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Netflix is making a live-action 'Cowboy Bebop' series
Continuing on an apparent quest to secure the loyalty of classic anime fans, Netflix is following up yesterday's Evangelion news by acquiring a new version of Cowboy Bebop. This time it's doing the noir-ish bounty hunter series set in space as a live action TV show, and has commissioned 10 episodes that will be co-produced with Tomorrow Studios. We don't know a lot about the show yet, but the director of the anime series, Shinichiro Watanabe is listed as a consultant. The original anime series ran for 26 episodes, with a movie that arrived later. Netflix has tried its hand at live-action anime adaptations before, with Death Note, and we'd hope that experience leads to a better result with efforts like this one and its Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Marty Adelstein, the CEO of Tomorrow Studios is listed as an executive producer, and is also working on TV series versions of Snowpiercer and Hannah. It had announced development of the show back in June, and as the company said then, Chris Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok and Max Steel) will write the first episode, and Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, Helix) has confirmed he's writing for it as well.
What's on your HDTV: 'Cowboy Bebop' Blu-ray, 'Ascension'
While we enjoy the holiday reruns, this week some will be unwrapping an early present, as the acclaimed anime series Cowboy Bebop is released on Blu-ray. Also worth checking out is Syfy's three-episode mini-series Ascension, as well as the season finale of Homeland. PS3 gamers can expect a version of Resogun ported back to their console, while The Maze Runner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Tootsie (Criterion) come to Blu-ray. Look after the break to check out each day's highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).
Sunrise tests the limits of anime fandom
Anime fans are crazy. This is incontrovertible fact. They'll spend money on pretty much anything (last link NSFW) bearing the likeness of one of their favorite characters. But will they buy a DS card with a database of information about anime shows? Sunrise thinks so. They're ... probably right.If you've ever wanted to read background information about Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, or any of Sunrise's other animated series, in Japanese, and on your DS, then this program, whose title is something like Sunrise's Common Sense, Everyone's Lack of Common Sense, is precisely the product for you.
