Angelus Errare
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Real Folk Blues, one of the best anime songs of ALL time. None of that cheesy poppy shit.
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Cowboy Bebop |OT| The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called...
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KidA Seven
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I prefer Green Bird and Road To The West.
Patrick Bateman
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Spieler Eins
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Sure, but a fullblown comedy will probably not be comparable to this series and I suspect the anime next year would rather show whether or not he can still pull off a Bebop/Champloo.
Lv99 Slacker
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In my all time top 5 tv shows, animated or no.
Red Blaster
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the soundtrack credits don't appear to cite the original artists, smells like plagiarism
i would give her a bit of a free pass if it was only relegated to cowboy bebop since a lot of jazz is in interpreting other works (i use interpreting loosely as she does a few minor changes to an otherwise 1:1 copy of someone else's song and still passes it off as her own) but she also does it for a bunch of ghost in the shell songs so i think it's safer to say she's just a hack.
even with this scummy revelation about yoko kanno, bebop is still king; it's that good.
metsallica
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Don't toy with me like that! Can we get some confirmations? The fact that there's STILL no US release date is criminal. I will import this in a heartbeat, came so close to getting the Japanese set...
EDIT: Blu-Ray.com forum members are confirming it's region free... They've also found a video glitch and some labeling issues. Sigh.
Anime Limited has responded:
Andrew Partridge said:
Yeah that's where I got it from. I saw the post about the glitch and heard about the labelling issue a few days ago. I think the first disc says it contains 6 instead of 7 episodes or something. It's minor stuff and if they send out a rectified copy I'm happy!
Bright Side of Life
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Where's the US release 
Where's the US release
Nowhere to be seen yet unfortunately. As said above however this might be region free after all. Not the best option but hey its bebop on blu-ray at an affordable price.
Yup, the glitch is only a few frames at most. It's noticeable once you spot it (I must have turned my head away or something since I missed it the first time round) but it's really minor, the rest of the show looks gorgeous.
Awesome, thanks. Well, not awesome, ahah. But I want HD Bebop so bad. This isn't too bad, but still unfortunate.
Always keepin' safe inside
Where no one ever had a chance
To penetrate or break in
Let me tell you some have tried
But I would slam the door so tight
That they could never get in
dem blues..
Yup they will! It's minor enough that I could live it, but I'm glad they're offering us a fixed disc too.
Agreed, I had to hold back on my reply in that thread! We still had people in the UK complaining about Ninja Scroll on BD being pillarboxed. It was bad enough when we had to put up with pan-and-scanned stuff on VHS.
Watched a bit more today, god I love this show.
Apparently it is. I say apparently because according to this thread it is but I can't confirm myself 100% but I have no reason to believe it isn't at this point!
Yeah, I'm just kind of wary about ordering it....
War Peaceman
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It is so obvious that she stole a lot of the soundtrack - Too Good Too Bad (brilliant moment and song) is absurdly similar to Herbie Hancock's Chameleon. She barely even tried to hide it. She may be a hack and it certainly is terrible to do, but at the end of the day the soundtrack is phenomenal.
There are so many great artists that basically ripped off some other artist that no one remembers or cares about. She's done so many great soundtracks at this point that it doesn't even matter anymore. The vocals of Maaya Sakamoto and others are new additions, even if the music isn't completely original.
brollyman2k
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does Amazon UK ship to the US?
War Peaceman
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I completely agree. Reading it back, I wasn't that clear. It is a shoddy practice but the end result works magnificently and for me, that is what matters.
I want to order it but seeing that they are planning to fix their problems with the next run of discs, I'm going to wait a little bit first before ordering.
Sounds like a decent plan if your importing. If your in the UK they might replace if for you.
Well we've recently discovered that it's region free now so I don't see why not!
Red Blaster
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it's one thing to use common chord progressions or musical vamps here and there. it's another to repeatedly take parts of songs (from multiple genres) and leave them almost completely unchanged and not give credit to the original artists.
the soundtracks are definitely great but perhaps we should be describing yoko as musical curator possessing great taste lulz.
I doubt they'll ship the corrected disc to the US, so I'll probably wait until the old stock is cleared. It's nice to know that it's a region free release though. I hope the same holds true for Bakemonogatari, even if my CFW PS3 could play it just fine anyway.
Fair enough.
Is there a list of which tracks are ripoffs? There are so many tracks of hers that if just a couple of them were all her, she'd still be a genius. Go to Rakuen from Wolf's Rain, for instance, or Voices from....what was that from again? Escaflowne? So many.
Edit: Voices is from Macross Plus apparently.
Fair enough.
Is there a list of which tracks are ripoffs? There are so many tracks of hers that if just a couple of them were all her, she'd still be a genius. Go to Rakuen from Wolf's Rain, for instance, or Voices from....what was that from again? Escaflowne? So many.
Edit: Voices is from Macross Plus apparently.
FunkyPajamas
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Ordered, will be gifting to a friend.
Hell, I just ordered it and they're sending it to South America.
metsallica
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You know what other problem they'll fix on the next run of discs? Region coding. Once Sunrise figures out these discs are region-free you better believe they're going to clamp down.
That is not unprecedented right? To do that in a second run? Because I can see that happening. Super surprised this slipped. I don't even know if it was intentional.
Now I'm debating on buying or waiting for an eventual US release if we ever get one. I think the only thing holding me back now is the fact that it doesn't include the dub. It's the only anime where I prefer the dub.
It does include both dub and sub
Audio is available in DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Japanese and English
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