Product Details

• Format: Animated, Box set, NTSC, Color, Widescreen
• Language: Japanese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Run Time: 300 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001F2U70A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,899 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Coyote Ragtime Show: Complete Box Set" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Coyote Dragtime Show, July 2, 2010

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Omnes - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Ragtime Show: Complete Box Set (DVD)

It's been several weeks since I watched this anime and I still can't believe how disappointed I am to have spent several hours watching a series that started on a great premise, which was a game of cat and mouse between two female detectives and a renowned space-pirate called Mister, but then became, as the episodes went on, a total failure.

Now I know this comment seems rude, when you consider this series' excellent visuals, whether in its color palettes, its character designs, its 3d compositing, and also in its animation as the animators experiment with their timing to produce some excellent intervals and takes, even going to animate, on certain episodes, their characters' mouths according to their dialogues and their syllables. Also, the studio responsible for all these great visuals, named Ufotable, once again present to us their excellent visual trademark in their end credits, as the characters are animated in stop-motion instead of the usual cell animation. In the end, this studio really knows how to make some great animation.

However, I wish that their writing staff had given the same quality to their scripts for I think they did a horrible mistake when they decided to go from the two detectives (Angelica and Chelsea) point-of-view to Mister's and his crew. Unlike Angelica and Chelsea, whose adventures in the first episode were great, Mister and his mates were uninteresting and incredibly stupid. Just like the reviewer E. Lacerna "Nicknamesbeststupid", I felt Mister and his friends were trying too much to be like Cowboy Bebop when they did not even had the talent or the intelligence Spike and his friends had.

Not only that, this anime had a storyline, which could have fitted over a few episodes, that the writers dragged on over twelve episodes. The whole series!
Instead of getting a condensed, but exciting adventure from Mister's jail break to the planet Graceland in just three or four episodes, the writers decided to show us the most boring details, which is Mister trying to get all his crewmates while bragging on about his ridiculous and naive ideals about the Coyote life, which seemed to me like a childish and naive vision on a pirate life without even considering the truthful and dangerous risks someone has to take when doing that kind of job. Not only that, the writers forced us to witness the other characters situations, whether it is Madame Marciano and her conflicts with her Criminal Guild, or Bruce Dochley's robbery during the fourth episode which was as a total waste of time that didn't even bring anything to the story.

Personally, I believe the writers should have completed their Graceland storyline in at least three or four episodes. So that after that, they could have showed us more adventures between Mister and his friends, while being pursued by Angelica Burns, but also living the consequences of their robbery on Graceland, not only with Lady Marciano's girls, after what they did to their mother in the finale, but also from the other political leaders with whom they got involved with. Also, if I had been one of the writer's, I would have tried to found another reason for Angelica Burns to pursuit Mister instead of the ridiculous reason she gives to her colleague Chelsea in the eleventh episode.

In the end, what started on as a great series in its first episode became, thanks to some incredible lack of seriousness in its writing, a disappointing Anime to its viewers, and a story that insults its very own characters, whom I believed never got to show their full potentials.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only 12 episodes, but you'll be on the edge of your seat the entire way!, May 25, 2009

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maskedgamer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Ragtime Show: Complete Box Set (DVD)

I'll start by saying that I watched this anime on a whim. I hadn't heard much about it, and what I did hear about it didn't make it seem worth the time. I finaly got the opportunity to check it out, and boy am I glad. Coyote Ragtime show is a serious action anime. It's like Oceans Eleven meets Cowboy Bebop meets Point Break. There is action every single step of the way. There are only 12 episodes in the series but they feel like they are an hour long each because so much happens in one episode. The story mainly focuses on a bandit named Mister and his quest to find the treasure of his long time friend.

The twist of the story is that he is a bandit seeking treasure, but this treasure he is after is really the inheritance that was left behind for the daughter of his late friend that whom was left to his care. Throughout the story you get to see that there is honor amongst these theives and that they value the bonds they share over the loot that they steal.

The anime artwork is excellent, and for the most part the characters have been portrayed very well. The plot is what makes coyote ragtime worth watching. In this anime you don't have the typical cop chase scenario. In this one it's a gang of bandits running from an overly obsessive federal agent, and a mad woman with her army of soldiers and android assasins. It's not so much a 12 episode gun chase seen, when you get to look at each character and the relationships they have with one another. My only problem with the anime is that it doesn't show much the motives behind the villian "Mother". She commands an endless army of troopers and android assasins, but you know little about where she came from or why she is doing what she does. She really is a mystery to the end. That was the biggest issue I had with the anime. Other than that it was a great series to watch. Mostly the Coyote gang get into impossible situations and your always asking yourself "how are they going to overcome this" as you sit through all 12 episodes. I really reccomend this if your looking for a good action anime. It's short, but for the action and story its well worth it!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Start, Ends in a Whimper, December 1, 2008

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E. Lacerna "nicknamesbestupid" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coyote Ragtime Show: Complete Box Set (DVD)

Let's start off by saying that the first episode of this show was absolutely brilliant. It had everything: an engaging setting, intriguing plot, intelligent (if slightly gluttonous) protagonist, spunky sidekick, and killer robot maids. The animation was wonderfully done, and the story's pace was smooth and quick. By the time the first episode ended, I was SALIVATING for more.

... and then, I watched the second episode. Everything fell apart after that.

The worst mistake the show made, in my opinion, was switching protagonists from the space detective Angelica to the space pirate/bandit/whatever Mister. If they had stuck with the former, then the show would have stayed in the wonderful sort of cat-and-mouse chase that the first episode pulled off so well. It would have been like a Lupin III, but in space. Instead, we get a show whose main cast (Mister and his band of merry cayote-outlaws) spending the entire series trying WAY too hard to be the Cowboy Bebop gang. After the brilliant first episode, the cast stops being smart, the plotlines veer off to somewhere between "irritatingly cliche" and "boring as hell," and the villains just get plain irksome.

If you have the money to spare, I suppose this set is worth it just to watch the great first episode, as well as seeing the Twelve Sisters in action. It's quite unfortunate, since it showed so much promise in the beginning.