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Here’s to reestablishing old habits.

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Art by Alariko

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Always glad to help!✨✨🔥

I scanned Extra Session book and added to my archives like... 2 years ago?.. I didn't pay close attention to the details but my follower Anastasiya (sorry tumblr can't find and tag you) analyzed Spike's bio and asked about his past. Well, I was surprised to find out something about his parents, even if it didn't make it to the final version of the show. Automatic translation of complicated text sucks, so I asked @nanairoarts, as a native speaker, for help 🤩

Born on Mars, he’s 27 years old, born June 26, 2044. His sign is Gemini, blood type O. 185cm tall, he hates being bossed around (told what to do) and likes to solve problems using his own strength (power). He worships Bruce Lee, uses nunchaku and is a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do. Former member of the Red Dragon organization. This is his background during the planning stage (of the project). His father worked in the underworld (they don’t really specific, but I assume it’s akin to the mafia like yakuza, or perhaps gangs and gangsters), but was already dead by the time Spike was born. Spike’s mother was killed during a conflict between organizations (a gang war) when he was 10, but Spike was told that she died in a transit accident (it doesn’t say by whom). He joined Red Dragon when he was 17, where he met Vicious, who was the same age. They became rivals. He also met Julia, Vicious’ girl, at the same time when he showed up wounded at a bar she worked at. Though she didn’t know him at the time, she hid him from his pursuers. In the middle of all this, Spike is given a job to assassinate the boss of an Arabian mafia. If successful, he will be named second in command of the Red Dragon organization. However, Spike didn’t like being tied down and he doesn’t like the organization’s customs. Also, after learning the truth about his mother’s death, he decides to run away from the mafia with Julia. However, Julia never shows up at the agreed location and Spike’s whereabouts are unknown for the next 3 years.

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A relaxing flipthrough of the first Cowboy Bebop artbook.

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Excerpt from Cowboy Bebop: The Jazz Messenger - History (translation below)

Planets テラフォーミング 地球以の惑星を人類が住めるよう "地球化" してしまう技術である。 その実現にはケタ違いの資材、 ケタ違いの作業時間が必要とされ、とても現実的なものではなかった。 しかし位相差空間ゲートが開発されたことで資材の運搬が容易となり、 その実現はさほど困難ではなくなった。また、位相差空間ゲートに太陽光線を通過させることで光源を確保できることになり、より地球から遠い惑星にも移住が可能になったのである。 以下の惑星/衛星は、 テラフォーミング技術の成果で人類が移住可能となった星々である。

Planets

Terraforming is a technology to transform planets other than the Earth into environments similar to Earth so that humans can live on them. The use of such technology requires an inordinate amount of material and time, and, therefore, very unrealistic. However, the development of the hyperspace gate made the transportation of materials easier, and thus the application of such technology much less difficult. Moreover, by sending sunlight through the hyperspace gate, a reliable source of light was secured, making it possible for humans to migrate to planets farther away from the Earth.

The following planets/satellites are now inhabited by humans because of terraforming technology.

Venus 金星 都市から砂漠地帯まで惑星全土にわたって居住可能。 人口約5億。 2~3気圧・気温31~35度。空中に浮遊しているのはテラフォーミングのためにつくられた巨大植物プラント。【「ワルツ・フォー・ヴィーナス」のラストで出てくる街並みは、渡辺監督の意向で中近東風のものになったそう。また、設定では「ビバップ」世界の言語は英語と中華系が中心なのだが、 各惑星ごとに微妙にかたよりがあり、 金星ではアラビア語が多い】

Venus

Every part of the planet is inhabitable, from its deserts to its cities. Venus has a population of 500 million, atmospheric pressure of 2 to 3, and temperatures that range from 31 to 35 degrees Celsius. Floating in the sky is a giant plant that was created to terraform the planet. (The cityscape that appears at the end of Waltz for Venus was designed according to Watanabe’s personal vision of a Middle Eastern city. Additionally, the world language in the story setting for Bebop is mainly English and Chinese, but there are slight variations on every planet with the inhabitants of Venus usually speaking Arabic.)

Notes: I'm not entirely sure about the translation for the atmospheric pressure of Venus, but there is no unit in the Japanese text, so it's just been translated as is.

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Visual development for Lilo & Stitch by Paul Felix

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Concept paintings that I did for a deleted scene in Across the Spiderverse. In this deleted scene, Miles follows Gwen to a Brooklyn construction site where he meets Miguel for the first time. I believe this scene was released yesterday as a special feature called "Miguel Calling."

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Visual development for Tarzan (1999) by John Watkiss

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Cowboy Bebop Opening and Ending Theme Credits

I had someone ask about this on YouTube and figured I may as well share the information here too.

テレビシリーズオープニングテーマ: Tank! 作曲/編曲:菅野よう子 演奏:シートベルツ 原画:そえたかずひろ　小森高博　後藤雅巳　今掛勇 作画監督:川元利浩 後藤雅巳 演出:渡辺信一郎 コンピュータ処理:レアトリックチャッピィ テレビシリーズエンディングテーマ: THE REAL FOLK BLUES 作詞:岩里祐穂 作曲/編曲:菅野よう子 唄:山根麻以 演奏:シートベルツ 原画:逢坂浩司 作画監督:川元利浩 演出・渡辺信一郎 コンピュータ処理:レアトリックチャッピィ

TV Series Opening Theme: Tank!

Composed/Arranged: Yoko Kanno Music: Seatbelts Keyframes: Kazuhiro Soto, Takahiro Komori, Masami Goto, Isamu Imakake Animation Director: Toshihiro Kawamoto & Masami Goto Director: Shinichiro Watanabe CG Effects: Raretrick, Chappy (Chappie? This company does not appear to exist anymore)

TV Series Ending Theme: THE REAL FOLK BLUES

Lyrics: Yuho Iwasato Composition/Arrangement: Yoko Kanno Vocals: Mai Yamane Music: Seatbelts Keyframes: Hiroshi Osaka Animation Director: Toshihiro Kawamoto Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe CG Effects: Reatrick, Chappy

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Bedtime sketch from Pinterest.

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Excerpt from Cowboy Bebop: The Jazz Messenger - History (translation below)

GATE 位相差空間理論に基づき、 位相差空間に進入/ 航行を可能にしたのが位相差空間ゲートである。 位相差空間とは異次元空間のようなもので、この空間内をつないだゲートを通ることで太陽系内の移動時間が飛躍的に短縮できるようになった。また、太陽光線を遠くの惑星まで照射することもできるようになり、各惑星の地球化(テラフォーミング)も可能になったのだ。 通常空間から位相差空間を航行している宇宙船を見ると、光の点減が走り去っているように見え、とくにゲート付近ではその光が尾を引き、帯となって見える。また、通常空間を航行する宇宙船と位相差空間を航行する宇宙船は、それぞれが見えていながら、違う空間に存在しているため、交わっても接触することはない。 【そもそもゲートの発想は、 メカデサイン時、 太陽系内を短時間で移動するための新動力を考えているときに生みだされたものだそう。 また、ゲートのラフデザインは設定協力の河森正治が描き、 具体的なデサインおよびCGエフェクト監修はセットデサインの今掛勇が行なった】

GATE

Developed based on the Phase-space Theory1, the hyperspace gate is what allows ships to enter and navigate phase-space.

Phase-space is like an alternate dimension, and by passing through gates connected to this dimension, travel times to distant parts of the solar system are reduced drastically. This gate also made it possible to transmit sunlight to distant planets, making terraforming an option for as yet uninhabitable planets.

When looking at a ship traveling from normal space into  phase-space, it appears as a vanishing point of light. For those closer to the gate, this point of light stretches into a tail that looks like a band. Additionally, both ships traveling through normal space and phase-space can see one another, however, as they exist in two different dimensions, even if they intersect, they will never come into contact with one another.

[We came up with the idea for this gate during the mecha design process while brainstorming new propulsion systems for rapid travel within the solar system. The rough design of the gate was created with the help of Shoji Kawamori, while the specifics of the design, as well as the CG effects, were created by the Set Designer Isamu Imakake.]

(1:Upon further investigation into the Japanese term 位相差空間, I found a wiki page (only available in Japanese) that talks about phase space in physics where a space in which the coordinates (orthogonal axes) are the position and momentum of a dynamical system. The term phase space is also mentioned in the Hamiltonian mechanics Wikipedia article, which goes into the mathematics of the equations used in Hamiltonian mechanics. Uhhh, I can’t math, but I couldn’t find any direct mention of this being applied to space travel, although it is categorized under Industrial and applied mathematics. On a whim, however, I put phase space theory into Google, and found an English article for that which states that phase space is a space in which all possible "states" of a dynamical system or a control system are represented, with each possible state corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. My art and humanities degree does not allow me to process anymore information other than this. But I think the translation I’ll use for 位相差空間理論 is Phase-space Theory.)

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Excerpt from Cowboy Bebop: The Jazz Messenger - History (translation below)

HISTORY 西暦2022年、地球上空で開発中の位相差空間ゲートが大爆発を起こしたとき、すべては始まった。 爆発に巻き込まれた月の破片が地球に振りそそぎ、放射線汚染と環境の変化でもはや地表に人類は住めなくなってしまった。残された人類は地下シェルターでの生活を余儀なくされ、そこに入りきれない人々はほかの惑星へと移住せざるを得なくなった。幸い、研究段階にあったテラフォーミング技術が位相差空間ゲートにより実現のメドがたち、皮肉にも、人類はゲートにより地球から放り出され、ゲートによって地球以外の惑星で生活できるようになったのである。 国家は、なしくずし的になくなり、人種は入り乱れた。 西暦は終わり、宇宙暦が始まった。 時が経つにつれ、各惑星や衛星は独立国家へと姿を変え、 経済も徐々に復興し始める。スパイクたちの乗るような小型の宇宙船も、ぞくぞくと市場に出回ることになった(要免許) そのかたわらで経済格差も広がっていき、スラム街も増え、犯罪は増加の一方をたどっていく(とくに宇宙暦初頭は法もロクに整備されておらず、犯罪組織が暗躍する時代でもあった)。 激増する犯罪に対抗するため、各惑星はついに太陽系刑事警察機構（I. S. S. P. = Inter Solar System Police）を設立、国家を超えた犯罪者に立ち向かうと同時に、賞金制度を設け、賞金稼ぎに対して超法規的措置（犯罪者をとらえるためなら多少の違法行為も帳消しにされる)をとることも決定した。 ゲート事故から50年、「ビバップ」はそんな混沌とした時代の物語である。

HISTORY

It all began in the year 2022, when a catastrophic explosion ripped apart a hyperspace gateway(*1) under construction in Earth's orbit.

Caught in the blast of the large explosion, pieces of the moon rain down onto the surface of the earth, rendering the planet uninhabitable due to widespread environmental destruction and radioactive contamination. What remained of humanity was forced to live underground in shelters. Those that could not find room in these shelters, were forced to migrate off-world. Luckily, the terraforming technology that was still in its research phase gained traction after the hyerspace gateway incident. Though it was the destruction of the gate that had forced humans from Earth, it was thanks to this very same technology that humans were able to establish a new life on planets beyond Earth.

Nations ceased to exist, and the races of old Earth began to mix.

And so ended use of the Western Gregorian calendar in favor of the Space calendar(*2).

Over time, each planet and satellite became its own independent nation and the economy began to recover. Smaller spaceships, like the one used by Spike and his crew, flood the market in droves (license required).

At the same time, economic inequality was rampant, there were more slums, and crime continued to rise (especially in the early years of the Space calendar when there were few laws in place and criminal organizations thrived).

In response to the surge in crime, the I.S.S.P (Inter Solar System Police) was established on every planetary body to fight against these interplanetary criminals. At the same time, a bounty system was implemented that granted bounty hunters extrajudicial power (which allowed the execution of any illegal acts committed in the process of apprehending criminals).

The story of Bebop takes place during this chaotic era, 50 years after the hyperspace gateway incident.

*1: I think a closer translation for the Japanese word for this gate, 位相差空間ゲート, would be phase shift gate, as that seems to be the scientific phenomenon referred to with the Japanese name, however, since your average viewer likely doesn't know what ‘phase shifting’ is, I understand why translators would go with a more localized term like ‘hyperspace’ or ‘astral gate’.

*2: I couldn’t find any references for how 宇宙歴 is translated in the English version. It’s possible the term was avoided altogether if it never showed up in dialogue.