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Cowboy Bebop Remix: Anime Legends | 
 enlarge | Director: Sunrise Studios
Actor: Animation
Studio: Bandai Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 1177
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Surround Sound, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 650 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: 20047
UPC: 669198200472
EAN: 0669198200472
ASIN: B00102FF7U
Release Date: February 5, 2008
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Product Description
The crew of the Bebop is once again ready to take control of space bringing bad guys to justice and trying to make some cash while doing it. Join the always cool Spike investigative genius Jet the fabulous Faye the amazing (but weird) Ed and the super-smart Welsh Corgi named Ein as they try to make a buck in the year 2071. How do they do it? They re bounty hunters. But then again you probably wouldn t be reading this if you didn t already know that...Now for the first time in North America the entire Cowboy Bebop Remix series in one package!!! System Requirements:Run Time: 650 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Rating: PG-13 UPC: 669198200472 Manufacturer No: 20047
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| Customer Reviews: Read 40 more reviews...
A classic August 10, 2008
H. Marcus (Watertown, MA)
Cowboy Bebop was one of the first animes that I had ever watched nearly 10 years ago, and it still among my favorites. The Anime Legends box is an amazing deal for this series.
Great entertainment! August 8, 2008
J. Shull
Cowboy Bebop is one of the greatest animated shows I've ever watched. The characters are nicely developed and the story plots are both easy to follow and intricate at the same time. Definitely a must-watch!
Cowboy Bebop Remix: Anime Legends August 6, 2008
Derek L. Allen
The best anime ever. It has so much jazz influence and culture, It's beautifully old school like your cool cousin who's real refined wears lacoste and drives a bmw. It seems like a real show and has a real view of the world with minorites, poverty, struggle, sex, violence, but has warm undertones and peaceful moments every stereotype and people and thing seems real. All the music is original and the American voiceovers
have legends like steven jay blum and John Billingslea it has a real cool urban feel to it. Like the reason why people pay for 4.00 coffee and listen to duke ellington or wear tight button ups and glamour. Its a real cool show and the movie was good to. It's good for intellectuals and idiots, young and old. You can learn alot from this DVD.
 See ya later Space Cowboy! July 29, 2008
M. Rodriguez (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only anime of its kind I promise. Filled with great action scenes, comedy, and romance, it needs to be on your top anime list. From the opening theme song you know this anime is diffrent and for some reason it just catches your attention. Also the extras are great with interviews of the cast. Also dont forget the movie if you enjoy the series.
 Commonly and Critically Overrated July 24, 2008
Eric Ofstad
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
Cowboy Bebop is commonly hailed as one of the best anime series of all time, but with its utter lack of cohesive story or character development, Cowboy Bebop proved to be (with the exception of perhaps five out of the series' twenty-six episodes) painfully insipid. Many would argue that the series requires neither of these common necessities in good storytelling, which is true provided that each episode of the series was entertaining enough to keep viewers watching. However, the vast majority of the episodes range from unoriginal to comedically contrived. Cowboy Bebop certainly is "The Work Which Becomes a New Genre Itself," attempting a jack-of-all-trades-yet-master-of-none-approach with sci-fi, drama, and comedy. Its sci-fi repeatedly breaks its own metaphysics (a la random feng-shui magic introduced late in the game), its drama refuses to give insight into its characters, and its comedy, at which it is most successful, still frequently falls flat.
A common hindrance in anime is that the stories can get so bloated with its agenda or characters' melodrama that maintaining the viewer's interest gets lost in the shuffle. The staff of Bebop seemed to take this problem to the other extreme as the series suffers from morbidly deficient storytelling. One character's entire backstory is a string from one cliché to the next, starting with his lone righteousness in a corrupt police system to when time figuratively, and tritely literally, stops for him due to his estrangement from an old flame. Another backstory, or lack thereof, is meted out in dialogue-starved shreds of flashback with viewers left to fill in the blanks in the narrative. Whereas some might confuse such moves as artistic, the result comes off as lazy, wherein the creators themselves did not want to put the effort into piecing together their own puzzle. This would not be such a problem were the audience not expected to care about the characters and their pasts, although the dramatic tone of the closing episodes would suggest otherwise. Furthermore, there is little point in watching the sessions in any kind of order, as the series generally has no more continuity than Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The series is not completely devoid of merit, however. The best five episodes (2, 9, 17, 18, and 22) truly compose the Best Sessions with rare moments of genuine humor and, in the exclusive case of "Speak Like a Child," genuine poignancy. Also, the series boasts an impressive and eclectic soundtrack by the peerless Yoko Kanno who unfortunately seems to curse nearly every project she works on, bestowing on them scores that few series have lived up to (with the notable exception of the first Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series).
Even at a reduced price and with remastered audio, the grand total of four fun episodes and one fleshed-out character makes this series hard to recommend. The product is a ham-fisted juggling act between comedy and drama that leaves viewers with little to no emotional investment in the characters.
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