By David Futrelle
In these troubled times, it’s good to know that the guys at One Angry Gamer have their priorities straight. Forget police violence, forget the tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths caused by Trump’s utter mishandling of the coronavirus. The crucial issue of our time is exactly how short the shorts of Faye from Cowboy Bebop should be.
As you may know, Cowboy Bebop is a famously sexy Japanese anime show from the nineties that Netflix is resurrecting as a live-action series.
But one element of the original might not make it into the reboot: the exceedingly skimpy clothing of the character Faye. In an interview with io9, you see, show writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach mentioned that Faye’s outfits will be toned down a scootch because “we need to have a real human being wearing that.”
Naturally this has made Billy D of One Angry Gamer even angrier. Accusing Netflix of having
a certain kind of formula … which almost always undermines the original work to push some kind of subversive, Left-wing oriented message,
he laments that their version of the
Cowboy Bebop show will not be faithful to the original, especially when it comes to how sexy Faye is supposed to be dressed.
Who likes short shorts? Apparently not Netflix.
Billy is especially outraged by the idea that cartoon Faye wears clothes not fit for a real human.
So basically, wearing short-shorts, thigh-high stockings, thong suspenders, and a cropped V-neck sleeveless halter-top isn’t something “a real human being” would wear?
Well, no, it’s not. I’ve seen plenty of skimpy outfits in my day but I’ve never seen anyone dressed like Faye walking down the street.
You mean to tell me that real women have never worn what Faye has worn?
Generally speaking, no.
So the women who attend sporting events in the summer wearing cropped tops and short-shorts aren’t real human beings?
He then shows women wearing much less revealing shorts than Faye. And without the thigh-high stockings.
You mean to tell me that celebrities like Lady Gaga wearing cropped tops and short-shorts with heels are women who aren’t real human beings?
Well, no, but to be fair Lady Gaga once wore a dress made entirely of meat that has its own entry on Wikipedia. One time she wore this. And another time she wore this. In other words, she’s not really a good bellwether for “what real people wear” in the real world.
In the comments, One Angry Gamer’s completely normal readers responded in completely normal ways.
“I’m just done,” wrote one.
let this shitty society burn and let the kikes take over and let everyone go extinct
Another responded:
Nah.
lets burn the kikes instead and take BACK the society we once held dear
only this time, no more sympathy for subhumans
Huh. If I were running One Angry Gamer I’d be a little more perturbed by my own readers’ inhumanity than by the exact shortness of Faye’s short shorts.
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If you ever get to the UK I’ll take you for a night out in Camden.
Ah yes, the radical leftist agenda of wearing clothes.
I don’t think Billy is capable of self reflection, since he’s a Nazi just like the readers.
Semi related: I noticed OAG now has a Captcha thing for access, which usually is used for sites that are likely to be DDoSed or otherwise hacked.
@Alan
Were just thinking of Camden. Or Lewisham. Or Newcastle!
Short shorts and stockings are common enough going out gear round Woolwich, too (which is a significant improvement in coverage from when our girls were doing the clubbing thing. That … lead to much strife between the girls and the missus of a Friday and Saturday night. She didn’t approve.).
Would like to point out that there will be action, and skimpy clothing with no place to hide protective gear is *dangerous* for stuntwomen.
This is why a lot of action films feature men (and less often due to sexism and/or eye candy reasons, women) wearing heavy jackets. It’s not just to look cool.
@ shadowplay
That might be over-dressed for Newcastle. Maybe if there was a blizzard or something.
Cowboy Bebop is terrific*, but the length of Faye’s shorts is probably the least important aspect of the show. And I doubt they’ll have her wearing a sack: if they’re trying to stay reasonably true to the original, she’ll still be hot, just not “barely dressed” hot. This is not an extinction event.
* Well, the anime is terrific, but I’ll be surprised if the remake will do it justice. In particular, if they don’t replicate “Toys in the Attic” or they don’t have Yoko Kanno on board, I’m going to riot.
I would not be surprised if next this guy starts complaining that Edward isn’t sexy enough…
Moggie, be assured that Yoko Kano has signed on to score the live action series, or at least it’s been announced she’s on board but how much she’ll be doing isn’t clear.
You all got me intrigued, so listening now!
Pretty much all I know about Cowboy Bebop is that it’s considered one of the best dubs among anime and that “Tank!” is a kickass song.
Off topic, but JK Rowling has doubled down and gone full Graham Linehan
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269389298664701952?s=20
@Fabe:
Oh God.
@WWTH
Her whole timeline for the last few hours has been like that. This seems to have finally made some of her followers leave, as her follower count is plummeting in real-time.
Anyway, this is hardly the first time she’s been open about her TERFiness. She retweeted transphobic videos and Magdalen Berns multiple times, she defended Maya Forstater in December, and last month she “accidentally” retweeted a child’s drawing with an explicit blurb misgendering a trans* woman (she claimed it was an accident where she pasted the wrong text from her clipboard, even if that were true it would raise the question of why she had that on her clipboard in the first place).
I never liked Harry Potter much anyway (far too white, rather misogynistic, antisemitic AF, and the Dumbledore token retcon), but this really makes me want to get rid of any of her books I might have around.
It’s sad, in a way. She wrote a book about a boy who had to repress who he was then flourished when that was embraced, a theme which many LGBT people related to, and for her to turn out to be a bigoted asshole against those very people.
@Moggie, agreed.
Cowboy Bebop is in my top 5 favourite anime series; it’s so damn cool (and Spike is NOT dead, btw). But while Faye is a kickass character, her clothes are ridiculous, even by anime standards.
There are legit concerns around turning anime into live-action (it hardly ever works, imo). But this ain’t it, guys.
As another nerd who adores Cowboy Bebop, I can safely say that Faye’s pants are not even on my radar of concerns about the adaptation. I’m expecting it to suck because all live action adaptations of anime (and of most animated things) suck. Why remake a near perfect series?
Re: Spike being dead or not: the director likes to toy with people on that question, once answering a fan who asked why Spike had to die, ‘Did you see him die? I didn’t. He looked tired to me.’
Personally, I cried the first time I saw the final episode, but these days I like to think Spike really did take an impromptu nap on the stairs and that his friends found him soon after.
Isn’t One Angry Gamer also upset that people are taking his list of ‘traitors’ in gaming as a list of companies and people to check out instead? Seems like it’s not a good week to be One Angry Gamer.
@Wez
That’s great. He should be used to it by now though, this isn’t the first time that’s happened. Whenever incels/MRAs/Nazis/other horrible people declare how evil a movie or TV show is, it usually makes me more inclined to watch it.
Anyway, poor Billy. Boo hoo for him. /s
@WWTH
J.K. has now progressed to the “but some of my best friends are gay” defense. She apparently thinks this exonerates her.
I also find it interesting how she claimed to have a lesbian friend rather than claiming to have a trans* friend. She could have brought up a TERF token like Fionne Orlander (whom she invited to get drinks post-pandemic) or Debbie Hayton. But maybe she knew that was too much of a stretch?
@Naglfar: How is Harry Potter anti-Semitic? I’ve never heard that criticism before.
Okay. As a long time (and by long time, I mean around 40 years) anime fan, I can tell you this.
Faye’s traditional outfit is a thing that works on the cosplay stage. A measured, deliberate pace, and also under some social Anime convention situations. And yes, it can work very well indeed.
For “real life”– that is, actual day to day wear– and note that Faye does wear that somewhat limited outfit day to day– not so much.
And in anything remotely like an action scene– and believe me, Faye is very much a card-carrying member of the “Action Girl” trope squad– well, there’s a reason Bebop was animated.
Animated characters can wear stuff like that in acrobatic, high speed combat scenes, guns a-poppin’ and kicks a-flyin’, because they’re animated, and the artists can do magical things with the clothing.
In a live action film, not so much. Not so much at all. Even ignoring the difficulty of filming more than fifteen seconds of a typical fight scene in that outfit without a clothing malfunction– hint, you can’t– it would look cheesy as hell in live action. Especially for any extended scene at all. Faye may be a somewhat amoral, selfish, and downright crooked girl, but she ain’t stupid, and any actress trying to be taken seriously in that outfit will not only seem stupid, but a four star snickerdoodle of the most grandiose magnitude.
Seriously, giving the girl some pants is about the only way to allow a live action version to have any credibility whatsoever.
On the other hand, we could always allow him to see this…
and listen for the distant and oh-so-satisfying screams.
@personalpest
The main issue is the goblins at Gringotts which are depicted as greedy and large nosed. In the films it’s even worse, with the goblins speaking with vaguely Yiddish accents and having what appear to be Jewish caricatures of faces. They manage all the money, so I think we can all see where this is going. Later in the series, the goblins are shown as vicious debt collectors and betray Harry because they only care about money.
Here’s an article which does a better job explaining (tw for antisemitism). TL;DR is that the goblins are definitely antisemitic caricatures, intentional or not, and that’s a problem when this is media viewed by millions worldwide.
As for whether this means Rowling herself is antisemitic, that’s debatable, but it wouldn’t really surprise me given that TERFism is often connected to antisemitism given the propensity of TERFs to claim that trans* people or trans* healthcare are a Jewish pharmaceutical conspiracy.
@ Robert Haynie. Yeah their heads will explode if they ever see Man-Faye
I’m sure this live action reboot will do as well as the Death Note and Ghost In The Shell ones.
Wow. This guy is totally “reasonable”
Not even going to mention the live action Lupin the 3rd. 🙁