Cowboy Bebop, Volume 2

by Yutaka Nanten and Hajime Yatate

Bound by convenience, driven by woolongs and usually on the verge of starvation, the Bebop crew may or may not get their bounty but they pursue it with vigour and tenacity, or at least that's what an MBC TV producer wants to see when she does a story on them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931514488
• ISBN13: 9781931514484
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: TokyoPop
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 17 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Brazilian half-volume, manga half-sliced (rating: 87%)

First some introduction to my situation. This would really be just a first impression because... Here in South America we are STARTING to buy manga the way you find them in USA or Japan. Brazilian editorials are the biggest players in manga, but in an attempt to compete with comix, they split in two parts all the volumes for more frequent distribution and lower prices. Cowboy BeBop Manga has 3 three volumes? Here, they are 6. I have the 3rd Brazilian half-volume (which would be the first half of the 2nd volume). When I saw it in the shop, I just didn't think twice like most other mangas, left it there as I thought so other could buy it and I could stay sleepless over the night. I bought this one impulsively. As a Cowboy BeBop fan, I saw myself excused. I guess that, like half-volumes, my excuse got sliced half too. The half-volume only had the first two chapters, and they kind of fell short in terms of deepness or entertainment, unlike the anime counterpart were I can hardly think of two or three bad sessions. "She's a Rainbow" and "Great Deceiver" aren't so well developed stories. They are good ideas and, with the proper work, they would've been great sessions for the anime series, but the magician didn't show up for the birthday. You know what I think now when I see that Hajime Yatate wrote the scripts? I think they thought Yutaka Naten would pick them up and develop them further, maybe trade some notes with the supervisor, Shinichiro Watanabe (director of the anime series, but you probably know that by now), to get the taste of the series. Once again, hope sliced half. Seemed like Shinichiro wasn't there to make it work. Drawing was good overall, characters were well reproduced in general and props and ships were of excellent quality, but some things also left me somehow confused. Spike and Jet seemed like a poor excuse of needing to have defined lips, they're supposed to be more manly. That didn't made them look so good, so guess I prefer the anime orginal design. However, Ed, Ein, Faye, and background characters seem like a really nice one, the best portrays of the manga, although Faye's head sometimes seemed too thin. Now, the bad slice is... The drawing style. You know, two of my anime favorites are "Cowboy BeBop" and "Patlabor, The Mobile Police". Why? A reason among the crowd was because they had their degree of realism on the face expressions, comic but realist. If someone got ashamed or startled, they would draw their faces as if most of the times. In this manga, some times this example was followed, while some other times drawing made it clear to you that generic manga expressions like "point-eyes", "rainbow-eyes", and "cheek-lines" don't work with the Cowboy BeBop characters most of the time, only with Ed (too bad she rarely appeared here). As a breakthrough series, Cowboy BeBop should have been more distant to the mainstream style which certainly didn't fit too well, as some scenes are even too chaotic this way. And please, th

aswome

This is the 2nd volume of the cowboy bebop manga series.this one has 5 stoies and very funny as well this one has all the main characters including ed and ine.its asome and i recomend it to all of you. it may be hard reading it right to left and if you seen cowboy bebop youll love this. see ya cow boy

Bang...

the book delivers the exact thing the show does. Its great. Although the plot lines arent great in the book if you love the bebop than youl love thews stories

Great for all Bebop and Manga Fans

In case you haven't noticed, one of the greatest animes ever, Cowboy Bebop had come out in manga form with all new stories. The second volume is very good and funny, while keeping the Cowboy Bebop spirit. This features, of course, Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed and Ein. It is read in true manga form, right to left which can be a problem if your not used to it. There are 5 stories in this edition, all are good in their own right. But the last one is most Bebop-like (featuring Spike, broke, and following a raven haired girl with an old guitar looking for a bounty. It has a twist at the end.). I suggest you at LEAST look at it, and I recommend buying it.Later Space Cowboy