News Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ tv series in the works
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Sulu's suit just looks... Off some how, the color is.. Off or something. Don't know.
Annnnnd there are people complaining that Faye's costume is not slutty as her anime counterpart. Because, you know, in real life going around dressed like this is certainly very practical and functional.
Yeah, that was obviously never gonna happen.
I'm worried that this is too close to the animation style. It comes off as more cosplayish or something like the 'Street Fighter' 1994 movie. I understand staying close to the material but I might have preferred something a bit more reinvented for live action.
Just saw this thread. I am... concerned. I LOVE the series and the movie. But the horror that was the US live action Ghost in the Shell has made me rather gunshy. At least I might get new Yoko Kanno music out of it.
As far as I can tell, the two projects' production teams have only one person in common, Tetsu Fujimura, who's one of numerous executive producers on both. Since one of his IMDb credits is as a "financial advisor," I figure he's the business/money kind of EP rather than the creative kind. So I see no reason to expect any similarity. Not to mention that American blockbuster action movies are generally shallower and dumber than TV series.
They've certainly avoided the biggest mistake of the GitS movie, the whitewashed casting. And it does look remarkably authentic.
No one who wants this costume in real life has ever been to a convention. It was not meant for actual human bodies.Annnnnd there are people complaining that Faye's costume is not slutty as her anime counterpart. Because, you know, in real life going around dressed like this is certainly very practical and functional.
Spike's hair has green highlights in the anime.So, Faye's hairs are really purple? I always thought it was one of that anime conventions, like we see purples lights but in universe they have black hairs. A little like Sailor Moon, we see her blonde but in the cartoon universe she has black hairs.
This is decent cosplay that gives an idea of what a costume faithful to the original might look like in real life.
Putting aside the total impracticability of it and the fact that one could only use it in temperate climates, it would be problematic from a narrative point of view. In the Cowboy Bebop universe, women's fashion is not unlike ours, especially in the amount of exposed skin. She would stand out too much, and as viewers we would wonder "Errr, how come no one of the other characters points out that she is dressed like a stripper?!?"
I know the shorts are a non starter, though some women do Want to dress like that, and honestly the movement to de sexualize women is going to the Burka not showing anything side. Let women dress as they want to dress, get the imput of the actress and see what there comfortable with with no pushing.
But anyways, the shorts as seen are a no go, but the top, and especially the red light jacket would work. What my mind first thought was, she isn't wearing her jacket right.
Maybe atleast keep the yellow color of the shorts in whatever they ended up with would have been nice.
But anyways, the shorts as seen are a no go, but the top, and especially the red light jacket would work. What my mind first thought was, she isn't wearing her jacket right.
Maybe atleast keep the yellow color of the shorts in whatever they ended up with would have been nice.
Humans dress basically for two reasons:
1) Protect their body from the external environment
2) Respect local customs on what is suitable to wear on certain occasions.
In the anime, Faye's clothes don't respect these reasons because:
1) she always dresses like this, regardless of the climate. Also, as a bounty hunter, she finds herself in situations (shooting, running in dangerous environments, hand-to-hand combat) where it would be a great idea to cover up as much as possible.
2) there are occasions when dressing like this would be simply disrespectful or counterproductive. Imagine if she (for reasons related to her job as a bounty hunter) goes to ask for information at a place of worship or a financial institution where formal attire is required. She would be lucky if she made it through the entrance without being kicked out.
Obviously being an anime they are things that are not even noticed (there are characters in other anime with even less practical clothes), but in a live show they would stick out like a sore thumb.
If you look closely, Faye's live-action costume is essentially the same in broad strokes as her anime costume -- midriff-baring yellow top with wide collar, red jacket, shorts, stockings, boots. It's just put together more plausibly, with darker colors, and she's actually wearing the jacket instead of tying it around her waist, as well as having her shorts fastened all the way. As live-action interpretations of cartoon costumes go, it's actually relatively close. She is missing the headband, though.
I'm no huge manga or anime fan but i've seen a few tentpole productions like Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion and above all Cowboy Bebop, which i love to this day.
I'm always apprehensive when such beloved movies or shows get adapted to a different format but what i've seen about Bebop makes ma cautiosly optimistic.
As to Fay's clothing - complete non starter for me. Anime often enough has ridiculous clothing styles, often enough the women, which have unrealistic body proportions to begin with and wear very sexualized clothes and most of the time there's no really good story reason for it other than to appeal to male teenage viewers.
When this gets adapted some things just have to go, getting worked up over this ist useless but then again fandom has a different opionion what's worthy of attention
I'm always apprehensive when such beloved movies or shows get adapted to a different format but what i've seen about Bebop makes ma cautiosly optimistic.
As to Fay's clothing - complete non starter for me. Anime often enough has ridiculous clothing styles, often enough the women, which have unrealistic body proportions to begin with and wear very sexualized clothes and most of the time there's no really good story reason for it other than to appeal to male teenage viewers.
When this gets adapted some things just have to go, getting worked up over this ist useless but then again fandom has a different opionion what's worthy of attention
Powdered wigs and stiletto heels might want to have a word. (no history lessons if wigs have some purpose, you get my point
) Much money could be saved if that was the only reasons people dressed.The look isn't a bad representation, if perhaps a bit overly muted, and maybe they can have some different outfits depending on what she might be trying to accomplish such as setting up a fat cat mark at a casino or whatever.
Powdered wigs and stiletto heels might want to have a word. (no history lessons if wigs have some purpose, you get my point
And this is why I used the word "basically".
Of course there are a lot of more reasons: fashion, projecting a certain image, adhering to some organization requirements (army police and so on), heck, even making a political statement. But at their core, clothes need just two requirements: protect you from the enviroment, and avoiding getting arrested for indecent exposure. 
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Well you have to consider this: Ed appeared only from the 9th episode and the Netflix show is composed by 10 episodes. It makes sens that he/she/they would debut in a hypothetical secondo season.
Well to be fair the amount of time each episode is going to last on Netflix is probably going to be approaching double the amount of time in each anime episode. So 10 episode of Netflix will be nearly 20 episodes of anime screen time.