Okay so over the last week or so I went on a rewatch of Cowboy Bebop after a few years, and its still the hardest hitting piece of media I've ever seen that never loses its stopping power. In fact, it usually gains stopping power the older you get purely because of the theme of carrying the weight of your past and still managing to move forward. And as is tradition I like to watch video essays of people to get their perspective on the show and what they take from it. Its all subjective but to see how its effected so many people in similar ways gives me comfort in a way and stumbled upon this one. And I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen on the show, not only that but from a man that i'd expect to have 100x the subscribers based on the quality of his upload. Not only that but on my multiple watched of the show, it's only now that I understand the idea behind his eyes. I always thought it was a purely metaphorical statement and theme but the way you explain it here makes so much sense to me. Even if its wrong and not intentional it's still my headcannon from now on. It would make sense that a mechanical eye made specifically to see whats in front of you and only that could maybe not be able to project memories and live within them. It may be stupid but I like the idea. This was a fantastic video and I'm a big fan of your humour and the way you edit alongside your perspective on this show. I hope you seriously blow up because you definitely deserve it :) p.s sorry for the essay i get carried away when talking about stuff i enjoy and cowboy bebop got me in that mood again to reflect and express yknow
Hey bro thank you so much for this loved reading it and totally vibe with your personality at least what I got from it through reading this you just seem like a guy I’d get along with really well I also get lost into talking about things I’m really into so I appreciate that thank you for that ! And that’s awesome that you got something new from the video that’s always great to hear from a video I made and yeah I definitely think that’s the point of the eyes the fact that it’s the cybernetic one being the present eye works to well the fact that it can like you said see only what’s in front and that it’s an eye that can’t in a way hold the sight of the past but also it just makes so much sense that a eye made of technology would be represented as the present thank you for the comment man ! Sorry about the terrible way i type online I don’t really worry about periods or commas most of the time lol so my comments can be confusing
@@InternetPitstop I'm glad you enjoyed reading my ramble, because I definitely appreciate the reply too :) And dont worry about the way you write because I relate to that way too much. It takes me 2 minutes to write a passionate, semi coherent paragraph and takes me a further 10 minutes to edit in the punctuation in an attempt to make it readable and digestable aha :D Not only did you connect to the show in a way similar to me and many others you offered me a new perspective on a part of the show I wasnt a huge fan of to make more sense at least in my head and I appreciate it a lot. Keep doing what youre doing man and hope to see more of you in the future, preferably with the subscriber count you deserve :)
At some point, if enough people have the same subjective experience, then there’s someone objectively true about it. At least objectively consistent, which Cowboy Bebop is. It really is a masterpiece
Yep. Each time it hits like a truck. A slightly different truck from the last time. Each time I see something new, reflect on some new things in my own life. Each time I tell myself that I won't watch it again, but I know I will.
This is the best Cowboy Bebop video I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched several video essays about this show but I’ve never really understood the ending until now.
Yo thank you ! That’s a high honor and don’t sweat it I honestly never fully understood it either like even the og upload of this video I had a different idea on it which is why it was reuploaded to add in the correct info I got wrong on the first lol
Hello everyone ! I actually have reuploaded my cowboy bebop analysis video with some added changes because it came to my attention that I got some things completely wrong with my analysis of Spike. The idea that I could be possibly spreading misinformation on this show and its characters and someone could watch the vid and then possibly continue to spread that misinformation really bothered me. So I thought the best decision was to reupload it with the correct information. I'm sorry I messed up first analysis and all that yanno lol and its important to me that the video should be accurate even if that means changing and reuploading it all together. I understand a lot of you probably already saw it and this might just be a slightly altered version but I would really appreciate it if you all could check out the new upload of it to get the right info and also watching all the way through would help it not lose the same traction and views that the original had also really makes me sad to lose a bunch of your amazing comments that I loved on the original so if you can drop a comment and if not I totally understand thank you so much. New video next Wednesday! or next next Wednesday lol
🫡🫵 Just popping in to say I’m the 69th like on this comment. I am honored to accept this award from the academy, truly, and I’m sooo happy everyone got together and decided that we’d leave it at 69 likes forever, kewl kewl.. 🥸 PS I just found your videos and they are pretty great. The content, editing, script, performance, and general vibe gives off the impression that you’ve been doing this a lot longer than you have, which is awesome. If you allow me to put on my critics hat for just a moment, it’s a very mild critique, and it’s that the audio quality and audio levels could be dialed in a bit better. It’s not at all bad! Just could be better. 🫣 Keep it up! (literally and figuratively) 🖖✌️🫶
Did you ever watch Digibro's video on bebop back in the day? I think it was titled "you're going to carry that weight". Your analysis reminds me of his in a few ways (in a good way).
This is something I saw another commentator say and I feel compelled to mention it here. In the episode "sympathy for the devil" before the kid dies he says something along the lines "Do you know the relief that you feel when you die?" Spike grabs his harmonica, throws it up in the air and pretends to shoot it "bang" and said "as if". In the end he says "bang" again meaning he now truly feels the relief of death after a never ending life.
the line "You're gonna carry that weight." always kinda had a double meaning for me. Not only are you gonna carry the weight of everything you've been through and hopefully learn from it, you're also gonna remember this masterpiece for the rest of your life and hopefully learn from it. p.s. I know this video is months old at this point, but I just found your channel and I wanna say I love it. It has such a cozy vibe, it's like the embodiment of the nostalgia that all those lofi streams wish they had. You're the first youtuber that I can actually relate to, especially since I'm pretty sure you're only like 2 or 3 years older than me. I literally went back and watched all the videos you've made except for like 1 or 2. Thanks for everything you've made, if you keep it up, I think you'll make it big.
@@InternetPitstop Survey-Question (just go with it, please): Wouldnt oyu prefer it if we had Leaders who know the Internet but didnt embarass-themselves inside-it - or is that just me? I mean, we live in the Internet-Age and so much Data is available+understood. It's not like Rain was understood by People 10000 Years ago: For Example (and just an example!) Prisons. I mean, we just know America's Prison-System is extremly primitiv. That aint a theory or a wild guess, cause other Nations just do it blatantly better. They know better and the USA could just copy them, but do Politicans even know that?? Do they ever watch 'Second Thought' lay out all the facts and Data about this or other stuff?
@@loturzelrestaurant I’d say yeah I would prefer that cause it’s such a prevalent part of society and even ppls identity these days it’s not like before where your internet self and real self are separate as time is going on the 2 are interconnecting more and more and to have leaders from a completely different era of time who don’t even understand any of today’s tech I remember seeing a clip of some senate dude asking a Facebook exec to “end finsta” and even as the exec tried to explain why that makes no sense it didn’t get through to him old Senator's who don't understand technology in general can't really legislate successfully for the future I think I’m thinking either put some term limits or just add in sone younger ppl who do understand this stuff to help
Fun fact, Tom from Toonami and Spike Spiegel are the same voice actor. Hes voice acted in so many of the shows I watched as a kid that Steve Blum is the narrator voice in my head now lol.
"Leaving with Julia means escaping the past trauma for him" So wonderfully put - so many of us probably stuck in this hazy present with minds in the past - if only that 1 thing could be put right it would mean no more pain
When Spike tells Faye "Forget the past it doesn't matter" because he knows what pain not being able to live in the present causes. When spike talks of his eyes one seeing the present and one seeing the past it's always been interesting to me and reminds me a lot of a Gurren Lagann quote from Kamina that is english dub only in the heavily edited Bathhouse episode "There are some things I've just got to see/All of You Bastards Put Us in Hot Water" (so it's non-canon but it fits the show so well, don't make me fight you irl) in the recap talking about how the village leader of Adai had enough fighting spirit to pilot a gunmen and defeat a beastman was proof he should have had hope instead of condemning their village to live underground with a population below 50. "Tell me Simon, you know why people have eyes in front? it's because you have to move forward to see the landscape in the distance..." "yeah if you had eyes in back all you could see is your home town getting farther away, you can't move forward like that, if your eyes are in front, what you see in the distance keeps getting closer, that's what lets people move forward" I think this quote really plays off the idea of being stuck in the past like the bebop crew and how those who can't forget their past are damned to longing of their homes lost to time. This is why Faye shoots the roof in an attempt to bluff to keep Spike from leaving, because the bebop crew is her future, it's truly something they all should have been doing, looking to the future to make a life for themselves instead of looking to the past as their homes dissipated into nothingness. First Jet with his ex-wife and the pocket watch frozen in time there was no place for him to return to. Just like Faye we when we look to the past we have nowhere to return to, the past is the past because it's gone, that's why it's so tragic when spike says "I'm going to find out if I'm really alive" because we all know why Spike is leaving, he's attempting to go out in a blaze of glory because now that Julia is dead, he too has no place to return to. There's also the Dream metaphor too but I'm sure this comment is already unread-ably long so I'll just start speed running some cool notes. There's a book/teachings called Hagakure which the author's(Yamamoto Tsunetomo) critique on Bushido, just to quickly quote the wikipedia on the topic since I'm not a great writer, describing Hagakure the wiki says: "Written during a time when there was no officially sanctioned samurai fighting, the book grapples with the dilemma of maintaining a warrior class in the absence of war and reflects the author's nostalgia for a world that had disappeared before he was born." Another quick quote: "The book records Yamamoto's views on bushido, the warrior code of the samurai. Hagakure is sometimes said to assert that bushido is really the "Way of Dying" or living as though one was already dead" in comments he also mentions Samurai having to view themselves as already dead, living in a dream. Bushido is a concept that for the most part applies to spike, he seems to want a more honorable life than the one he had in the syndacate and he seems to have an undying loyalty to Julia he goes to die for his Lady. In this way both spike and Vicious' lives embody to Hagakure style Bushido, as well as the show making a lot of commentary on what it means to live that way. Source: It was revealed to me in a dream after my like 15th rewatch. tl;dr I'm a big fucking nerd and I went a bit 4:30
A lot of video essay channels just feel like robots reading information from Wikipedia with clips of the topic. The reason why I loved this video is because you incorporated your personality bad humor into it.
not gonna lie, I shed a tear or 2 ( or 10) over your interpretation of "You're gonna carry that weight." I didn't realize how badly I needed to hear that. Thank you so much Pitstop
I also got nakeyjakey humor from this which is amazing because i feel like its hard to find. Also very chill vibes and great takes, this is the first vid I've seen and now im subbed 👍
"you're gonna carry that weight" punches me right in the soul. Just like you i was a kid when i first watched this. I barely even understood what i was watching. Decades later, those words are alot heavier.
I cried like a BITCH during the end of bebop. Iv never watched another show that had such natural and real characters. It still feels like jet is out there in the bebop looking for the next crew.
As someone who was raised by this anime since the age of 6 and is now 27, I deeply appreciate how clearly personal and charismatic this review is. Great job! Definitely subbing, expect you to reach 50k very soon or I’m suing UA-cam
This, out of all the other video essays was perhaps the clearest one. I love this anime and the growth it's recently got in being heavily discussed on, but yours really stands out in terms of truly getting to the point in a clear way, while also having a lot of topics surrounding it without being too bogged down or focusing way too much on one. Awesome vids, surprised you don't have hundreds of thousands more on subscribers ._.
Another banger bro, you’re on a kingly streak right now dude. Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be a successful youtuber like in less than a year
I’ve watched a few Bebop analysis videos before this one and I gotta say, this is definitely the best analysis I’ve ever seen of Bebop. I really love how you interpreted “You’re Gonna Carry That Weight”. That line now inspires me to keep moving forward in life no matter how hard it can get. Thank you for this. Amazing video!
Thanks man its great to hear that my interpretation is liked by fans considering it’s such a subjective thing ! But thank you for this comment man it really means a lot
Samurai champloo is made by the same people and is also a character study. It’s not as great as cowboy bebop don’t get me wrong, but it was still a fabulous show that doesn’t get a lot of love. Would love if you had anything to say about it
My man you can't just hit me with the smooth, deliciously heart-wrenching tragedy of Cowboy Bebop AND Eye Of Truth in the same video. I have reached a level of cathartic vibing I never thought possible. As someone with CPTSD, Spike has hit me harder than any other anime character. Maybe any character period. I've been told my entire life that I'm laid back, aloof, adaptable, even intimidating in some cases. It comes from being so used to chaos and trauma that it barely phases me in the moment. I fight disassociation on a regular basis. My laid back personality was forged by having to learn how to control my emotions to an unrealistic degree from an early age, and going through personal emergency after personal emergency as an adult. Internally, danger alarms are ringing and my mind is reminding me of past experiences. It's not a fun existence, but I do my best to get by.
Bro too many people slept on cowboy bebop, good for u for picking it up when u did. Honestly this is one of the few anime that brings tears to my eyes. "Whatever happens, happens" = "it is what it is".
I enjoy hearing others get such deep meaning out of Cowboy Bebop, it truly is something special. You know you've made something so good when people can get such important themes out of your show in only a single season.
Cowboy Bebop pulled me out a pit of despair when I dropped out of college. Life was falling apart, but this kinda helped sew it back together. Only to be wrecked all over again by the end of the series, but it felt like a necessary hurt, if that makes any sense.
Damn bro I thought some eps of cowboy beebop was boring filler but realizing that it only felt that way because the characters couldn't move forward really hits. This vid opened my eyes. I'm now seeing cowboy beebop in a different light and I only just recently watched it.
The real rite of passage for anime youtubers inst just making a video on Bebop, its making a video on the show and putting both space lion and waltz for zizi in the background
Spike could've benefited from things we know now. I don't really want to call him a 'simp', but he built his personality around the heartbreak he himself chose (remember that Julia was Vicious' girl). Jet gave him a chance to escape his old life, and found a family in Ed and Faye. But he chose to go back and throw his life away. "I am not going out there to die, I'm going to find out if I'm really am alive." But you were, Spike. Living day to day with people who actually cared.
That’s honestly the saddest part is that us as the viewer see him grow to care for the members of the bebop but he didn’t choose them as his present he chose Julia and you’re right I wouldn’t call him a simp but damn it would’ve been cool to see him find a new life with his friends lol
Spike only felt alive when he was with Julia. He said himself his life was an endless nightmare and he was specifically talking about his life without Julia.
Not caring about anything and being bored of life because he can't get over his past of not being able to escape with a woman? And then being easily sprung into action at the mere mention of that woman's name? Yep. Toooootally not simp behavior
Vicious didn't own Julia. He just acted like he did. Nobomoto and Watanabe said that Julia is Spike's woman and you see that in her actions. She disobeyed Vicious and went on the run to protect Spike. Julia loved Spike and Spike loved Julia more than he loved anyone on the Bebop.
Is it weird that I'm a millennial but had the same experience as a 10 yr old kid discovering the masterpiece that is CBBB through Adult swim ? I swear this anime seduced me with how fascinating it is. I could/and have rewatch the series over and over and never be bored ❤️
Like you did with Berserk, you should absolutely breakdown the soundtrack of Cowboy Bebop at least the songs that highlight the soul of the show. There are ones on the main album that are obvious treats of the highest caliber (Tank, Rush, Cosmos, absolutely Space Lion, Memory, etc.) but there are some on lesser known albums that are so special. “On the Run” the theme of pierrot le fou is a song that incapsulates pure horror in music like Murder does in Berserk. It made that episode feel like I was a kid watching something late at night on adult swim that I was certainly not supposed to be watching. And “Goodnight Juila”. I have not and it’s my opinion unless I hear something godly elsewhere that there is no song in anime that is more emotionally beautiful and sad at the same time. The cosmic feelings of loneliness, sadness, hate, pain, reminiscence of memories fading like tears in rain, this song compiles them all and it’s not even that long. To do that in such a short time is a testament to Yoko Kanno’s skills. Definitely think about it and listen to those songs if you haven’t before. Your videos are the best and you should have much more than a million subs
Such a beautiful analysis of Spike Spiegel.....he is a tragic and iconic character trapped between the hard walls of the past and future, stuck in the present as you said. Really makes the entire perspective and approach to his character so interesting and relatable, his love for Julia and feud with Vicious really bring his character to the climax. Have never seen any content better relating to the cool man himself, great work! The perspective that Spike operates in a dream like sequence so often is quite interesting too.
You have such a sweet attitude, your sense of style is fantastic as well. Very unique and unusual approach to put yourself in the front of things you're reviewing. Creative Even not a native English speaker, like me, it's extremely clear what ideas you try to convey. Instantly subscribed. Keep producing good content, you'll gain a lot if subscribers! Kudos
Freaking cried while watching this. To k ow true love is to know true pain and Spike really knew pain. Both past and present heart ache… yet he still smiled through it and didn’t curl in a ball and fade away…. Be alive and face the demonds... This guy is my hero man.
I didn't get into anime until my mid-teens and I believe this was the first anime I ever finished (being in the middle of a couple lengthy shonnen series at the time). I've felt for a while that I was just too young to appreciate it at the time. Haven't rewatched it yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so.
The first time I watched this video, it inspired me to rewatch Cowboy Bebop. I can confirm the 2nd viewing of Cowboy Bebop 4 years after my initial viewing “Hit Different”. Thanks IP
I had this video in my watch later playlist for so long, and i regret not watching it sooner due to how insanely high quality your videos are. I've been an avid viewer ever since, thank you for all the great vids
I can honestly relate to a fictional character more than a real person in my real life because I know more about the fictional character than the real life person.
Holy shit man this video is amazing! The level of detail u went into about spike as a character was unbelievable! With Cowboy Bebop being my first proper anime this was a blast to watch! 🔥🔥
I've always felt that it was ironic that the man who "can only see the past out of one eye and the present out of the other" didnt know what he had until it was truly in the past. He didnt see the present for what it was at all. He was too focused on his loss and took it all for granted.
Hell yeah I’ll watch this vid again, I’m so on it! BEST CHANNEL ON UA-cam! Really awesome of you to admit when you made some errors in the previous upload of this and go back and fix them. Especially when you had a good amount of views on the last one. I’m sure it’s not easy and a huge bummer to have that happen, but mad props for doing it.
6:17 Not naive at all. Just listen to the story of The Chinese Farmer. You cannot know what's "Good" or "Bad", all you can know is "Maybe". There is also the quote "Que Sera Sera". You make a great argument and I don't think you're wrong, but what I am saying is that that kind of outlook isn't a bad one...maybe. If anything, it seems that Spike's outlook is quite healthy. In the end, he does resolve his past :D Happy ending. 13:03 beautifully said. 18:04 Oh Wow! How beautiful and poetic. I had no idea. Man, all of your videos are so good. I believe this one stands above the others though because it seems that you truly got the message within this anime, something that I'm sure many, including myself didn't really get fully. This was such a delight to see things in a different perspective explained so well. You keep doing that actually. You're very good at explaining things. Well done.
Man I subbed for this video. In the middle of watching it, the British accent made me feel like you really grasped the complexity. 🤣 I agree completely, watching Bebop at 16, then 30? It's like an awakening.
Cowboy Bebop, or, the tragedy of Spike Spiegle: Julia is in way over her head with her gangster boyfriend she no longer cares for and is completely unable to live the life she wants to because of vicious. enter spike. after an initial crush, julia helps heal him after almost dying, and spike becomes obsessed, and julia develops Florence nightengale syndrome. at some point they consummate this relationship. you see Julia, lying in bed with spike, staring into oblivion. knowing that two titans are about to rip her world apart. not happy with the life either offers, fully dependent on whichever she chooses to survive. when Vicious confronts Julia, she chooses the easy path. spike at this point has betrayed his brother, the only man he can trust with his life, and in doing so betrayed his father by leaving the family. Vicious doesn't tell Mao, his *Father, he tried to kill Spike, Mao's *son, his own brother. the anger of being betrayed leads to the guilt of attacking his own brother in revenge. staying with the cheating woman and while Mao looks for spike slowly drives vicious mad. he feels Mao is betraying him as a son and the family as a boss for traitor that stole his woman. this leads him to killing his own father. he hates his life, he hates Mao, and he hates spike above all else for making it this way. this is where our story really starts. Spike never went after Vicious because of SHAME. how could he try to kill his brother after HE betrayed him. but then vicious Kills their father, the father spike never got the chance to ask forgiveness. Vicious does this to force spike to come to him. here Julia learns that spike is still alive. but she doesn't go to him, she doesn't contact him. as vicious builds his power as the head of a family and recovers from the fight, she runs away from everything. Julia is on the run, and every day, she gets closer and closer to being captured by the syndicate. this is where she runs into Faye, and learns spike has never stopped loving Julia. out of desperation, she tries to run away with spike. not out of love, but out of survival. this is the tragedy of spike. the man gave up everything he ever cared about, twice, for a woman that never loved him in return, and died in his arms at the hands of his own brother.
Great analysis ! I don’t think I said spike was going after vicious for Shame ? Did I ? If so my bad but I don’t think I did tho but pretty much everything else yeah spike fell hard in love with Julia to the point where he saw his present as dying with her at the very end I think the take you have that Julia never loved spike is interesting I’ve never actually heard that take but I never thought much about Julias feelings towards spike which is why I didn’t mention it in this analysis to avoid being incorrect i simply left it at to spike Julia was his other half a piece of him he needed but to me the saddest part of spike was that he decided his present was dying with Julia when the dude has great friends and loved ones with the bebop crew that he could’ve continued living besides but obviously that wasn’t what spike wanted at the end
@@InternetPitstop dude i loved your take as well! nothing i said was intended to be against it. i love cowboy bebop so when i saw such a well thought out take i couldnt help but leave mine. obviously some of mine is from inference of what flashback scenes we are given, but the above is what i get out of it after 15 years.
Like you, I grew up the same way in struggling to watch Bebop against strict parental rules. It's been years, and after watching only the dub multiple times, I'm looking into finally watching the sub. This is easily the best Bebop video I've seen, and it was very nostalgic. Kudos for making me see many things I missed when I was younger. In terms of character analysis, there are many characters in Ashita no Joe and Legend of the Galactic Heroes that would make for very interesting and new character analysis content that hasn't been done before. I've tried myself, and those can get wilder.
This is my favorite fucking anime, bro of all time and I've watched so many shoenen animes. Like jesus, it's so impactful, so depressing. They don't draw out 200 episodes for the backstories of the characters, they get them facing their pasts and nothing is friendship based, no plot armor, just plain old depressing. I love it, especially Faye's past. She didn't have anything to come back to and that's what I loved about her. Same with Spike, Spike is fucking awesome and a tragic character, they are all tragic. This anime is fucking awesome and I recommend anyone to watch it if they want to at least be sad and tear a little. Also I love Fairy Tail, that small clip of the friendship part got me LMAO. I DIDN'T NOTICE THE PART OF THE REAL EYE THAT GOT SHOT EITHER WTF.
You've opened my eyes to the link between Spike and Vincent in the cowboy bebop movie, both of them are men who have faced near death experiences who don't truly know if they've survived their circumstances, they both refer to their circumstances as their dreams, have similar character designs, at the same time they are two different sides of the coin, spike being empathetic, often trying to minimize casualty despite at times claiming otherwise, is stuck in his past, his mind scarred by the people and the life he has lost, Vincent on the other hand has lost his past, having no prior memories, he has no regard for the lives of others, instead of living how he choses he pushes the limits of his dream by attempting to kill as many people as possible with one of the sole links to his past. They form a great dichotomy As well as a greatly appreciated new understanding of the philosophy of the show, thanks for that too
Killing it as always. Watched two and a half episodes of the Netflix adaptation and yearning more for the original. So here I am again arching analysis’ to give me that feeling. The essence of bebop and remind me of what the animation was to reward myself with the og once I’m done.
I watched Cowboy bebop for the first time a little over a year ago. It was my first ever anime and was my #1 forever. After a little over a year of watching 68 other animes, I started questioning whether Cowboy Bebop still genuinely deserved the #1 spot. I started making a Favorite Anime Moments list and went back to Cowboy Bebop to find my favorites in that one. Immediately it reinforced my love and confidence that it was the best anime ever. The Space Lion scene, the entire finale, The Call Me Call Me scene, Faye watching her old video tapes, the church scene, this entire series is pure fucking art.
Okay so over the last week or so I went on a rewatch of Cowboy Bebop after a few years, and its still the hardest hitting piece of media I've ever seen that never loses its stopping power. In fact, it usually gains stopping power the older you get purely because of the theme of carrying the weight of your past and still managing to move forward. And as is tradition I like to watch video essays of people to get their perspective on the show and what they take from it. Its all subjective but to see how its effected so many people in similar ways gives me comfort in a way and stumbled upon this one.
And I have to say this is one of the best videos I've seen on the show, not only that but from a man that i'd expect to have 100x the subscribers based on the quality of his upload. Not only that but on my multiple watched of the show, it's only now that I understand the idea behind his eyes. I always thought it was a purely metaphorical statement and theme but the way you explain it here makes so much sense to me. Even if its wrong and not intentional it's still my headcannon from now on. It would make sense that a mechanical eye made specifically to see whats in front of you and only that could maybe not be able to project memories and live within them. It may be stupid but I like the idea.
This was a fantastic video and I'm a big fan of your humour and the way you edit alongside your perspective on this show. I hope you seriously blow up because you definitely deserve it :)
p.s sorry for the essay i get carried away when talking about stuff i enjoy and cowboy bebop got me in that mood again to reflect and express yknow
Hey bro thank you so much for this loved reading it and totally vibe with your personality at least what I got from it through reading this you just seem like a guy I’d get along with really well I also get lost into talking about things I’m really into so I appreciate that thank you for that ! And that’s awesome that you got something new from the video that’s always great to hear from a video I made and yeah I definitely think that’s the point of the eyes the fact that it’s the cybernetic one being the present eye works to well the fact that it can like you said see only what’s in front and that it’s an eye that can’t in a way hold the sight of the past but also it just makes so much sense that a eye made of technology would be represented as the present thank you for the comment man ! Sorry about the terrible way i type online I don’t really worry about periods or commas most of the time lol so my comments can be confusing
@@InternetPitstop I'm glad you enjoyed reading my ramble, because I definitely appreciate the reply too :) And dont worry about the way you write because I relate to that way too much. It takes me 2 minutes to write a passionate, semi coherent paragraph and takes me a further 10 minutes to edit in the punctuation in an attempt to make it readable and digestable aha :D Not only did you connect to the show in a way similar to me and many others you offered me a new perspective on a part of the show I wasnt a huge fan of to make more sense at least in my head and I appreciate it a lot. Keep doing what youre doing man and hope to see more of you in the future, preferably with the subscriber count you deserve :)
Fu*k yes
At some point, if enough people have the same subjective experience, then there’s someone objectively true about it. At least objectively consistent, which Cowboy Bebop is. It really is a masterpiece
Yep. Each time it hits like a truck. A slightly different truck from the last time. Each time I see something new, reflect on some new things in my own life. Each time I tell myself that I won't watch it again, but I know I will.
Steve Blum said that cowboy bebop is his favorite project to work on.
this guy needs like 1M subs already my god
I agree but also. It doesn't really matter, he's great no matter how many people know it.
@@marche800 yes but my guy puts so much work into his videos and I feel like the quality reflects that of people with 1M subs and above. True though
ikr i’m pissed i’ve already watched all his videos
I wanna shake his hand and give him money on patreon
Soon my friend
This is the best Cowboy Bebop video I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched several video essays about this show but I’ve never really understood the ending until now.
Yo thank you ! That’s a high honor and don’t sweat it I honestly never fully understood it either like even the og upload of this video I had a different idea on it which is why it was reuploaded to add in the correct info I got wrong on the first lol
Spike was unironically the first time my brain though a man was hot
To me, you’re already as cool as spike
This comment…. Man I’ve never felt happier in my life thank…. Thank you lol
seconded!
@@InternetPitstop we need video demonstration with cool badass Bruce Lee type kicks
@@InternetPitstop You (already) carry that weight
Hello everyone ! I actually have reuploaded my cowboy bebop analysis video with some added changes because it came to my attention that I got some things completely wrong with my analysis of Spike. The idea that I could be possibly spreading misinformation on this show and its characters and someone could watch the vid and then possibly continue to spread that misinformation really bothered me. So I thought the best decision was to reupload it with the correct information. I'm sorry I messed up first analysis and all that yanno lol and its important to me that the video should be accurate even if that means changing and reuploading it all together. I understand a lot of you probably already saw it and this might just be a slightly altered version but I would really appreciate it if you all could check out the new upload of it to get the right info and also watching all the way through would help it not lose the same traction and views that the original had also really makes me sad to lose a bunch of your amazing comments that I loved on the original so if you can drop a comment and if not I totally understand thank you so much. New video next Wednesday! or next next Wednesday lol
Big boy move right there. Looking forward to the new vid as well!
This was a serious baller move. Integrity + fighting misinformation = W
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Just popping in to say I’m the 69th like on this comment. I am honored to accept this award from the academy, truly, and I’m sooo happy everyone got together and decided that we’d leave it at 69 likes forever, kewl kewl.. 🥸
PS I just found your videos and they are pretty great. The content, editing, script, performance, and general vibe gives off the impression that you’ve been doing this a lot longer than you have, which is awesome. If you allow me to put on my critics hat for just a moment, it’s a very mild critique, and it’s that the audio quality and audio levels could be dialed in a bit better. It’s not at all bad! Just could be better. 🫣
Keep it up! (literally and figuratively)
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Did you ever watch Digibro's video on bebop back in the day? I think it was titled "you're going to carry that weight". Your analysis reminds me of his in a few ways (in a good way).
Respect man.....integrity move right there!
My first time watching and it was great.
Yo the rough editing style and dry humor of this guy is deserving of a freaking Emmy or something
Lol thank you bro I appreciate that !
This is something I saw another commentator say and I feel compelled to mention it here. In the episode "sympathy for the devil" before the kid dies he says something along the lines "Do you know the relief that you feel when you die?" Spike grabs his harmonica, throws it up in the air and pretends to shoot it "bang" and said "as if". In the end he says "bang" again meaning he now truly feels the relief of death after a never ending life.
Wait was this point not in this video!? I had they in my script I think I recorded it too omg did I forget to add it lol
the line "You're gonna carry that weight." always kinda had a double meaning for me. Not only are you gonna carry the weight of everything you've been through and hopefully learn from it, you're also gonna remember this masterpiece for the rest of your life and hopefully learn from it.
p.s. I know this video is months old at this point, but I just found your channel and I wanna say I love it. It has such a cozy vibe, it's like the embodiment of the nostalgia that all those lofi streams wish they had. You're the first youtuber that I can actually relate to, especially since I'm pretty sure you're only like 2 or 3 years older than me. I literally went back and watched all the videos you've made except for like 1 or 2. Thanks for everything you've made, if you keep it up, I think you'll make it big.
I am personally offended that this man hasn't reached 1M subs yet. Keep up the godly content, King.
With this kind of support I know we’ll get there !
@@InternetPitstop Survey-Question (just go with it, please): Wouldnt oyu prefer it if we had Leaders who know the Internet but didnt embarass-themselves inside-it - or is that just me? I mean, we live in the Internet-Age and so much Data is available+understood.
It's not like Rain was understood by People 10000 Years ago:
For Example (and just an example!) Prisons.
I mean, we just know America's Prison-System is extremly primitiv. That aint a theory or a wild guess, cause other Nations just do it blatantly better. They know better and the USA could just copy them, but do Politicans even know that?? Do they ever watch 'Second Thought' lay out all the facts and Data about this or other stuff?
@@InternetPitstop I apologize for the randomnes and also length of the comment.
@@loturzelrestaurant I’d say yeah I would prefer that cause it’s such a prevalent part of society and even ppls identity these days it’s not like before where your internet self and real self are separate as time is going on the 2 are interconnecting more and more and to have leaders from a completely different era of time who don’t even understand any of today’s tech I remember seeing a clip of some senate dude asking a Facebook exec to “end finsta” and even as the exec tried to explain why that makes no sense it didn’t get through to him old Senator's who don't understand technology in general can't really legislate successfully for the future I think I’m thinking either put some term limits or just add in sone younger ppl who do understand this stuff to help
@@InternetPitstop Thx for the detailed answer!!
Fun fact, Tom from Toonami and Spike Spiegel are the same voice actor. Hes voice acted in so many of the shows I watched as a kid that Steve Blum is the narrator voice in my head now lol.
Another fun fact Spike and Julia’s voice actors are married in real life
@@mookiestewart3776 That's insane. I had no idea Steve Blum was married, let alone to Mary Mcglynn whom voiced Major in Ghost in the Shell
Don't forget Tank Dempsey in Black Ops Zombies
"Leaving with Julia means escaping the past trauma for him"
So wonderfully put - so many of us probably stuck in this hazy present with minds in the past - if only that 1 thing could be put right it would mean no more pain
Spike sees Julia as his present at the end.
When Spike tells Faye "Forget the past it doesn't matter" because he knows what pain not being able to live in the present causes. When spike talks of his eyes one seeing the present and one seeing the past it's always been interesting to me and reminds me a lot of a Gurren Lagann quote from Kamina that is english dub only in the heavily edited Bathhouse episode "There are some things I've just got to see/All of You Bastards Put Us in Hot Water" (so it's non-canon but it fits the show so well, don't make me fight you irl) in the recap talking about how the village leader of Adai had enough fighting spirit to pilot a gunmen and defeat a beastman was proof he should have had hope instead of condemning their village to live underground with a population below 50.
"Tell me Simon, you know why people have eyes in front? it's because you have to move forward to see the landscape in the distance..." "yeah if you had eyes in back all you could see is your home town getting farther away, you can't move forward like that, if your eyes are in front, what you see in the distance keeps getting closer, that's what lets people move forward"
I think this quote really plays off the idea of being stuck in the past like the bebop crew and how those who can't forget their past are damned to longing of their homes lost to time. This is why Faye shoots the roof in an attempt to bluff to keep Spike from leaving, because the bebop crew is her future, it's truly something they all should have been doing, looking to the future to make a life for themselves instead of looking to the past as their homes dissipated into nothingness. First Jet with his ex-wife and the pocket watch frozen in time there was no place for him to return to. Just like Faye we when we look to the past we have nowhere to return to, the past is the past because it's gone, that's why it's so tragic when spike says "I'm going to find out if I'm really alive" because we all know why Spike is leaving, he's attempting to go out in a blaze of glory because now that Julia is dead, he too has no place to return to.
There's also the Dream metaphor too but I'm sure this comment is already unread-ably long so I'll just start speed running some cool notes.
There's a book/teachings called Hagakure which the author's(Yamamoto Tsunetomo) critique on Bushido, just to quickly quote the wikipedia on the topic since I'm not a great writer, describing Hagakure the wiki says:
"Written during a time when there was no officially sanctioned samurai fighting, the book grapples with the dilemma of maintaining a warrior class in the absence of war and reflects the author's nostalgia for a world that had disappeared before he was born."
Another quick quote:
"The book records Yamamoto's views on bushido, the warrior code of the samurai. Hagakure is sometimes said to assert that bushido is really the "Way of Dying" or living as though one was already dead" in comments he also mentions Samurai having to view themselves as already dead, living in a dream.
Bushido is a concept that for the most part applies to spike, he seems to want a more honorable life than the one he had in the syndacate and he seems to have an undying loyalty to Julia he goes to die for his Lady.
In this way both spike and Vicious' lives embody to Hagakure style Bushido, as well as the show making a lot of commentary on what it means to live that way.
Source: It was revealed to me in a dream after my like 15th rewatch.
tl;dr I'm a big fucking nerd and I went a bit 4:30
This video is fucking amazing 😂.
Literally the best Spike Spiegel analysis video. Good job homie 🤝
Damn bro that’s high praise big thanks !
A lot of video essay channels just feel like robots reading information from Wikipedia with clips of the topic. The reason why I loved this video is because you incorporated your personality bad humor into it.
Lol thanks for completing my bad humor hehe glad you loved the video bro
not gonna lie, I shed a tear or 2 ( or 10) over your interpretation of "You're gonna carry that weight." I didn't realize how badly I needed to hear that. Thank you so much Pitstop
I got you ❤️
It's as if someone took the best aspects of NakeyJakey and my favorite weeb channels and stuck them in a blender. Totally here for it my dude
Dude that’s an awesome compliment thank you so much ! That shit really lifted my spirits
I also got nakeyjakey humor from this which is amazing because i feel like its hard to find. Also very chill vibes and great takes, this is the first vid I've seen and now im subbed 👍
Accurate
"you're gonna carry that weight" punches me right in the soul. Just like you i was a kid when i first watched this. I barely even understood what i was watching. Decades later, those words are alot heavier.
I cried like a BITCH during the end of bebop. Iv never watched another show that had such natural and real characters. It still feels like jet is out there in the bebop looking for the next crew.
Great quality! Keep up the awesome work and you’ll blow up sooner than you think 👊
Yo man ! Thank you so much !
@MrSpherical I’m surprised to see you here. Both of you guys make great content/videos ❤️🔥😎
As someone who was raised by this anime since the age of 6 and is now 27, I deeply appreciate how clearly personal and charismatic this review is. Great job! Definitely subbing, expect you to reach 50k very soon or I’m suing UA-cam
This, out of all the other video essays was perhaps the clearest one. I love this anime and the growth it's recently got in being heavily discussed on, but yours really stands out in terms of truly getting to the point in a clear way, while also having a lot of topics surrounding it without being too bogged down or focusing way too much on one. Awesome vids, surprised you don't have hundreds of thousands more on subscribers ._.
Crying just watching the breakdown. That's how heavy Bebop is.
Another banger bro, you’re on a kingly streak right now dude. Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be a successful youtuber like in less than a year
Man I hope so !
I’ve watched a few Bebop analysis videos before this one and I gotta say, this is definitely the best analysis I’ve ever seen of Bebop. I really love how you interpreted “You’re Gonna Carry That Weight”. That line now inspires me to keep moving forward in life no matter how hard it can get. Thank you for this. Amazing video!
Thanks man its great to hear that my interpretation is liked by fans considering it’s such a subjective thing ! But thank you for this comment man it really means a lot
Samurai champloo is made by the same people and is also a character study. It’s not as great as cowboy bebop don’t get me wrong, but it was still a fabulous show that doesn’t get a lot of love. Would love if you had anything to say about it
My man you can't just hit me with the smooth, deliciously heart-wrenching tragedy of Cowboy Bebop AND Eye Of Truth in the same video. I have reached a level of cathartic vibing I never thought possible.
As someone with CPTSD, Spike has hit me harder than any other anime character. Maybe any character period. I've been told my entire life that I'm laid back, aloof, adaptable, even intimidating in some cases. It comes from being so used to chaos and trauma that it barely phases me in the moment. I fight disassociation on a regular basis. My laid back personality was forged by having to learn how to control my emotions to an unrealistic degree from an early age, and going through personal emergency after personal emergency as an adult. Internally, danger alarms are ringing and my mind is reminding me of past experiences. It's not a fun existence, but I do my best to get by.
this is it dude you absolutely changing the game out here keep it up
Keep on space cowboy...
You are living in the real world.
Seeing this dude talk about his 1,000 sub special and seeing him at 205k just fits. Dude is a vibe.
Cowboy bebop had a awesome theme song
Bro too many people slept on cowboy bebop, good for u for picking it up when u did. Honestly this is one of the few anime that brings tears to my eyes. "Whatever happens, happens" = "it is what it is".
I enjoy hearing others get such deep meaning out of Cowboy Bebop, it truly is something special. You know you've made something so good when people can get such important themes out of your show in only a single season.
Cannot describe how much I love your chanel and your content.
the old soundcloud lofi bgm had some songs i haven't heard for a while, thanks for the multiple layers of nostalgia
That intro, we can relate. I thought "American Rabbit" was one of the most sophisticated films. I was just 7 at the time.
I've just started watching the original Cowboy Bebop it's great
Cowboy Bebop pulled me out a pit of despair when I dropped out of college. Life was falling apart, but this kinda helped sew it back together. Only to be wrecked all over again by the end of the series, but it felt like a necessary hurt, if that makes any sense.
Damn bro I thought some eps of cowboy beebop was boring filler but realizing that it only felt that way because the characters couldn't move forward really hits. This vid opened my eyes. I'm now seeing cowboy beebop in a different light and I only just recently watched it.
The real rite of passage for anime youtubers inst just making a video on Bebop, its making a video on the show and putting both space lion and waltz for zizi in the background
This show makes me cry the deeper I understand
I mean this in the best possible way when I say this man is like if Frugal Aesthetic made a anime channel 🔥🔥🔥
Spike could've benefited from things we know now. I don't really want to call him a 'simp', but he built his personality around the heartbreak he himself chose (remember that Julia was Vicious' girl). Jet gave him a chance to escape his old life, and found a family in Ed and Faye. But he chose to go back and throw his life away.
"I am not going out there to die, I'm going to find out if I'm really am alive."
But you were, Spike. Living day to day with people who actually cared.
That’s honestly the saddest part is that us as the viewer see him grow to care for the members of the bebop but he didn’t choose them as his present he chose Julia and you’re right I wouldn’t call him a simp but damn it would’ve been cool to see him find a new life with his friends lol
Spike only felt alive when he was with Julia. He said himself his life was an endless nightmare and he was specifically talking about his life without Julia.
Not caring about anything and being bored of life because he can't get over his past of not being able to escape with a woman? And then being easily sprung into action at the mere mention of that woman's name? Yep. Toooootally not simp behavior
Vicious didn't own Julia. He just acted like he did. Nobomoto and Watanabe said that Julia is Spike's woman and you see that in her actions. She disobeyed Vicious and went on the run to protect Spike. Julia loved Spike and Spike loved Julia more than he loved anyone on the Bebop.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeYou might not value women. But Spike valued his woman. And she was his. She chose him. Not Vicious.
Yo this bro is mad cool. Props G.
Is it weird that I'm a millennial but had the same experience as a 10 yr old kid discovering the masterpiece that is CBBB through Adult swim ? I swear this anime seduced me with how fascinating it is. I could/and have rewatch the series over and over and never be bored ❤️
Maybe it's my siming to bebop, but I some much love this video
This is actually the best Cowboy Bebop video I've ever seen
Like you did with Berserk, you should absolutely breakdown the soundtrack of Cowboy Bebop at least the songs that highlight the soul of the show. There are ones on the main album that are obvious treats of the highest caliber (Tank, Rush, Cosmos, absolutely Space Lion, Memory, etc.) but there are some on lesser known albums that are so special. “On the Run” the theme of pierrot le fou is a song that incapsulates pure horror in music like Murder does in Berserk. It made that episode feel like I was a kid watching something late at night on adult swim that I was certainly not supposed to be watching. And “Goodnight Juila”. I have not and it’s my opinion unless I hear something godly elsewhere that there is no song in anime that is more emotionally beautiful and sad at the same time. The cosmic feelings of loneliness, sadness, hate, pain, reminiscence of memories fading like tears in rain, this song compiles them all and it’s not even that long. To do that in such a short time is a testament to Yoko Kanno’s skills. Definitely think about it and listen to those songs if you haven’t before. Your videos are the best and you should have much more than a million subs
The day will come where this man will get the recognition he deserves. Well explained analysis!
Such a beautiful analysis of Spike Spiegel.....he is a tragic and iconic character trapped between the hard walls of the past and future, stuck in the present as you said. Really makes the entire perspective and approach to his character so interesting and relatable, his love for Julia and feud with Vicious really bring his character to the climax. Have never seen any content better relating to the cool man himself, great work! The perspective that Spike operates in a dream like sequence so often is quite interesting too.
Jesus the bumps get me every time just bravo man standing ovation
fantastic work, glad you didnt beg for an immediate sub and patiently went through everything you wanted to talk about. Keep it up don't stop
Bro you ate this video up so badd omgg 🔥 probably one of the best analyses i've seen, bravo
You have such a sweet attitude, your sense of style is fantastic as well.
Very unique and unusual approach to put yourself in the front of things you're reviewing. Creative
Even not a native English speaker, like me, it's extremely clear what ideas you try to convey.
Instantly subscribed. Keep producing good content, you'll gain a lot if subscribers! Kudos
Freaking cried while watching this. To k ow true love is to know true pain and Spike really knew pain. Both past and present heart ache… yet he still smiled through it and didn’t curl in a ball and fade away…. Be alive and face the demonds... This guy is my hero man.
I didn't get into anime until my mid-teens and I believe this was the first anime I ever finished (being in the middle of a couple lengthy shonnen series at the time). I've felt for a while that I was just too young to appreciate it at the time. Haven't rewatched it yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so.
"Babe wake up, Internet Pitstop posted" this analysis of spike was amazing!
Came across this channel a week ago now I’ve binged every video and now have a new fav comfort channel
Honestly out of all the bebop analysis video I've seen . This is so spot on
The first time I watched this video, it inspired me to rewatch Cowboy Bebop. I can confirm the 2nd viewing of Cowboy Bebop 4 years after my initial viewing “Hit Different”. Thanks IP
I had this video in my watch later playlist for so long, and i regret not watching it sooner due to how insanely high quality your videos are. I've been an avid viewer ever since, thank you for all the great vids
Dude you got an amazing sense of humor and creative talent. Honestly this video spoke to me. I love it’s message you touched upon
real glad this popped up in my feed
Glad you’re here in this corner of the internet lol
Great video man.....Bang
Hyped me up so much, I really need to make my own one of these
Thanks bro ! And you most definitely should !
Dude you are fast becoming my favourite UA-camr
I can honestly relate to a fictional character more than a real person in my real life because I know more about the fictional character than the real life person.
“Whatever Happens, Happens” -Verzache
( 1:51 )
Great song
Man when u put bsd.u in this video i was already hooked 😭
off topic but that "Brandy and Mr. Whiskers at 2AM" line hit hard.
Holy shit man this video is amazing! The level of detail u went into about spike as a character was unbelievable! With Cowboy Bebop being my first proper anime this was a blast to watch! 🔥🔥
This dude funny af 🤣 way better than most anime UA-camrs. You don't take it super seriously but still deliver an awesome presentation! Well done
thank you man, thank you. It was much needed, the analysis, the jokes and the references of all the songs in the description. Solid youtubemanship.
We all want the same outfit as spike let’s be real. Never wanted a yellow shirt until I watched Cowboy Bebop
Same here
The Bebop crew: "Wait... It's all (for) Julia?"
Spike: "Always was."
I've always felt that it was ironic that the man who "can only see the past out of one eye and the present out of the other" didnt know what he had until it was truly in the past. He didnt see the present for what it was at all. He was too focused on his loss and took it all for granted.
Hell yeah I’ll watch this vid again, I’m so on it! BEST CHANNEL ON UA-cam!
Really awesome of you to admit when you made some errors in the previous upload of this and go back and fix them. Especially when you had a good amount of views on the last one. I’m sure it’s not easy and a huge bummer to have that happen, but mad props for doing it.
Thank you man !
best cowboy bebop video i ever seen my god thank you youtube recommended, subscribed
That means a lot considering how many great bebop vids are on UA-cam thank you so much 🌊
I don’t mind watching it again ☺️
Cowboy Bebop is most definitely one of the greatest modern tragedies
The beauty of spike is his how vulnerable he is, always willingly puts himself at risk unwilling to sacrifice his virtues.
Beautiful man chefs kiss.
6:17 Not naive at all. Just listen to the story of The Chinese Farmer. You cannot know what's "Good" or "Bad", all you can know is "Maybe". There is also the quote "Que Sera Sera". You make a great argument and I don't think you're wrong, but what I am saying is that that kind of outlook isn't a bad one...maybe.
If anything, it seems that Spike's outlook is quite healthy.
In the end, he does resolve his past :D
Happy ending.
13:03 beautifully said.
18:04 Oh Wow! How beautiful and poetic. I had no idea.
Man, all of your videos are so good. I believe this one stands above the others though because it seems that you truly got the message within this anime, something that I'm sure many, including myself didn't really get fully. This was such a delight to see things in a different perspective explained so well. You keep doing that actually. You're very good at explaining things. Well done.
Man I subbed for this video. In the middle of watching it, the British accent made me feel like you really grasped the complexity. 🤣 I agree completely, watching Bebop at 16, then 30? It's like an awakening.
Hands down best Bebop video on YT
Your presentation is so good that even when you’re saying something from an alternate POV I just want to go “I agree”.
My god you explained this so well and makes perfect sense
Cowboy Bebop, or, the tragedy of Spike Spiegle:
Julia is in way over her head with her gangster boyfriend she no longer cares for and is completely unable to live the life she wants to because of vicious. enter spike. after an initial crush, julia helps heal him after almost dying, and spike becomes obsessed, and julia develops Florence nightengale syndrome. at some point they consummate this relationship. you see Julia, lying in bed with spike, staring into oblivion. knowing that two titans are about to rip her world apart. not happy with the life either offers, fully dependent on whichever she chooses to survive. when Vicious confronts Julia, she chooses the easy path.
spike at this point has betrayed his brother, the only man he can trust with his life, and in doing so betrayed his father by leaving the family.
Vicious doesn't tell Mao, his *Father, he tried to kill Spike, Mao's *son, his own brother. the anger of being betrayed leads to the guilt of attacking his own brother in revenge. staying with the cheating woman and while Mao looks for spike slowly drives vicious mad. he feels Mao is betraying him as a son and the family as a boss for traitor that stole his woman. this leads him to killing his own father. he hates his life, he hates Mao, and he hates spike above all else for making it this way.
this is where our story really starts. Spike never went after Vicious because of SHAME. how could he try to kill his brother after HE betrayed him. but then vicious Kills their father, the father spike never got the chance to ask forgiveness. Vicious does this to force spike to come to him.
here Julia learns that spike is still alive. but she doesn't go to him, she doesn't contact him. as vicious builds his power as the head of a family and recovers from the fight, she runs away from everything.
Julia is on the run, and every day, she gets closer and closer to being captured by the syndicate. this is where she runs into Faye, and learns spike has never stopped loving Julia. out of desperation, she tries to run away with spike. not out of love, but out of survival.
this is the tragedy of spike. the man gave up everything he ever cared about, twice, for a woman that never loved him in return, and died in his arms at the hands of his own brother.
Great analysis ! I don’t think I said spike was going after vicious for Shame ? Did I ? If so my bad but I don’t think I did tho but pretty much everything else yeah spike fell hard in love with Julia to the point where he saw his present as dying with her at the very end I think the take you have that Julia never loved spike is interesting I’ve never actually heard that take but I never thought much about Julias feelings towards spike which is why I didn’t mention it in this analysis to avoid being incorrect i simply left it at to spike Julia was his other half a piece of him he needed but to me the saddest part of spike was that he decided his present was dying with Julia when the dude has great friends and loved ones with the bebop crew that he could’ve continued living besides but obviously that wasn’t what spike wanted at the end
@@InternetPitstop dude i loved your take as well! nothing i said was intended to be against it. i love cowboy bebop so when i saw such a well thought out take i couldnt help but leave mine. obviously some of mine is from inference of what flashback scenes we are given, but the above is what i get out of it after 15 years.
@@hotramen5952 oh ok ok my bad bro I misunderstood ya and thank you ! 🌊
Aside from being the best bebop analysis out there, this is quality. Hoping for the algorithm to boost you anytime soon.
And you love cowboy bebop as well? Perfect channel
Thank you bro !
Just finished cowboy bebop the first time and it hurt my soul.
I can honestly say that I watched this at an appropriate time in my life. Thank you my guy
S Tier video my guy, I wish I didn’t ignore it for 8 days. But I won’t happen again, I subscribed be for the end of the video!
Thank you bro ! And don’t sweat it my guy !
Like you, I grew up the same way in struggling to watch Bebop against strict parental rules. It's been years, and after watching only the dub multiple times, I'm looking into finally watching the sub. This is easily the best Bebop video I've seen, and it was very nostalgic. Kudos for making me see many things I missed when I was younger. In terms of character analysis, there are many characters in Ashita no Joe and Legend of the Galactic Heroes that would make for very interesting and new character analysis content that hasn't been done before. I've tried myself, and those can get wilder.
This video was incredible, so succinct with your analysis I learned things I never picked up watching the show, so happy I found your channel!
This video was exactly like Cowboy Bebop itself… a Masterpiece.
This is my favorite fucking anime, bro of all time and I've watched so many shoenen animes. Like jesus, it's so impactful, so depressing. They don't draw out 200 episodes for the backstories of the characters, they get them facing their pasts and nothing is friendship based, no plot armor, just plain old depressing. I love it, especially Faye's past. She didn't have anything to come back to and that's what I loved about her. Same with Spike, Spike is fucking awesome and a tragic character, they are all tragic. This anime is fucking awesome and I recommend anyone to watch it if they want to at least be sad and tear a little. Also I love Fairy Tail, that small clip of the friendship part got me LMAO. I DIDN'T NOTICE THE PART OF THE REAL EYE THAT GOT SHOT EITHER WTF.
You've opened my eyes to the link between Spike and Vincent in the cowboy bebop movie, both of them are men who have faced near death experiences who don't truly know if they've survived their circumstances, they both refer to their circumstances as their dreams, have similar character designs, at the same time they are two different sides of the coin, spike being empathetic, often trying to minimize casualty despite at times claiming otherwise, is stuck in his past, his mind scarred by the people and the life he has lost, Vincent on the other hand has lost his past, having no prior memories, he has no regard for the lives of others, instead of living how he choses he pushes the limits of his dream by attempting to kill as many people as possible with one of the sole links to his past. They form a great dichotomy
As well as a greatly appreciated new understanding of the philosophy of the show, thanks for that too
Killing it as always. Watched two and a half episodes of the Netflix adaptation and yearning more for the original. So here I am again arching analysis’ to give me that feeling. The essence of bebop and remind me of what the animation was to reward myself with the og once I’m done.
I watched Cowboy bebop for the first time a little over a year ago. It was my first ever anime and was my #1 forever. After a little over a year of watching 68 other animes, I started questioning whether Cowboy Bebop still genuinely deserved the #1 spot. I started making a Favorite Anime Moments list and went back to Cowboy Bebop to find my favorites in that one. Immediately it reinforced my love and confidence that it was the best anime ever. The Space Lion scene, the entire finale, The Call Me Call Me scene, Faye watching her old video tapes, the church scene, this entire series is pure fucking art.