![]() The crew is an eclectic mix: Spike Spiegel is a former hitman Jet Black is a former Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) officer Faye Valentine is an amnesiac con artist Edward is a teenage girl who's also a hacker prodigy and Ein is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi with human-like intelligence (thanks to genetic engineering). Created by Hajime Yatate (the name of a collective of contributors that includes director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno), Cowboy Bebop is a space western centered on a crew of bounty hunters traveling through space chasing criminals on a spaceship called Bebop. You know, it's kind of like doing Star Wars.Based on the core cast, as well as side characters who've been confirmed, these are the Cowboy Bebop anime episodes to watch ahead of the new live-action series on Netflix.Ĭowboy Bebopis one of the most celebrated and revered anime series of all time. You can't look at Cowboy Bebop and say, 'Well, it's just a takeoff point, we're going to give them different hair and different clothing, and we're going to call it something different.' If you're doing Cowboy Bebop, you're doing Cowboy Bebop. In an interview with io9, co-writer Karl Taro Greenfield said, "We ain't playing Bebop, Bebop is playing us. The creative minds behind the new series want to reassure fans that the iconic series is in good hands. Also in the mix is Cowboy Bebop's anime director Shinichiro Watanabe, who served as a consultant to reboot showrunner André Nemec and co-writer/producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach. There will be collaboration and creative involvement from the original anime team.Įarlier this summer, Netflix Geeked posted a behind-the-scenes peek featuring the iconic "Tank!" melody, revealing that the anime's original composer, Yoko Kanno, would be back to enhance and create new music for the series. ![]() What we do know is that the team will stick as close to the original as possible, with some major narrative upgrades. Without a full trailer yet, we don't know exactly what to expect, but fans are highly curious about whether or not the new series will keep original episode titles the majority of the anime episodes were named after famous musicians, albums, and other pop-culture references. LET'S JAM /oJqYsvAcAR- Netflix Geeked AugWhat We Know So Far With only a few months until we head to space with Spike and the crew, TV Guide has compiled everything we know about Season 1 so far. And we can't wait to see Netflix's rendition of this jazzy space Western. What makes Cowboy Bebop a treasured space oddity even 23 years later is its genre-bending episodic format, seamlessly shuffling from an action-packed sci-fi comedy to a romantic drama. The original 1998 anime series centers on charismatic smart-mouth Spike Spiegel his friend Jet Black, who is the captain of the Bebop ship fiery con artist Faye Valentine a young genius named Ed and their hyper-intelligent dog Ein as they bounty-hunt for criminals across the cosmos. Now, we are just a few short weeks away from Cowboy Bebop premiering on the streaming service and we finally have some real details about what Netflix's spin on the bounty hunters will look like.įor the uninformed, Cowboy Bebop is set in the year 2071, and Earth has become uninhabitable, leading the remaining humans to live in the vast, lawless, outer reaches of space. Since then, Bebop fans have been searching the universe (ahem, the internet) for clues and insight into what to expect from the new series. ![]() Netflix announced that it was creating a Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation back in 2018. Daniella Pineda, John Cho, and Mustafa Shakir, Cowboy Bebop Nicola Dove/Netflix ![]()
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