Cowboy Bebop on Cinescape cover

[Matt Hazuda]

http://animationinsider.net/forums/i...t=ST&f=7&t=359

Not the best cover in the world, and it doesn't even mention CB by name on the cover, but at least it's some good exposure. Anyone actually seen this issue yet?

[sl4]

Cool, but... "Japanese Invasion"?

What were they thinking?!

[Amano Ginji]

Originally posted by superloud4
Cool, but... "Japanese Invasion"?

What were they thinking?!

Agreed

[Galaxia]

I know I asked this before somewhere, but they'll have it in most bookstores, right?

[randomguy]

Very cool looking cover... quite slick. Too bad it has that lame title- I'm sure most of Cinescape's readers are aware of Cowboy Bebop's existence and would like having it mentioned by name.

[Galaxia]

I bought the magazine tonight - I couldn't get the Bebop cover (I got the one with the X-Men 2 cover), but would anyone like me to scan the article?

[sl4]

Originally posted by SpikeJet143
I bought the magazine tonight - I couldn't get the Bebop cover (I got the one with the X-Men 2 cover), but would anyone like me to scan the article?

Sure! I'm sure a lot of us (including myself) would like to read it. :]

[Galaxia]

Bebop 'Till You Drop!.

It's kinda big, but I did that on purpose (so you can actually read the article - I'm such a nice person, eh? )

In the article, Shinichiro Watanabe remarks about Bebop's fans, how people thought that Cowboy Bebop was going to fail, and another confirmation that the movie takes place before the end of the series. Even though it's kinda short, it's a really good article.

[JetMaster5]

I kinda wished they'd mention Yoko Kanno. Without her, this series wouldn't reach half of it's popularity.

But this is minor nitpicking (something I shouldn't do very often). It's a good article.

Thanks SpikeJet!

[jeffrey 228]

Well sounds like a good thing the media is getting on hands with Cowboy Bebop, and it is pretty much being well reviewed and all.

[Mackenzie Rainelle]

Nice article. Short, sweet, and to the point.

[sl4]

Originally posted by SpikeJet143
Bebop 'Till You Drop!.

It's kinda big, but I did that on purpose (so you can actually read the article - I'm such a nice person, eh? )

In the article, Shinichiro Watanabe remarks about Bebop's fans, how people thought that Cowboy Bebop was going to fail, and another confirmation that the movie takes place before the end of the series. Even though it's kinda short, it's a really good article.

For anyone who is on a slow connection or is just too lazy to download the picture, I painstakingly retyped the article for your reading pleasure:

If you've watched a single finished episode of Cowboy Bebop, you've seen more of the show than Bebop's director Shinichiro Watanabe.
"I never watch the finished product," admits Watanabe. "I get very emotional when I see my own work. I always see the little things I could have made better. I've learned, once a show is finished, to let it go."
He may not be watching much of the series, but fans sure are. Bebop, a show about four unlikely space-based bounty hunters, had its U.S. debut last year on Cartoon Network to amazing viewer support.
"We are very gratified by the reaction of U.S. fans," says Bebop character designer Toshihiri Kawamoto, who worked very closely with Watanabe to establish the look of the series. "It was honestly a surprise, because we didn't create the show with international audiences in mind."
The global success of Bebop may have been a surprise for the show's creators, but it was a bigger surprise for Bebop's many critics.
"When we were first working on Bebop, many people in the anime industry told us it was going to be a failure," notes Watanabe. "They said that it didn't have enough of the standard anime characters, and that the style was too subtle."
In hindsight, those naysayers look pretty silly. the show has everything: intense action, great music, intelligent plots, cool spaceships, and, of course, hot women.
It was out of love for the Bebop characters and their world that Watanabe and Kawamoto jumped at the chance to translate them onto the big screen for the feature film Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
"As soon as the show started to achieve popularity in Japan, producers approached us about doing a movie," explains Watanabe. "We couldn't turn them down. Early in the show's development the entire creative team decided we were going to approach Bebop as if we were making mini-movies each week. We'd been making small movies, now it was time to make a normal-sized one."
The movie finds the Bebop crew on Earth, seeking a bounty head; but their fortunes take a complex turn when the "common criminal" proves to be a bio-terrorist.
Surprisingly, the film has taken a remarkable amount of time to arrive at American theaters, and was rumored to have been delayed by concerns over how today's America would recieve such a terrorist-centered plot.
"We finished the film well before September 11th," says Watanabe. "But I was amazed when I watched the reports of the World Trade Center attacks. Some of the news shots looked so similar to images from the film that I got chills."
One obstacle to making the movie was that the series ends on a rather final - let's say fatal - note for the Bebop crew. In order to make a new adventure for the movie, Watanabe chose to present the film as a previously untold tale, set sometime before the end of the series.
"We wanted to make the movie represent the crew at the peak of their relationship," says Watanabe. "We chose a time when they'd been working together for a long time, but before they started to break apart."
Watanade admits that there are potentially more untold stories that could be explored, but he doubts that will happen.
"I can't see the future, but I don't think we'll ever be doing more Bebop," Watanabe remarks. "We love Bebop, but we spent for years working on it. If we keep going, we're going to repeat ourselves."
All of this means that Bebop: The Movie is likely to be the last chance fans will ever have of seeing a new Bebop adventure.
But fans shouldn't feel too despondent. Watanabe and Kawamoto are already at work on new projects. Not only are they doing episodes of the Wachowski Brother's inspired Animatrix project, due out this spring to tie into the Matrix film sequels, Watanabe is currently developing a new samurai-based period action piece.
"We won't let our new international friends down," promises Kawamoto. "They haven't heard the last of us."

[Beat]

Cool. Guess I have to check it out.

[eek!]

Originally posted by jetwing5
I kinda wished they'd mention Yoko Kanno. Without her, this series wouldn't reach half of it's popularity.

But this is minor nitpicking (something I shouldn't do very often). It's a good article.

Thanks SpikeJet!

this issue is not minutia. without the music, it just wouldn't work. hello, Cowboy BEBOP. they should have mentioned her. i can't remember what the name of it is, but there was a movie back in the day that totally flopped. then it was rereleased with a completely new score and was successful. i need to remember what movie it was. anyway, it's not nitpicking. she deserves the credit.