In his first appearance, Vicious assassinated the Red Dragon capo, Mao Yenrai. One gets the impression that this has been a long time coming. The instigating event that kicks off the action is that Vicious - we all remember Vicious, right? - stages a coup to take over the Red Dragon crime syndicate. Not an awful lot actually happens, and the things that do happen are sometimes hard to fit together. Sessions 25) and 26), The Real Folk Blues. Part of the reason that I was so late with this post is that whenever I sat down to write about these final episodes I’d begin by trying to summarize the plot, and that turns out to be difficult to do in any elegant way. The entire original run of Cowboy Bebop only took two years-probably the whole production cycle was less than four. So I will understand if you need to take a minute to remind yourself about who these characters are and what I think about them. The most recent was in January, 2011, nearly 4 years ago. The first post in this series came out in November, 2009.
