Because we need more series with 17 year olds saving the world, of course.
You missed on one of the best parts of the show, the characters are flawed people struggling with their problems as they go about the business at hand. That's why they are so interesting.
Because older people are completely inconsequential to the world they inhabit and are incapable to being participants in an engaging story that isn't guided by someone much younger than they are.
Even that aside, the cast being in their late 20s/30s is the crux of the entire show. It's all about their pasts coming to haunt them, about the push and pull between their pasts and the struggle to find some semblance of a new life.
Also, the meaning of the the show's ending is
that we can't escape the past. Not all endings should be about "new hopes" "aspirations" or "victory." Art would be a dull, predictable affair if they were. Calling the ending "emotionally rotten" is an absurb misinterpretation. Spike struggled with his past throughout the entire show up until the end when he decides to confront it headfirst. It was the only way he could find peace, and he does. The "bang" moment is complete and utter catharsis. He dies peacefully knowing that all the loose ends of his past have been taken care of, and that's the ultimate take away of the ending: you can't achieve peace when you've got unsettled emotional baggage weighing you down.
Gentlemen, I admire your attempt to try and educate DTL on the error of his ways, but I'm afraid its fruitless. If a show doesn't feature perfect pretty young boys that he can look up dirty fanart parings of all day, or the power of friendship over coming all obstacles DTL just doesn't care about it.
Cowboy Bebop is one of my favorite anime of all time. Samurai Champloo is also great but not as good as Bebop. Wolf's Rain is really good but it has more anime tropes than Bebop or Champloo. Still good though, especially the ending. There was a miniseries called "In The Time of Eve" that started off promising but I lost track of it and can't seem to find it anymore.
Gentlemen, I admire your attempt to try and educate DTL on the error of his ways, but I'm afraid its fruitless. If a show doesn't feature perfect pretty young boys that he can look up dirty fanart parings of all day, or the power of friendship over coming all obstacles DTL just doesn't care about it.
Yes that is all true. I think I just ended up concluding that Bebop is just not aligned with what I like, dont like flawed characters and the designs in Bebop were really not good. I can see how people like it, but just not what I like in my anime.
