successfully established the Chandler-esque neo-noir tone, Kanno's new score is sheer delight, and the casting is perfection. And Punch and Judy (Ira Munn and Lucy Currey, respectively) ham it up as co-hosts of the fictional show Big Shot, which tracks bounties and those who hunt them. Also getting screen time are the face-shifting thief Abdul Hakim (Cali Nelle), who originally steals Ein before the corgi ends up joining the crew of the Bebop the madman Pierrot Le Fou (Josh Randall, Ed, Scrubs) and the infamous "Teddy Bomber" (voiced by Rodney Cook). AdvertisementĮcofascist terrorist Maria Murdock (Adrienne Barbeau, Carnivale), another favorite from the anime, shows up in a later episode-except the gas she releases turns people into trees rather than monkeys. And Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV, aka Radical Ed, is an eccentric and energetic teenaged girl skilled at computer hacking, who provides much of the show's comic relief.
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Ein is an adorable, genetically engineered Welsh corgi. Faye Valentine is a con artist and fellow bounty hunter who spent over 50 years in suspended animation after a space shuttle accident and hence suffers from amnesia. Their crew expands over the course of the series. His BFF and business partner is Jet Black, captain of the Bebop and a former police officer with a cybernetic arm. The main character is Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter born on Mars with a history of violent gang activity and a penchant for fisticuffs, not to mention a tragic romance in his past. The Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) rely on contracts with bounty hunters, called "cowboys," to keep criminal activity in check, although the powerful Red Dragon Syndicate nonetheless manages to thrive. Earth has become largely uninhabitable, and people have colonized the various rocky planets and moons of our Solar System.
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Set in 2071, the original anime series is about a group of bounty hunters on a spaceship called the Bebop. We'll give you a heads-up when we get there.) Some spoilers for the live-action series, but no major reveals-except for one smallish one at the very end.
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(Spoilers for the 1998 anime series below. But I found that Netflix's Cowboy Bebop mostly struck a balance between preserving the most beloved elements of the anime and remixing them in fresh, intriguing ways for a new dramatic format. So I had some reservations about Netflix's decision to adapt the original into a live-action streaming series-why mess with perfection?ĭiehard purists likely won't be happy the new series is a different beast. Count yours truly among its many admirers. That would be Cowboy Bebop, a stylish, genre-busting neo-noir space Western that earned universal acclaim when it debuted in 1998. It's a daunting task to create a live action series out of one of the most trailblazing, influential anime series of the last 25 years.