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“Cowboy Bebop,” a critically and commercially successful 1998 Japanese anime series, is set to be adapted into a live action television series by Tomorrow Studios, a partnership between ITV Studios and Marty Adelstein.

The live action version will be executive produced by Sunset Inc. — the studio responsible for the original animated iteration — as well as Midnight Radio, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Matthew Weinberg. Midnight Radio consists of Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg. Chris Yost will write the adaptation.

“Cowboy Bebop,” which takes place in 2071 in the original version, follows Spike Spiegel and his gang of bounty hunters, also known as cowboys, as they cavort around the galaxy attempting to capture bad guys and survive some of the most intense dangers the galaxy has to offer. The anime series has been successful in Western markets, and is credited with introducing a new wave of Western viewers to anime. It’s also widely cited as one of the best anime series of all time.

“Cowboy Bebop” already received the feature film treatment in 2001 with “Cowboy Bebop: The Movie,” which is set amidst the latter third of the 26-episode anime series and received mostly positive reviews from critics. In the same year, the original series became the first anime series to be broadcast on Adult Swim in the United States.

Reading the news earlier today of a Sword Art Online live action series produced by Netflix, my first thought as often is the case was “why?” The answer is obvious of course: money. However as I continued to read the interview with the producer a dawning realization came to me, this person does not know what they were talking about.

Despite having watched the series and I believe they have there were some glaring factual errors that was tough to overlook such as:

In terms of the secondary characters, because the game is meant to be global, the way it’s presented in the anime and in the light novels, there are secondary characters that clearly are from other parts of the world, like Klein and Agil.

Except... its not. The original Sword Art Online game was a soft launch of only 10,000 players all of whom were in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Agil while African by ethnicity is Japanese by birth and Klein... well Klein is actually named Tsuboi Ryoutarou... so ya...

This was followed up by one of the most laughable comparisons I have seen in years. Especially now considering the context of Ghost in the Shell in North America:

They are, in my mind anyway, much like Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, defined in part by being seminal characters in an Asian piece of art

Except again they are not. Say what you will about Asuna as a heroine but Kirito might as well be the photo next to “Light Novel Protagonist Gary Stu”. Hardly comparable to the quintessentially Japanese character of Motoko Kusanagi, a character who is literally named after one of the three great regalia of Japan.

After reading all this I then came to a quick realization. The producers not getting or understanding Sword Art Online is actually a good thing. As a straight 1:1 adaptation of Sword Art Online would be TERRIBLE television.

As of right now, we know so little about this series nothing is set in stone. However despite the fact it is clear the producer of this series has at best a tangential relationship with the source material, I say that is okay.

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Fri Aug 03, 2018 2:59 pm

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