

I think you can have two (or possibly more) interpretations for this. One
being a dance or music; the other being to accomplish something with little to
no effort. Are these two interpretations correct or is it just the former
that's correct?


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What does the title of Cowboy Bebop's eighth episode—"Waltz for Venus"—mean?


I couldn't find a source that explicitly stated the meaning to the name of the
episode. I agree with your interpretations with both of them fitting moments
in the episode. So let's break down the episode:

**"[ _Waltz for Venus_](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Waltz_For_Venus)"**

Venus is the setting for most of this episode so that fits just fine, the
challenge is what the waltz stands for as. Stated on Merriam Webster the word
**[_Waltz_](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waltz)** can be a
dance/music with a time signature of 3/4. This particular definition doesn't
seem to have any real relevance to the episode, but if we take the whole
timeframe in which **_[Rocco
Bonnaro](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Rocco_Bonnaro)_** is eluding
[**_Piccaro Calvino_**](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Piccaro_Calvino)
this could be considered a "dance".

The reason I say this because
[**_dance_**](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dance) as a verb can mean
to move quickly or nimbly. This is why sometimes in sports, for example
American football, sometimes sports announcers will say a player "danced
around the defense", meaning they eluded the defense. So I don't think it is
that much a stretch to say Rocco was "dancing" away from Piccaro.

Another reference from the episode that can be used is when
**_[Spike](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Spike_Spiegel)_** and
**_[Faye](http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Faye_Valentine)_** take a
commercial shuttle into Venus. They are doing this to catch some hijackers and
defeat them very easily. This ties into the other definition of waltz being
used as a verb and means to "to succeed at something easily".

Now this is in no way 100% the reason as to why the episode is titled this way
but merely an interpretation as to why it could be.


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