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I don't know how many times I've watched "Cowboy Bebop" (CB)
for the first time, and I didn't have a strong feeling.
The most impressive thing is that the episode of the church is
accompanied by pieces of broken glass. Spike In the eyes that fell from the church
that only saw the past, a fragmented memory emerged.
John Woo's violent aesthetics
produced the charm of a literary film.


After revisiting it again and again, I realized the charm of CB.
It is like a familiar dish.
Every time I taste
it, it will be affected by the texture of the ingredients, the amount of ingredients, the size of the heat, the number of times of stir fry, and the quality of the food. The timing of the pot
and experience a different taste

(there are serious spoilers below) the
bounty hunters Spike and Jet, the naughty woman Faye, the genius teenage hacker Ed, and the corgi Ein, who has excellent intelligence but poor fighting ability The crew of four people and one dog roamed the universe
on the Bebop spacecraft , but they kept silent about their respective affairs. Faye: "I really don't know what he's thinking" SpIke: "He just wants to see his old hometown" Faye: "If you think that the old woman still thinks about herself, it's a big mistake" Spike: " If you think all women think the same way as you, then you're dead wrong" ... Faye: "Men are really... a bunch of hopeless romantics..." ... Jet back to Wood Wei San, saw his old lover Alisa, he took out the pocket watch Jet left by Alisa before he left: "When I got home, there was only that watch...with a note that just said goodbye"













Jet: "It's unbelievable, I didn't feel sad, I just thought it wasn't true... Then I slowly felt that my heart had begun to become paralyzed... For half a year, I've been betting with myself: If this watch stops, And if you still don't come back, I'll leave this planet... I'm not here to blame you, I just want to know why you left at that time..."
Alisa: "In your heart, it's like staying there forever. For a while, it was a long time ago for me...I've forgotten...I don't want the time I can't move...bye, Jet..."
Jet then found out that Alisa's boyfriend Rhint is wanted for murder, and Spike, who is also a bounty hunter partner, is hunting them
. Jet says let him handle it himself.
Spike doesn't say much, and leaves alone
. In the tune of "ELM", Jet drives his spaceship in pursuit under the blue sky While the pair of desperate mandarin ducks
were fleeing, Alisa drove the speedboat, her eyes were firm, Rhint shot at Jet's spaceship, and Jet's eyes had an inexhaustible feeling of reading
... At the
end of the sunset, the speedboat hit the shore, and Jet also Jumping ashore
suddenly, Alisa protects Rhint, screaming at Jet with a gun
, begging Jet to let them
go Jet: "Even if I let him go, someone else will come to catch him...if you are with him If you run away, you will become an accomplice..."
Desperate Alisa pulled the trigger and the
bullet passed
Jet again and again and continued to move forward...

Finally
Jet grabbed Rhint and told him, "You gotta be strong and...protect her"
When the police came, Jet just left Alisa a goodbye back, left alone
and pulled the piece out of his pocket and stopped motionless His pocket watch
smiled and threw it into Ganymede's sea... Years after Jet

lost his left arm forever in an operation to hunt down the killer Udai, Jet
fought side by side with his former partner Fad again to capture Udai
who escaped from prison. Jet learned from Udai that it was because of Fad's betrayal in the past that he was injured in action.
Jet killed Udai and
Fad also rushed to the
two of them. They both knew it in their hearts
. Just when Jet found out that Fad's gun was empty , Fad, who had quit smoking for ten days, faced Jet and asked him to light his last cigarette "Quit... Failed" Fad's life gradually disappeared with the dim firelight Jet put the gun in Fad's hand and pointed it at the dead Udai and left alone









The story of CB is also the starry sky, the Matsusaka beef that bites, the lobster that becomes an independent ecosystem, the refrigerator that swims in space, the heavy metal queen truck driver, the hallucinating mushroom after eating, and the old driver who drove the space shuttle to the sky to rescue, The killer who keeps regressing in his mind... The space beings of that era are also the elegy of this era.

Watanabe likes to insert two or two episodes in the middle story. This is the case with Chaos Warriors, and so is CB
. Episodes 12 and 13, Jupiter Jazz
this In two episodes, Glen, the most handsome man in the whole play, appeared. Although he was not as handsome as Spike, his gestures exuded a man's romance.
Faye complained to Glen: "I often hear people say that it is difficult for a person to live, but I live. It's been so long... I feel lonely and helpless in the crowd, it's better to feel alone... With them, a lot of troubles will happen, and no one pays attention to me, anyway, I'm the same when I'm not there... ..."
Glen said to Faye: "You're afraid of the feeling of separation, and the people you talked to...so you left first", "You said you didn't need any friends, but I'm obsessed with the term comrade and can't help it. At the
end of the episode, just like the beginning, there was a shooting star in the sky.
The Indian kid looked at the sky: "A star fell, Bull"
Bull: "That star is not an ordinary star, it is a warrior Tears"
"What is a warrior?"
Bull: "Somewhere on this planet, someone who's been fighting, doesn't believe in Daling...sad souls"
In Space Lion's rhythm, camera changes pull into the stars , just like the last episode,
this episode seems like a prophecy of the fate of everyone on the Bebop.
Every soul is not willing to stagnate , and it
always belongs to the end

Spike and Jet find an antique VCR that shows Faye, who was a girl,
"I'm not here anymore, but I'll always be here to support you this day...for the one and only myself
" The innocent Faye is cheering for the future self
The real Faye is silent for the past self
"I don't know... I can't remember... This is... me?"
A naughty woman who smokes, gambles, and gives a thousand dollars, Spike's least favorite woman
is a person who is completely different inside and outside the screen, or two people.
I look like a person from the past. Isn't the person of the past
who you are today really what you want to see from yesterday?


The most painful thing about CB is that the director gave everyone a final destination
. All the destinations turned into a sad story. It's
like everything has to end

in the penultimate episode. Spike and the others often watch TV shows because of the ratings. The rate is not good and it has been discontinued


At the airport, Faye, who ran away alone, met an unemployed male anchor who came to pick up his mother . "Have you
found a job?"
"Don't worry, Mom" ​​" Where
's the girl you love?" In the third episode , no one seemed to ask why Spike's acquaintance on Jet's ship was always unexpected, but the parting was premeditated. Ed was leaving the Bebop. As the only child on the ship, she was happy when she left. He gave Spike a windmill, smiled and left the spacecraft under the sunset. He stopped to look back at the Bebop, but Ed fell silent . Ein reluctantly glanced at Jet who was concentrating on trimming the bonsai, and followed him out. far away”













After Jet made dinner (boiled eggs), they saw Spike staring out alone.
They saw Ed's big smiling face on the spaceship, and the phrase "Bye Bye"


Faye returned to Earth and saw his childhood friend, who was in his old age, and his hometown, Faye ,
who had turned into rubble The music sounded and the two big men faced the eggs that were originally reserved for five people, and ate them silently. After finishing their own portion, they continued to eat the portion left for the other three without saying a word except for the sound of music. The penultimate episode this episode is like Annie said that everyone is like a kite with a broken string and lost its goal of living. In the last episode, Jet made Spike's special "special green pepper shredded pork" for the last time. Spike complained that Jet made The food was still unpalatable, and before going to the appointment after eating all the dishes , Spike told Jet the story of "The Cat Who Lived a Million Times": "There was a cat with a tiger skin pattern, and this cat was raised by various owners . Yes, but it doesn't love its owner. After a million deaths and then a million resurrections, the cat is not afraid of dying . One day, the cat becomes a free wild cat. It meets a White female cat, two cats lived happily together. After many years , the white cat died, and the tiger-skin cat cried a million times, and died and never came back to life."




























Jet says it's a good story
Spike says he hates this because he hates cats The
last time the two old partners look at each other and laugh
Jet, who is also a man, understands so he silently bid farewell to his old friend Faye
with laughter and the last silence to stop him
Spike
"I...have my memory restored, but...there is nothing good, there is nowhere to go back...nowhere, I have to come back here again, and you...where are you going?"
As a woman Faye couldn't understand, pointed the gun at Spike
Faye asked
why Spike wanted to die?
Spike said that he looked at the past with one eye and the present with the other.
Spike said that he wanted to have a dream that he would never wake up from, but he woke up from the dream at some point.
Spike said that he did not wake up. I don't want to die, I just want to make sure I'm really alive...
Spike ignored Faye's advice and walked straight on.
Faye wanted to shoot this stupid man, but he couldn't pull the trigger and
could only vent his hatred to the ceiling. bullet


In the end, Spike drove the spaceship away, and the music played.
Faye couldn't help crying ,
but Jet looked into the distance and wiped the spaceship quietly

...

After the decisive battle, Spike, who was seriously injured, slowly walked down the stairs
. The appearance of " BANG
..."
Spike smiled and fell down. The
camera slowly rose and
reflected in the blue sky . The
sun shone into
the starry sky. The brightest star
in the distant sky fell . After the white cat died, the cat cried a million times, and it died and was never reborn








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