![]() I myself remember spending many fruitless hours searching “anime like Cowboy Bebop” again and again only to be let down by every show that claimed to come close (apologies, Black Lagoon). It’s a cliche to see it or Evangelion at the top of any best of list. Twenty years later and Cowboy Bebop remains many people’s high-water mark for an anime series. The series arrived at a time in the post- Akira landscape when ‘serious’ anime was just starting to find a foothold in the west beyond gaijin otakus and fan conventions. It is difficult to exaggerate the impact Cowboy Bebop had on the West’s relationship to anime. A deft trick, never to be repeated again. ![]() All this in 26 episodes (AKA “sessions”) and a movie. The misadventures of the deadbeat space-bound bounty hunters Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ein the corgi, and Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV would leave an indelible mark on anime, and pop culture at large, forever. Unpacking The Strange, Final Scene Of 'The White Lotus' Watanabe was a pop-culture polyglot, drawing influences from Japanese, American, and European cinema, TV, music, literature, philosophy, tech and beyond. Its creator/director, Shinchirō Watanabe was a burgeoning OVA auteur, then best known for his work on Macross Plus and Mobile Suit Gundam: 0083. Like the jazz greats Jet Black loves so much, Cowboy Bebop knows it’s the notes you don’t play that matter.īut how does that philosophy hold up in the year 2021, decades into Hollywood’s reboot addiction, years into the streaming wars, the year that Netflix’s long anticipate/dreaded live-action Cowboy Bebop is released, and one year before the astral gate explosion that destroys the original Bebop’s planet Earth? First, The HistoryĬowboy Bebop was produced in 1997 by Studio Sunrise. ![]() What follows is an anime that keeps one eye on the past and the other on the present, so as to better see the future, one that moves with kinetic energy at a blaring volume with stillness, silence, and selectivity.
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