

If Nemec and his team could draw out the core elements of the anime, in theory, they could tell a new set of stories in the show’s exciting, known universe.

Instead, to bring Cowboy Bebop to Netflix, the showrunner’s writing team studied the stars that perfectly aligned to make the original version what it was, then dared to realign them. So why remake Cowboy Bebop? Nemec says he wouldn’t dare try. The next 20 years saw the launch and rise of the influential Toonami programming block, the mainstreaming of anime, and the canonization of Bebop as endlessly watchable television. Audiences got it, too Cowboy Bebop premiered in 2001 on Cartoon Network’s just-launched Adult Swim block, and melted the brains of the night owls who’d never seen anything like East-meets-West science fiction remix. The motley crew made perfect sense in the melancholic action swirl of Watanabe’s anime, where a mishandled heist could feel like Bob Fosse choreography, and a shoot-em-up showdown always landed enough shots to pierce raw human psychology. Then there was Ein, a genetically enhanced “data dog” whose main purpose was looking adorable as the bounty hunter team jumped around the solar system in a souped-up fishing trawler known as the Bebop. Ed, the kid genius of the group, was also a supernova of personality - who luckily knew their way around a computer. The sharp and often deadly Faye Valentine joined the crew to get hers, and maybe moor her wayward soul to a modicum of stability.

His accomplice Jet Black was an ex-cop with a cybernetic arm and a heart of (metaphorical) gold. Spike, Cowboy Bebop’s leading man, was a smooth-operating bounty hunter who could fight his way out of any situation, except heartbreak.
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The 23 TV premieres to catch this fall Our 11 most anticipated anime of the seasonĪcross 26 episodes and one feature film, Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, animation director Toshihiro Kawamoto, key animator Yutaka Nakamura, and composer Yoko Kanno set a genre-bending story of found family and high-flying adventure to a syncopated beat.
