Anime Rec Week: Day 2
Sep. 30th, 2008 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ingvildI'm going to cheat a little today, and rec two animes I haven't watched in a few years. I first watched them early in my anime watching career, and started watching them again recently, but got distracted by life and something shiny (Saturday's entry). So this is going to be fairly brief.
Cowboy Bebop
One of the classic must see animes, Cowboy Bebop is well known for its absolutely fantastic soundtrack. Every episode is named after one style of music, and the soundtrack for the episode is tailored to fit. There are 26 episodes and one movie which fits in between the later episodes. Most of them are standalone, although there is an underlying arc there, if I remember correctly.
It's about a bounty hunter crew living and working from an old space ship called the Bebop, about the bounties they hunt and their pasts. The art is great, the animation fluid and the characters interesting.
Witch Hunter Robin
Another 26 episode show, it begins with a "witch of the week" format and picks up a plotty storyline towards the middle of the show. The show sets up an interesting setting, about how there used to be a coven which disappeared, and now witches have to be kept under control for the good of the rest of the population.
The titular Robin is part of a group of hunters dedicated to tracking and subduing renegade witches. Over time, though, the viewer starts to develop more and more sympathy for these witches, and isn't Robin, with control over fire, one herself? Several of the people on the crew aren't quite what they seem either, and maybe the company itself isn't all that benevolent...
Cowboy Bebop
One of the classic must see animes, Cowboy Bebop is well known for its absolutely fantastic soundtrack. Every episode is named after one style of music, and the soundtrack for the episode is tailored to fit. There are 26 episodes and one movie which fits in between the later episodes. Most of them are standalone, although there is an underlying arc there, if I remember correctly.
It's about a bounty hunter crew living and working from an old space ship called the Bebop, about the bounties they hunt and their pasts. The art is great, the animation fluid and the characters interesting.
Witch Hunter Robin
Another 26 episode show, it begins with a "witch of the week" format and picks up a plotty storyline towards the middle of the show. The show sets up an interesting setting, about how there used to be a coven which disappeared, and now witches have to be kept under control for the good of the rest of the population.
The titular Robin is part of a group of hunters dedicated to tracking and subduing renegade witches. Over time, though, the viewer starts to develop more and more sympathy for these witches, and isn't Robin, with control over fire, one herself? Several of the people on the crew aren't quite what they seem either, and maybe the company itself isn't all that benevolent...
