“It started with a scene in a casino, which made it very tough for me to continue.

I stopped there and so only saw that opening scene.”

I felt that maybe I should have done this.

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Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, and Ed in ‘Cowboy Bebop’.Credit: Snap Stills/REX/Shutterstock

Although the value of the original anime is somehow far higher now."

The team behind the Netflix series certainly tried to capture the essence of the original anime.

What we talked about more than anything else was ‘Is this in the spirit ofCowboy Bebop?'"

He’s able to play with them and do pastiches that feel original."

“So they wanted to sell new plastic models of original spaceships.

That resulted in their order to make an anime where spaceships would show up.”