I have never watched it, but! Because you put this post, yesterday I searched for the soundtrack and, by God! It's amazing. I'm completely hooked! Thank you for that :)
Has anybody been watching Cowboy Bebop on Netflix? Apparently they're doing a live-action version with John Cho, but who needs it when the original 1998 anime is available?
Admittedly the plots seem a bit basic nowadays, but they still hold up reasonably well and Yoko Kanno's music (performed by her band Seatbelts) has always been the best part of the series.
Once upon a time, in New York City in 1941... at this club open to all comers to play, night after night, at a club named "Minston's Play House" in Harlem, they play jazz sessions competing with each other. Young jazz men with a new sense are gathering. At last they created a new genre itself. They are sick and tired of the conventional fixed style jazz. They're eager to play jazz more freely as they wish then... in 2071 in the universe... The bounty hunters, who are gathering in the spaceship "BEBOP", will play freely without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams and films by breaking traditional styles. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called... COWBOY BEBOPArt of the Title: Cowboy Bebop
I had always wondered what the text in the opening titles was, because it scrolled by too fast and was too small to read on the screens I had used to watch the show on VHS bootlegs back in 2000, but I got around to looking it up while watching it on Netflix.
I have never watched it, but! Because you put this post, yesterday I searched for the soundtrack and, by God! It's amazing. I'm completely hooked! Thank you for that :)
I highly recommend the original 1998 Cowboy Bebop. It's one of my favorite anime of all time. It's currently available on Netflix or alternatively, on the high seas. Yar harr!
I did notice it was on Netflix, yeah, but it's not time for my periodic re-watch yet! I'm excited for the live-action remake, though I'm not going to be surprised if Netflix finds a way to ruin it.
The live-action remakes of Ghost in the Shell, Death Note, and Bleach weren't much shakes, so I don't have much hope for live-action Cowboy Bebop either.
At least live-action Way of the Househusband is decent, but they took a different approach by having Tatsu's voice actor apply his character's approach to housekeeping IRL.