Cowboy Bebop - The Perfect Sessions (Limited Edition Complete Series Boxed Set)

Starring:Aoi Tada, Gara Takashima, Norio Wakamoto, Miki Nagasawa, Tsutomu Tareki, Takehiro Koyama, Hitoshi Hirao, Akihiko Nakajima, Hiroshi Naka, Renee Stevens, Peter Emshwiller, BÃ©rangÃ¨re Jean, William Bassett, Tom Fahn, Bill Whizins, Thomas Cooper (III), Edward Kramer, Patricia Ja Lee, Michael McConnohie, Mike Reynolds
Director: ShinichirÃ´ Watanabe
Studio: Bandai
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video
Each of the snazzy 25-minute installments from the most popular Japanese animated TV series of 1998 is a satisfying adventure tale about a futuristic hipster bounty hunter. This is an 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 (in the first of 26 episodes, 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 freelance hunter with an ex-cop sidekick named Jet, a loopy fellow hunter named Faye, a teenage computer hack, and a genetically enhanced Welsh corgi assistant in tow. The emphasis is on clever twists of plot in an episodic short-story format with as many wisecracks as punches being thrown. --David Chute
Description
Meet Spike and Jet, a drifter and a retired cyborg cop. They've formed a partnership in a bounty hunting enterprise that specializes in adventure and cash. Using an old converted fishing ship called the Bebop, with the help of the intelligent data dog, Ein, the mysterious and vexing femme fatale, Faye Valentine, and Ed, the genius hacker -- Spike and Jet scour the galaxy to clean up space, one bounty at a time.

* Considered one of the best anime of all time in both Japan AND the United States. * Cowboy Bebop is now available as a special DVD collection box set that contains all six DVD's from Cowboy Bebop packaged with the Cowboy Bebop Original Soundtrack CD in a collectors box.

Cowboy Bebop - The Perfect Sessions (Limited Edition Complete Series Boxed Set)
Average customer rating:

Just, grate.

A great show that is almost impossible to get legitimately

Put Your Fears to Rest, This DVD set is Amazing!

oh yeah baby, yeah1!!

Limited Edition is not in print - beware of cheap 3 disc set

Cowboy Bebop - The Perfect Sessions (Limited Edition Complete Series Boxed Set)
Starring: Aoi Tada , Gara Takashima , Norio Wakamoto , Miki Nagasawa , and Tsutomu Tareki
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Manufacturer: Bandai
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005QCW4
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Amazon.com essential video

Each of the snazzy 25-minute installments from the most popular Japanese animated TV series of 1998 is a satisfying adventure tale about a futuristic hipster bounty hunter. This is an 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 (in the first of 26 episodes, 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 freelance hunter with an ex-cop sidekick named Jet, a loopy fellow hunter named Faye, a teenage computer hack, and a genetically enhanced Welsh corgi assistant in tow. The emphasis is on clever twists of plot in an episodic short-story format with as many wisecracks as punches being thrown. --David Chute

Description

Meet Spike and Jet, a drifter and a retired cyborg cop. They've formed a partnership in a bounty hunting enterprise that specializes in adventure and cash. Using an old converted fishing ship called the Bebop, with the help of the intelligent data dog, Ein, the mysterious and vexing femme fatale, Faye Valentine, and Ed, the genius hacker -- Spike and Jet scour the galaxy to clean up space, one bounty at a time.

Customer Reviews:

Just, grate........2007-06-13

I got it right on time. The dvd's where not opened (new set) I would buy from this guy any time.

A great show that is almost impossible to get legitimately.......2007-06-05

Ok, so Cowboy Bebop is a great show. Here's the deal. The sellers who are selling this new are selling you a bootleg. The set simply isn't being manufactured anymore. The real thing has 7 discs all together 6 DVDs, and 1 Audio CD. The sets that sre being sold here (unless they are used and expensive) are usually 3 discs, maybe 4 or 5 if they throw in a copy of the movie, and the soundtrack. So, please be aware of this. I wasn't when I went into this, and wound up with a $50 bootleg.

So, what does that mean for you, the person who wants the show, but doesn't want to sign over their firstborn? Well, the set isn't too bad. The episodes are compressed down to 9 per disc. Some people have complained about the video, or audio. I found it pretty good! If your trying to watch this on your whiz-bang 90 bajillion inch HDTV, then I'm sure you'll notice some artifacting, and things like that. But then you can probably afford to shell out a minimum of $125 (or $350 for the legitimate Perfect Sessions) for a 26 episode TV show. For the rest of you the video is of suprising quality as is the audio. The languages, and subtitles are intact.

I'll admit that I am somewhat morally conflicted over this. The people who created the show deserve to be compensated for it. But I feel that I paid a fair price ($49, when it's as cheap as $25) and that if Bandai was REALLY that interested in milking a few more bucks out of me they'd make a less expensive set. Just be sure that you get the FX copy, and you'll be ok.

Put Your Fears to Rest, This DVD set is Amazing!.......2007-05-29

If you've been looking at the price suspiciously as I did, and you've read the reviews here and there about these being shoddy bootlegs, put your fears to rest. Sure these may be made by some pis-ant company in China, but the quality is fine, great even. This is an incredible deal, the ENTIRE series starting at about $25! (I don't use exclamation points lightly). In your copy there might be a discruntled pixle in an episode or two, but for the price I think that is well worth the risk. I'm sure I don't need to tell you how great this series is, the real concern is about the quality of the DVD's themselves. They're awsome.

oh yeah baby, yeah1!!.......2007-05-21

oh, im so excited. i love cowboy bebop!! three discs, great quality, but I dont think that subtitles can be turned off. Comes in english, japanese with english subs, english with japanese subs. Nothing wrong here, perfect, loved it, great series, lots of shoot em up and great story line. Get it!!

Limited Edition is not in print - beware of cheap 3 disc set.......2007-04-18

First of all, Cowboy Bebop is an amazing collection of animation. The stories and characters are very involving. I originally caught an episode on Adult Swim and was hooked, so I had to get the whole set.

Cowboy Bebop has been released on DVD in many different versions. Beware or you will not get what you expect. The original series was first released on 6 individual discs. These are available used. Later, The Perfect Sessions 6 DVD boxed set was released in limited quantities at an MSRP of $250. Each box is numbered. These are no longer available for sale except on auction sites. Cowboy Bebop Remix is the a 6 DVD set containing a Dolby surround remix of the original audio.

A cheaper, 3 disc set was created and released in Asia. This is the set you find commonly offered for sale for $20 or less. Compressing 6 DVDs worth of material onto 3 discs involves large amounts of compression so many people are disappointed when they pay $20 and expect a $250 set. You get what you pay for! If you want quality, spring for the 6 DVD set.

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