In this future, bounty hunters known colloquially as "Cowboys" travel the galaxy looking to collect prices on the heads of any number of terrorists and criminals. In the future, mankind has established colonies throughout the solar system and left Earth behind. It's still very worth the time, for it's a quirky and goofy blend of visual greatness and great characters. But it's a real hit-and-miss in the actors department - some of them are really in the right place and the resulting characters are truly great (like Spike and Jet), some of them come unbalanced (like Faye), and some are a complete disaster (like Vicious and Julia), which is really irritating. The pace and character development is also great, it's all coming together nicely.
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What's really great about the live action series is a visual style - it's realistic (the CGIs are mostly about space and some background imagery) yet very bright and vivid and ever-so-slightly goofy. And I think they actually are the story difference are actually fixing the issue of the source material where the story was not sufficiently told in the end. I think it's mostly good that they're changing the story at times, it's a new material and a new medium after all. There are expected controversies around how faithful it is (or should be) to the source material - some points are literal retelling of the story, some are drastically different. Don't expect the world and you'll root for these cowboys. Without the comparison, the end-result is a production that could have had a sharper finish, but that doesn't take away much from this futuristic noir-detective that got stuck in the seventies. On these review pages it has been compared to the original, well-loved anime, which I didn't do. Also, not all the jokes land because the editing can be off beat, slowing down the comedic timing of the actors. My main criticism are the predictable plot-lines, with one or two nice surprises. Blood doesn't drip, it flashes over the screen, that sort of thing. It's general feel is reminiscent of comic books, with lots of different color schemes, shots from strange angels and short, witty comebacks that could've just as easily been dropped in captions. The music is excellent, especially the jazz pieces from all the greats that seem hand-picked to fit the scenes. Fair warning, it can get pretty bloody at times between all the sarcasm, true to anime heritage. It consist of over-the-top but well designed set pieces with characters that find themselves in absurd situations, mostly created by their own antics. It's universe is a combination of Americana influences from the '50's up to the '70's, Japanese mafia tropes and old-skool visceral science fiction, with a film noir-detective glue that holds it together. The tone of the series is light-hearted, featuring typical down-on-their-luck yet likeable main characters who stumble their way into victories against equally incompetent bad guys.
Cowboy Bebop is a live adaptation of a popular anime featuring a group of space bounty hunters nicknamed 'cowboys' who roam the now-populated solar system a few centuries in the future.
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