heh heh heh

[moonwise]

Husband and I are going to watch the end of Bebop together tonight.

He'll never watch anime again.

On the other hand, he'll gain an understanding of why I was having heart failure at the end of Samurai Champloo.

Comments

[arafel.livejournal.com]

lol. Watching the end of Bebop will definitely enhance your SC experience. :D

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Yay! I did see that you finished it, btw. Glad you enjoyed.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Eh. I found the end of Bebop very sad, but not as much as a lot of other people did. It might have just been the haphazard and sporatic way that I watched the series (I watched the last DVD months after seeing the episodes up to 24 on Adult Swim), but after the final credits rolled past and the pretty music died down, it my main reaction (literally) was to jump up from the couch, point at the tv, and say "I get it! Crime doesn't pay!"


...of course I was alone at the time, so this sort of behavior was relatively safe from strange looks. Also, I was feeling snarky.

After watching it more times (and reading hella fanfic) I now have a more emotional reaction. But to this day my initial viewing of CB and the CB finale was not anywhere near my most emotional anime experience.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

So far, my most emotional anime experience has been the 10-minute waterworks fest that followed She and Her Cat. Then, the end of Haibane Renmei. CB... well, given the rest of the series, it wasn't totally unexpected, let's say.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

My most emotional moments so far have been: the multiple crying sessions following a certain episode of FMA; the rush of about 15 different emotions I felt over the course of the last episode of FMA; after episode 33 of Fushigi Yuugi which was my first death of an anime character I loved emphatically; and my second viewing of episode 23 of Trigun. Oddly, that one hit me harder the second time I watched it.

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

Coming from someone who never saw more than a few episodes of Bebop, why the big heart attack about the ending? How bad could it be?

[notowned.livejournal.com]

very, very very bad.

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

That is so very uninformative... but thanks for the thought.

[notowned.livejournal.com]

Unless you want me to spoil you and all the other readers of Arafel's journal, that's all you're going to get. Let's just say, rally bad things happen to really nice people, who we've come to love and wish good things for over the course of the 26 eps. Maybe some people saw the ending coming - I didn't. It makes me cry to rewatch it, every goddamn time.

But it's a purely subjective assessment. You can find out what happens at the end without much difficult if you google for it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to jump in and say that, while I love the CB characters to bits, only a few of them actually qualify as "really nice people." And they're not the ones the bad things happen to. I'd agree with "decent at heart" but "really nice" is a big stretch.

[notowned.livejournal.com]

to me, those are the same things.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Yeah... if you saw the first comment, you'd notice that at least one reader of this thread hasn't seen the ending yet. No one wants to be spoily, you dig?

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

Aw. I am curious, though, and Google turns up nothing but "well, no one wants to be spoily, so I won't say it here" pages (or discussions of the movie set between some episodes). It's really quite ironic.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

If you want to know that badly, email me at crawlybug at gmail dot com and I'll tell you.

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

Oh, the temptation for instant gratification! I've been studying instead of watching late night TV, so I'm not sure if CN or any other channel still airs the show where I cna get to it. Curious as I am now, I'd probably try to find out the ending for myself if there was a chance I could see it, but otherwise instant gratification sounds awfully good. :)