Product Description

Enjoy true Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 and be immersed once again with Jet, Spike and the rest of the crew of the Bebop as they travel around the galaxy in search for the wanted criminals one bounty at a time! Longest Anime Broadcast Series on Toonami. Completely Re-mastered and Remixed and newly animated scenes with 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound! Genre: Action / Sci-Fi

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31435 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-13
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Tagalog
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 125 minutes

Amazon.com
Each of these two snazzy 20-minute installments is a self-contained and satisfying adventure tale about a futuristic hipster bounty hunter, from the most popular Japanese animated TV series of 1998. This is elegant action-comedy anime, with smoothly integrated CGI space-flight elements, gorgeous graphics, blues harmonica and sax riffs on the soundtrack, and a no-sweat post-Tarantino attitude. Despite occasional eruptions of gun-fu Asian-action violence, and some intimations of heavy-duty drug use (one especially noxious narcotic is administered as an aerosol spray, straight onto the user's eyeballs), the tone is surprisingly convivial. None of the generic tough elements are grim or mean-spirited. Lanky antihero Spike Spiegel is a planet-hopping bounty hunter with a cyborg sidekick and a genetically enhanced Welsh Corgi assistant, and as many wisecracks as punches get thrown. The emphasis is on clever twists of plot in an episodic short-story format. --David Chute

DVD features
The reissue of the first episodes of Shinichiro Watanabe's Cowboy Bebop, the series that set a new standard for cool in anime, offers English and Japanese voice tracks in both stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1. Viewers with sophisticated sound equipment can savor composer Yoko Kanno's blues-inflected score, which evokes wounded, sardonic bounty hunter/"space cowboy" Spike Spiegel. In a commentary by Japanese actors Kouichi Yamadera and Unshou Ishizuka, the original voices of Spike and Jet, Yamadera confesses he really wasn't sure how to play Spike in the first episodes. But Wendee Lee, the English voice of Faye, says she always felt completely at home with her character. While the numerous commentaries, trailers, promos, and other extras, will please the series' many fans, what people really want are new episodes of Cowboy Bebop. (Rated 13 and older: violence, nudity, profanity, alcohol and tobacco use, occasional ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Wait for the real Remix of Cowboy Bebop
The only great thing about this is the audio quality. It is now 5.1 surround.

the video quality is pretty much the same. but another cowboy bebop dvd set is coming out, where the Video has been remastered and cleaned up, and it'll have the 5.1 surround. so just wait for that release.

simply glorious
I've always been a big fan of Cowboy Bebop but until now I hadn't bought any of the dvd sets. Well I am glad I waited. These remixed episodes are amazing. The audio takes full advantage of a 5.1 surround system. That being said, if you don't have 5.1 and you already own a prior release, you probably shouldn't bother as the picture, while much better than the perfect session's release, seems to be the same as the original dvd releases. But if you do have 5.1 or you don't own any of this amazing series, then you need this.

Cowboy Bebop Remix Volume 1 is a decent release
Cowboy Bebop Remix Volume 1 contains the first five episodes of the series. This "remix" version includes new Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mixes of the episodes. During these first five episodes, we meet Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ein (the dog), and Faye Valentine. The series follows this band of motley bounty hunters as they hunt for bounties across the solar system.

Bonus features on the DVD include commentaries by the Japanese voice actors for Spike and Jet, Yutaka Maseba (the ADR English Director), and Wendee Lee (the English speaking voice for Faye Valentine). Wendee Lee is also interviewed for one of the features on the disc; the interview was rather well done. There is also a Cartoon Network promo collection and a trailer collection. In some spots, the Cartoon Network promos were a little "over the top," and some of the trailers in the trailer collection just seemed a little to similar to each other. In the bonus features, you can also see a "textless" version of the ending credits.

Overall, this a decent release.