Japanese anime is jam-packed full of incomprehensibly weird stuff that ranges from the preverted to the nonsensical. Tentacles, magical girls, bizarre versions of Catholic priests, harems, giant ridiculous robots and relations with females of dubious age-legality seem to be liberally slathered all over the genre. However, there are some really remarkable gems… “Cowboy Bebop” being about the top of the list. It is recognizably in the same vein as “Firefly,” with space bounty hunters roaming the solar system in ships that largely follow Newtonian physics, and with stories that tended to be intelligent, interesting, often funny and only occasionally anime-weird. There have been numerous efforts to make a western live action major motion picture version of it over the years, but now it looks like a live action version will hit Netflix.

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Live-Action Series Lands at Netflix

Details are currently lean, apart from 10 episodes having been ordered. But expect there to be a whole lot of screaming and yelling regarding he ethnicities of the main characters and the actors portraying them.