Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no Tobira (2001)

I was younger then, I wasn’t afraid of anything, I didn’t think about dying for a second. I thought I was invincible. Then I met some girl. I wanted to live, I started to think like that; for the first time I was afraid of death. I had never felt like that before.

I’m not going there to die. I’m going to find out if I’m really alive.

I’m watching a dream I’ll never wake up from..

If there is a god in this world, I’d like to ask one wish. Divine retribution to all those who take freedom away.

I love a woman who can kick my ass.

Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I’ve been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was over.

He was just all alone. He couldn’t enjoy a game with anyone else. Like living in a dream… That’s the kind of man he was…

Once, there was a tiger striped cat. This cat, died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives. And he had various owners that he didn’t really care about, the cat wasn’t afraid to die. Then ONE day, he met a white female cat, the two of them fell in love and lived together happily. Well, the year’s went by and the white female cat got old and passed away. The Tiger Striped cat cried a million times, then he also died. But this time…..he didn’t come back.

Won’t you come and waste away your life with us?

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about.

You were always there for me, and that’s all I needed. Just you. For some reason, I didn’t feel sad or broken up, it just didn’t seem real. But slowly I realized it was real – that you were gone. And little by little, I slowly felt something inside me go numb.

Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We decieve or we are decieved. Thus, we flourish or perish. Nothing good ever happened to me when I trusted others. That is the lesson.

Ordinary. The kind of dangerous, beautiful ordinary that you just can’t leave alone. Like an angel from the Underworld or maybe a devil from paradise.

Lesson, lesson: If you see a stranger, follow him!

Ed will introduce Ed. Full name Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV … Ed made up that name for Ed, isn’t it cooool?

Of the days that I have lived, only those I spent with you seemed real.

Know much about purgatory? It’s the world we live in now, and Halloween is the day a damned soul in purgatory can be released into heaven, if he prays hard enough. Say your prayers.