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For newcomers to the genre, Cowboy Bebop is going to be an exciting, if jarring, experience. There is a dramatic core to this story that is punctuated with a comic book sense of humor that will be instantly recognizable to anime fans. Fan favorites like Radical Ed also make appearances in what feels like a dark and violent twist on the old Adam West Batman series. The 2021 version of the story keeps everything intact from the anime series, including the visually iconic bad guys like Asimov Suleman (Jan Uddin), Abdul Hakim (Cali Nelle), eco-terrorist Maria Murdock (Adrienne Barbeau), the Teddy Bomber (Rodney Cook), and the creepy Pierrot Le Fou (Josh Randall). All the while, Spike is hiding out from the criminal organization, The Syndicate, and his former friend turned nemesis Vicious. Partnering with ex-cop Jet Black, Spike teams with fellow cowboy Faye Valentine and a Welsh corgi named Ein to hunt down escaped criminals. Spike Spiegel is a bounty hunter known as a cowboy. Updates have been made to some elements of the criminal plots and the order in which the stories occur is different than the 1998 series, but the main narrative remains the same. With advanced technology melded with noir elements like guns, fedoras, femme fatales, and a jazzy score, this series maintains the hallmarks of the brief run of the anime with each episode a re-imagining of major stories from the animated original. Released in 1998 as two dozen manga stories and twenty-six anime episodes (split over two volumes), Cowboy Bebop is set in the near future of 2071 where humans have colonized most of the Solar System. In short, Cowboy Bebop is as damn cool as it is brilliantly distinct. This is a pulpy noir adventure with a blisteringly cool soundtrack and the best visualization of a comic book since Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
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Led by the brilliant and pitch-perfect cast comprised of John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda, Cowboy Bebop is not only a faithful interpretation of the source material but easily one of the best shows ever made based on a manga book. Like that movie, Cowboy Bebop takes the bright colors and exaggerated world of Japanese animation and turns it into something completely unique. From a big screen iteration starring Keanu Reeves that never came to fruition, this Netflix series has been one of the most anticipated events for anime fans since the Wachowskis adapted Speed Raceras a feature film. Review: After over ten years in development, the live-action take on Cowboy Bebop is finally here. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals - for the right price. Plot: An action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past.