Shinichiro Watanabe’s new anime, Lazarus, can never measure up to his opus, Cowboy Bebop; and the reason why has nothing to ...

Shinichiro Watanabe's Lazarus has fantastic music, animation, choreography, and more, but it's severely lacking in a ...

Lazarus focuses on a recurring element of Watanabe's previous shows: an interest in futuristic dystopias where human capital has overreached. The numerous ways capital decays everything it touches are ...

More than anything else, Shinichirō Watanabe wanted Kamasi Washington to trust his musical instincts.

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It’s thanks to this raw humanity that Cowboy Bebop’s best quotes continue resonating with fans decades later. Even the show’s final words, “You’re gonna carry that weight,” are ...

If you were to ask just about any American anime fan which examples of the medium are among the absolute best, the odds are very high that their answer will include Cowboy Bebop, the ...

Corey Paul’s dream of leading a live funky jazz ensemble that nodded to the intergalactic noir-western series “Cowboy Bebop” seemed like a far-out fantasy. Now it’s a reality, and the show ...