Ever had a friend or family member ask for you anime recommendations? Ideally, you know what kind of shows they like already — which makes recs easier. But sometimes, there’s not a lot to go on. So what kind of starter anime do you hand …Read more »
Before streaming and the broader appeal of anime, your college anime club wasn’t just a place to watch the latest shows… for some people, it was the only place. In my case, Friday night meetings were a rare chance to see new series and get new recommendations. Of …Read more »
We’ve known for a while now who’s set to play the main characters on Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation. Now the ‘flix has revealed some additional cast members, rounding out the Bebop universe. They are: Geoff Stults as Chalmers, Jet’s ex-partner Tamara Tunie as Ana, Martian …Read more »
One of the advantages that anime can have over western media is in its ability to express heightened emotion, making the audience empathize intensely with the characters. It provides some of the most powerful moments of catharsis in modern media. In a year like 2020, …Read more »
If you’re a lover of anime music, you know that it has the power to take you back to scenes in your favorite show. Maybe it’s the music itself, or maybe it’s because it makes you recall the specific scene from which it hails. Either …Read more »
We live in a time when we can watch anime pretty much any way we want. The times of choosing between VHS copies is long gone, and there are plenty of options no matter how you prefer to watch. I’m talking, of course, about Subs …Read more »
I love vintage anime. Some of my earliest series were shown to me by local friends who have been collecting anime since the 1970s. New anime is great, too, and I’ve seen plenty of shows as they aired or just after. And now, a lot …Read more »
Someone over at sports news site Bleacher Report is a Cowboy Bebop fan. The site teased its coverage of the upcoming NBA playoffs yesterday with something pretty incredible: a video in the style of Cowboy Bebop’s opening—complete with theme song “Tank!!” In place of Spike, …Read more »
Everyone knows all dogs are Best Dog, so it would be wrong to rank them… right? Of course right. Your dog is the best. So is mine. So are the ones in your favorite anime. So you’d better believe we’re not pitting these good boys …Read more »
All you record player-owning space cowboys are in for a treat. Over the weekend, Milan Records revealed their 2-LP release of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, and it is lookin’ hot. The Bebop vinyl release, which goes up for preorder August 6, features two LPs, one …Read more »
An ALC injury and COVID-19 have temporarily put the brakes on the production of Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation. In the meantime, folks behind the series have been reminding us it’ll exist someday by slowly revealing details. A few weeks ago we heard from producer …Read more »
Netflix is hard at work on live-action adaptations of Cowboy Bebop and One Piece—or as much work as they can do during a pandemic, anyway. Producer Marty Adelstein recently had an interview with SyFy Wire in which he let us in on how both shows …Read more »
Not everything that comes out of the pandemic is bad. Some of the creativity on display as far as performances are concerned, for instance, is really awesome. One of the latest groups to take advantage of the idea of performing at home is SEATBELTS, who …Read more »
There’s no telling when Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop will actually hit the streaming service, but there’s already talk of a second season. That’s the word from Jeff Pinkner, a writer and executive producer for the show. In an interview about the show for Observer, Pinkner …Read more »
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats recently shared a nearly 24-minute music video for UNLOCKED, and this one mixes in some live-action footage with a bunch animation. That sounds like the basic recipe for a fun music video… except, that is, when some aspects of the …Read more »
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