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NEWS: Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series Gets Comic Series, Prequel Novel

This. Like, it feels like there is love and effort put into this. Yoko is doing music, they got Wattanabe on as producer, and rumor has it some of the english dub may have cameos(it would be cool if they got Steve Blum to be someone spike talks to). It fels like effort.

RockSplash wrote:

This. Like, it feels like there is love and effort put into this. Yoko is doing music, they got Wattanabe on as producer, and rumor has it some of the english dub may have cameos(it would be cool if they got Steve Blum to be someone spike talks to). It fels like effort.

You know, using the same ingredients (or similar) doesn't mean the cake will be as good as that done in 1997.

This. Like, it feels like there is love and effort put into this. Yoko is doing music, they got Wattanabe on as producer, and rumor has it some of the english dub may have cameos(it would be cool if they got Steve Blum to be someone spike talks to). It fels like effort.

Feels kinda of weird having a comic book movie based on an live-action show based on an anime. It does seems that Netflix has a lot of confidence on this show if they're making this type of promotional material, Stranger Things didn't get spin-off comics and games not until the end of the first season.
Now, it would be crazy if the show gets a good reception, then they decide to make an animated side story like the recent Witcher movie or that Altered Carbon anime, specially if it gets animated by Sunrise.

Getting Yoko Kanno to do music and putting in some cameos from the English dub actors seems very superficial to me. A lot of reboots and adaptions use music from the original version and cameo old characters and actors to rely on nostalgia to carry the new version. This show is going to have to stand on its own at the end of the day, though.

AmpersandsUnited wrote:

Getting Yoko Kanno to do music and putting in some cameos from the English dub actors seems very superficial to me. A lot of reboots and adaptions use music from the original version and cameo old characters and actors to rely on nostalgia to carry the new version. This show is going to have to stand on its own at the end of the day, though.

SUPERFICIAL

That was the word I was looking for. You can't assure me the show having those things will make it good, specially when a lot of remakes and adaptations do that very same things for the sake of nostalgia and pandering to the fans, and still have an overall bland quality to it.

And about Daniella Pineda's response to the people body-shaming her for not looking like if Faye was ripped off from the TV screen (which is in itself an immature and outright stupid thing to ask for): while I understand taking none of the shit from other people on the internet and having a response to them is brave and maybe cathartic for her, I think she could've done better by not engaging with them, since those people will see her response as her "not taking the fans of the original show seriously", and hence, not taking the show she's helping adapt seriously, thus giving them more ammunition to bash on the show.

Eh, maybe it will be good. If not, I still have the anime. I don't fear live action adaptions because if they suck, I can just choose not to watch them and enjoy the original. As for Fay, that's hollywood. People think they need to respond.

RockSplash wrote:

Eh, maybe it will be good. If not, I still have the anime. I don't fear live action adaptions because if they suck, I can just choose not to watch them and enjoy the original. As for Fay, that's hollywood. People think they need to respond.

Yeah, we get it; we already know you like it and you have high hopes for it. You don't have to chime in in every comment just because it detracts from your opinion.

RockSplash wrote:

Eh, maybe it will be good. If not, I still have the anime. I don't fear live action adaptions because if they suck, I can just choose not to watch them and enjoy the original. As for Fay, that's hollywood. People think they need to respond.

Yeah, we get it; we already know you like it and you have high hopes for it. You don't have to chime in in every comment just because it detracts from your opinion.

I personally think they should wait and see if the show does well before wasting resources on making a comic and novel about it but whatever works for them i guess.

phantom360 wrote:

I personally think they should wait and see if the show does well before wasting resources on making a comic and novel about it but whatever works for them i guess.

A lot of time its not wasting resources. I don't know about the comic, but the novel was written by the screenwriter. He probably could write it after finishing the series. Since a series is written months before everything else, I can see the novel bring done without costing much time. I hope they make vicious more interesting. He was incredibly mysterious in the original, and kind of a boring character when we learn little other than he liked Julia as well as Spike.

phantom360 wrote:

I personally think they should wait and see if the show does well before wasting resources on making a comic and novel about it but whatever works for them i guess.

A lot of time its not wasting resources. I don't know about the comic, but the novel was written by the screenwriter. He probably could write it after finishing the series. Since a series is written months before everything else, I can see the novel bring done without costing much time. I hope they make vicious more interesting. He was incredibly mysterious in the original, and kind of a boring character when we learn little other than he liked Julia as well as Spike.

Boring? Yeah, because all good villains need to have complex backstories and motivations...if anything Julia was a pretty boring and severly undeveloped character, but whatever, I didn't care much about her anyway.