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Currently making my way through yet another rewatch of Cowboy Bebop. It's reached the point where I'm so familiar with it that I can have it on in the background without it taking up too much of my attention, and still have an understanding of what's happening. Finished rewatching episode 20 on Thursday.
Funnily enough, I'm making my way through the original series again precisely so that I can watch the Netflix live-action series with the source material fresh in my mind, for comparison's sake. I haven't engaged with the live-action series myself at all just yet, but I've been hearing some pretty mixed reviews, though not as unanimously negative as I was expecting?You've got me curious to hear your opinion on Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Live action. I have the impression that Live Action tried to follow the anime to the letter, but the end result was not what I expected. Maybe it's a matter of direction, art or even acting. I didn't think John Cho's acting was all that bad, but Spike Spiegal is a very difficult character to play. But the fact is, I only watched the anime once, and it's been a long time.
This might just be me, but I feel it would have been better if Ray voiced one of the Miracles, specifically Ryota or Seijuro. Especially the latter since Ray can do that cocky and asshole behavior with a flavor of elegance pretty well, plus I feel he would be the only one to somewhat complement Hiroshi Kamiya when comparing the dub and original (of course I'm not a fan of Aleks Le's work as Seijuro from what I've heard of it, I like him just fine in other roles though).I just heard Ray Chase as Shogo so this should be fun.
There's also number24 and Try Knights if you're curious. I haven't watched either yet since All Out was the only rugby anime I've seen (which I thought was pretty good too, if a bit generic and I'd personally put other sports anime above it but I digress), the former I've heard had some well received reviews, and the latter is.. a mess apparently but I don't know how true that is. Though if you want more rugby then you'll have slightly better luck with manga instead (it's still not much but well).A few days ago I was reminiscing about "Jojo: Phantom Blood" and thinking about how cool the rugby match at the start of that manga was when adapted into the anime and scoffed at the idea of there ever being a rugby anime...