>>213915122

I think there's a lot of parallels you could make with our world and Cowboy Bebop's near future setting. Rampant corruption, sketchy police, natural disasters, and the exploitive nature of the gig economy(the rewards for bringing in criminals sound generous but the crew is always totally broke after buying supplies and repairing the ship).

The way Faye is treated after being revived from cryogenic preservation seems like something we'd actually see in our world in the near future. No one gives a shit that she's going to experience culture shock and grief for her family. or that she might have interesting insights about history and culture that were lost after the gate accident. They just see a vulnerable person they can scam and load debt onto.

But they handed the franchise to a bunch of nepo brats who beelined for the stuff they found interesting like the one genderbending gay guy who was an ally for a couple episodes in the anime.

Everything else feels like a nitpick.
>Spike and Faye both have surviving mother figures and Jet has a child, which muddles the theme of the ship's crew as a family
>Real people don't move around like anime characters. I'd have probably gone for the same vibe as early 90's Hong Kong action movies like Hard Boiled for the action scenes.
>Spike is traumatized because he killed a "kid" during a mission but it was a 20ish year old actress with her hair in pigtails so it felt like a copout
>Lots of Millennial writing shit like characters screaming/swearing as a humor substitute

>>212297983

Villain is a pathetic figure you're supposed to laugh at and not a dangerous threat or a badass you're guiltily secretly cheering for.

Instead of the hero striving and improving to rise to the challenge before them, they realize they were badass all along.

Telling, not showing. I listened to a horror podcast called Old Gods of Appalachia for awhile and it kept reminding me how much I liked a certain character and making corny little asides about what a good boy another character's pet dog was.

Poisoning even the most serious scenes with faggy Joss Whedon style quips.

Created by nepoids who've never skipped a meal or been in the military or had any real life experience. Live action Cowboy Bebop for instance. The animu has so many potential parallels to current day stuff like the corrupt police, environmental disasters, and the sketchy nature of the gig economy(note how the Bebop chases these rewards that seem really generous but after maintainance and collateral damage etc they always end up flat broke again by the next episode). But they gave it to a bunch of weird theatre kids who of course beelined for shit like an androgynous side character.