*Some Bebop Trivia:* The character Abdul Hakim is based on Kareem Abdul Jabbar's role from "Game of Death". Just discovered this channel so I've some catching up to do. Great reactions.
While the music is varied it's mostly blues and jazz inspired. The director Shinichiro Watanabe also made Samurai Champloo and that musical influence is 100% hip hop. Alsoa great show it's interesting that it's set back in like the 1600s Japan infused with hip hop. Another classic.
8:09 “Seems that way” I would be ok if thats all he says 😭😭😭 10:03 Thats like luffys I’ll pay you when im king of the pirates logic 😂 13:03 No beef for spike 🤣
13:50 9 months late but a Data dog is basically the difference between being intelligence and knowledge. Ein can understand how things work by watching and learning from others but not capable of learning without someone teaching him unintentionally, like how he watched everyone use the "phones" before he started doing it on his own.
One thing a lot of people dont pick up Ein is supposed to be an intelligent dog. I dont remember if he was directly experimented on or something, but the series shows it pretty subtly throughout, like the scene where he clearly anticipates the capture net and sidesteps it but it captures all the other dogs.
Just found your channel; just to put this on your radar, if you haven’t seen it, there’s an older live-action show called Firefly. That writers of that show have said flat-out that Cowboy Bebop was one of their inspirations; might be worth a look if you like this. Cheers.
Do you mean Abdul Hakeem is based on Kareem Abdul Jabbar? I have searched and found there are couple website and wiki trivia says the same without a giving any source for the information but there is already another basketball legend at the time, named Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon. So I don't get the situation truly. Why would someone get inspired by Kareem Abdul Jabbar and name the character after Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon. We need an answer from the author and/or director of the show. :)
@@Haplo-san Actually we don't since this Hakeem is clearly inspired by Kareem Abdul Jabbar's role in the Bruce Lee movie Game of Death. The change in name is due to 3 reasons: Artistic choice, copyright and most importantly: Cowboy Bebop as a work generally mixes different sources from real life and fiction to create something new. We also had this exact same thing in episode 1 where the couple Spike was after was clearly inspired by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek in Desperados but Asimov was named after Science Fiction author Isaac Asimov. The Bebop crew (anime writing team) loves to mix stuff like that :)
@@BakaCritic By the fact or interpretation? That's why I have said that we should ask to the author or directors of the show etc. While I was searching, I saw mentioning of Desperados too. And they also say Spike is based on Bruce Lee, but I can't see it. There are similiarities but more than similiarities, there are more dissimilarities no one speaks of. But I was thought of that I should always look up for dissimilarities when I compare two things, not the similiarities. I have searched about it and there were two takes where people mention mostly about it; first, where Spike does a "Bruce Lee nose-rub" but that doesn't mean character based on Bruce Lee. Where in 1999, Neo from The Matrix also does Bruce Lee nose-rub but I did not hear anyone say the character inspired by Bruce Lee. There must be hundreds of Bruce Lee reference examples in any media but that does not mean authors thought purely of Bruce Lee when creating the character. The second take was Spike's "be like water" quote where Bruce has the same quote; in the beginning of the "be like water" sentence, Bruce also says "free your mind" again where in The Matrix, Morpheus tells Neo the same, yet no one says that character is inspired by Bruce. Again, two similiarities and hundreds dissimilarities. Anyway, my point is, that I couldn't find any factual source about it, that's why I did question it. It seems for long years, it is always interpreted as "the truth" and people took it as an actual fact without giving any source. I wish there was an interview with the author.
@@Haplo-san No character is a 1:1 adaption of an existing person or character in this show, this is the whole point of Cowboy Bebop's creation. You mix different elements to create something new. Cowboy Bebop. You don't really need any confirmation if some things are plain obvious (though it is reasonable to expect that a lot of viewers won't recognize every single inspiration. Luckily it is not necessary to enjoy the show). Spike is not Bruce Lee. He has mannerisms and uses a few quotes of Bruce Lee as well as his fighting style. But he also has a lot of qualities of Film Noir protagonists of the 60s in US and french cinema of that time (just like Jet). On the other hand his looks are inspired by various singers and Lupin III. Though there are a lot of Watanabe Interviews where he sheds more light on some aspects of the show, other elements are expected for the viewer to just know. This is an aspect of Cowboy Bebop that throughout the show kinda aged in a bad way. If you watched the show during the late 90s and 2000s it was reasonable to expect the viewers to immediately recognize the influences of the show because the influences happened to be that present in every day life. You didn't need to google who Hakeem is inspired by, you just connected the dots on the spot. (for the sake of argument lets say he looked like John Travolta's Character in Pulp Fiction and was named MJ, you wouldn't hesitate to name the obvious inspirations. It's the same here) I noticed that in a lot of later episodes references and trivia appear that were basic knowledge in the time Cowboy Bebop was released but would be hard to grasp for Teenagers right now (i.e. everything concerning older technology like VHS tapes) Not everything needs to be spelled out if it is obvious to the target audience of that time
Not trying to be too rude but I haven't been watching reactions long from this channel but the guy is always saying, you know what I'm saying after every sentence during the discussions at the end and it's kinda annoying,it makes it hard to listen to it. I get annoyed easily 😩
Thanks for your feedback, btw Dre is his name ... and as easily as you get annoyed you can just as 'easily' switch to another channel... know what I'm saying 🤣 😂 😆 Thanks for tuning in ✌🏾
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*Some Bebop Trivia:* The character Abdul Hakim is based on Kareem Abdul Jabbar's role from "Game of Death". Just discovered this channel so I've some catching up to do. Great reactions.
This is one of my favorite anime. I try to watch it every year
While the music is varied it's mostly blues and jazz inspired. The director Shinichiro Watanabe also made Samurai Champloo and that musical influence is 100% hip hop. Alsoa great show it's interesting that it's set back in like the 1600s Japan infused with hip hop. Another classic.
They also made Space Dandy and based it around disco/funk!
8:09 “Seems that way” I would be ok if thats all he says 😭😭😭
10:03 Thats like luffys I’ll pay you when im king of the pirates logic 😂
13:03 No beef for spike 🤣
Cowboy bebops a classic. If you have time you should checkout the short anime "Death Parade" and "Samurai Champloo".
13:50 9 months late but a Data dog is basically the difference between being intelligence and knowledge. Ein can understand how things work by watching and learning from others but not capable of learning without someone teaching him unintentionally, like how he watched everyone use the "phones" before he started doing it on his own.
One thing a lot of people dont pick up
Ein is supposed to be an intelligent dog. I dont remember if he was directly experimented on or something, but the series shows it pretty subtly throughout, like the scene where he clearly anticipates the capture net and sidesteps it but it captures all the other dogs.
Just found your channel; just to put this on your radar, if you haven’t seen it, there’s an older live-action show called Firefly. That writers of that show have said flat-out that Cowboy Bebop was one of their inspirations; might be worth a look if you like this. Cheers.
You guys should check out Samurai Champloo after this. It's by the same people and is a hip hop anime show with a killer soundtrack.
Bro forgot about Kareem
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Do you mean Abdul Hakeem is based on Kareem Abdul Jabbar? I have searched and found there are couple website and wiki trivia says the same without a giving any source for the information but there is already another basketball legend at the time, named Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon. So I don't get the situation truly. Why would someone get inspired by Kareem Abdul Jabbar and name the character after Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon. We need an answer from the author and/or director of the show. :)
@@Haplo-san Actually we don't since this Hakeem is clearly inspired by Kareem Abdul Jabbar's role in the Bruce Lee movie Game of Death. The change in name is due to 3 reasons: Artistic choice, copyright and most importantly: Cowboy Bebop as a work generally mixes different sources from real life and fiction to create something new. We also had this exact same thing in episode 1 where the couple Spike was after was clearly inspired by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek in Desperados but Asimov was named after Science Fiction author Isaac Asimov.
The Bebop crew (anime writing team) loves to mix stuff like that :)
@@BakaCritic By the fact or interpretation? That's why I have said that we should ask to the author or directors of the show etc.
While I was searching, I saw mentioning of Desperados too. And they also say Spike is based on Bruce Lee, but I can't see it. There are similiarities but more than similiarities, there are more dissimilarities no one speaks of. But I was thought of that I should always look up for dissimilarities when I compare two things, not the similiarities. I have searched about it and there were two takes where people mention mostly about it; first, where Spike does a "Bruce Lee nose-rub" but that doesn't mean character based on Bruce Lee. Where in 1999, Neo from The Matrix also does Bruce Lee nose-rub but I did not hear anyone say the character inspired by Bruce Lee. There must be hundreds of Bruce Lee reference examples in any media but that does not mean authors thought purely of Bruce Lee when creating the character. The second take was Spike's "be like water" quote where Bruce has the same quote; in the beginning of the "be like water" sentence, Bruce also says "free your mind" again where in The Matrix, Morpheus tells Neo the same, yet no one says that character is inspired by Bruce. Again, two similiarities and hundreds dissimilarities.
Anyway, my point is, that I couldn't find any factual source about it, that's why I did question it. It seems for long years, it is always interpreted as "the truth" and people took it as an actual fact without giving any source. I wish there was an interview with the author.
@@Haplo-san No character is a 1:1 adaption of an existing person or character in this show, this is the whole point of Cowboy Bebop's creation. You mix different elements to create something new. Cowboy Bebop. You don't really need any confirmation if some things are plain obvious (though it is reasonable to expect that a lot of viewers won't recognize every single inspiration. Luckily it is not necessary to enjoy the show).
Spike is not Bruce Lee. He has mannerisms and uses a few quotes of Bruce Lee as well as his fighting style. But he also has a lot of qualities of Film Noir protagonists of the 60s in US and french cinema of that time (just like Jet). On the other hand his looks are inspired by various singers and Lupin III.
Though there are a lot of Watanabe Interviews where he sheds more light on some aspects of the show, other elements are expected for the viewer to just know.
This is an aspect of Cowboy Bebop that throughout the show kinda aged in a bad way. If you watched the show during the late 90s and 2000s it was reasonable to expect the viewers to immediately recognize the influences of the show because the influences happened to be that present in every day life. You didn't need to google who Hakeem is inspired by, you just connected the dots on the spot.
(for the sake of argument lets say he looked like John Travolta's Character in Pulp Fiction and was named MJ, you wouldn't hesitate to name the obvious inspirations. It's the same here)
I noticed that in a lot of later episodes references and trivia appear that were basic knowledge in the time Cowboy Bebop was released but would be hard to grasp for Teenagers right now (i.e. everything concerning older technology like VHS tapes)
Not everything needs to be spelled out if it is obvious to the target audience of that time
Not trying to be too rude but I haven't been watching reactions long from this channel but the guy is always saying, you know what I'm saying after every sentence during the discussions at the end and it's kinda annoying,it makes it hard to listen to it. I get annoyed easily 😩
Thanks for your feedback, btw Dre is his name ... and as easily as you get annoyed you can just as 'easily' switch to another channel... know what I'm saying 🤣 😂 😆
Thanks for tuning in ✌🏾