As the first anime to ever be broadcast on Adult Swim-it came to the States in 2001-it was a harbinger of anime's rise in the US.įor his part, Cho has demonstrated his acting chops in a number of science fiction joints in the past few years-memorably as a lead in the tech-inflected indie film Searching, as Hiraku Sulu in the Star Trek trilogy, and, more recently, in an episode of Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone. The anime masterpiece is a mashup of interplanetary operatic science fiction, noir, and western.
'He travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner, Jet, pursuing the future's most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm, charisma-and deadly Jeet Kune Do.'įor the uninitiated, Cowboy Bebop follows a crew of 'cowboy' bounty hunters in a ship called, well, Bebop.
Spiegel is 'an impossibly cool 'cowboy' (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare,' Netflix said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.