netflix's live action remake of cowboy bebop is finally here if you've never seen the original anime and want to know what to expect or if you're already a fan and want a refresher down memory lane this video is for you cowboy bebop follows a bounty hunting crew of the titular spaceship bebop there's spike spiegel a former member of the red dragon crime syndicate who's also an expert fighter and pilot spike's constantly butting heads with the bebop's owner jet black a former cop who now has a cybernetic arm after losing it on a case in which his partner double-crossed him at first it's just spike and jet on the bebop but they quickly began acquiring new members faye valentine invites herself onto the crew and her larger-than-life personality is constantly at odds with spike and jet it's revealed that faye was actually in an accident 54 years prior and was only recently woken up from a cryogenic sleep she has little memory of her previous life making her completely unfamiliar with her new futuristic surroundings and is in severe debt to cover her medical expenses the crew also picks up ed a free-spirited teenage girl who also happens to be a computer hacking prodigy and of course we can't forget about ein a genetically enhanced welsh corgi that spike brings aboard the bebop after a failed bounty while the series does have an overarching storyline the majority of the episodes or sessions as the series calls them are episodic in nature featuring one-off bounties or missions and that's where a lot of the fun is to be had there's a bounty on a sinister old man and an eight-year-old's body the crew fights a terrorist who uses teddy bears as explosives there is a whole homage to blaxploitation cinema that also features the crew on hallucinogenic mushrooms and in one of the most adored sessions spike heads to the space land amusement park to face off with the seemingly unkillable assassin puro whose genetic alterations had regressed his mind to that of a child the series overarching story revolves around spike's past with the red dragon syndicate and his violent rivalry with his former partner vicious if you've never seen the cowboy bebop anime and don't want to be spoiled now would be a good time to pause this video as spoilers for the end of the series are coming before joining the bebop crew spike was a member of the criminal red dragon syndicate but fell in love with his partner vicious girlfriend julia who he conspired with to run away from the syndicate and start a new life together when vicious finds out about this plan julia goes into hiding and spike fakes his own death before starting his new life as a bounty hunter aboard the bebop while spike is off on bounty hunting adventures vicious is up to his own nefarious doings he wipes out the rival white tiger syndicate despite a truce agreement with the red dragons and murders mal a former mentor of himself and spike eventually he turns his focus on the red dragon syndicate leadership while at first they managed to capture vicious he manages to escape and kill the syndicate leaders to take control for himself and just as spike and julia are reunited after years apart vicious sends men after them and julia is killed in the fire fight spike returns to the bebop for one last time to say his goodbyes to jet and fey and then sets off to kill vicious he finds vicious on the top of the syndicate building and kills him but is mortally wounded in the process as the series comes to a close spike collapses to the ground seemingly dead but his ultimate fate remains a mystery and that's everything that happened the original anime of cowboy bebop let me know some of your favorite moments in the comments below and what are you most looking forward to seeing in netflix's live action adaptation like this video if you found it helpful subscribe to this channel for more content like it that does it for me in this video but i'll see you in the next one [Music]