more people carry convenient money cards and rely on digital transfers."

The link on "woolong" redirects back to the same page you just clicked it from Cowboy Bebop..I have no idea wtf a "woolong" is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.205.91.3 (talk) 17:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I got rid of the link. Perhaps the woolong information and the Red Eye information from the List of Cowboy Bebop characters article could be combined into some sort of "Objects in Cowboy Bebop" article or something like that? Apollo Gilgamesh (talk) 00:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


that would be rite also could u tell wat citations are needed so i can search for themBinarymoron (talk) 16:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Uh, I could be wrong, but isn't the Woolong an actual, this-universe this-era currency? Without feeling up to hunting for it, it's Taiwanese/Vietnamese/Philipino... one of them, can't remember which. Pretty sure it's real however. Just another example of the future cultural diversity and re-balancing of cultural influence in the wider solar system (one can only assume from the cultures seen that the north atlantic nations took something of a battering by the initial lunar incident; or at least didn't take as well to commercialised space travel as the east ... or maybe it's just an effect of where the series was made!) 82.46.180.56 (talk) 21:37, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Update: did a bit of brief but intelligent searching - at a guess, it's based on the Korean "Won" (which also has the ₩ symbol) ... but that's as far as the trail goes. No modern-day real world currency called "woolong", however, though there's a slight match between the two words (if you take out the 'olo' and the 'g' ;) 82.46.180.56 (talk) 21:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] citation for main page

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/FileGet.cfm?ID=6F757F03-C96B-4465-ADB7-5901177BA5CE.

http://www.futureblues.com/guide.html

http://www.animedream.com/music/bebop-askdna/

here is the link for a citation for western music influence and kung fu influence on cowboy bebopBinarymoron (talk) 16:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Catchphrase

What's the deal with the phrase "The work which will become a new genre itself will be called...Cowboy Bebop."? Is there any sort of background to this (did Watanabe have aspirations?)? Are there any sources which bring this up? Octane [improve me] 05.03.08 0021 (UTC)

The phrase comes from Watanabe's sales pitch to Sunrise. In an interview with Wizard: Anime Invasion, he explains a graphic designer used it for a commercial bump (without Watanabe's permission) and it sort of stuck because Watanabe liked the art.--Nohansen (talk) 03:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "See also"

"See also"... "List of Cowboy Bebop voice actors"... And it's a red link. That's just stupid. Whoever did that should have actually made the list of voice actors first... "See also: Nothing!" ... worse than trivia sections...--Zantetsken (talk) 04:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

If you had bothered to click the red link you would see that the page used to exist, but has since been deleted. Postmodern Beatnik (talk) 16:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] information vs spoilerage

the paragraph outlining Ein's character makes some allusions to his enhanced intelligence and abilities, but misses the more telling parts e.g. his demonstrated hacking ability (when Ed put the cyberspace goggles on him and was in awe of how fast he navigated the 'net and broke codes), somewhat human and resigned reactions to situations, etc. Not a normal doggie :) ... but then has it been missed on purpose to avoid spoilers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.180.56 (talk) 21:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)