And hell yeah it looks cool.
Itās on CR and itās pretty ok! Really flat voice acting, which I wish was Japanese. Apart from that it looks, moves, and sounds great. Really neat character designs. My only issue is that it sorta plays like an old rehash of scenes from Watanabeās other shows, especially Zankyou No Terror. That war sequence is stunning though.
Coming off of the promos for 2049, itās really nice to see some designs that feel like theyāre taking the Blade Runner aesthetic somewhere newāan interpretation that pulls as much from the ideas behind the old designs as from the movie itself.
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Wait, is it only English dub? If so, count me out. Itās been nearly 20 years since Cowboy Bebop and nothing Shinichiro Watanabe has done since has come anywhere close IMO.
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It is English only, with a very flat delivery style 
This year I rewatched all of his TV, and I honestly think his whole body of work doesnāt get a fair shake. Thereās some extremely strong TV and beautiful little character moments all over his career.
In classic Shinichiro Watanabe form, the fight scene is fantastically directed.
After watching it all I could think was āthat would have made a good climax to an episode of Bebop, but it wasnāt Blade Runnerā.
Proof: https://twitter.com/PatMichailidis/status/912756078781370368
This is both good and bad. As much as I think youād have to change Blade Runner to make it work in 2017, theres an asshole Blade Runner Purist inside of me that, after this, has even less confidence that 2049 can pull it off.
Though I wish we were getting a whole movie about the main characters in this and not about Rick Deckard wannabe Ryan Gosling.
you SHUT UR MOUTH about kids on the slope
I love Kids on the Slope. Itās probably my #2 from Watanabe. But it doesnāt hold a candle to Bebop. I donāt think any of his shows are bad, they just arenāt Bebop. Itās kind of like how thereās āDo The Right Thingā and then thereās all other Spike Lee films. One clearly stands above the rest.
@BriBri I trust Watanabe to constantly deliver on great character moments in pretty much anything he makes. The thing he struggles with, in my view, is building a cohesive and impactful overarching narrative. He only really did it once with Bebop, and heās even tried to retcon the ending of Bebop in more recent interviews.
2049 seems to be getting positive word of mouth so far.
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The funny thing is, Iād argue that the episodic or smaller bits of Cowboy Bebop are stronger than the whole ānarrativeā. Seeing his characters interact against new strangers and seeing new sides of them that way is my favourite aspect of his work 
This is getting off topic to the actual short though, so Iāll stop here!
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I agree. I guess what Iām saying is that all of Watanabeās shows have interesting episodic bits and character interaction, but Bebop is the only one that managed to string it all together into something grander.
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I agree with that
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Very happy about this! I want 2049 to be good so badly.
