I love this intro. I love how it shows that no matter how far humans expand technologically, we'll always have the mundane trivialities. It's comforting in a way.
It also also shows all the people the Bebop crew saved from the virus by stopping Vincent. Spike walks among them at the end, he's alone on a street. No one knows the accidental heroism he'll pull off for an entire city of people.
i just wanna mention that this kind of subtle and underplayed animation is one of the hardest things to learn as an animator. get the weight right, don't overdo everyday gestures, make every part of the body move believably and with weight.... and this man has mastered it!
Bradford Thornton it looks fantastic, especially considering its age, but to expect this level of quality for an entire show is actually pretty unrealistic. they work on a fixed schedule and have to make some cuts due to that, but cowboy bebop still has some instances of iconic cell animation, especially with its action scenes.
@@FancyTophatDude Yeah that's what rotoscoping is for, otherwise they just filmed a city and its people for reference but they definitely filmed something.
the black guy is the voice actor for jet and the joking karate guy is spike if thats what your implying but faye voice actor is the lass at 0:30 if i remember correctly
Probably because they actually filmed live-action footage and a lot of these shots are rotoscoped without even remembering that there ARE actually differences on how Mars 2071 looks like
The opening sequence isn't rotoscoped, it's just Hiroyuki Okiura doing his thing. And besides even if he did end up rotoscoping his animations, people would have found out a long ass time ago.
the guy who says "Whats up?" is the voice of jet black the girl in the bikini drinking the soda at "sweet cakes" is the voice of faye valentine and the guy with sunglasses at "anyway~" is the voice of spike spiegel
I was there, too. I actually bought 2 tickets so my mother would go with me. It was basically me sharing something with her that makes me happy (this film is my all time favorite) I told her when the screen went black at the end of this intro, ''No rotoscoping. No live action reference, cgi, nothing. This is all done on paper and from someone's mind.'' She was floored like, she couldn't believe the animation and said it was like watching live action. ''The animation is incredible!'' she exclaimed 3/4 through the film.
I might be a little late to the party but the feel of Spike Spiegel putting out a cig and walkin out into the city, in a world that was just just very rotoscoped anime dipictions of normal people just out living life, is holy shit 10/10 dude really is just another guy.
gtafan110010 for 2d animation those are some extremely complex characters. at least as long as you're animating their clothing like this - which generally nobody does since it's way too hard
Man, that's great. I saw the Bebop movie like twenty years ago and there was a single indie theatre in my city showing it, and only at midnight if memory serves. I was there in the theatre with probably a dozen or so other folks, and it was one of the best movie experiences I've ever had. Everyone there cracked up when the random dude whipped into the pseudo-karate pose, and it was a truly great experience.
The world seen in this opening is constantly active. Everyone has somewhere to go, something to do, they are at the beginning of events, and are still around when the events conclude. They all have their little side stories and spin-off narratives. They all are part of a different kind of experience where the feelings tend to vary and be so many, told from many different perspectives. And every second sees them going from one instance into the next, all seamlessly flowing like a river with many branching curves, separating but quite divorced from each other; the branches return; the river's iconic image of perpetual motion as is flows upward, ascending the stream of time. But an awareness of all this is only truly felt by those who can step back and see where the stream is coming from and where it is going. For people like Spike Spiegel, who shows up at the end, it is a blessing and a curse to be able to see the flow of the stream, since he cannot be an active part of it. One eye can follow the past, and the other is grounded in the present, but neither can truly gaze at the future, only at the fleeting possibilities as if it were a dream. Prompting, amongst so many queries of life's vicissitudes, the question of, "Are you living in the dream, or are you living in the _real world?"_
I miss the animation style of Cowboy Bebop. :( Well... really I miss the animation style of the '80s and '90s like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Berserk. I do like the anime of todays, but the animation style is all so similar.
@@mazimadu That's the thing tho, the animator is famous for doing animations that look rotoscoped but aren't. There's still controversy in that no one's ever actually seen any signs of rotoscoping in his animation process, but it's still too incredible that people are still suspicious, as far as I've read.
In the opening credits, the three US dubbing actors for Cowboy Bebop are shown in animation. The African-American man in headphones singing the line "What's up" is Beau Billingslea, the English voice of Jet Black; the woman in dark top drinking soda on the song line "sweet cakes" is Wendee Lee, the English voice of Faye Valentine; on the line "anyway", the man in sunglasses taking a karate pose is Steve Blum, the English voice of Spike Spiegel. from imdb
@@ayamylautrec7065 I really doubt the veracity of this claim, I don't think Watanabe has any contact with the English Dub voice cast, the Karate guy is definitely not Steve Blum. Even then, there are hugely spread lies from this show, like saying the creator prefers the English voice cast, he never ever said that, he just said he didn't understand it but it sounded good in the movie.
What a great intro. And it's greatness comes from all the different people that go on day to day, living their lives, not giving a #@*$. Almost twenty years since this movie's release and I'm still loving it 😎
You know, the animation is so amazing that the first time I saw it, I thought it was retroscope. But no, all hand drawn, which is something quite rare of this quality.
most of the shows are set in the Americas... when they are on earth n-e-way... like when they were in Tijuana (I liked that one).... but they did an incredible job of blending our two cultures into something so friggin awesome!!!
I don't see why people are dissapointed with Keanu getting the role. He likes the anime, its one of his favorites. He likes quality anime to begin with. He was in the Matrix, arguably the best anime-movie to date (Was based a lot on GITS and quite frankly Japan itself hasn't done remotely better) And he physically fits the part. Nobody should have a problem with this.
P.S Anyone who likes bebop should check out the movie "Payback" starring Mel Gibson, its so similar to bebop its scary (seriously)! I literally think that the creators based it on it, sadly (or not since its an awsome movie) it will probably be closer to a true live action version of bebop then the 2011 movie will
I don't know if you're aware what hip hop is, and the difference between rap, but your analysis of what it is way off course. Rap derives from hip hop, and hip hop was a by product of the 70's & 80's lifestyle of eastern coast block parties. Hip hop is distinguished primary through the use of scratch beats and breaks. Rap can be said to be a part of hip hop, but hip hop cannot conform to rap due to it's sampling of tracks, and mixed sub-genre with other music.
When the show was being made, rap did not exist, it was hip hop. And this show is a space noir western like firefly so the clothes will be a mix of 30's and the 90's.
@ShoryukenThatHadoken Not only that but the producer, Erwin Stoff, who worked with Keanu in the Matrix and A Scanner Darkly is in on this. And that in itself makes it a hopefully venture
Keanu getting the part isnt the big problem in the grander scheme of things. The problem is the director/studio is most likely going to completely SLAUGHTER the very identity of the story and characters to the point that it doesnt even resemble the original except for names, and probably so much that its down right BLASPHEMOUS. If they would just present these (anime) works in their intended form they would be box office smashes and instantly appeal to the masses.
Im not joking, it was refered to as hip hop and it was fucking awesome. Hip Hop officially died out in about 2002-03 with lil shithead and all those motherfuckers. Samurai Champloo used a complete hip hop soundtrack, rap was a part of hip hop before, and named a genre later on.
I love this intro. I love how it shows that no matter how far humans expand technologically, we'll always have the mundane trivialities. It's comforting in a way.
I love your comment !!!
It also also shows all the people the Bebop crew saved from the virus by stopping Vincent. Spike walks among them at the end, he's alone on a street. No one knows the accidental heroism he'll pull off for an entire city of people.
Honestly one of the best ways to describe Cowboy Bebop.
Huh, yeah.
And we'll all keep listening to our favorite tunes. Maybe even hear them a little differently. "It's Too Late" by Carole King for example.
Ask DNA= Ask Do Not Assume.
Creating a jazz band ONLY in order to create the soundtrack for an anime. Yoko Kanno WINS.
These opening credits WIN as well!!! XD
The same way Die Hard is a unique Christmas film, Bebop is a unique Halloween film.
i just wanna mention that this kind of subtle and underplayed animation is one of the hardest things to learn as an animator. get the weight right, don't overdo everyday gestures, make every part of the body move believably and with weight.... and this man has mastered it!
FancyTophatDude Would you say the show looks as good?
Bradford Thornton it looks fantastic, especially considering its age, but to expect this level of quality for an entire show is actually pretty unrealistic. they work on a fixed schedule and have to make some cuts due to that, but cowboy bebop still has some instances of iconic cell animation, especially with its action scenes.
@@FancyTophatDude Yeah that's what rotoscoping is for, otherwise they just filmed a city and its people for reference but they definitely filmed something.
@@NAGA_99 No rotoscoping nor any live action reference.
@zeltzamer4010 A couple of the people shown are dub actors so they definitely, provably, 100% used live action references
I might have said this before, but I genuinely love how Mars in 2071 looks like New York in 2001 here.
& there are 3 characters that look ALMOST like Jet, Faye & Spike in the sidewalks scenes from about 1:04 - 1:13
Kitafune Matsuki I agree, its cool to see a version of mars where its not just the usual dystopian, jump suit wearing, scum hole that it so often is.
the black guy is the voice actor for jet and the joking karate guy is spike if thats what your implying but faye voice actor is the lass at 0:30 if i remember correctly
Probably because they actually filmed live-action footage and a lot of these shots are rotoscoped without even remembering that there ARE actually differences on how Mars 2071 looks like
The opening sequence isn't rotoscoped, it's just Hiroyuki Okiura doing his thing. And besides even if he did end up rotoscoping his animations, people would have found out a long ass time ago.
the guy who says "Whats up?" is the voice of jet black
the girl in the bikini drinking the soda at "sweet cakes" is the voice of faye valentine
and the guy with sunglasses at "anyway~" is the voice of spike spiegel
No fucking way
Saw this movie in theaters last night. For the first time. Cannot get this opening sequence out of my head
I was there, too. I actually bought 2 tickets so my mother would go with me. It was basically me sharing something with her that makes me happy (this film is my all time favorite) I told her when the screen went black at the end of this intro, ''No rotoscoping. No live action reference, cgi, nothing. This is all done on paper and from someone's mind.''
She was floored like, she couldn't believe the animation and said it was like watching live action. ''The animation is incredible!'' she exclaimed 3/4 through the film.
Wish I could see this on the big screen!
@@Shadywolf09 I wish I had a mom that could understand all of that..
I might be a little late to the party but the feel of Spike Spiegel putting out a cig and walkin out into the city, in a world that was just just very rotoscoped anime dipictions of normal people just out living life, is holy shit 10/10 dude really is just another guy.
Some of the best and most expressive animation i've seen ever. And that even though the art itself is rather simple, takes true skill.
gtafan110010 for 2d animation those are some extremely complex characters. at least as long as you're animating their clothing like this - which generally nobody does since it's way too hard
This movie has the best visual world building i have ever seen.
It kinda overshadows the story at times.
This is so Metaphorical. There is this people that are so realistic and song about them. And then there is Spike just among them.
Man, that's great. I saw the Bebop movie like twenty years ago and there was a single indie theatre in my city showing it, and only at midnight if memory serves. I was there in the theatre with probably a dozen or so other folks, and it was one of the best movie experiences I've ever had. Everyone there cracked up when the random dude whipped into the pseudo-karate pose, and it was a truly great experience.
i knew a guy who watched it in a theater when it made its round. he shouted "it Cowboy Andy!!!" when he showed up in the Halloween parade lol
That random dude that did the pseudo-karate pose is actually Steve Blum, Spike's VA!
Spike Spiegel is the coolest anime character OF ALL TIME !!!
"And you! You take too long to take a shit!"
I love this intro, so much. It's so simple, it's just ordinary people.
Those people may be on Mars, granted, but still.
Earth girls, their easy.....Mercury are hot as hell, Mars girls have cold hearts, and Jupiters women are...well a bit gassy
Good logic. Haha :) And a pluto girls are lonely
Alex Zbignev
sadly pluto girls aren't really girls, if you know what I mean.
+Penclick Productions
Yeah, they're women.
I hope one day traveling to planets will be a reality and people could actually say this and mean it
The world seen in this opening is constantly active. Everyone has somewhere to go, something to do, they are at the beginning of events, and are still around when the events conclude. They all have their little side stories and spin-off narratives. They all are part of a different kind of experience where the feelings tend to vary and be so many, told from many different perspectives. And every second sees them going from one instance into the next, all seamlessly flowing like a river with many branching curves, separating but quite divorced from each other; the branches return; the river's iconic image of perpetual motion as is flows upward, ascending the stream of time.
But an awareness of all this is only truly felt by those who can step back and see where the stream is coming from and where it is going. For people like Spike Spiegel, who shows up at the end, it is a blessing and a curse to be able to see the flow of the stream, since he cannot be an active part of it. One eye can follow the past, and the other is grounded in the present, but neither can truly gaze at the future, only at the fleeting possibilities as if it were a dream.
Prompting, amongst so many queries of life's vicissitudes, the question of, "Are you living in the dream, or are you living in the _real world?"_
中古だけどDVD買っちまったよ…
最高。
Seriously everybody behind Cowboy Bebop, the show, the movie, the music, everything...fucking geniuses. I speak for all of us when I say Thank You.
I miss the animation style of Cowboy Bebop. :( Well... really I miss the animation style of the '80s and '90s like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Berserk. I do like the anime of todays, but the animation style is all so similar.
Earth girls are easy!
Fun fact
0:31 Wendee Lee aka Faye
1:04 Beau Billingslea aka Jet
1:12 Steve Blum aka Spike
Jacob Wilson you sure thats Steve?
@@karakun1 nearly 20 years ago
Listening to this makes me want to single-handedly terraform Mars so I can live there, and be all like, "Fuck yeah, I'm living on Mars."
how is this not rotoscoped? this is insane!
Most of it is rotoscoped. Just really, really well!
@@mazimadu It's not rotoscoped. It is just insanely well animated.
Signs of rotoscoping are present in the character models and poses. But the actual motion isn't
@@mazimadu That's the thing tho, the animator is famous for doing animations that look rotoscoped but aren't. There's still controversy in that no one's ever actually seen any signs of rotoscoping in his animation process, but it's still too incredible that people are still suspicious, as far as I've read.
@@dangowad5368 I would like to see the making of of this. This must me taught in classes
even in the movie opening spike by himself always alone.
0:49 hank hill
1:11 this guy.
He's my favorite part =)
In the opening credits, the three US dubbing actors for Cowboy Bebop are shown in animation. The African-American man in headphones singing the line "What's up" is Beau Billingslea, the English voice of Jet Black; the woman in dark top drinking soda on the song line "sweet cakes" is Wendee Lee, the English voice of Faye Valentine; on the line "anyway", the man in sunglasses taking a karate pose is Steve Blum, the English voice of Spike Spiegel. from imdb
@@ayamylautrec7065 I really doubt the veracity of this claim, I don't think Watanabe has any contact with the English Dub voice cast, the Karate guy is definitely not Steve Blum.
Even then, there are hugely spread lies from this show, like saying the creator prefers the English voice cast, he never ever said that, he just said he didn't understand it but it sounded good in the movie.
Pedro Juan the original voice of spike says it's better
@@JacobWilsonVO No he doesn't, do you have any source? it's BS until proven otherwise and I doubt he would shit on his co-workers.
昨日映画初めて見た。好きすぎる。
This IS a pretty high-quality version of the Bebop movie intro. I love how Watanabe chooses to depict various random people straight out of "reality"
Whoa it looks like they took different videos of people doing their own thing, and cartoonized it. That's pretty good.
0:06 that weight shift is so satisfying
This should be my opening theme for life.
This reminds me of how New York City was like back in the late 90s
I like how the song reached the climax at 1:04 and the composition of the animation started to focus more up close and personal on these people.
For some reason this fascinates me. I guess maybe because it's just regular people going about their day -- makes it seem so... real, I guess.
What a great intro. And it's greatness comes from all the different people that go on day to day, living their lives, not giving a #@*$.
Almost twenty years since this movie's release and I'm still loving it 😎
You know, the animation is so amazing that the first time I saw it, I thought it was retroscope. But no, all hand drawn, which is something quite rare of this quality.
most of the shows are set in the Americas... when they are on earth n-e-way... like when they were in Tijuana (I liked that one).... but they did an incredible job of blending our two cultures into something so friggin awesome!!!
I don't see why people are dissapointed with Keanu getting the role.
He likes the anime, its one of his favorites.
He likes quality anime to begin with.
He was in the Matrix, arguably the best anime-movie to date (Was based a lot on GITS and quite frankly Japan itself hasn't done remotely better)
And he physically fits the part.
Nobody should have a problem with this.
YOKO KANNO IS A FUCKING LEGEND AND MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITE COMPOSER, HANDS DOWN.
My brother and I do that little thing at 1:12 to each other xD We both crack up at that part every time.
Still the best piece of animation in all of anime
what's up, sweet cakes? :D
i'd love to see a monthly released anime with this quality.
This is just beutiful, you knew the anime with the best opening would have the best intro credits in an animated film
This is the definition of Cool :)
a wise man once said music is like candy you throw away the rappers
that moment when a Japanese manages to capture the New York escense better than an American
Too cool, Spike!
Such a great comment on human nature.
Man, found this and the opening after who knows how long. I gotta re-watch this show again now
i got all the music from the series and movie i love it and yes it wasn't released in the US
the music, the animation. it always makes my hair stand on end. its AWESOME!!! XD
The man and his dogs breath is so damn cool. Roto scoping at its finest
2021 peploe still watch cowboy bebop
P.S Anyone who likes bebop should check out the movie "Payback" starring Mel Gibson, its so similar to bebop its scary (seriously)! I literally think that the creators based it on it, sadly (or not since its an awsome movie) it will probably be closer to a true live action version of bebop then the 2011 movie will
this is by far the best intro ive ever seen.
The most amazing show ever.
YOU'RE GOING TO CARRY THAT WEIGHT...
Still one of my top songs of the last decade for anime/movie or whatever.
Cowboy Bebop is Excellent entertainment
THANK YOU! XD I've thought the same thing for YEARS.
Every time I get upset, this song always cheers me up!!
Got two turntables and a microphone.
senorretard ha, also noted the similarity
Ima just come out and say it
Best ass animation ever hands down
AWESOME!!! ive been looking every where for this song!!!!!
Did he really just referenced 'Earth Girls are Easy' (1988)?
Да
You had to leave us with a cliff hanger, didn't you.
With there being tons of parodies of the opening, no one ever parodied this.
I don't know if you're aware what hip hop is, and the difference between rap, but your analysis of what it is way off course. Rap derives from hip hop, and hip hop was a by product of the 70's & 80's lifestyle of eastern coast block parties. Hip hop is distinguished primary through the use of scratch beats and breaks. Rap can be said to be a part of hip hop, but hip hop cannot conform to rap due to it's sampling of tracks, and mixed sub-genre with other music.
i love this song i love Cowboy Bebob it was made the year i was born i love this TV series
hell yeah Earthgirls are easy. Aliens love them. hehehe
This song is sang by Mai Yamine. But it's awesome!
I never knew...you just blew my mind!
all the people are so realistic :'D
WATANABE IS OBVIOUSLY A MAGICAL WIZARD FROM ANOTHER LAND.
I loved this so much! x3 It is so unique! xD
This song gets me every time BEST SONG EVER.
PS:Goodnight Space Cowboy
Nice tune, real easy~
I don't think Rap music will ever die homie...that's ur own wishful thinking right there
Simplemente Asombroso
See you COWBOY SPACE ...
man this is awesome
I love rotoscoping
for some reason he looks like Bruce Willis to me xD
When the show was being made, rap did not exist, it was hip hop. And this show is a space noir western like firefly so the clothes will be a mix of 30's and the 90's.
C'est La Vie is a good alternate to this song actually, it has a similar sound and Robbie Nevil sounds alot like the singer of this.
love this!
such good animation... @_@
i have a feeling that bill board was hollister....
Cowboy Bebop Beats!
@ShoryukenThatHadoken
Not only that but the producer, Erwin Stoff, who worked with Keanu in the Matrix and A Scanner Darkly is in on this. And that in itself makes it a hopefully venture
Keanu getting the part isnt the big problem in the grander scheme of things. The problem is the director/studio is most likely going to completely SLAUGHTER the very identity of the story and characters to the point that it doesnt even resemble the original except for names, and probably so much that its down right BLASPHEMOUS.
If they would just present these (anime) works in their intended form they would be box office smashes and instantly appeal to the masses.
For the people all the footage you see is new york city.
Im not joking, it was refered to as hip hop and it was fucking awesome. Hip Hop officially died out in about 2002-03 with lil shithead and all those motherfuckers. Samurai Champloo used a complete hip hop soundtrack, rap was a part of hip hop before, and named a genre later on.
intro sounds like the carol king intro to "its too late baby"
was watching city hunter and on one episode it played music that sounded like the start of the this song
A little specific and most people won't get it but still
That's just super.
I hope that you're joking that rap didn't exist before this was made. Also Cowboy Bebop (the series) was made four years before Firefly.
Better ask her nice
Does anyone know what the song is that plays just after this, at the beginning of the movie?
Actually.... fairly possible besides the date unless there's a huge breakthrough in power related technology.
❤❤❤