I just think that CB has the greatest sense of style, music, characters and so on. I would buy all the episodes on DVD but dont have all that money. What are your favorite episodes?

"Empty your mind. Become formless and shapeless like water. When water is poured into a cup, it becomes the cup. When water is poured into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water, my friend." BRUCE LEE
Note: Spikes fighting dicipline is that of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kun Do, which has much to do with self expression in fighting to achieve excellence.

Been watching Anime for many years now, and I agree the Cowboy Bebop series is, at least in my mind, the greatest Anime series ever.

It was an Anime that didn't involve giant robots or annoying teenage characters. It involved interesting human characters, great music, and innovative style.

Any other opinions this series?

Cowboy Bebop is sweet, and Faye and Spike are exceedingly hot and kick-ass, respectively. But i feel like the overall story isn't cohesive enough to truly draw the viewer in.

Berserk has to be my favorite series of all time. The characters and the relationships between them became more intense and interesting as the series progressed, as did the action and storyline.

I thouroughly enjoyed the animation style as well, even though it is not as fluid as in other series such as cowboy bebop. In addition, the score was excellent and assisted the predominantly dark mood of the series.

The best cowboy bebop episodes are the ones about Spike and Vicious, but unfortunately, the ones at the end don't really have faye in them.

My 5 favorite series:
Berserk
Now and Then, Here and There
X TV
Last Exile
Cowboy Bebop

bebop is cool but I think it's a bit overrated. I think Reign is better. Shinichiro(the director) seems a bit pretentious to me. All these references to what's cool. Sometimes he spends too much time trying to embellish than he does on moving the storyline on some. He also did a vignette on the Animatrix Dvd and I think his was the weakest of all the shorts. He is anime's equivalent of Quentin Tarantino, always trying to inject little hip stuff like slang and cultural fads but very little substance. Now Shoji Kawamori, who worked with him on Macross Plus is a much better director technically. Case in point is Watanabe's new series Samurai Champloo. Way too much cussing and hipness, the director gets off more on being an iconoclast than anything else. The animation of the first disc was good, not great, but promising. But the following eps faltered by trying to create chemistry between the characters. The girl isn't sexy, neither are the two samurai counterparts. All the scenes are interspersed with beat scratches syncing with stalled scenes as if to look cool and hip but it doesn't work. The characters are as flat as paper and there's more chemistry in a glass of water than the whole series has so far provided. Overall, bebop is a good series but, for my money, it doesn't hold up to repeat viewings and it sure as hell isn't as good as Reign, Macross plus or newer shows like Ghost In the Shell Man Machine Interface.

I enjoyed CB, but my vote goes to either one of the last two series produced by Gainax: Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL. They're two VERY different concepts but both are executed remarkably well.

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Originally posted by PsYbUrKnEhTiK:
I enjoyed CB, but my vote goes to either one of the last two series produced by Gainax: Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL.

Awesome, I love FLCL! It's my favorite by far, Evangelion is pretty intense too, but half-way through the show it starts getting weird. I'm watching Cowboy Bebop again, and I still like it, I think it's the music that really 'strikes me fancy'. I know I'm going to hate myself for even mentioning it but I bet Naruto will be the next reining champion of animes when it airs on Cartoon Network. I bet we'll get like 10 kids on this site all going by the name "Naruto" or "Kakashi Sensi" all saying 'Naruto is the best anime ever!' Then they'll kage-bunshin that quote all over, and it will plauge the post and metaritic will have to shut it down and then blah blah blah kids dress up as Naruto during Halloween blah blac blah Bandai makes five shitty video games of Naruto blah blah blah Naruto becomes the new DBZ and hopefully by then I'll forget Naruto was ever made.

p.s-Anyone see the new Appleseed? Or Steamboy?

Good? Yes. The greatest? No. Watch Now and Then, Here and There. Hands down the best anime series ever.

As a fantasy it's ok (very western, very cool and hip; the main character is oh so nonchalant). But really there isn't much substance. The little storlyline involving a villain at the end was terrible. But some scenes are real grippers because of their edge.

I don't know whether it's the best series out there seeing how I haven't seen any other series. But I do have to say that it's a fucking great show. I mean the mix of comedy, action, and hipster cool is often irresistible I find. I mean Spike is just effortless in everything. And underneath it all they all have ghosts in their past which really fleshes them out. Fay's story is particularly poignant. That episode with the videotape is damn near devastating. And the movie is great also. I mean the use of jazz, trance, and rock music is incredible also. Especially when it's used in an unexpected context. Like the train scene in the movie. Complete chaos all around with Spike about to be dropped out of the window and the woman about to shoot him, and the most dreamy music is playing, giving it such a sense of unreality, which is appropriate to the idea of the movie. Great stuff. And mad Pierrot?! Classic! Not to mention the blaxploitation episode. Magic Mushrooms! And Ed! And Ein! And everything. It's just great.

I have a friend who is REALLY into Anime & one of the first series' he got me watching was 'Cowboy Bebop'. I did enjoy it & even saw the movie. My favorite episode has to be the one with the insane bouncing villian. I also loved the bounty hunter T.V. show scenes. As for the best? I don't know about that. It is in the top 3:
1.'Fullmetal Alchemist'
2.'Hellsing'
3.'Cowboy Bebop'
4.'Abenobashi: Magic Shopping Arcade'

There's a fifth but, the flippin' name escapes me. It's a goofy show where the characters are ALWAYS trying to see girls' underwear & they get vicious nose bleeds when they finally do. No real storyline just mindless, perverted craziness & near-nudity!

Hellsing is good as long as it follow the manga's storyline -- which is about five or six epidodes. Then perhaps the definitively generic villain arrives and boredom sets in. Can't wait until Hellsing Ultimate, the anime based upon the manga, finally arrives and shows Alucard kicking some Nazi ass.

I like Bebop, but, for me, it's lost some of its luster over the years. Particularly, I like Full Metal Alchemist and FLCL (probably my favorite despite its disappointingly short duration).

Ok, where to start...

I agree that Cowboy Bebop is one of the greatest anime series ever made, but it's probably not the best, at least in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, it's easily #2 in my list and nothing else comes close. But, it seems almost nobody has heard of Gunslinger Girl. As much as I loved Cowboy Bebop, Gunslinger Girl is easily better. The art is crisper, the action seems more...well, plausible, and the characters and plot are very well fleshed out for a show that only has one season so far.

Popularity-wise, Naruto is king, as has been mentioned, but it's...too commercialized, I think. Personally, I think it's more of a comedy than an action show. There's more "holy shit!" moments in the first episode of Gunslinger Girl than there are in all the episodes of Naruto I've seen. Plus, it kinda kills anime for the mainstream, since everyone who doesn't watch anime seems to think ALL anime is very similar to Naruto. It takes a viewing of something like Ghost in the Shell or Evangelion to prove them wrong. And then there's the fan-made aftershocks. You don't want to see what I've had the bad luck to have seen on deviantART regarding Naruto, trust me.

I'm no otaku compared to everyone else (I'm more likely to cosplay a FOX unit soldier or a Brotherhood of Nod militant than, say, Sasuke at a convention), but I know a good anime when I see one. Cowboy Bebop was one of them.

I used to watch some anime series, in another lifetime. The series I enjoyed most were Kimagure Orange Road, Tenchi Muyo/Universe, 3x3 Eyes and Noir. Neon Genesis Evangelion was okay though too many of the characters annoyed me. Ranma 1/2 was also okay. Have only seen some anime films in the last few years and doubt I'd ever return to watching any series.

Cowboy Bebop is pretty damn good, but so far my favourite anime series would be either Berserk or Tekkaman AKA Teknoman.

I also like Cowboy Bebop a lot, and when you like an anime like that, you also have to give Trigun and Heat Guy J a try, they're both in a similar setting, brilliant animes as well.

That is a huge claim to make but it is my personal favorite for several reasons. The only reasons that would keep it from from being so in my mind would be Ed (the show is clever and funny enough and doesn't need an annoying character solely for comic relief) and Fey (she is a great character but the problem is that they make her the same sluty stereotypical looking character from every bad anime ever). Other than that though, fantastic. Great action, humor (mostly), character development, music, and heart.