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Cowboy Bebop - The Perfect Sessions (Limited Edition Complete Series Boxed Set)
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Actors: Aoi Tada, Gara Takashima, Norio Wakamoto, Miki Nagasawa, and Tsutomu Tareki
Rated: Unrated
Retail Price (not our price): $199.98
Release Date: 2001-11-20
Studio: Bandai
Run Time: 650 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 6


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) 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

2) 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.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Buyer Beware!   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
This item as listed does not actually exist anymore. The Perfect Sessions was a limited edition set that came in a very nice box, each of which was numbered by the manufacturer. I found this out the hard way after I ordered it and got a bootleg. The chances are very likely that any seller claiming to have this item is, in fact, only selling bootlegs with very bad MPEG video quality.Amazon should really remove this listing from their service so that no more affiliates can con people like they are.But as luck would have it, there is finally a real complete series box set out now. Go get the Anime Legends Cowboy Bebop remix.

2) Argh so many words!!!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is the epitome of anime and the only series in this questionable animation sub-category that has any cinematic merit. It is the only reason that anime has any reason for existing and comprises a majority of the very few DVDs I own (unsurprisingly, the keyword "Firefly" pretty much covers the rest of my collection).After watching Cowboy Bebop, I spent a disproportionate amount of time looking for another anime that could, perhaps duplicate its achievement, but so far I haven't even been able to come up with a close second.Even if you hate anime, people and small fluffy kittens you should at least try watching this show.

3) Beebop is Faublous   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
We watched this on cartoon network for a while, mostly out of sequence, and it is great to get it all together, and to be able to see the over-arcing storyline. What can I say - The characters, the scifi (for which I'm a nut), the music, the wicked fight scenes... I could go on, but truly, just watch it for yourself, and enjoy!

4) "Bebopin' and scatin' all over the place!"   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Simply stated, this is a great anime series. Im not a big fan of anime, but I must say I was really turned onto this one. It captures you, drags you in and you'd be crazy to resist! The character development is amazing, you feel alot for the characters. It's funny, it's serious, it's cute, it's romantic, it's devastating, it's great! It's best to start anime from the beginning too, because otherwise you'll be lost forever and never understand anything, so I'd really recommend just picking up this inexpensive portal to good times and great watchin'!

5) Awesome   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
You can read all about the actual series in the many glowing reviews, and I completely agree.This is by far the best thing Ive watched on television, period.I just wanted to comment on the actual package I got delivered. Its all four dvds in a single case.I was expecting a box set, and this tiny package came in the mail today.That just makes me like it that much more, as I have very little room in my DVD collection to spare.Im now going to waste hours going through this series every night for probably the next week.