Japan doesn’t care about whitewashing because they live in a much moe homogenized country where they are the norm, and not in the US where they would be a discriminated-against minority. They aren’t really concerned about representation in Hollywood because that’s a foreign country and they are represented in the…

To be cancelled after one season is the most anime thing the adaptation could have done.

Keanu is part Chinese (I think 1/4 from his mothers side).

Weebs had nothing to do with killing this show. 99% of Netflix’s viewers have no idea there was an internet backlash to this show at all. What killed it was that no one watched it to the end. The first one or two episodes had very high viewership, but then the numbers dropped off sharply, with most viewers not…

In Japan, Bebop had some trouble getting noticed at first. When it first aired, the network aired only five episodes (not even in the correct order) and then cancelled it; not because of ratings (which were decent) because they thought it was too violent. A year later another network picked it up and aired all the…

To be fair, Keanu Reeves is more Asian than Scarlet Johansson.

According to the Hollywood Reporter’s article on this, they saw something like 74 million views initially. But then they saw a 59% drop in viewership. People lost interest and didn’t finish it. Match that with the critical response and you can infer it crashed and burned. You can’t blow a budget on a sci-fi show that…

I think it’s more of a “foreigners liked Cowboy Bebop more than us and even they made fun of this”.

People who hate animation is pretty dumb. My friend said he preferred live action because of how much work and thought goes into every shot and I pointed out that in older animation frames had to be literally drawn by hand and he was pretty stumped by that.

I think this person probably thinks westerners like these anime adaptations because we keep making them for some reason.

It was a huge hit in the west but in Japan it did not do as well and is not a household name. The reason for this is that it was on a network that the entirety of Japan does not get and it was played late at night.

I enjoyed it well enough, still have a couple episodes to finish.  Loved the anime and I think the live action did a pretty decent job, though John Cho who I like as an actor was WAY to old to play Spike.

I was in college in 1999-2001 and can confirm that that's around the time I noticed it exploding. For many of us, this was our first time experiencing adult Japanese animation. Like, there were still people back then who were huge into anime, but CB appealed to a much wider audience. For me and my ex gf, it was how we…

“Remake it with Keanu.”

I tired to show my mom the anime once, even connecting it to a show she was really into at the time, but she could have been less interested. Now, she started watching the live action unprompted of her own free will. Not everyone has the stomach for anime.

I have to say, she doesn’t look like she’s had a lot of work done to her face if this is really how she looks. She looks like a pretty young woman with a regular body.

She looks so uncomfortable, in general. Oy. She can feel however she wants about it and I don’t care to comment on her body either, but it’s hard to feel sorry for a family whose entire brand is based around making others feel bad about themselves. They’re always carefully controlling every image, every moment,…

Congratulations. You managed to hijack the majority of this comment section with a (weird ass) discussion that has nothing to do with the actual issues presented in the article. Well done. 

Ironically, being upset about an actor taking a picture out of character is the kind of toxic, entitled fandom that made The Snyder Cut possible in the first place.

You should really seek medical help because you clearly can’t tell the difference between a fictional character and a real person.