Cowboy Bebop PS2 Game Turned Into Mini-Movie By Fans

If you’re an English-only fan of Cowboy Bebop chances are you haven’t seen all there is to the series. Sure, you own the anime and the movie, maybe even the manga, but have you played the PS2 game? Well, now you don’t have to.

The game, subtitled Tsuioku no Serenade (Serenade of Reminiscence, yes, for real,) was released in Japan back in 2005 by Bandai. Despite the show’s international acclaim and early rumors that it would see a full featured release, it never reached North American or European shores. As a fan of the groundbreaking series I always regretted that I had never picked up this side story, with its promise of a completely new adventure for the bounty hunting crew of the Bebop (even if it meant slogging through a lackluster action game in a language I don’t know.) But at the end of the day, my desire for more Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein lost out to my desire to keep a few extra bucks in my pocket - a choice that the series’ heroes would agree with, I’m sure.

Thankfully, Studio Sokodei - an anime fansub/fandub group out of San Jose, California - made it so that I could fill this gap in my Bebop knowledge without dropping the dough on a mediocre game that happens to have a helluva brand attached. And better, Sokodei saved me from having to watch some six-to-ten hour “Let’s Play Cowboy Bebop” video. I love (middling) beat-em-ups, and (mediocre) shooters, and (oh, why me, this is awful) flight sims as much as the next guy, but to sit through a half dozen hours of that just to get at a few nuggets of Bebop-y goodness? Pass.

Instead of just dropping in English subtitles to a full play video of the game, Sokodei chopped the title down to the most important 90 minutes of cutscenes and gameplay, moved a few scenes around, and generally edited according to what made the most thematic sense (an early bounty-hunting montage an end-game fight scene are worth special note.) Calling in Cowboy Bebop: The Song Remains the Same, Sokodei has made the whole thing available on YouTube, and as of this posting the first video has a paltry 9,622 views (with the game’s finale only garnering 1,082 looks.) Let’s change that. If you like Cowboy Bebop, then this is for you. And if you don’t like Bebop? Then get the hell off of my site. Part 1 is below: