The first season of Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series has wrapped shooting. That’s the word from actress Daniella Pineda, who plays Faye Valentine, who posted the news to Instagram. Shooting on the series was delayed multiple times: first by a knee injury, then by Covid-19. …Read more »
Yasuke, the LeSean Thomas/MAPPA joint about the real-life African samurai Yasuke, is set to hit Netflix April 29. The series will run six episodes. It’s directed by LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters) with character designs from Takeshi Koike (Redline) and animation by MAPPA (Yuri on Ice). …Read more »
Yu Yu Hakusho, the uber-popular manga from Yoshihiro Togashi, will be getting a live-action series on Netflix. The show, set to stream worldwide simultaneously, is executive produced by Netflix content acquisition director Kazutaka Sakamoto and produced by Akira Morii (Wild 7). The production company involved …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 »
Aggretsuko is back. The third season of the Netflix original, starring an angry red panda named Retsuko who works in accounting, is set to hit the ‘flix August 27. That follows the first two seasons, which debuted in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The Sanrio-created character …Read more »
Usagi Yojimbo, Stan Sakai’s long-running comic about a samurai rabbit, is getting an animated series from Netflix. The series, created with Gaumont and animated with CG, will be called Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles. It won’t be a straight adaptation of Sakai’s comic. Instead, it …Read more »
Netflix’s Ultraman is headed back for a second season. A new trailer for Ultraman season 2 has just been released, and it features a big reveal: the new look and voice of Ultraman Taro. Taro will be played by Tatsuhisa Suzuki, also known as Ta_2. …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 »
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 »
Japan Sinks: 2020 is an upcoming Masaaki Yuasa series about Japan going through tough times in the year 2020 (unlike real life, right?). Today we got a fresh look at the series with a key visual, and learned that the series is set to hit …Read more »
The first new Ghost in the Shell anime in a while, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, is set to hit Netflix later this month. To build up the hype, the ‘flix has teamed up with Twitter to Tachikoma-fy your feed. For the next three months, …Read more »
Looking forward to more Baki madness? Good news: it’s on the way. The second season of Baki, the mad mad mad mad anime based on Keisuke Itagaki’s manga, is set to hit Netflix accounts worldwide on June 4. Because this is the ‘flix we’re talking …Read more »
A series about a disaster hitting Japan in 2020, huh? Seems a little on the nose. Of course, Japan Sinks 2020, the latest series from Eizouken director Masaaki Yuasa, was greenlit long before Coronavirus began to sink its teeth into Japan. For one, it still …Read more »
Netflix original series 7SEEDS is set to sprout on the streaming service on June 28. In anticipation, the main trailer for the show has been released alongside a batch of new screenshots from the series. 7SEEDS is directed by Yukio Takahashi (Dog & Scissors) with series composition …Read more »
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