User Reviews

As with all first seasons, you got to give it time. Damn you Netflix. This could have been a good start.

I can see the purists not liking this because there is quite a departure from the show. However, that isn't what didn't work for me. It was a lot darker than it needed to be and the hook wasn't as hopeful.

Firstly what worked, at least for me.

The Julia reveal. Yes, Julia didn't turn out evil in the anime. Yes, she died. Make it like the show, the purists demand. However, I think this could work as Season 2 needed some sort of continuity. It needed an arc. I can see that working.

Vicious still being a live. This could work too. Lot's could be made from his story line into Season 2.

Valentine coming to the rescue, that works for me.

I didn't like where how our 3 leads got left. And I don't think the resolution, which would have happened in Season 2, would not have been genuine. For a character like Jet, Spike's betrayal is not something that he would have forgiven. The endangering of his daughter is not something that Jet would forgive. Ever. There is no plausible way for the Writers to get out of that one.

I think it was a mistake to add Kimmie into the mix in the finale. Once she's endangered, even with a good outcome, I just can't see a guy like Jet being ok with that. And being ok with that is the only way to keep the story going so it's just not true to the character. For that, a major bomb on the writers.

That being said, the writers were able to capture the essence of the characters, but part of good writing is putting those characters in the right circumstances for a good story. The circumstances here just didn't work towards a good story. The "feel" of this ending is all off, and too broken.

Faye's leaving to find out about her past is true to the anime character. She is inherently selfish. However her wanting to side with Spike ONE EPISODE PRIOR is not. And now she's leaving? That's a bit inconsistent.

Everything Jet does here is true to character. And also kudos to Mustafa Shakir because he nailed this role to the T.

Spike is true to character. Julia is his weakness and it "feels" right that she'd be the one to shoot him.

What didn't feel right was the fracturing of the relationship by having Spike be the one that screws it up. And to screw it up in such a big way that hits Jet right in the heart. That whole ending just didn't feel like Bebop.

Also, I am extremely skeptical that a real life Ed would work. I just can't see that happening. The character is too loud, too zany for the noir feel of the show, and it's also a little creepy in real life. Ed does NOT translate well to live action, and I don't see how the writers could have ever pulled that off in Season 2.

And using Ed as the hook into the next season is not significant enough. It is improbably how that could lead to bridging the gang back together.

The finale of such an experiment should be a bit more triumphant. It needs to leave the audience with a good feeling so that we'd want to come back for a Season 2. The "feel" of this ending is all wrong. This feels more like a Season 2 type of finale. Such a shame because it was doing so well up to the last 5 minutes.

It's just fine.

Honestly when the show was doing it's own thing, I was way more interested. The ending to this one was fine, just extremely rushed. There's some decision making that needed way more context then what we got.

The season wasn't that great but not the worse thing out there. I'm honestly shocked when people say it's worse than DragonBall Evolution. The series has potential to be better if it just does more of its own thing rather than straight up adapting the original story.

They need to fix Vicious if they continue because his character was terribly written. I'm all about giving him more screen time but at least write something that doesn't make him a cartoon.

Same goes for Radical Ed. Please tone her down. She's going to get annoying real quick.

Overall, I probably wouldn't rewatch this season, yet I'd check out a season two if they move forward in hopes that they find their footing cause this really can be a fun series. They should focus on more of the fun bounty's next time.

Once upon a time there was a cat, striped like a tiger. He died a million times and was reborn each time. His owners were all sorts of people who he didn't care about. The cat was not afraid of death.

Once he found freedom and became a stray cat. He met a white cat and the two happily spent their days together.

Years passed, and the white cat died of old age. The tabby cat cried a million times and died.

And he was not reborn.

• It's a good bike.

• I hate her. I hate cats.

Not familiar with anime or manga. All I know is from these 10 episodes. It was cool until ep. 10. Idk what happened originally but it felt so out of place in TV series. NGL, atmosphere and characters are enjoyable to my taste and I'd be glad to see the show in future. It's just I was hoping Vicious/Julia plot line will be closed in Season 1, the fact we will have to see 1 more whole season about them..well...

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I can't imagine a worst ending. The plot twist of Julia become the villain is basically a bad joke, all the battle in the church is disappoint except for the last duel, im very sick of the subplot of Jet Daughter, and the moment of Jet leaving spike is simply so unfair for the personality of the characters that don't make sense, and faye is a clown version of the anime character, and Ed is too cartoonish compared with the rest of the characters.

A lame, a blame, a worst of time, and the worst ending for a series with more downs than up

I don't know if i want to see you more, space cowboy...

The setup was right there. Yes turn your back on Viscious so he can shoot Julia and throw Spike off the church.... Ugh. What is this..stupid Netflix trying to change stuff. Both Jet and Julia were completely way off. And its actually disgusting.

A long all session, was a perfect development of characters, the best was Julia, a complete a new role into the history, and the greatest surprise was Ed!!! Thanks for bring us to Ed!!!

Just like a fun from CBB, the scenarios is a 10/10, the music 10/10, the principal history 8/10 and the real feeling from we are being human.

The roles of Vicious and Jet was a 9/10, Spike a 8/10 , Julia and Ana 10/10. Ein 11/10 and Ed was well i told before from her...

I'll hope the second season return too soon!!!

For me in generall is a 8/10.

How did Vicious find Jet's daughter? Or even know about Jet? I'm sure The Syndicate had connections inside the ISSP, but would they respond to Vicious? He just killed the leaders of the syndicate and Mao Yenrai and The Eunuch. That's a lot of gangsters that probably don't trust Vicious and possibly want to kill him just for safety's sake. One would think that Vicious would have bigger fish to fry at this point.

Jet's daughter as a character helped define Jet's motivations, raised the stakes. That was a great writing move in my opinion. But using her as a kidnapping pawn breaks the believability of the show. And it's unnecessary; Spike would have showed up at the church anyway (if a renegade Syndicate leader like Vicious really had the free time for a duel).

But, oh well. Hopefully we have another season, and things will get back to coy smiles and failed but funny bounty hunting across the solar system.

The epilogue destroyed this episode and does not fare well for future seasons. I cannot stand loud, screaming anime, and to do a live-action version of those Uber annoying LOUD characters as the set up for season two just killed it for me. As soon as I saw the character and the dog, my heart dropped. The only saving grace was the dog.

Everything was there to continue the development of Jet / Spike, but it just felt tossed out to take on the next book in the comic series.

Damn hard to watch. Just glad the psycho ex remained a psycho, it was looking like they would redeem her instead.

Has potential for a sequel. Just for the love of everything get rid of vicious. He was obnoxious onscreen and never had Chemistry with Spike or Julia.