Cowboy Bebop 1x19 | "Wild Horses" Full Length Reaction

[@thatnewjoint]

Another one of my favorite episodes. Like all the characters get back stories, we also see a bit of the story behind the Swordfish

[@darkelf2x1]

Thanks for doing these Cowboy Bebop reactions & the extra effort to edit them for KZbin They stopped airing this episode in the US for awhile because IRL the space shuttle they showed in this episode was destroyed returning to Earth (they mentioned in the episode that they lost some of the protective tiles that protect against atmospheric reentry heat; IRL damage/loss of those tiles was what doomed the shuttle and its crew)

[@brianyaniro4797]

There's another episode they stopped airing after 9/11 as well

[@clololown]

@@brianyaniro4797 so much for the 1st amendment

[@brianyaniro4797]

@@clololown what do you mean?

[@stefangonzo]

The Columbia crashed in 2003. Bebop had been looping on CN for a while. The next weekend/Saturday after the crash Episode 19 featuring the shuttle was supposed to air again, but CN skipped over it. I remember.

[@TexasGreed]

Whoever drew the fighter jets on pin board is awesome. Its not often you see an F-8 Crusader and P-80 Shooting Stars depicted in any media.

[@monsoon1234567890]

Whatever happens... happens

[@SiouxTube]

I marathoned your reactions to the series. I love Cowboy Bebop. It's just a perfect 90s anime not to mention the music, cinematography, and animation were just top notch and have stood the test of time. It's also one of those very rare anime where the voice acting for the Japanese and American versions are both absolutely stellar. Speaking of which, the success of the series did a lot for the voice actors for both versions many of them went on to have fantastic careers in anime and videos games because of that show. In fact, the success of the show in Japan and the eventual run away success of it in American and international markets less than ten years later is one of the reasons Cowboy Bebop sits comfortably on a lot of top lists of anime to this day. Though, again, it took longer for that to happen in America and the rest of the world to which the young director of the series, Shinichirō Watanabe, never understood why it happened at all. He also wondered why it took so long since this show wrapped in 1998 in Japan and it wasn't popular in American until the mid-2000s in an almost fanatical fashion. It probably had something to do with how Cowboy Bebop was broadcasted almost constantly for four years straight on the Cartoon Network adult programming block, Adult Swim, starting in 2001. By the time Adult Swim started the afternoon block of television called Toonami on Cartoon Network already had numerous American cartoons and anime playing during the day meant for pre-teen and teen audiences audiences and had been going for several years but, Adult Swim was a programming block created for older teenagers and young adults and Cowboy Bebop fit right in. Honestly, Cartoon Network creating such a creative space to debut anime to the American market place is one of the reasons anime grew so popular over the last two decades and allowed it to become main stream. Oh and side detail, the director of the Cowboy Bebop, Shinichirō Watanabe, actually wanted each and every episode to feel like it was telling it's own story as if they were developing each episode to be a complete movie on its own. It's one of the reasons there's very little organic connecting storytelling between the episodes...well, and the fact the show wasn't based on a manga like most anime that normally go from light novel to manga to anime. It was just the imaginative vision of a young director in the late 90s who wanted to do something different because he never liked Japanese cinema or the more popular anime at the time since most popular Japanese stories try to elicit emotions and make the viewers cry. He wanted to make something that would make the viewers excited and happy for the most part. He wanted to make something cool...but, he also didn't mind making them cry now and then.

[@ryanmoore4920]

Big lore episode tbh

[@noahrobin1941]

Bit of trivia for you: the mechanic/engineer who works on the Swordfish in this is named “Doohan”; the actor who played the Chief Engineer (Scotty) in the original Star Trek is James Doohan. Can’t say for certain whether the one is the source of the other, but if I had to bet I’d bet it was the case. Cheers.

[@AdrianMendoza23]

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