Netflix, hey, how's it going? Uh
Haven't had to talk about you in a while, you know since violet ever garden
It's still very good show by the by how you been? Oh, you have some news why?
Man, that was unexpected. So
In the last like 48 hours Netflix has come forward with two
major pieces of news and they are so big that I'm like now I have to I have to talk about this because a simple
Twitter thread will not get my thoughts out on this in any way shape or form properly
So first thing good news and this is not like just personal opinion. This is just flat-out good news
I can't think of any negative way to take this except maybe in some like bigger picture sort of way
Netflix has gained streaming rights to neon genesis evangelion
Holy shit, Evangelion has been out of print unavailable for North American audiences for over ten years
something that is kind of mind-boggling when you think about it considering
Evangeline's popularity here in the West but for whatever reason the show has been unavailable for the longest time and now suddenly
Netflix is like yeah. Hey
Evangelion there you go. Now, I don't consider myself a general expert in this particular this particular topic
I have had discussions with people over the years trying to figure out what why
Evangelion has or has not ever made its way back over here because after its license expired I would have thought and most people probably
Would have thought a number of years back that
Every company here in the West would have wanted to get booed. The actual rights to Evangelion is a slam dunk
Property to have yes, one of the most popular anime of all time
Yes, every single company would want that piece of pie
But it was always kind of this weird
Curiosity as to why no one ever came up
Funimation was able to pick up the rights to the rebuild films and they dubbed those as time went on even though there was some
Interesting delays on 3.0 and now you know 4.0 probably is not going to happen, but no other company really picked it up
So you could tie this down to possibly one of two things one money, whether it's Gainax or some other entity
That owns the four even Gillian over in Japan. They know what it's worth
They know exactly what it's worth and they probably put a very high price tag on the streaming rights for this series
High enough tag that maybe no company was willing to pay for what they were gonna again Funimation
Probably wasn't willing to pay it crunch ro wasn't willing to pay it. It's very possible
That money was the issue. The other thing that could have been the issue is either relationships or you know
Hideki ah
No
It's very possible that Funimation or crunchyroll just didn't have the inward connections to start the negotiations to get the rights in the first place
Considering Funimation was able to get the rebuild films
It seems kind of weird again, but you know these things do happen
But the bottom line is that now Netflix just cut through all of that tape and holy crap
Evangelion is coming to the States again. Well, not just the states all of North America
I don't know why I say the states because I'm from Canada and I should probably have that as my default
but I know that like the vast majority my audience is American and I'm just kind of having to own that so that is the
absolute
good news
there is nothing bad about that news having access to Evangelion without having to go and dive for like
Those those old premium collection sets that are ridiculous prices or you know
Do what I had to do and by the 10 never buy a tin ever, but you know
That would have just been it and I was even thinking yesterday
That I was just going to do a video and just talk about that because that was kind of important
But I was kind of hemming and hawing and then I had a big-ass fever yesterday. So that just didn't happen. But then
lo and behold
Netflix was like, ah, you like that news? Eh, well, we have we have some other anime news to share
Netflix is producing a live-action
cowboy bebop series
Boy so ok
like, uh
I don't even know where to go with this because I know
The the knee-jerk reaction is to be extremely pessimistic about this and to be extremely negative and can you blame me?
No
You really Hollywood has a very bad track record for adapting anime into live-action
Netflix themselves have done these things before and we know how that turned out last time
So thinking that this is obviously going to be a good thing is
Not something. I'm willing to say so really what we know right?
We know three things right three things about this cowboy bebop adaptation one
It's happening in Netflix is producing it now. That is not
Necessarily an indicator of its quality a lot of Netflix things have been very well produced
There is a lot in the Netflix kind of wheelhouse that has been very very well done
But you know not everything that they've made is open that great. Number two is that Shakira wantanabe is being brought on as a
consultant now
There are positives and negatives to this
Positive side having Shin Shara Watanabe attached to this project in any way
could generally be seen as a good sign what worries me with that and what I want to be pessimistic about because I can't
force myself to be optimistic about it is the fact that he's only a
Consultant because that's the thing
consultants don't really have a lot of power because you just
consult with them
You don't have to listen to them
Now the positive spin I can think to put on this is that is in the consultant position of his own accord
Potentially like bebop hasn't been touched since the film came out and this is getting close to like 20 years now
So it's very possible that once a nabe really doesn't
want to be fully involved in another V ba production and
So he's just in the consulting thing so that he can just kind of
You know be there to step in if need be otherwise
Maybe perhaps he would have been on as a producer or an executive producer or something like that
That's me being optimistic about it the pessimistic side of me though
I was thinking that he's just kind of there to placate people in the same way that production i.g
Was a consultant on the ghost in the shell' film and we know how that turned out, too
The third thing that came out the third thing that we know for sure
Is that episode one is being written by
A writer whose name? I don't actually remember at the at the top of my head
I'll put it down here and he was the writer for Thor Ragnarok now
This has both a kind of a neutral thing and a somewhat positive thing
Maybe the neutral thing is a buddy writer Thor Ragnarok was a really good film
I enjoyed that a lot and there are a lot of sci-fi elements in it. It is a lot goofier than B Bob
So I just hope that he doesn't decide to do the same thing, but I wouldn't expect that of a writer
I'd like to think that ya know they will take
The the universe of bebop into account when they do their writing and that's a pretty good thing
So I actually think that him as a writer is a fairly neutral thing
Nothing, very positive or negative about it. The interesting thing though is that it said episode 1 which kind of
infers, there's going to be a
Two and three and so on so then it 100% confirms that this is not a film
It's a series which changes things now. The problem is is that we don't know anything else beyond that. This was actually
personally, I'd like to say that this was a very bad announcement to make because there's nothing in it to really help us get a
grip on what this production is going to be like so all that's left for us to do is make assumptions which
isn't always the best thing to do and
Try and hope there's a lot of hoping here now. There is a lot of reading between the lines
We do have a whole slew of names of people attached as executive producers is a lot of people for midnight radio
And of course sunrise itself that are attached as executive producers on this project, so potentially it could be a good thing
but it really comes down to who is the one in charge or what is the group of people in charge that is
overseeing the narrative of this
Series we don't necessarily know we can just guess based on who is currently attached to it
It is extremely easy to be pessimistic on this project
Extremely easy. Everyone's going to be pessimistic. Everyone's going to shoot this down
so
What can I do to be positive I can have hope in?
Basically one thing so Netflix Hey buddy Netflix, if if you're listening if you watch this at all
Which I don't expect but if you do I just want one thing
one thing what I want to know one piece of
information and the answer to this piece of information the answer to this question will determine literally
My entire thought process on this project, right?
Cuz this one thing in my mind will make or break your project
It's not your actors
which most people would probably think is a pretty big deal and it is a big deal who you're gonna cast as these characters the
Crew of the bebop is a very big thing
They will make or break your project, but there is one position on this whole thing
That is so much more important at least in my mind
Who's you composer follow up? Why is it not? Yoko kanno now, of course, that's me
Assuming that it's not going to be yoko kanno, but let me just tell you Netflix if you get Yoko Kanno
Right, if you get Yoko Kanno, I will not care
How dog shit this product is now. Let me explain. Why really? Okay, cuz
Yoko Kanno knows music is so good
That if the show is back if the show is not a great adaptation if it is barely popcorn material
I won't care because it means that it helped to facilitate a new Yoko Kanno album
Especially in the style of bebop my god, I won't care I won't care
I won't care who's cast I won't care if
You bring in Keanu Reeves and Terry Crews and whoever the hell else to cast as everybody
I will not care if the entire film is just them
Talking about bell peppers and beef I won't not at all
If you go Cano it is the one creating the music behind the scenes. I'm done. I'm good. I'm sold. That's
all I need but if it's not going to be Cano that leads to some interesting questions because
with Cowboy Bebop the music is
so important bebop is in the name so you can't just
bro, anyone onto this you can't at any point think that the music on this project is an afterthought Oh
God please do not ever consider the music to be an afterthought
Let it be a forefront get Yoko Kanno on please like it's great that you have one to nabe as a consultants
That's great. Get Yoko Kanno pay her whatever you need to to attach you to this project because then that's it
That's all you need. That is literally it you get Cano and I won't care
about anything else
anything whatsoever, but
We don't know who they have for the music yet
And you know, it's possible. We might not ever find out until the show comes out and we can actually see the credits rolling
I'd like to think that if they did get Cano that they would announce it as soon as they have that confirmed
because that's kind of a big deal to let us know this but you know, I'm not
Expecting them to because that's not the way that Hollywood generally works
It would be great if they had Yoko Kanno and brought her in as the music but it's far more likely they're gonna get someone
From the West to do the music for this production, which I'm not saying that they can't do it
I'm just saying that that just won't
Help me deal with my anticipation of this project prior to its actual release if you want me to be excited about it
Beforehand that is a surefire way to do it. It's not no. Ah, yeah
no do that, please and you know, I
Could just be like, yeah, it'll be good or I could be more like doesn't matter if it's good
That's kind of the other thing is that it kind of doesn't matter that it's good ghost in the show came out
Last year, it was an okay film. It wasn't a great groundbreaking film
but I
Was okay with it
there are many different adaptations of ghost in the shell' there's different versions and you
Can kind of pick and choose which one you want and which one you like
You know me being a giant fan of ghost in the shell' did that means it does not mean that I am
Going to defend the ghost in the shell' arise or anything right? I'm not going to do that. It's it's okay
It's just okay and same with the film. It's just okay. It has some high points you have some down points
It's just okay. I don't have to love it just because it's goes to the shell and I feel like with bebop
It'll be the same thing. I'm thinking that it's probably just gonna be just okay, but
We'll have to see
So if you stuck it around all the way until the end, thank you for doing that
let me know what you think down in the comments or you know message me on Twitter and
And we'll maybe have a talk about that to try and figure out what's going to happen with this project
I'd like to be hopeful at the very least Netflix. Thank you for Evangelion. That is so great
It means I don't have to lend out my DVDs anymore also
Hey, you get it in blue, right my god, that'd be great. Also. Hey, if you could like get the physical release rights
Or if you already have them and just let us know that you're gonna release Evangelion on blu-ray, that'd be great, please. Thank you
But you know, that's might be a bit too much to ask. So that's it for me until next time watch more Hana mate
and
Stay frosty
I want to be hopeful. Oh, right