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Cowboy Bebop Vol.2 Honky Tonk Women [VHS]

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The second tape in Cowboy Bebop's series is a little more focused than the first, which is both a good and bad thing I suppose. In "Honky Tonk Woman," we're introduced to faye, the oh so sexy Lady Luck, who gives Spike, Jet, and pretty much everyone else in the episode a total headache. A case of mistaken identity draws Spike into Faye's desperate attempt to get out of gambling debt? All she has to do is get one chip, she's told, and he rdebts disappear. As usual in "Bebop," however. . .nothing's that easy. The second episode, "Gateway Shuffle," is a crackerjack action piece. A group called the Space Warriors has a plan to make perhaps the ultimate environmental statement . . .curing the bug in the system known as man. Faye, Spike and Jet are once again drawn together to thwart it. . .for money, of course. The show is by the numbers, but the quality is stand-out--the final fight in space (I won't spoil *why*) is fantastically paced an animated, and indicative of the quality that permetates every part of this show. And if the teaser for "Ballad of Fallen Angels" doesn;t make you want to run out and buy Tape #3, then you're just not paying attention.

Man, what a series. In this tape the crew of spaceship 'Bebop' try to increase their purse not by catching criminals, but by following a dream Jet has and going to a casino in space to try and gamble their way out of bankrupcy. It progresses into a space gun fight showdown over some serendipitous events as Spike and Jet's 'winnings' grow. The casino design is intense, the action explosive and the new character Faye is wonderful. Faye Valentine is the anime cheesecake with a believable personality; greedy, sweet, awkward at times, and intense at all times. The second episode is even more expansive as the boys start in an ultra upspace restaurant ordering the priciest meals while waiting for the perfect chance to nab their bounty who is eating nearby, then unfolds into a plot to spread a disease on Ganymede which would destroy the entire population, and this description isn't the half of it! Brilliant turns and resolve. DON'T MISS THIS ONE! Great for any action film or anime fan. Great music by Yoko Kanno, as always.

Well what can i say, you are drawn in by the first video and the second one goes right ahead and blows you away even more, if you liked the first one (which i know you did) you will love this one, great characters, great soundtrack and great storys, so what are you waiting for? but it!!

This is one of my favorite DVDs because it contains an episode with one of my favorite characters, Faye Valentine. In 'Honky Tonk Woman,' she makes a busty entrance as a woman in high debt. The key out of her debt is getting a microchip disguised as a Vegas poker chip. Low and behold, Spike and Jet go to the casino where Faye is. Why? Jet had a dream with Charlie Chaplin that advised him to go there. Spikes makes his encounter with Faye and chases and awesome scenes ensue.

In 'Gateway Shuffle' environmental radicalists threaten Ganymede and so comes Spike, Jet, and Faye to the rescue. This episode is ho hum compared to the other one, but that doesn't slow it down. Stick around near the ending to see the dazzling conclusion. It only gets better.

What can I say that all the other reviewers have'nt? This is one of the best Anime series around, full of eye-popping visuals and fantastic action sequences. This particular tape is one of the best in the whole Beebop series.

When I first picked up the box and saw a well-endowed anime chick on the cover, I groaned inwardly. "So how far into the episode will it be when that bannana yellow top goes flying off?" I thought. Thankfully, my fears were unwarranted. Faye Valentine is a character of whom feminists need not gnash their teeth over. She's strong, quick witted and uses her sexuality as a weapon rather than just as eye-candy. The first episode on the tape made my jaw drop. The seemless integration of CG and cell animation made the entire 30 minutes just pop with visual excitement. And the use of "hard sci-fi"-style spaceships and habitats that use rotation to provide gravity was a stroke of pure genius. The second episode was more of your traditional Western shoot-em' up but did not fail to deliver. There was an overall feeling of goofiness in the episode (I mean, who can take a terrorist with a stuffed seal on his head seriously?) that made it extremely enjoyable to watch and helped to contrast the tensions of bio-warfare.

This volume focuses on the introduction of one of the major cast, Faye Valentine. Featuring the voice talent of Megumi Hayashibara, those of you in the anime world would be familiar with this name. So far, no Hayashibara anime flick has disappoint me, so there, another reason to get this great series. Some people would be glad to know that Hayashibara does not use a cutesy ala Slayer voice in this series, she sounded more mature and probably that is what she would have sound, if she has a real voice that is :). I have said that this volume introduce a main cast, so you should not miss it if you are following the series.