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How ‘Cowboy Bebop’ fails to live up to the original

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1998’s “Cowboy Bebop” stands as maybe the most revered piece of anime this side of “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell.” Netflix has boldly gone there anyway, adapting the animated sci-fi-noir-Western to a live action thriller with John Cho in the lead as brooding intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel.

Like all private eye yarns, this one revolves around a love affair gone wrong amidst a sea of questionable characters. But it’s mostly an excuse to hang out with a trio of mismatched, cranky, heart-of-gold space cowboys as they flit from one bad-idea job to the next.This “Cowboy Bebop” does a couple of things well.

First, it updates some racially-homogenous, glaringly sexist aspects of the original. Second, it’s good bait for viewers who shy.

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