‘Cowboy Bebop’ star says studios must “worth” supply materials after panned Netflix collection

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Pineda starred as Faye Valentine alongside John Cho and Mustafa Shakir within the live-action collection model of the much-loved anime, which debuted on Netflix again in 2021. The primary season was 10 episodes lengthy and ended on a cliffhanger, however the streaming service cancelled the present simply three weeks after its premiere, after it obtained blended evaluations.

Chatting with The Direct concerning the present and followers’ response to it, Pineda mentioned: “I really feel like these animations, they imply a lot to individuals, and so they’re so private, and I believe individuals actually connect with once they watched it and the purpose of their lives.

“And so, I simply really feel like, and I’ll say this, having been in a single, I believe that these studios, they should do a greater job at valuing that IP. It’s actually particular. And folks on Bebop, they labored very, very exhausting, but it surely’s only a particular factor.”

She continued: “And I perceive why the followers felt the best way that they did, however I additionally assume that there’s a number of actually cool, great issues that we did.

“And I additionally want that we might have gotten the second season. You already know, generally you simply want one season to get issues going, and you then show your self.”

In addition to receiving damaging reactions from followers and critics, Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop was additionally slammed by Shinichirō Watanabe, director of the unique anime collection, on its launch. He mentioned: “It was clearly not Cowboy Bebop and I realised at that time that if I wasn’t concerned, it could not be Cowboy Bebop.”

The collection obtained a two-star overview from NME, with James McMahon writing: “Herein lies a nod to the elemental drawback with this hole rendering of unique director Shinichirō Watanabe’s huge, expansive, genre-bending imaginative and prescient. With basic scenes reshot body by body, this fleshy adaption of Cowboy Bebop so usually appears like dress-up. The relentless narrative that episodic tv requires is one other drawback.

“In Netflix’s replace, the area and inertia so core to the anime are jettisoned for a pacy tempo that actually doesn’t match with the story. It turns Cowboy Bebop into simply one other present.”