I'm from Russia, and I found love for 80s, old school anime, when I started watching your reviews to improve my English skills. Now, almost 10 years later, 100 titles later, and becoming admin of 3 Anime VK groups, - I cannot express how thankful I am for your work, Sage.
Sage: I'm probably going to have to explain these dated references. Also Sage: This clip of Ace Ventura will help my audience understand if the censor was too much.
I'm happy to see someone talk about Colorful. I went through a bit of a phase where I was hooked on "dumb" anime comedies like Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemy, Azumanga Daioh, Inachu Ping Pong Club, Golden Boy, Ghost Stories and Colorful. Most of these, I still have on DVD. You're right. This Anime would probably not be made today, but it's never failed to get a laugh out of me. Maybe because I was always into experimental animation like Liquid Television.
I'm honestly surprised you didn't get suave of all people to cover this anime. Sure it's not exactly his cup of tea but it'd be a helluva way to troll the thirsty lech if you baited him into thinking this was another bit of smut, then see the look on his face when he saw all this. it would've been priceless. Nevertheless, I'm not one to look a giftepisode in the mouth and welcome another one of your fantastic episodes! :) *Sees you looking like you're going to be reviewing...it* (OMO) ...You poor Bastard...See you soon Space Cowboy
I remember watching this on G4 late at night. Funny. But it got even funnier over time for my brother and I. I bought a DVD of it last year. Being older now we started to understand what made it funny, because back then. We were just kids consuming whatever anime we could find. Have to say you're right about the experimental thing, I miss days when they took risks in the industry.
The Cowboy Bebop live action is like the Third Impact of anime live action adaptations. It's so scaring you come out the other side post-third impact Shinji. And it's probably the third worst live action. After Avatar and DBZ. The Death Note live action and some of the other more tame ones are nothing like this. This is the Third Impact of live actions. ☠
Sage, this is Japanese Liquid TV. I used to watch Liquid TV on MTV, it was the bomb. Colorful reminds me so much of those days. But I'm not sure how much I can take in one sitting :)
Hey Sage, if you enjoyed Colorful you might enjoy Telepurte's brand of sexy and surreal humor. I really admire his skills and I like his OCs having personality in addition to their fanservice moments. Oh no... I was typing this as the review was finishing... Sage I'm not sure even a 'stache that powerful can protect you.
An anime like this suddenly brings to mind the golden age of the Comedy Channel in Australia, especially around the late 90s and 00s. There wasn't anime like this shown but the channel would often feature these weird and zany short cartoons inbetween the shows they had in their line-up. I can't even begin to describe most of them because there is so many of them but they were always zany, batshit crazy and so messed up that it would be immediately cancelled by Twitter. Most of them may have been lost to time but some you can find, like Bill Plympton's famous "25 Ways to Quit Smoking". But yeah, anime like this would have fit right in on the Comedy Channel if we didn't have SBS catering for anime at the time, but it still brings a warm fuzzy to my heart remembering all those weird shorts while waiting for shows like Dr. Katz and Titus to start.
The first Anime I ever watched (that wasn't Voltron, Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, Hello Kitty, Unico, Ringing Bell, etc..) was in the spring of 1994. It was on a VHS bootleg that some college-dude made when he visited Japan. I overheard him talking with some other college guys at the local mall's food-court. I heard him telling them about _"Japanimation",_ as if it were some sort of cult he'd just joined. He noticed I was clearly eavesdropping. And, rather than talking down to high-school-me, he grinned broadly, pulls a naked VHS cassette out from his backpack and handed it to me. The masking tape label read, in black sharpie: *_Battle Angel._* I hurried home; no one was around; _perfect!_ I drew the curtains, turned out the lights...and watched. Holy shit, _this was no Sailor Moon!_ This bootleg had no subs. I had absolutely _no clue_ what the characters were saying; didn't even matter. I watched it over and over again. When I next saw that guy, a few weeks later (turns out he was the older brother of a guy I knew in high-school), he cracks-up laughing, telling me that he'd _meant_ to give me a copy _WITH SUBS,_ and only realized his mistake later on when he was looking for his raw copy. Apparently, hastily scrawled, deliberately vague masking tape labels aren't always the most information-rich. Point is, I was hooked!
I honestly can't remember if I first saw Colorful at an Anime convention, or if it was when I was visiting a friend of mine in the UK, and it was one of our late night binges. Either way, I still remember having a good time, even if I didn't understand all of the humor, and I'm glad to have some of those memories brought back from this review :)
Colorful looks both hilarious and yet off-putting. I have to give it credit that the jokes you showed in English were perfectly timed. For the next review... Thank you for taking one for the team, Bennett.
It's been a long time since I thought about Colorful. Very nice to see someone actually cover this thing! I watched it back in the mid 00s with zero context on Comcast. I had no idea it was produced as a segment for a sketch comedy show. I just thought at the time it was one of the dumbest anime I'd ever seen and anything it did well went over my head. I then wrote a highly unflattering review for this series on MAL back in 2015. I was doing a series of reviews reminiscing on the dumbest, obscure anime I'd ever watched. Now after all this time it's nice to try see Colorful from a different perspective!
I first found Colorful 10 years ago and fell in love with it immediately. ADV's behind the scenes featurette is also hilarious. Thanks for bringing it to people's attention. Also thanks for leaving out the funniest scene in the anime. People are going to get a kick out of it.
as a guy who does remember when anime was weird and misses it yeah I will happily check it out also good luck with the next video you going to need it be strong my fellow oldtaku
Your review of excel saga brought me here. Yahtzee mentioned it, and drew me down to searching for the opening song and your review was part of that recommendation by youtube. Looking at your channel, and seeing colorful as one of more more recent reviews, made me feel at home. Colorful was an anime I have never heard anyone else talk about outside of the circle of friends whom I have introduced it to, and your comparison of it to Liquid Television is spot on, as I am sure it took a lot of notes from that show just a couple years later when making it. I am not a huge anime fan as most leave me sad that such labor given to the artwork isnt shared by the writing quality. However, the more inane examples of anime somehow shine more than the serious attempts. Unless its the really artsy stuff like 'Catsoup' (sadly as obscure as colorful), then I skip most of it after an episode or so. ADV may be much maligned, but during this period of 2000-2002, they were very much on fire. Excel saga, colorful, rah xephon, Last exile, to name merely a few examples... these made me hold out hope that anime had a future in the western world that wasnt a snide derision of what would be later known as weebo. This review makes me mourn that new found hope I felt two decades ago. As perverse and highly non-PC colorful is, even my prudish friends enjoyed it. Like the scene where the girl was staring at the guys zipper, hoping she could make it magically unzip with her mind... My friend Abby, notorious for her borderline quaker sexual expression, admitted immediately how accurate that was... lol Sexual repression is a funny thing. Anyways, sorry for the long winded comment. It's the first time I have ever seen any other living being talk about it, so I had to engage a bit more than I otherwise normally would. Thanks for the reviews. I shall sub and look forward to more of your insight.
hahaha, i really wasn't expecting that last Netflix-Cowboy Bebop segment, a hint for a future review of the thing perhaps? X) . Great episode as always :)
I knew what I was getting into when I saw which Anime you were reviewing. Also you should review Girl's Bravo, that series is amazing and classic for that Pool episode.
Oh my God I hadn't even finished watching the bebop remake, I liked the pilot OK but the last 10 minutes of it and now that screenshot of Edward has completely killed any fizz left. WOOF, go with god Benny.
Oh god I remember this during my Anime Unleashed days. Was also the same block I first discovered Rahxephon and......yeah the show with giant robots made a little bit more sense then this did lol.
You mention how people get into anime. I was always into cartoons since I was five or so, drawing stuff on any paper I could find, so I was watching all kinds of anime without knowing they were from Japan. Around 1994 I realized what it was I had always been watching, and started to draw it. That was because I loved specifically how they drew all the folds in the clothes and the great details they made in characters and backgrounds etc. Story, characters and themes all came later - it was all the way they created them aesthetically that first drew me towards anime/manga.
You know what’s weird? I’m watching an FD Signifier video (about Bread Tube… go figure) and I noticed Bennett in a blurry ass video. I had NO clue you were apart of Channel Awesome. I DID know you are an originator of this CZcams shit and deserve FAR more subscribers/ recognition m, it I did not know that. Holy fuck. The man is a CZcams king.
I thought this was going to be a review of the anime film called colorful from 2010. I had that one on my list of films to see, so I left this video on my watch later list until now. Since I finally got around to watching that film yesterday, I figured I'd give this one a go today. ...this was not what I was expecting lol
Weird, yes indeed. Seems like I could watch it for the lulz in a great way. And next time, I admit that I have put off the series not b/c of disinterest, hate, or anything. But I know you definitely have something to say about Netflix's Cowboy Bebop. See you soon, Oldtaku.
You don't need to explain yourself Sage. I just need to hit that moment in your video where I realize I'm lost in my own stuff, then rewind. Then watch what you were actually talking about. I appreciate that about you.
The dub of this series is on both HIDIVE & (last time I checked) VRV. People who want to watch the sub version are S.O.L. I'm afraid. You'll either have to get the DVD or use other methods to see the sub version. I wish that this weren't the case since I try to stay out of the sub vs. dub wars as much as possible, but it is what it is. Side note: There's also an anime film called "Colorful" as well which is VERY different from this show so anyone who's seen this show MIGHT want to be careful if they hear the name "Colorful" come up in conversations about anime.
Couldn't have put it better in describing this hidden gem. That's one thing I love about older anime, they tried to be different moreso than just the same old homogenized stuff that would blend into each other in the more current seasons of anime. I'm happy to own this on DVD and to have seen it when it was first released in America. It kinda shaped my humor going forward from my highschool to college years. Bless your soul if you're tackling rl Bebop. Til next time!
You say that like there isn't interesting experimental stuff coming out or reams of bland trash back in the day. It's just that the cool interesting stuff is what stands out 2 decades later so that's all people associate with the period.
An example of how ADV dubbed it: A politician is shown talking with no sound, then a shot of a cat laying on a couch. The dub: Politician: "I am not a crook!" Cat: "No, you're a pussy!"
Fun Trivia: The Opening Singer is Yuko Miyamura, who voiced Asuka from Evangelion and Casca in Berserk 97. The Longer Haired College Guy was voiced by Guts's former Japanese VA Nobutoshi Canna while his dub is David Matranga (Tomoya from Clannad, Todoroki, Orphan).
Ahhhh, the good ol' days of ADV Films (A. D. Vision). They don't distribute anime like this like they used to. Feel that way about MVM (the UK distributor for Pioneer, Geneon releases)
My Ranma fandom might be showing, but every time you say "Tickets to see Japan" I'm reminded of the episode where the protagonists participate in a competitive drama performance of Romeo and Juliet, only to win and find out that it's not China, the country, it's China, the celebrity that our pop culture ignorant heores have never heard of.
I haven't seen that one, but I do remember Cartoon Network's HiHi Puffy AmiYumi doing something similar where the girls are going to meet a fan (or potential love interest, I don't remember) and are gushing about him being from Paris, only for the reveal at the end to be that he's not from Paris, France but from Paris, Texas.
@@cannibalisticrequiem Actually it was Paris, Idaho. It's really weird, cause I remember that one gag from HiHi Puffy AmiYumi clear as day. I didn't even watch that much of that show.
lol every time I saw an ad for 'Colorful' on one of my ADV dvds, my reaction was always "....what the f---k was that?" 😂but that E.T. bit made me LOL...maybe I will check it out afterall cause it seems funny....
When I first saw the notification I was "Oh shit, he's doing Colorful! I haven't seen that since the Comcast OnDemand/Starz anime days! I remember it being pretty funny" and watching through it, jogged my memory and of course, the skit that Bennett talks about at 11:08 came back and I was reminded of the transphobia along with the ace ventura cherry on top for reference -_-
Who are these we you are talking about. Not everyone in this fandom hates live action Cowboy Bebop so don't assume that everyone shares your opinion about it. Then again maybe you think you are Venom or something so you refer yourself "we" instead of "I".
@@Mecha82 Wow projecting much? Interesting that you can extrapolate such an assumption from literally nothing; at no point was there a comment about being for or against the show. However, it appears you have no interest in actual conversation or introspection about the show so it begs the question as to why you even watch Anime Abandon if you are so upset by the possible analysis of a popular franchise? By the way, the use of "we" is a common literary device in english to express inclusivity.
@@Mecha82 Why so defensive? Why make a comic book reference to Venom, where the hell'd that come from? Besides, a majority does hate it, all the big CZcamsrs dislike it, and most of their fans agree. No one's stopping you from liking the live-action version, it just proves you have shit taste. No different than how anime fans have shit taste.
I didn't even think you'd be covering Bebop.
Be strong man, one foot in front of the other, one step at a time.
I think Sage got sent to a penal unit in the waifu wars, this is his punishment.
Its a harsh punishment...gonna carry that weight...
God Speed Young Sage
o7
To quote a certain djinn about that ending:
“Well that was f*cking ominous.”
I'm from Russia, and I found love for 80s, old school anime, when I started watching your reviews to improve my English skills. Now, almost 10 years later, 100 titles later, and becoming admin of 3 Anime VK groups, - I cannot express how thankful I am for your work, Sage.
That's really cool to hear! Thank you so much for watching all this time, man
Got my OLDTAKU t-shirt too. Can send photo of me in front of Kremlin wall to your Twitter, np
HA! That'd be awesome, go ahead!
Are there russian dubbed anime
You learned English from Sage? That is equal parts cool and worrying
Sage: I'm probably going to have to explain these dated references.
Also Sage: This clip of Ace Ventura will help my audience understand if the censor was too much.
Oh boy Bebop Netflix is next, I can already hear the raging and cussing.
I'm happy to see someone talk about Colorful. I went through a bit of a phase where I was hooked on "dumb" anime comedies like Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemy, Azumanga Daioh, Inachu Ping Pong Club, Golden Boy, Ghost Stories and Colorful. Most of these, I still have on DVD. You're right. This Anime would probably not be made today, but it's never failed to get a laugh out of me. Maybe because I was always into experimental animation like Liquid Television.
It also reminded me of the manga Short Cuts, which had some weird skits and parodies.
"Dude, you're walking home!" Oh my god I felt that one.
I'm honestly surprised you didn't get suave of all people to cover this anime. Sure it's not exactly his cup of tea but it'd be a helluva way to troll the thirsty lech if you baited him into thinking this was another bit of smut, then see the look on his face when he saw all this. it would've been priceless. Nevertheless, I'm not one to look a giftepisode in the mouth and welcome another one of your fantastic episodes! :)
*Sees you looking like you're going to be reviewing...it*
(OMO)
...You poor Bastard...See you soon Space Cowboy
I remember watching this on G4 late at night. Funny. But it got even funnier over time for my brother and I. I bought a DVD of it last year. Being older now we started to understand what made it funny, because back then. We were just kids consuming whatever anime we could find. Have to say you're right about the experimental thing, I miss days when they took risks in the industry.
The Cowboy Bebop live action is like the Third Impact of anime live action adaptations. It's so scaring you come out the other side post-third impact Shinji. And it's probably the third worst live action. After Avatar and DBZ. The Death Note live action and some of the other more tame ones are nothing like this. This is the Third Impact of live actions. ☠
Sage, this is Japanese Liquid TV. I used to watch Liquid TV on MTV, it was the bomb. Colorful reminds me so much of those days. But I'm not sure how much I can take in one sitting :)
Ohhhhh yo flashback Neon Flux..among the other maddeness man i was young n hardly knew english ... yo so right
Hey Sage, if you enjoyed Colorful you might enjoy Telepurte's brand of sexy and surreal humor. I really admire his skills and I like his OCs having personality in addition to their fanservice moments.
Oh no... I was typing this as the review was finishing... Sage I'm not sure even a 'stache that powerful can protect you.
"Oh no" is the exact thought I had at that exact moment.
Oh nooooo...
Pretty sure we all said it out loud or were thinking it. "Oh no..."
An anime like this suddenly brings to mind the golden age of the Comedy Channel in Australia, especially around the late 90s and 00s. There wasn't anime like this shown but the channel would often feature these weird and zany short cartoons inbetween the shows they had in their line-up. I can't even begin to describe most of them because there is so many of them but they were always zany, batshit crazy and so messed up that it would be immediately cancelled by Twitter.
Most of them may have been lost to time but some you can find, like Bill Plympton's famous "25 Ways to Quit Smoking". But yeah, anime like this would have fit right in on the Comedy Channel if we didn't have SBS catering for anime at the time, but it still brings a warm fuzzy to my heart remembering all those weird shorts while waiting for shows like Dr. Katz and Titus to start.
The first Anime I ever watched (that wasn't Voltron, Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, Hello Kitty, Unico, Ringing Bell, etc..) was in the spring of 1994. It was on a VHS bootleg that some college-dude made when he visited Japan. I overheard him talking with some other college guys at the local mall's food-court. I heard him telling them about _"Japanimation",_ as if it were some sort of cult he'd just joined. He noticed I was clearly eavesdropping. And, rather than talking down to high-school-me, he grinned broadly, pulls a naked VHS cassette out from his backpack and handed it to me. The masking tape label read, in black sharpie: *_Battle Angel._* I hurried home; no one was around; _perfect!_ I drew the curtains, turned out the lights...and watched. Holy shit, _this was no Sailor Moon!_ This bootleg had no subs. I had absolutely _no clue_ what the characters were saying; didn't even matter. I watched it over and over again.
When I next saw that guy, a few weeks later (turns out he was the older brother of a guy I knew in high-school), he cracks-up laughing, telling me that he'd _meant_ to give me a copy _WITH SUBS,_ and only realized his mistake later on when he was looking for his raw copy. Apparently, hastily scrawled, deliberately vague masking tape labels aren't always the most information-rich. Point is, I was hooked!
Well, that was an ominous ending!
The ADV Films interviews section of the DVD is funny, really worth a watch, and shows the zany creativity of ADV Films at the time.
Ah, the Netflix live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop! I was hoping you'd dedicate a video to it!
Proud to say I still have this on DVD.
It was the 2nd anime I ever bought.
I honestly can't remember if I first saw Colorful at an Anime convention, or if it was when I was visiting a friend of mine in the UK, and it was one of our late night binges. Either way, I still remember having a good time, even if I didn't understand all of the humor, and I'm glad to have some of those memories brought back from this review :)
We need the harem reviewer is trying to do the review of Girls! Bravo in January 2022.
Better break of whatever your strongest liqueur is for next episode.
Glad your still goin Sage. Love the videos and binge them on the weekends, Cheers!!!
I remember back when Colorful use to come on G4TV.
*Sees next episode premise.*
Stay strong Sage.
Things really go fast. Thanks for this episode, Sage.
Wow I literally just got done watching the last video you uploaded this Couldn’t of been more perfect timing!
Colorful looks both hilarious and yet off-putting.
I have to give it credit that the jokes you showed in English were perfectly timed.
For the next review...
Thank you for taking one for the team, Bennett.
I'm glad your back Bennett
Sage is better at hyping up his next project than the MCU is at this point.
Just the thought of what awaits next gives me shivers.
It's been a long time since I thought about Colorful. Very nice to see someone actually cover this thing! I watched it back in the mid 00s with zero context on Comcast. I had no idea it was produced as a segment for a sketch comedy show. I just thought at the time it was one of the dumbest anime I'd ever seen and anything it did well went over my head. I then wrote a highly unflattering review for this series on MAL back in 2015. I was doing a series of reviews reminiscing on the dumbest, obscure anime I'd ever watched. Now after all this time it's nice to try see Colorful from a different perspective!
I first found Colorful 10 years ago and fell in love with it immediately. ADV's behind the scenes featurette is also hilarious. Thanks for bringing it to people's attention. Also thanks for leaving out the funniest scene in the anime. People are going to get a kick out of it.
as a guy who does remember when anime was weird and misses it yeah I will happily check it out also good luck with the next video you going to need it be strong my fellow oldtaku
8:45 "Dude, you're walking home." Line of the episode.
Your review of excel saga brought me here. Yahtzee mentioned it, and drew me down to searching for the opening song and your review was part of that recommendation by youtube. Looking at your channel, and seeing colorful as one of more more recent reviews, made me feel at home.
Colorful was an anime I have never heard anyone else talk about outside of the circle of friends whom I have introduced it to, and your comparison of it to Liquid Television is spot on, as I am sure it took a lot of notes from that show just a couple years later when making it.
I am not a huge anime fan as most leave me sad that such labor given to the artwork isnt shared by the writing quality. However, the more inane examples of anime somehow shine more than the serious attempts.
Unless its the really artsy stuff like 'Catsoup' (sadly as obscure as colorful), then I skip most of it after an episode or so.
ADV may be much maligned, but during this period of 2000-2002, they were very much on fire. Excel saga, colorful, rah xephon, Last exile, to name merely a few examples... these made me hold out hope that anime had a future in the western world that wasnt a snide derision of what would be later known as weebo.
This review makes me mourn that new found hope I felt two decades ago.
As perverse and highly non-PC colorful is, even my prudish friends enjoyed it. Like the scene where the girl was staring at the guys zipper, hoping she could make it magically unzip with her mind... My friend Abby, notorious for her borderline quaker sexual expression, admitted immediately how accurate that was... lol Sexual repression is a funny thing.
Anyways, sorry for the long winded comment. It's the first time I have ever seen any other living being talk about it, so I had to engage a bit more than I otherwise normally would. Thanks for the reviews. I shall sub and look forward to more of your insight.
hahaha, i really wasn't expecting that last Netflix-Cowboy Bebop segment, a hint for a future review of the thing perhaps? X) . Great episode as always :)
Oh God Sage having to look at what they did to his boy. My heart goes out to you
Mustafa Shakir as Jet Black was the only good thing about Netflix's Cowboy Bebop...💯
I'm going to love this graceful dance Bennet is going to do for Netflix's abomination.
* sees preview * DON´T DO IT!!!!!
Because that's what I was asking for: a hundred more Netflix Cowboy Bebop hot takes
I knew what I was getting into when I saw which Anime you were reviewing.
Also you should review Girl's Bravo, that series is amazing and classic for that Pool episode.
I used to have a DVD with 5 minute clips of various anime, and this was one of them. I forgot all about it.
'Sees Outro'
Knuckles: Oh No!
Next time.... oh dear... oh dear.
My lasting memory of Colorful is one word long.... "Yamamoto!".... 😆
Oh my God I hadn't even finished watching the bebop remake, I liked the pilot OK but the last 10 minutes of it and now that screenshot of Edward has completely killed any fizz left. WOOF, go with god Benny.
I remember this being on TechTV back in the day.
Oh god I remember this during my Anime Unleashed days. Was also the same block I first discovered Rahxephon and......yeah the show with giant robots made a little bit more sense then this did lol.
You mention how people get into anime. I was always into cartoons since I was five or so, drawing stuff on any paper I could find, so I was watching all kinds of anime without knowing they were from Japan. Around 1994 I realized what it was I had always been watching, and started to draw it. That was because I loved specifically how they drew all the folds in the clothes and the great details they made in characters and backgrounds etc. Story, characters and themes all came later - it was all the way they created them aesthetically that first drew me towards anime/manga.
Starting off with a Girls Bravo clip...oh we going places boys
Til next time. Looking forward to it.
That's so unexpected, thank you Sage for taking the bullet on reviewing Fauxboy Bebop next.
Great ending!! ( leading up to, "Till Next Time"... ❗️😮 )
You're gonna carry that weight, Sage
You know what’s weird? I’m watching an FD Signifier video (about Bread Tube… go figure) and I noticed Bennett in a blurry ass video. I had NO clue you were apart of Channel Awesome. I DID know you are an originator of this CZcams shit and deserve FAR more subscribers/ recognition m, it I did not know that. Holy fuck. The man is a CZcams king.
I thought this was going to be a review of the anime film called colorful from 2010. I had that one on my list of films to see, so I left this video on my watch later list until now. Since I finally got around to watching that film yesterday, I figured I'd give this one a go today.
...this was not what I was expecting lol
Weird, yes indeed. Seems like I could watch it for the lulz in a great way.
And next time, I admit that I have put off the series not b/c of disinterest, hate, or anything. But I know you definitely have something to say about Netflix's Cowboy Bebop. See you soon, Oldtaku.
Dude don't do it, everyone I know that has watched the live action Cowboy bebop says it makes them like the anime less
WHY
It should be BACKWARDS?!
@@Ramsey276one leaves a badtaste is my guess, ie can't watch the anime anymore with out visions of the live action shit show.
@@MrHellknightimp OUCH
Ehhh...Bennett...did you put LSD in my coffe again while playing Kyuss in the background?...im not complaining
Damn, can't believe Suave is dead. I was hoping for a bit at the end but still a great video
Oh lawdy I NEED to see how the sage rips into Netflix cowboy bebop
I went cold when I heard Ed humming at the end of the episode... I swear I felt your pain right then.
The laughing man censor was a nice touch
You don't need to explain yourself Sage. I just need to hit that moment in your video where I realize I'm lost in my own stuff, then rewind. Then watch what you were actually talking about. I appreciate that about you.
Maybe one day I'll check this out.
The dub of this series is on both HIDIVE & (last time I checked) VRV. People who want to watch the sub version are S.O.L. I'm afraid. You'll either have to get the DVD or use other methods to see the sub version. I wish that this weren't the case since I try to stay out of the sub vs. dub wars as much as possible, but it is what it is. Side note: There's also an anime film called "Colorful" as well which is VERY different from this show so anyone who's seen this show MIGHT want to be careful if they hear the name "Colorful" come up in conversations about anime.
@11:19
And here I thought we'd see a reference to Psycho...
Two videos in less than a week AGAIN? Another gift from Bennett after becoming a married man. Molte grazie, fratello!
Couldn't have put it better in describing this hidden gem. That's one thing I love about older anime, they tried to be different moreso than just the same old homogenized stuff that would blend into each other in the more current seasons of anime. I'm happy to own this on DVD and to have seen it when it was first released in America. It kinda shaped my humor going forward from my highschool to college years.
Bless your soul if you're tackling rl Bebop.
Til next time!
You say that like there isn't interesting experimental stuff coming out or reams of bland trash back in the day. It's just that the cool interesting stuff is what stands out 2 decades later so that's all people associate with the period.
Oh the memories! XD
The mention of Steven Foster's name gave me Civil War flashbacks........ Ghost Stories. High School of The Dead. Tiddy bullets oh God!
Oh next week is going to hurt. Too bad Gabe is not here anymoer to at least offer emotional support.
Okay now, after seeing what's coming up next after this, I have to insistently reiterate:
Can we please do Gundamcember instead???
An example of how ADV dubbed it:
A politician is shown talking with no sound, then a shot of a cat laying on a couch.
The dub:
Politician: "I am not a crook!"
Cat: "No, you're a pussy!"
It seems appropriately bonkers, will seek it out.
RIP Cowboy Bebop.
Yes, this used to come on G4 back in the day
Fun Trivia: The Opening Singer is Yuko Miyamura, who voiced Asuka from Evangelion and Casca in Berserk 97. The Longer Haired College Guy was voiced by Guts's former Japanese VA Nobutoshi Canna while his dub is David Matranga (Tomoya from Clannad, Todoroki, Orphan).
Ahhhh, the good ol' days of ADV Films (A. D. Vision). They don't distribute anime like this like they used to. Feel that way about MVM (the UK distributor for Pioneer, Geneon releases)
I got this one out of an anime con mystery dvd bag
My Ranma fandom might be showing, but every time you say "Tickets to see Japan" I'm reminded of the episode where the protagonists participate in a competitive drama performance of Romeo and Juliet, only to win and find out that it's not China, the country, it's China, the celebrity that our pop culture ignorant heores have never heard of.
I haven't seen that one, but I do remember Cartoon Network's HiHi Puffy AmiYumi doing something similar where the girls are going to meet a fan (or potential love interest, I don't remember) and are gushing about him being from Paris, only for the reveal at the end to be that he's not from Paris, France but from Paris, Texas.
@@cannibalisticrequiem Actually it was Paris, Idaho.
It's really weird, cause I remember that one gag from HiHi Puffy AmiYumi clear as day. I didn't even watch that much of that show.
Now he needs to do the other Colorful anime, the one about suicide.
Dang this was buried in the memories next to Betterman.
Colorful is so strange and amazing that its refreshing in its take on... whatever its trying to do.
Dude i watched this back in the day on tech tv. It was great
I remember 1st watching Colorful on G4 Techtv
0:29 Anime Camera Angles That Save Your Life
XD
Mustache Benny looks like a 70s adult film star.
Godspeed, space cowboy...
this reminds me of if one of the Carry on Films became an anime
lol every time I saw an ad for 'Colorful' on one of my ADV dvds, my reaction was always "....what the f---k was that?" 😂but that E.T. bit made me LOL...maybe I will check it out afterall cause it seems funny....
When I first saw the notification I was "Oh shit, he's doing Colorful! I haven't seen that since the Comcast OnDemand/Starz anime days! I remember it being pretty funny" and watching through it, jogged my memory and of course, the skit that Bennett talks about at 11:08 came back and I was reminded of the transphobia along with the ace ventura cherry on top for reference -_-
Which is a normal reaction.
Anybody else remember seeing this on G4? Always wondered what it was called
Yes Bennett! Yes! Rip that abomination of a live action travesty to shreds! Obliterate it!
Yaaay!!! New, fun, interesting episode of one of the greatest shows evveerr on CZcamss, ... #AnimeAbandon ❗️😆🤘 🔥📺
11:23 - Good call.
I'm not sure how would you top Mother's Basement review of Netflix Bebop, that was a great review, but look forward to it
Can't wait for that Cowboy Bebop live action review. Perhaps Sage can articulate what we are all feeling.
Who are these we you are talking about. Not everyone in this fandom hates live action Cowboy Bebop so don't assume that everyone shares your opinion about it. Then again maybe you think you are Venom or something so you refer yourself "we" instead of "I".
Mother's Basement made an in-depth video talking about the general problems of the show.
@@Mecha82 Wow projecting much? Interesting that you can extrapolate such an assumption from literally nothing; at no point was there a comment about being for or against the show. However, it appears you have no interest in actual conversation or introspection about the show so it begs the question as to why you even watch Anime Abandon if you are so upset by the possible analysis of a popular franchise? By the way, the use of "we" is a common literary device in english to express inclusivity.
@@Mecha82 Why so defensive? Why make a comic book reference to Venom, where the hell'd that come from?
Besides, a majority does hate it, all the big CZcamsrs dislike it, and most of their fans agree.
No one's stopping you from liking the live-action version, it just proves you have shit taste. No different than how anime fans have shit taste.
Did you ever review Bubblegum Crisis 2040? I can't seem to find it if you did.
The pun humor is to hard to resist. This anime has it in spades.