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Animation is apparently being handled by JC Staff, so it's a dice roll if the animation will do the show any justice. But the comic is so good this should be a slam dunk. Also the titular househusband is gonna be played by Kenjiro Tsuda and that's just *chef's kiss* tier casting.
That's pretty novel and neat. But why do I get the sense that it was a poorly planned out decision? (Oh right, Netflix's incompetence.) The entire last arc of the show (9 episodes) takes place in Japan. Are they just not going to dub the whole final act to keep consistency? And despite how much I like the idea personally, that's not why people who watch dubs go to dubs. If I pick dubs because I don't want to read a bunch of text, why would you make me read a bunch of subtitles anyways? Why is Netflix so bad at their jobs? Why do they hate anime?
It's not a constant thing; after 10 minutes or so, a card pops up reading something to the extent of "from now on the series will be presented entirely in English", and true to that, the rest of the episode and all subsequent ones are performed entirely by the dub cast. The multilingual opening is just done to establish the premise and setting, that this is an international cast of characters who speak different languages, and provide context for when characters can and can't understand each other. It's not far removed from how The Hunt for Red October opens with the Soviet characters speaking Russian before switching to English.
It'll never stop being weird to me to think of Cowboy Bebop as a 90s anime. Because it categorically is, as that was when it was made. But most of us didn't get to watch it until the 2000s. Same with a lot of classics from around that time like Trigun or Outlaw Star. And the production values and rather well done integration of CGI means it looks nothing like shows from earlier in the decade.
I would disagree there. Bebop is a cut above other 90s shows, sure, but it still looks distinctly of its era to me. That's partly due to quirks of the art style (such as the pointy chins) but mostly due to its traditional production and the effects thereof: the palette, the colouring itself, the film grain. Digital productions have an entirely different look to them, and the rapid digitization of the industry meant that your typical anime had an entirely different look even just a few years later. (Particularly as it took a while to really work out how to do digital colouring well… but I digress.)
??? I don't really get this. What do you mean by pointy chins? By my money, the character designs in Cowboy Bebop don't really particularly date it. If you look at the past work of the character designer (Toshihiro Kawamoto) his style remains pretty consistent. From older stuff like Gundam 0083, through mid-00s works like Wolf's Rain, up through recent shows like Kekkai Sensen.
That's the thing though. You pass over the fact I brought up, which is that Cowboy Bebop has a bunch of primitive CGI integrated into its otherwise traditional artwork. And that makes it look more like early 00s shows like FMA, GitS, or Inuyasha that did the same with regards to overlaying CGI on top of an otherwise traditional production. It wasn't until the late 00s that studios began earnestly switching en masse to all-digital productions. So it feels weird to lump Bebop into a decade full of stuff that doesn't really look like it from that regard; there's no CGI in early 90s shows like Ranma or DBZ, or even in most prestige OVAs of the time like Gundam 0083 or Golden Boy.
