The problem with making something as impossibly cool and undeniably revolutionary as Cowboy Bebop is that, well, it’s borderline impossible to top it. And that’s what anime legend Shinichirō Watanabe has been trying to do in the quarter decade since Cowboy Bebop has been off the air. His succeeding productions have been remixes of varying degrees of the iconic 1998 anime series — some more successful than others. But they’ve been remixes nonetheless, and Lazarus, his new anime in collaboration with John Wick’s Chad Stahelski, is no different. But damn it, if it isn’t cool as hell.
