Channel Criswell creator Lewis Bond examines those in “The Meaning of Nothing,” his video essay on the series. It’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with automatic weapons.”Īnd yet Cowboy Bebop remains, thoroughly, a work of Japanese imagination, and like many of the most respected of the form, it has serious philosophical inclinations. The show ultimately features so many cross-ranging influences and nods to other famous works it’s almost impossible to keep track. “Everyone speaks like they’re background extras in Chinatown. Dick came up with during a wild, all-night whiskey bender.” So writes the Atlantic‘s Alex Suskind in a piece on the show’s lasting legacy.
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“On paper, Cowboy Bebop, the legendary cult anime series from Shinichirō Watanabe” - recently director of one of Blade Runner 2049‘s short prequels - “reads like something John Wayne, Elmore Leonard, and Philip K. And indeed, when it first aired in 1997, viewers the world over took quick note of the distinctive sensibility of its stories of a shipful of bounty hunters drifting through outer space in the year 2071.
But how about Cowboy Bebop? That evocatively Western name itself, not an awkward English translation of a Japanese title but English in the original, hints that the series stands apart from all the dimension fortresses, mobile suits, and neon geneses out there.
Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Neon Genesis Evangelion - these are the kind of titles that might ring a bell even if you have no particular interest in futuristic Japanese animated television shows.
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