You may have noticed but Spikes right eye is a different color than his left eye, just like the cat that Pierrot saw while being experimented on. Pierrot seeing Spikes different color eyes is what causes him to hesitate in that final scene.
2:03 that's a really sick animated depiction of bulletproof glass getting damaged. You can feel the physics of it. Little details like that. 90s Sunrise was next level.
This entire episode is a loving tribute to Batman: The Animated Series. It's quite an honor for an eastern animation studio to pay tribute to western animation. This was also clearly one of the highest budget episodes of the series; you can see it in all the top tier animation. Dark, gothic, drab city. Old school, art deco (dark deco) style atmospheres and props. A villain clearly influenced by the Joker and the Penguin. The final showdown taking place in a deserted amusement park is exactly how Batman: TAS would handle a Joker episode. Real recognizes real.
So much of Cowboy BeBop was a "love letter" to American media. This episode is heavily influenced by Batman the Animated Series. The villain is a mashup of Joker and Penguin, but it was also animated in the color on black of Batman: TAS where they used black paper to illustrate on rather than white, so the shadows were more prominent, and darkness was default. Hence in that series, and parts of this episode (beginning for example), they'd animate the positive on negative, rather than the default negative on positive.
One of my favorite episodes of Cowboy Bebop.
You may have noticed but Spikes right eye is a different color than his left eye, just like the cat that Pierrot saw while being experimented on. Pierrot seeing Spikes different color eyes is what causes him to hesitate in that final scene.
SPOILERS BRO! let them get it
@@__shiftythis show came out 27 years ago bro
2:03 that's a really sick animated depiction of bulletproof glass getting damaged. You can feel the physics of it.
Little details like that. 90s Sunrise was next level.
This entire episode is a loving tribute to Batman: The Animated Series. It's quite an honor for an eastern animation studio to pay tribute to western animation. This was also clearly one of the highest budget episodes of the series; you can see it in all the top tier animation. Dark, gothic, drab city. Old school, art deco (dark deco) style atmospheres and props. A villain clearly influenced by the Joker and the Penguin. The final showdown taking place in a deserted amusement park is exactly how Batman: TAS would handle a Joker episode. Real recognizes real.
Great episode. That dude is really unsettling.
He's like a mix of batman villains! The Penguin, The Mad Hatter and The Joker
I've always said that this episode through the entire series you never see Spike this outmatched and terrified of an opponent.
Faye’s not selfish, she’s just been betrayed by everyone in her life. Self-preservation drives her actions
So much of Cowboy BeBop was a "love letter" to American media. This episode is heavily influenced by Batman the Animated Series. The villain is a mashup of Joker and Penguin, but it was also animated in the color on black of Batman: TAS where they used black paper to illustrate on rather than white, so the shadows were more prominent, and darkness was default. Hence in that series, and parts of this episode (beginning for example), they'd animate the positive on negative, rather than the default negative on positive.
masterpiece
the Project Blue Book... 👽
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