The more you watch, the less sense it makes.Give me that old bullets and bank heists ragtime show. If you’ve never seen Coyote Ragtime Show, do yourself a favor, and check it out. Talk about a good way to turn your potential audience off. Just lots of gun battles, space battles, and other randomness. It’s deep, sweet, and full of great characters. It is, first and foremost, a story about family, keeping your promises, and staying true to who you are. Any more than the action makes it an action series. The visuals and imagery do not tell you anything, and make it look like either a bad action show, or a comedy.ĭon’t get me wrong, Coyote is often funny, but it isn’t a comedy. The opening music is, appropriately enough, “COYOTE” by Naoki with Power Sound. He was Telligory in Le Chevalier D’Eon, and I’ve been a fan every since. The only reason I ended up giving it a go was because Funimation dubbed it, and John Swasey was playing Mister. I know, for several years, I passed on it, because the title and OP made me think it was gonna be something completely different than what I got. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it tells you so little, it might actually make you think the show is something else entirely. ![]() The OP, however, tells you exactly jack and shit in terms of what the hell this show is about. It’s a hell of a ride, that really, truly, sticks the landing. The treasure is not what you think, and Mister is way more than just a pirate. ![]() It’s awesome, fun, silly, and heartwarming. Along the way, every cop, crook, and politician in the galaxy is out to either stop them, catch them, or get there first, what with there being millions just waiting to be grabbed, and a very short time to grab it before the whole planet goes kablooey.Ĭoyote Ragtime Show is a classic caper, wrapped in a pirate story, set in space. Next thing Franca knows, she’s on Mister’s ship, The Coyote, as they haul ass for planet Graceland, which is about to get blown to shit. Bruce then secreted the haul away on planet Graceland (yes, really), in a vault that only he could break into, because it was an exact replica of the vault he’d stolen all the money from in the first place. Which would be the millions Bruce stole from a bank that was, allegedly, impossible to steal from. He bee lines from there to the Franca, daughter of his former captain, Bruce, because Bruce made him promise that if anything ever happened to him, Mister would make certain that Franca got her inheritance. The story follows a notorious space pirate known only as Mister, due to his countless aliases making it impossible to be sure who he really is, as he is accidentally released from prison. I guess the best way to say it is that it isn’t what they do, it’s how they do it. Which… is actually kind of hard to explain, since nothing about it is original. Running 12 episodes, and coming from studio ufotable, the gang behind Fate/Zero, and a few other shows that probably flew under everyone’s radar, it’s easily one of the more original animes out there. Because they are terrible.Ĭoyote Ragtime Show is an original work of fiction, not based on a preexisting manga, released in 2006. Which the OP, and the title, will make you doubt strongly. I’d stack it up against Cowboy bebop any day of the week in terms of how awesome, well made, and just generally enjoyable it is as a piece of fiction. ![]() Probably one of the best sci fi animes out there. Coyote Ragtime Show is a fucking GREAT anime. Ya know, there’s something I want to address first, before we get into this OP, and all the ways it fails. We all know that, of course, and like many of you, I often find myself wondering just what blend of pot the crew was smoking hen they thought an OP was a good representation of their show.Īgain, I must point to Coyote Ragtime Show for a perfect example of this. The second thing, of course, is OP’s that, while they may be pretty, or have good music, don’t tell you a single damn thing as to what the show is about. What the hell kind of name is that? Even if you’ve seen the entire series, only a third of that makes any kind of sense. I mean, you guys have noticed that there’s a lot of anime out there with titles that give you entirely the wrong idea as to what it’s about, right?įor example, Coyote Ragtime Show. The first being the rather terrible naming that many shows get. There’s two things that, as an anime fan, you kind of end up getting use to.
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