{"id":544082,"date":"2026-07-16T09:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:21:10","slug":"the-creator-of-cowboy-bebop-has-advice-for-the-anime-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544082\/","title":{"rendered":"The creator of \u2018Cowboy Bebop\u2019 has advice for the anime industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLazarus\u201d is Shinichiro Watanabe\u2019s most stylized show yet.<\/p>\n<p>That may sound like hyperbole for the veteran anime director known for fusing space-opera grandeur with jazzy rhythms in \u201cCowboy Bebop\u201d and a samurai storyline with hip-hop aesthetics in \u201cSamurai Champloo\u201d \u2014 but in this case, it\u2019s objectively true.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 2025, \u201cLazarus\u201d features immaculately coordinated fight scenes supervised by the action choreography team for the \u201cJohn Wick\u201d franchise; a dizzyingly funky soundtrack crafted by Kamasi Washington, Bonobo and Floating Points; and a colorful cast of characters that includes an adrenaline-junkie parkour master, a Russian firearms specialist and a hacker extraordinaire who just happens to be a 15-year-old girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLazarus\u201d is Shinichiro Watanabe\u2019s most stylized show yet. That may sound like hyperbole for the veteran anime director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13913,247394,146,85,46,247396,247395,247393],"class_list":["post-544082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anime","tag-cowboy-bebop","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lazarus","tag-samurai-champloo","tag-shinichiro-watanabe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}