It's quite unfortunate, since it showed so much promise in the beginning.įun Drinking Game: Down a shot whenever Mister or one of his gang puts on a stupid, goofy grin. 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. 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. 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. It would have been like a Lupin III, but in space. in the wonderful sort of cat-and-mouse chase that the first episode pulled off so well. If they had stuck with the former, then the show would have stayed The worst mistake the show made, in my opinion, was switching protagonists from the space detective Angelica to the space pirate/bandit/whatever Mister. By the time the first episode ended, I was SALIVATING for more. The animation was wonderfully done, and the story's pace was smooth and quick. It had everything: an engaging setting, intriguing plot, intelligent (if slightly gluttonous) protagonist, spunky sidekick, and killer robot maids. Let's start off by saying that the first episode of this show was absolutely brilliant.
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