Netflix Got Faye Valentine from ‘Cowboy Bebop’ All Wrong

If you know people who are incredibly well-versed in anime, odds are you’ve seen the name Cowboy Bebop pop into the conversation, and for good reason at that. The original anime series, which became a huge hit in the United States and also became a gateway for many English-speaking audiences into watching anime. And if you’ve seen the original show, it’d be really easy to see why Cowboy Bebop has stuck with many for this long.

When I saw Netflix was adapting Cowboy Bebop into a live-action series, there’s always the question being asked about what good could come from adapting what was already successful within the medium of animation into a live-action series. Over years, we’ve seen Disney do this with their own movies and the results have been less than satisfactory, but a live-action adaptation of an anime series isn’t a first for Netflix: we’d already seen the disastrous results of the 2017 Death Note film adaptation. Surely enough, it would be easy enough to get on board with most…