Chatty AF 153: Cowboy Bebop Live Action Post Mortem from Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast

Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast

Anime Feminist

Chatty AF 153: Cowboy Bebop Live Action Post Mortem

1 hour 7 minutes Posted Dec 20, 2021 at 2:00 am.

Intros

In case you haven’t heard of Cowboy Bebop

The live action

One-word reactions

Personal histories with Bebop

Fan appeal vs new audience

Netflix Bebop vs Firefly vs other live actions

The cancellation and Tiger King

Faye’s characterization

Sanitized politics

A whitewashed black Jet Black

Faye’s race, sexuality, and 2nd wave feminism

Female body types in media

Moshi Moshi: Orientalism in cyberpunk

Faux diversity

Discount Witcher Vicious

Final thoughts

Outro

0:00

1:07:01

Share at current time

Show notes

Chiaki, Mercedez, and ButWhyTho’s Kate Sánchez perform a critical autopsy on Netflix’s unfortunate effort to resurrect a classic.

Chiaki: twitter.com/AnimatedEmpress

Mercedez: twitter.com/pixelatedlenses

Kate: twitter.com/OhMyMithrandir

AniFem Patreon: www.patreon.com/animefeminist

AniFem Twitter: twitter.com/AnimeFeminist

AniFem Facebook: www.facebook.com/animefem/

Recorded Saturday 11th December 2021

Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/