I want to give it a chance due to the fact that the creator of Cowboy Bebop crapped all over Netflix's horrible adaptation of his anime. Does Adult Swim have a good track record with anime? I used to watch a lot in the early 2000s but not as much since then.
I’m sure some have their gripes, but even recently demon slayer and stack on titan came through them, plus all the anime that was breakthrough in the US was mostly them, DBZ, Trigun, bebop, inuyasha, yu yu hakusho, etc.
I was just curious. I notice a lot of anime are based on Manga. I'll give this show a chance though. Anime seems to have avoided a lot of the woke western poison. Well to someone who isn't as knowledgeable it seems that way.
They also kept ghost in a shell alive for a long time, brought samurai champloo to the us, same as Neon Genesis Evangelion and a plethora of others. I’m not a fan boy by any means but they have really delivered some great shows that wouldn’t have seen US audiences especially back then.
Does Adult Swim have a good track record with anime?
Yes and No.
When its something they like, they will move heaven and earth to support it. They literally made new seasons of FLCL through sheer force of passion and love for the series. The quality was eh, but it was a high bar to clear and you can tell they at least loved the source.
On the flipside. They spent most of a decade shitting on anime fans and treating them like dirt, because Inuyasha made them too much money to cancel despite them hating it. Until Toonami came back they basically shit on anime as much as they could get away with, and only scaled back now because of how consistently its making them money.
So it really comes down to how petty and whiny they feel about it.
Given they're just funding a japanese studio, not creating their own thing, it could work.
The last time this happened the japanese didn't like Big O and Cartoon Network funded the second season. That's the one with lawyer batman and the giant punch mecha.
According to a new report from Variety, Adult Swim has ordered a new anime series for Toonami by Shinichirō Watanabe, legendary director of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, and studio Mappa, the popular animation studio behind Chainsaw Man and the final seasons of the mega-popular anime series Attack on Titan.
Given thar MAPPA are also behind this and they have HIGH quality (to the fact fans worry about the health of animators to get this much detail done) chances are it'll be good
John Wick director Chad Stahelski is also involved in the project, providing choreography for its action sequences.
Damn they are going all or nothing on this! Just provide the money and let everyone mentioned here handle everything else and you might have a hit.
Really good chance of this kicking a lot of ass with the staff they have on board. Chainsaw Man was kind of disappointing but you can't say it didn't look really good.
You’re a flagrant retard. Bebop was so massively successful in Japan it relaunched a whole new wave of jazz obsession off the show alone. I’ve been to Japan multiple times and have even been to a jazz bar there that has a “See you later space cowboy” neon sign. You can have your own opinion on show quality but don’t blatantly lie about how massively successful that anime was in Japan.
Seeing how stupidly long this comment chain is reminded me of an old image macro from when I was a kid.
"Arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded."
I can't help but notice you're wasting your time arguing with a retard that hates anime in spite of their username and these things just aren't as funny to me as they used to be.
Bebop received universal critical acclaim and won the renowned Seiun Award in 2000, a Japanese science fiction award for the best science fiction work published during the preceding year, as determined by the Japan Science Fiction Convention. It was named Best Media of the Year by the Science Fiction Convention.
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In 2006, the Japanese MiniTokyo review claimed, "To say nothing more, it is a masterpiece, a genre defining series that has a right to be held in such high confidence. Not many series can do even one of the elements as well as Cowboy Bebop does, and even fewer can actually get every single solitary aspect of themselves to such a high degree of excellence. Everything in this anime falls into place with such perfection that makes it all organic and real and following to the extent that they do. From the full gamut of emotions to the roughs and roughnecks of the Bebop, to the masterful soundtrack that gives life to many of the episodes themselves, to the art that so perfectly conveys the mood and atmosphere of the entire work. Cowboy Bebop is not an anime to be missed, and not to be forgotten."
You were saying princess? It was massively successful and just because some weebs in Japan aren’t currently jerking it to Valentine statues didn’t stop it from being massively successful at the time. You have repeatedly shown you only know Japan from a distance and it’s beyond hilarious.
points to awards given by a few niche/subgenre conventions and "critical acclaim" of all things
Such a niche it’s considered the Japanese equivalent of a Hugo award and has been active since 1970….
You have to be the stupidest fuck alive. We get it, you couldn’t jerk it to bebop because there wasn’t a Loli. Every single viewership number of the original run in Japan proves you wrong, but please go on with your conjecture.
Here’s the final question princess, how much time have you spent in Japan?
I want to give it a chance due to the fact that the creator of Cowboy Bebop crapped all over Netflix's horrible adaptation of his anime. Does Adult Swim have a good track record with anime? I used to watch a lot in the early 2000s but not as much since then.
I’m sure some have their gripes, but even recently demon slayer and stack on titan came through them, plus all the anime that was breakthrough in the US was mostly them, DBZ, Trigun, bebop, inuyasha, yu yu hakusho, etc.
Is Lazarus based on a Manga? Also, Adult Swim was where I first saw Trigun. Great anime.
Not that I’m aware of but Bebop wasn’t either
I was just curious. I notice a lot of anime are based on Manga. I'll give this show a chance though. Anime seems to have avoided a lot of the woke western poison. Well to someone who isn't as knowledgeable it seems that way.
they cancelled the big o season 3 so they could make squidbillies.
They also kept ghost in a shell alive for a long time, brought samurai champloo to the us, same as Neon Genesis Evangelion and a plethora of others. I’m not a fan boy by any means but they have really delivered some great shows that wouldn’t have seen US audiences especially back then.
Ah, yes. Big O. The series with easily one of the most inscrutable and fucked-up ending for an anime series.
God, I want to rewatch it all of a sudden. I've seen some old theories taking apart the symbolism in that show and holy shit, it went deep...
I did like Batman Kaiju.
What? Big O predates that shit by like a decade, at least.
bro you're going to feel old when i tell you big o season 2 ended in 2003 and squidbillies started in 2005
That piece of shit has been around since 2005? Seriously I never noticed it in the years between, though to be fair I don't watch a lot of television.
They were the reason season 2 got made at all
Yes and No.
When its something they like, they will move heaven and earth to support it. They literally made new seasons of FLCL through sheer force of passion and love for the series. The quality was eh, but it was a high bar to clear and you can tell they at least loved the source.
On the flipside. They spent most of a decade shitting on anime fans and treating them like dirt, because Inuyasha made them too much money to cancel despite them hating it. Until Toonami came back they basically shit on anime as much as they could get away with, and only scaled back now because of how consistently its making them money.
So it really comes down to how petty and whiny they feel about it.
Given they're just funding a japanese studio, not creating their own thing, it could work.
The last time this happened the japanese didn't like Big O and Cartoon Network funded the second season. That's the one with lawyer batman and the giant punch mecha.
Given thar MAPPA are also behind this and they have HIGH quality (to the fact fans worry about the health of animators to get this much detail done) chances are it'll be good
Damn they are going all or nothing on this! Just provide the money and let everyone mentioned here handle everything else and you might have a hit.
Really good chance of this kicking a lot of ass with the staff they have on board. Chainsaw Man was kind of disappointing but you can't say it didn't look really good.
You’re a flagrant retard. Bebop was so massively successful in Japan it relaunched a whole new wave of jazz obsession off the show alone. I’ve been to Japan multiple times and have even been to a jazz bar there that has a “See you later space cowboy” neon sign. You can have your own opinion on show quality but don’t blatantly lie about how massively successful that anime was in Japan.
Seeing how stupidly long this comment chain is reminded me of an old image macro from when I was a kid.
"Arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded."
I can't help but notice you're wasting your time arguing with a retard that hates anime in spite of their username and these things just aren't as funny to me as they used to be.
fucking lol. I came to this thread, saw "...continue reading thread?" and figured I should move on.
Sometimes these threads can be worth a read. But as soon as a guy with a username like that comes in with a Very Strong Opinion, bail.
This is you believing otaku is the only anime fan base in Japan which shows how blatantly fucking stupid you are.
Bebop received universal critical acclaim and won the renowned Seiun Award in 2000, a Japanese science fiction award for the best science fiction work published during the preceding year, as determined by the Japan Science Fiction Convention. It was named Best Media of the Year by the Science Fiction Convention. ... In 2006, the Japanese MiniTokyo review claimed, "To say nothing more, it is a masterpiece, a genre defining series that has a right to be held in such high confidence. Not many series can do even one of the elements as well as Cowboy Bebop does, and even fewer can actually get every single solitary aspect of themselves to such a high degree of excellence. Everything in this anime falls into place with such perfection that makes it all organic and real and following to the extent that they do. From the full gamut of emotions to the roughs and roughnecks of the Bebop, to the masterful soundtrack that gives life to many of the episodes themselves, to the art that so perfectly conveys the mood and atmosphere of the entire work. Cowboy Bebop is not an anime to be missed, and not to be forgotten."
You were saying princess? It was massively successful and just because some weebs in Japan aren’t currently jerking it to Valentine statues didn’t stop it from being massively successful at the time. You have repeatedly shown you only know Japan from a distance and it’s beyond hilarious.
Such a niche it’s considered the Japanese equivalent of a Hugo award and has been active since 1970….
You have to be the stupidest fuck alive. We get it, you couldn’t jerk it to bebop because there wasn’t a Loli. Every single viewership number of the original run in Japan proves you wrong, but please go on with your conjecture.
Here’s the final question princess, how much time have you spent in Japan?
They've dropped the trailer, and it looks like exactly what you'd want from a Watanabe anime.
https://youtu.be/w0QUbIzu8ek