Oolite Bulletins

Does flying around looking for bounties remind anyone of the anime, Cowboy Bebop ? The anime takes place in just our own solar system, but the characters' trade is bounty hunting. It is a highly entertaining show, if you haven't seen it already.

CommRLock78 wrote:

Does flying around looking for bounties remind anyone of the anime, Cowboy Bebop?

Ermm... No!
Never heard of it. I preferred Dangermouse

Bounty-hunters? I bagged a brace of them earlier - good sport, they are!

Fatleaf wrote:

Ermm... No!
Never heard of it. I preferred Dangermouse

I never heard of Dangermouse - but I saw old re-runs of Mighty Mouse as a kid . It looks like Dangermouse was syndicated here in the US, but I never did see it. I think us yanks must be more in to the Japanese anime than our European counterparts .

EV

&$£%^* anime. £!&$% load of £!$^&*. And you Americans make it worse.

"How," you may ask, "is this objective, Selezen?"

I provide an answer in one image.


The prosecution rests.

Danger Mouse, now THAT was a work of art. Still good today. CommRLock, get your hands on DVDs if you can and watch it. You WILL feel exhausted afterwards.

Selezen wrote:

&$£%^* anime. £!&$% load of £!$^&*.

I say... steady-on, Penfold, old chap!

Dangermouse was a great show. One of the prime examples to me of a theme song properly fitting the tone of the show.

I guess it's only a matter of time before some studio exec decides to make an abortion of a film out of it like they did with Inspector Gadget. Hopefully whoever has the rights to that IP holds on to it.

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Dangermouse was a good, fun cartoon, but beyond the fact that they're both animated, it's not comparable to Cowboy Bebop. It's a bit like comparing Wall-E to Daffy Duck. I'm a fan of all of them, but they're all very different things.

At first, playing Oolite reminded me of Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Then, I recalled Firefly. But since when I watched Firefly, it reminded me Cowboy Bebop... Yes, oolite, indirectly, reminds me of Cowboy Bebop.

I’ve never really been able to get into anime, the one major exception being Planetes. The main story arc is quite weak, but it is by a wide margin the hardest SF I’ve ever seen off a printed page.

So not very much like Oolite, then. (TV Tropes suggests this is closer.)

Planetes is one of the best sf anime I've ever watched.
I watched the whole series, three or four times

Selezen wrote:

&$£%^* anime. £!&$% load of £!$^&*. And you Americans make it worse.
Danger Mouse, now THAT was a work of art. Still good today. CommRLock, get your hands on DVDs if you can and watch it. You WILL feel exhausted afterwards.

Hey now, I thought this was the friendliest board this side Riedquat
Clearly Danger Mouse is a show I should check out .

Tichy wrote:

At first, playing Oolite reminded me of Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Then, I recalled Firefly. But since when I watched Firefly, it reminded me Cowboy Bebop... Yes, oolite, indirectly, reminds me of Cowboy Bebop.

Firefly is cool - I've seen that a couple of times; and yeah, Bebop is definitely more of an in-direct recollection. I mostly just think of the Jazz and collateral damage as I'm off to hit a bounty .

Ahruman wrote:

I’ve never really been able to get into anime, the one major exception being Planetes. The main story arc is quite week, but it is by a wide margin the hardest SF I’ve ever seen off a printed page.

I've honestly not heard of Planetes, but it looks excellent

Bebop is mostly just fun - with a dash moral/spiritual wisdom that is so common in all Japanese storytelling (not just anime).

CommRLock78 wrote:

Hey now, I thought this was the friendliest board this side Riedquat

I _WAS_ being friendly.

If I wrote how I really felt about anime, then the server this forum is hosted on would have melted to slag and burned a hole straight to the Earth's core.

I remember watching Dangermouse in Nickelodeon along with Count Ducklua in the 80's. Or it could have been the USA network, I was pretty young then.