LoveJuice wrote:
There's barely any plot at all.
The characters are painfully one dimensional.
And it turns out that the entire series was just the one guy having a dream?
Boooooring.
Plot? I'll explain that later. Characters? How you see them as one-dimensional is beyond me. Dream? No, it was not. Where'd you even get that idea? Boring? Can't really argue with that one, as it's your opinion.
I like the plot of this anime. As someone I follow has said, the entire series is like a Western TV series done better than America can do it. And I like how it's episodic, but there's an underlying story to it all that barely surfaces. And it actually makes sense that the main plot is barely mentioned, as the entire theme of the series is that you can't run away from your past, yet the characters try their best to stay away from it with these episodic adventures. But by the end of the series, they just couldn't leave their past behind.
Additionally, what I like about the series is that it follows the "show don't tell" method. They never really explain everything that caused Spike to leave the syndicate or anything about his relationship with Vicious. They just show it for a few seconds, trust the audience to be able to understand everything, and just leave it at that without going into infodumps. In other words, this show treats its audience like it has a brain, even though I think it could have told a little more.
Do you have to like it? No. But overrated? No way. Next you'll be telling me that Ghostbusters is overrated.
A story shouldn't just give people what they want, but also what they didn't know they wanted.
Bleach 
I'm also over the need to watch Death Note every day. I'm going back to my writing, I have more Cowboy Bebop fanfics to write. 
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