“not a huge Cowboy Bebop fan — and when I have watched it, it's always struck me as much more noir than western”

oh, absolutely. Cowboy Bebop characters *wish* they were in a Western fiction world in which *someone* gets a happy ending. The cowboy fantasies are diagetic!

And the live action Bebop, with some actors I really like, couldn’t manage noir and went for gore instead. Pfui.

@charliejane