I'm not much into anime. I liked Cowboy Bebop, but it was definitely like, not love, for me.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
libkitty - May 28, 2006 2:25:47 pm PDT #8486 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
SailAweigh - May 28, 2006 2:57:47 pm PDT #8487 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
My daughter had friend staying with her for a while who was all into anime. I'd watch some of it with him and it was kinda interesting, but not engrossing to me. I can see how some would like it, just not my style.
Liese S. - May 29, 2006 6:18:29 am PDT #8488 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I love the Bebop, but my love for anime predates my love for the Jossverse, so I am not a representative sample.
Kalshane - May 29, 2006 8:18:15 am PDT #8489 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Cowboy Bebop is high on my list of favorite anime. I love Firefly more, but Bebop has plenty of charm on its own. Though the simularities between the two are pretty much limited to both shows using normal guns instead of lasers and taking place on a ship where people are struggling to make ends meet between jobs. I don't think the Bebop even looks much like Serenity. (The Outlaw Star and Serenity have a much more similar shape, IMO.)
JZ - May 29, 2006 5:18:21 pm PDT #8490 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I adore Cowboy Bebop, though it was a long and slow-growing love. My one big gripe about it is that it's the first anime I have ever seen, and now when Hec tries to show me something else the Tivo has grabbed for us, it just looks wretched in comparison. The writing, the voice acting, the incredible music, the gloomy visual lushness of it -- nothing else measures up. I occasionally berate Hec for artificially setting my anime standards far too high.
And, yeah, not altogether dissimilar from Firefly, with the dark, and the grubby lived-in, beat-up ship, and the messily improvised alien-free other planets, and the slowly unfolding painful backstories.
Dana - May 29, 2006 5:28:26 pm PDT #8491 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
JZ, you guys should try Samurai Champloo.
CaBil - May 29, 2006 7:15:03 pm PDT #8492 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Except of course, the Outlaw Star has giant arms and would engage in hand to hand combat with other starships. And occassionally smack them around with it's giant axe.
The beautiful thing about anime, they never do anything in halfs...
Volans - May 29, 2006 10:21:08 pm PDT #8493 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I grabbed a Wired magazine to read on the flight to the F2F, and they had a blurb about the crazy browncoat guy who raised the ~1000 to bring Firefly back. The tone of the paragraph was that he was cool.
I don't get it - you can't bring Firefly back. I do wonder if someone could play in Joss' 'Verse and make their own good stories though....
Kalshane - May 30, 2006 7:38:07 am PDT #8494 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Except of course, the Outlaw Star has giant arms and would engage in hand to hand combat with other starships. And occassionally smack them around with it's giant axe.
Well, there is that. I thought the grappler ship idea was lame. I liked the concept of the "Caster" though, and adopted it for a Mage RPG character. It was a fun character to play. Everyone else is calling upon the spirits or releasing their chi and my guy is crouching behind cover cursing because he forgot to pack enough fire shells that day.
Mikey - May 30, 2006 11:49:29 am PDT #8495 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
My dad watched Serenity with us last night. He loved every second of it, despite never having even heard of Firefly before.
I have several friends who saw Serenity without ever having wanted to see Firefly. Every one of them liked it tremendously, but none have seen Firefly even yet--because a TV series could not begin to compare with a feature film.