In the 18 years since its debut, nobody has even attempted to rip off, copy or pay homage to Cowboy Bebop's jazzy space motif.
Why?
Spike isn't an asocial high school student male with a special power that comes out of his right hand with a harem of cute girls who lust over his limp dick and ends up in a video game world.
>>141055276
Didn't it not do too hot in Japan because of Western pandering?
>he actually thinks Japan gives a shit about western-pandering series
Because Japan doesn't care about bebop, the series flopped hard, move on.
>>141055276
No reason for it, Cowboy Bebop was inspired by Trigun and Outlaw Star, it was a byproduct of the anime before it
>>141056636
>inspired by outlaw star, a show that came out after it
uh-huh...
>>141056665
I assume the manga is similar to the anime
>>141056134
>the series flopped hard
It's time to put that keyboard down, faggot. At least double-check before spouting shit.
>>141056975
>literally cancelled due to low rating
Maybe I was a little too hard, it did good enough to get a movie, and some re-release that sold well, but overall, compared to its popularity in the western, it's literally nothing.
Space Dandy was KINDA similar but more on the comedy side.
I just want to add that jazz as a genre is shit.
>>141057690
>>literally cancelled due to low rating
Are you trolling?
>>141057819
No, I don't know what happened back then but only 4 or 5 episodes aired in Japan (not even in the good order), and it got cancelled due to low rating, but some months after that, another channel broadcasted the whole anime.
>>141055874
It was the second best-selling anime of its year, I believe.
>>141057819
Are you? Know your anime history pleb.
>>141057971
>>141058084
Thats not what cancelled means, it was a 1 season show and got 1 season, the episodes were all created
>What is Michiko to Hatchin
It was as Old West styled with its soundtrack, but it definitely reminded me of Bebop's style. Also Japs have shit taste, what's new?
Jazz is negro music influenced by the jews to promote white genocide
At no point was Bebop a bomb, cancelled or unsuccessful.
>>141057819
Wow pls kys
>>141058177
But I don't like it! It must be a failure!
>>141058291
>kys
Kill yourself.
From Wikipedia:
>The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3 until June 26, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial adult-themed content.
>The show had an aborted first run from April 3 until June 26, 1998, on TV Tokyo, broadcasting only episodes 2, 3, 7 to 15, 18 and a special, after which it was canceled due to low ratings.
>Later that year, the series was shown in its entirety from October 24 until April 24, 1999, on satellite network WOWOW.
tl;dr: the show itself wasn't canceled, the shit made-for-TV edit broadcast was canceled
>>141058312
Bebop was literally cut off on tv stations in japan when it first aired
A year later some westaboo introduced it to westerners and thats how bebop became successful in the west
>>141058382
when you fuck up a broadcast that bad anything would get canceled
>>141058132
This, at the end of the day the Anime is made by the Japanese and that is their principal market, daft though that may be. To his credit Watanabe is one of the few Producers in anime to persistently target the foreign market and he's been very successful for it so power to him. That being said children and the neck beards at home or over seas will always buy the same old. CB just doesn't really have a post market to cash in on on figmas and action figures so I think that's what it really comes down to.
>>141058312
I think it's more "I've been told otaku have shit taste, so this thing I like must have done poorly!"
>>141058390
You're probably not wrong on your facts, but the implication that it failed in Japan is dead wrong. It was one of the ten best-selling TV anime up to that point.
http://www.someanithing.com/312
>>141058146
Everything promotes white genocide according to /pol/.
>>141058382
>posting a show out of order, then getting pissed when it gets bad ratings
Why do stations do this? There has literally never been a single time that an out of order airing has made a show successful. It always kills them, regardless of quality.
>>141058390
It did get take off because of what >>141058382 said, but I think that the narrative of "the show's content did not appeal to Japanese audiences" has been pretty thoroughly debunked see >>141058512.
Firefly ripped of Cowboy bebop.
>>141058146
lets smoke reffers and race mix with negroes swoop de boop
>>141058659
Yes, and...?
>>141058459
While that used to be true, I think it's changing. A couple years back, Netflix had that mecha CG anime they made that was pretty popular. Space Dandy was a pretty big hit and simulcasted in Japan and in America with a dub. And now you have Kabaneri airing on Amazon Prime and in Japan, and it's getting really good reception on Amazon. I know for a fact that Toonami, Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix all want to get in on licensing anime before they air (rather than the shitty old system where they licensed after airing, and most of the money went to the American company anyways) since there is demand for it, and I think at least some Japanese companies are realizing the money to be made with a far larger foreign market. Sure, they may not be otakus willing to spend thousands on merch from their favorite otakubait show, but even "only" thirty million Americans watching a show through these providers will make a ton of money for both the American licenser and the Japanese creator.
I personally look forward to this taking off; it will let animators take bigger risks with high budget original anime since the risk will be shared equally with a much larger American company, so both will be invested in its success. And seeing how the few examples (that I know of, maybe there are a few more) have been successful, I think this is the next big thing in anime.
>>141055276
Uhhh Space Dandy?
>>141055799
He's actually pretty easy to talk to. Yet really unlucky with women, paradoxically.
>>141058659
I really don't mind it honestly.
>>141059202
30 million's like a tenth of the population, that seems like a big estimate.
>>141059202
>30 million americans ever watching even the best western pandered anime ever
top lel
Bebop isn't even that original. Watanabe stole so much shit from Lupin III.
