The stylistic choices, while not always easy to tell, were specific and reminded me a lot of Baz Luhrmann’s movies. I don’t have much to say about them except that I liked the directions that they went with the characters and the show itself. The series was developed by André Nemec and written by (among others) Sean Cummings and Christopher Yost. Now, let’s talk about the people we didn’t see. This is fantastic and I hope that it will continue with future castings. All three leads are people of color, and it is not a big deal at all in the show. While her antics worked well for the anime, it wouldn’t have fit in a live-action setting.īefore we continue on, I’d like to give a shout-out to the casting directors and our three leads. Before we continue, I would like to say that I felt it was a good thing they left Ed out of most of the show. From what I could see she did a good job of embodying all of the wackiness that is Ed from the anime. That said, they didn’t quite fit into the aesthetic of the other three leads… which was kind of the point, but we’ll get into that later.Īnd last, but not least, we had-for all of ten seconds at the end-Eden Perkins as Radical Ed. And, while he pulls off the gruff and cool façade, he makes it impossible for you to ignore the tragedy of his life. Much like with Cho, Shakir brings a real maturity to the role, giving him a great “badass dad” vibes. Mustafa Shakir is Jet Black, the captain of the Bebop. John Cho really comes across as a fun guy to hang around with who has just seen way too much shit in his life. He manages to keep Spike’s “cool” factor, his laconic wit, while also bringing Spike’s heartbroken vibes to the performance. John Cho leads the cast as Spike Spiegel. The castįirst thing’s first, let’s talk about how the actors did. They know and love these characters just as much as we do, and they wanted to tell the anime’s story through a different medium.Īnd instead of the old way of trying to cram all 26 episodes into one two-hour movie, they are actually going the distance and trying to make it into at least two seasons of a television show. The original anime was perfect… as an anime, but it’s a lot like trying to adapt a book where things have to be changed in order for it to work.īut unlike with a lot of adaptations, this clearly isn’t just a money grab and obviously the people involved in this have taken a lot of time and effort to make this a labor of love. It’s not an exact replica of the 90’s anime, but they managed to stick to the essence of the characters while building on them to make them more relatable to modern audiences.Īdmittedly, this is going to rub some people the wrong way.įrankly, I get it. Really good! I mean, honestly, they did a really good job with the story. But, I hear you ask, how’d they do? Fun stuff There’s also a corgi named Ein with a mysterious past and a bat-shit crazy hacker named Radical Ed, who we don’t see until the very end of the season. Trying to kill Spike is his old best friend, Vicious, who also married Spike’s lover, a former singer named Julia. Heading up this cast of characters is Spike Spiegel, a former hitman for the Red Dragon Syndicate where he was known by his nom de guerre, Fearless. The ship’s owner is a cynical former cop named Jet Black, joined by a foul-mouthed amnesiac Faye Valentine. Our story, such as it is, follows the adventures of the cowboys aboard the starship Bebop-named after the musical movement. Helping the cops catch bad guys, however, are a group of Bounty Hunters called Cowboys. Gangsters and cops seem to be the only real authority on these worlds, and sometimes it’s a little hard to tell the two apart. In true Noir fashion, there are lots of decrepit buildings and dirty streets juxtaposed against the bright flashes of neon light. Why none of them copied Venice but instead went for what looks like 1940’s Detroit is beyond me. As a result, people began settling the planets and moons and asteroids of the solar system, turning their little pockets of terraforming into copies of old earth. The story takes place fifty years after some accident left much of the earth uninhabitable. The set up for this universe is interesting… and confusing, but mostly interesting.
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