Cowboy Bebop Thread - Live-Action Adaptation cancelled after one season (it was shit)

[Dom Cruise]

Maybe an occasional movie would happen or another appearance in a future Super Robot Wars game

It would be nice if it had gotten at least one other movie.

The way the anime ended doesn't leave a lot of room for sequels. Prequels, and midquels, maybe. But it's been too long and it wouldn't be the same. And Jet Black's Japanese VA died some years ago.

Prequels and midquels, like the movie was, or you could do a "Cowboy Bebop: The Next Generation", a new cast of characters just in that same world.

However the main appeal is not the world but the characters, another big issue is changes in how animation is done, you could never replicate the texture and look of the original TV series and movie, it'd look too clean and digital and thus wouldn't have the same feel at all.

It's just frustrating because that cast of characters and that world could have lead to many, many more stories than just 26 eps and a movie, like a Star Trek, it could have gone on for years.

A lot of anime has that problem where you're just left wanting more.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

However the main appeal is not the world but the characters, another big issue is changes in how animation is done, you could never replicate the texture and look of the original TV series and movie, it'd look too clean and digital and thus wouldn't have the same feel at all.

The recent Dragon Ball Film sort of replicated the grainy aspect of old anime (emphasis on the "sort of"), so maybe in a hypothetical film they could use post-production effects to emulate the look of the original, but honestly its better if the franchise is just left alone

 

[Dom Cruise]

The recent Dragon Ball Film sort of replicated the grainy aspect of old anime (emphasis on the "sort of"), so maybe in a hypothetical film they could use post-production effects to emulate the look of the original, but honestly its better if the franchise is just left alone

I think another side story movie ala Knockin' On Heaven Door, one that doesn't change the overall story too much, would be a worthy experiment.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The only way a new Bebop series could work is if they had written their own stories instead of doing cheap knockoffs of the anime's episodes.

Bebop is episodic, and given when the movie was released after the series aired, it's non-linear as well. Netflix could have easily done, like, 5 episodes worth of new stories, and I bet it would have been received better.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The only way a new Bebop series could work is if they had written their own stories instead of doing cheap knockoffs of the anime's episodes.

Bebop is episodic, and given when the movie was released after the series aired, it's non-linear as well. Netflix could have easily done, like, 5 episodes worth of new stories, and I bet it would have been received better.

The way Netflix works doesn’t mesh well at all with the type of storytelling Bebop does.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The way Netflix works doesn’t mesh well at all with the type of storytelling Bebop does.

Oh yeah, it wouldn't work at all given how "bingewatching" is a thing. It's like this entire show shouldn't have been made in the first place.

But as a watchable adaptation FOR Bebop fans? I think that unique, episodic stories would have worked best.

 

[Ainchiemi]

Late, but this video from from Randy Troy was weak. He just puts it fans not liking it and the changes to the source material ONLY cause they just weren't accepting of LA adaptation and goes softball on those changes. This felt more like cause Randy worked on hollywood movies, he had to say it wasn't bad....just because.

 

[Deus Exica]

However the main appeal is not the world but the characters,

I don’t necessarily agree. I think Bebop's low fantasy gritty sci-fi bounty hunter premise and aesthetic has some serious legs. The original show had a lot of side characters and subplots, to the point where I could easily see a lot of spinoff potential by simply following around a new cast.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

I don’t necessarily agree. I think Bebop's low fantasy gritty sci-fi bounty hunter premise and aesthetic has some serious legs. The original show had a lot of side characters and subplots, to the point where I could easily see a lot of spinoff potential by simply following around a new cast.

And yet, I can't recall a single character that I'd enjoy following as much as Spike, Jet, and Faye. Maybe the space trucker lady? Jet's old partner? Rocco? Cowboy Bebop is iconic as "the one good anime," but if you stray too far from its core cast, you very quickly get into chingchong weebo nonsense.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Maybe the space trucker lady?

there was a side story about her husband that ran in Newtype
but yeah I think there could be good stories in the Bebop setting without the gang, sorta like Outlaw Star

 

[frozen_runner]

And yet, I can't recall a single character that I'd enjoy following as much as Spike, Jet, and Faye. Maybe the space trucker lady? Jet's old partner? Rocco? Cowboy Bebop is iconic as "the one good anime," but if you stray too far from its core cast, you very quickly get into chingchong weebo nonsense.

You're noticing that the world created by the writers, while it seems real, is merely a backdrop for the story being told. The fact that it seems like more is a testament to how good the writing and world building is. This goes for all stories.

People fall into the inverse trap a lot, especially when they're fans of something. They want to immerse themselves in a fictional world and explore all of it. And some creations have enough depth and breadth to allow for this if the writers are talented enough or have other, appropriate stories to tell in that world. (I'm thinking of some of the Star Wars EU, though I think, in some real sense, the movies themselves are misunderstood by even the good EU stuff.)

But then you have something like Watchmen, the characters from which absolutely will not work outside of the context of the story Moore told. People have tried, but they shouldn't have.

Of course, none of these "rules" matter if you make a sequel or a derivative story that's great and works.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6yyWgfLbW-M

I still think about the girl that played Radical Ed in the netflix Cowboy Bebop and how that one scene ruined her career before it could even begin from time to time.

 

[Qeiznas]

The new version has too cold colours and too high resolution with "cheap" lights. I wish it was done by a film camera, not digital.