It is a wonderful experience to watch Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door again. It has been years since I put all the original sounds into my mobile phone. No matter the TV version or the theatrical version, these soundtracks composed by yoko kanno (Jian Ye よぅぅ岹岹 o Kanno) have always accompanied me on the road. At the end of the film, when I heard the song "Gotta Knock a little harder" that I was familiar with, the pleasure of putting the last piece of the puzzle in the right place was really indescribable.
Cowboy Bebop, a TV animation produced in 1998, is 16 years old today, even if it was produced in 200 1 year, it is 13 years old. This is not an easy work to introduce, but it is an excellent work. It seems a little disrespectful to describe it as a "mashup" or "hodgepodge". But I think it doesn't matter, it's not a serious work that needs your "respect". However, when a work is about the meaning of memory and the value of life, no matter how casual and sloppy its expression is, you will naturally give birth to a respect from the bottom of your heart.
This respect is the reason why this Star Cowboy, which is a mix of various styles, has always stayed in my heart.
Cowboys & Cowgirls
The time is 207 1 year. At this time, human beings have expanded their living radius to the whole solar system by using the technology of Jumpgate (called ／Phase Difference Space Gates in the design). However, in 2022, a serious accident occurred when the space gate was built in near-earth orbit, which caused the whole earth to suffer serious radiation, so human beings had to move to various planets in the solar system through the space gate. With the birth of a new generation, human memory of the earth has gradually become indifferent. Immigrants from various planets gradually became independent new federations, and with the further polarization between the rich and the poor and the daily use of space jump technology, interstellar crimes began to rise. In order to cope with the increasingly prosperous crime trend, the Inter-Solar System Police introduced the Bounty Hunter system, and registered bounty hunters can get a reward by arresting criminals. Just as the word "bounty hunter" originated in the United States, these interstellar bounty hunters are also commonly known as "Cowboy".
Bounty hunters Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed: Edward Corgi Hau Pepe Lutiv, and a Ke Jiquan Ein)*** * all live on the spaceship Bebop. When Cowboy Bebop collided with Bop (also known as Bop), a jazz style that first appeared in 1928 and matured in the 1960s, which originated from Scat Singing and used a lot of Nonsense Syllable), it came into being.
The story of "The Leaf of Heaven" takes place between the 22nd episode of Cowboy Funk and the 23rd episode of Brain Scratch on TV. At this time, Fei, Ed and Ain haven't left the Bibop, and the combination of four people and one dog is still complete. While tracking down a computer hacker, Lee Sampson, Fei witnessed a mysterious man in a black coat detonating a tanker to spread the virus in the center of Alba City, Mars. After some investigation, the clue points to the biochemical weapons laboratory disguised as a pharmaceutical factory that created the nanovirus (actually a nanorobot that can replicate by using human cells), and the identity of the man in black gradually surfaced: Vincent Volaju, the only soldier who survived the nanovirus war in the Titan War. Losing all his memories, he robbed the nano-virus in revenge for mankind, with the intention of destroying the whole human being living on Mars.
In the investigation, Spike found the maker of the virus in Morocco Street, and now he has lived in seclusion because of remorse, and he is known as Dr. Mendelo al-Hedia, Rashid, and he learned that it was he who injected the anti-nano-virus vaccine into Vincent's body in order to control the virus. During several confrontations with virus manufacturing organizations, Spike got to know Vincent's former lover Elektra Ovirowa, and extracted her blood (Vincent injected his own blood into her without her knowledge) to make a vaccine.
On Halloween night, Spike and Vincent met on the Eiffel Tower in the city center. Vincent detonated a large number of Jack-O'-Lanterns with nano-viruses, while Jeter led a large number of retired old-fashioned planes (including the World War II plane named Faerie Swordfish II, which was piloted by Spike) to scatter vaccines into the air. After the two men fought with their bare hands to a tie, Erica arrived and confronted Vincent with a gun. Vincent finally remembered his lover and was killed by Erica voluntarily.