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priestwarrior

The sixth post

Aug 03, 2008 20:51

This would have been up earlier, but things kept happening this weekend. Things like ten consecutive episodes (or sessions) of Cowboy Bebop. Which is a great show - the only anime I’ve really watched, very reminiscent of Hemingway

in terms of gritty reality, terse, manly dialogue, and lots of fishing boats on the ocean (except it’s the oceans of ( Read more... )

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belmoon August 4 2008, 03:05:08 UTC

Despite some of the more stereotypical voices, Cowboy Bebop's gotta have some of the best voice acting of any anime, even compared to nowadays standards. It also came from a time where Steven Jay Blum's voice was not in EVERY anime out there (though I suppose it's a good thing for him that people can see his voice as more than just Spike Spiegel). Look at THIS LIST, seriously.

I'm a bit curious about this Fisherman business, also.

priestwarrior August 4 2008, 17:43:40 UTC

Yeah, voice acting: Spike is great, Faye is good, Ed is surprisingly bearable, and Jet - well, the voice acting really makes Jet. Thanks in large part to the voice acting, he's the most human of the characters (Spike's a little too epic and enigmatic, Faye alternates between being cool and detached and throwing tantrums, and Ed, well, "Edward is Edward". And Ein's a dog. So Jet's the most human.)

And so apparently the only anime SJB did NOT voiceact in was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

More on the Fisherman later, gotta get back to work. (Ooh, tantalizing!)

priestwarrior August 6 2008, 21:33:19 UTC

This Fisherman business: um, it's kind of complicated. Basically, it's about what happens when a completely different perception of reality (the Fisherman's) is superimposed on a more orthodox one (ours). The Fisherman (right now he's named Lawrence, but he needs a better name) is, as has been said, paranoid schizophrenic. Among other things, he has cosmological delusions that, originally, all was water and we burrowed under the mud and packed it tight against the water, and to forget, called up down and down up. So now we walk around, clinging to the bottom of said mud, and the water will eventually break through and drown us all. Or something like that ( ... )