Cowboy Bebop

This is all you need in times of corona if you like action, but also good laughs and humor. Great actors too! I like how they didn't choose the conventional white guy as the main character. The story and acting doesn't feel forced the serie is relaxed too. The actor John Choo is sexy too, women will also like this series.

Also, if you like movies or series in space, this is also for you.

Good acting, the actors have swag. It's a good serie it's anything you have seen before. Right amount of humor and action. You will like this series if you like anything surrounding sci fi space movies/series. Interesting story to follow too, this will not disappoint. Usually asian actors are the bad guys in action movies/series, but not in this one.

I was skeptical about the cast at first, but John Cho was surprisingly pulling Spike off very well. Now, I can't seem to find any other actors to play Spike other then John Cho. Jet Black, on the other hand, the beard on him looks too artificial. It just doesn't sit well on the guy. They could have styled the beard as its own since they changed the character to a black guy, but then somehow they attached the original character's beard on him which seems to be the general issue in this show. They changed some elements in the animation and adopted new things to a live action show, but then they somehow applied original elements back to new things. They don't get along well together, and often produces some silly chuckles and eye sores just like Jet Black's beard. Overall, the show is interesting as its own. It could have been better if they have made it as a standalone show instead of making a carbon-copy version of the original animation.

I won't make comparisons with the original animation.

I think this show in general is an excellent production. The actors are ok and have great chemistry together.

But this show takes a bold approach to the way it tells the story.

It tries, perhaps excessively, to be faithful to an Anime narrative structure.

It's a western. It's a space opera. It's a buddy cop comedy. It has a noir atmosphere mixed with ultra-over the top action scenes. All mixed in a crazy colored juice.

This cocktail isn't easy to make into a live series.

And the end result is a highly stylized TV show that is beautiful to watch, well interpreted, but not everything blends in very well.

This will certainly work for many people, but for many it won't.

So, in the end, what counts is a matter of taste.

Try it and you may like it or not.

I personally enjoyed some episodes more than others, but I wouldn't mind seeing more.

A solid 7 out of 10 for me.

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. 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. 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.

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. The pace and character development is also great, it's all coming together nicely.

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.

It's still very worth the time, for it's a quirky and goofy blend of visual greatness and great characters.