Perascamin posted...
Shut the hell up.
One of the most interesting aspects of Cowboy Bebop is its story.
Allow me to elaborate a bit more.
What I'm saying is that I don't hold the producers of this to adapt Episode 1, and Episode 2, and Episode 3... etc.
What I would like is for them to maintain the basic premise: Spike, Jet, Faye, and Ed are bounty hunters on the Bebop, and the setting is a futuristic populated solar system.
I don't even think the Red Dragon plotline needs to be a thing necessarily.
What I would like to see is crime and bounty hunting with a sci-fi leaning, much like the episodes of Bebop were. There was almost always something futuristic involved in the episodes: a dog that's been modified to be smart, a designer drug that makes you super aware, hyperspace gates, but the actual narratives of each episode felt very real: a chase through a crowded marketplace, a kidnapping, mafia wars, a heist, etc. All typical crime stories with futuristic flavor.
I figure that if the creators of this show can capture that, alongside the jazz/bop sound design and the rustic and slapdash nature of the universe, then the actual arc plots themselves are immaterial. That's more what I meant when I said the story doesn't matter as much as the aesthetic. I hope that makes it more clear.
Like you can shift things around a bit and have Ed come on much earlier, or have Faye be an antagonist for a bit, or stuff like that. Have you heard of the "Shooting Star" Cowboy Bebop manga? It was short, but it basically reworked the basic storyline and character flow, but kept the same aesthetic and framing, and I thought it was pretty good, even if it didn't last very long.
Contrast to stories like FMA and Death Note, where the overall plot is woven tightly into the identify of the show and how things progress, so people are expecting certain story beats to be hit by any adaptation.
