Cowboy Bebop Remix - worth a second watch
I had a hankering for Cowboy Bebop recently So I Netflixed the remastered, remixed, occasionally reanimated and re-edited version.
I watched an earlier version
of the series, and some differences are immediately obvious from a few episodes. The graphics are sharper and the new scenes and edits are great. They’ve redone some of the voices which works really well for the main characters, but is kind of spotty on the secondary ones. (Voice-over for anime is interesting — they’re still figuring out how over the top the voices need to be in relation to the graphics.) The stupid, overanimated menus are gone which is also nice. The small and large tweaks make the whole thing fresh.
Anyone who hasn’t seen the series should check it out. The characters and friendly noir sensibility along with the unblievable music (from Yoko Kanno) put it at a much higher level than any other anime series I’ve watched. They also make it a good series to show friends who don’t understand why you like it.
One other interesting note. Because of my compulsion to multi-task while watching TV, I tend to put subtitles on, no matter what I’m watching. So I have the subtitles and the dubbing on for Cowboy Bebop, and the translations are wildly out of synch.