Turns out? The music was at the heart of the show all along. The music that made made me decide that my whole design aesthetic in college was anime wall scrolls (oops!) sent me on an internet deep dive into the history of how the series all came together. Now, 23 years later, CowBe (as some Japanese Cowboy Bebop viewers affectionately call it) fans are buckling in for a new symphony of unforgettable tunes for the live-action Netflix series promised to us by the original composer, Yoko Kanno. The music, the mood, and the fun are all so simply communicated to the viewer in this celebration of sound that has been ringing in our ears since 1998 (or 2000 if you were outside Japan). You hear that beat? Can you feel your foot start tapping and your heart begin to race? This is it. Go ahead and hit play on “Tank!” I’ll wait. It was like nothing I had ever heard before, and still sticks with me to this day. I mean, do y’all REMEMBER that time that they accidentally re-aired the same episode twice in 2 weeks because they COULDN’T FIND THE TAPE? Ah, the drama of it all! But listen, even as an adult, my memories of scenes of the anime always come with the music that played along with them. For me, it takes my brain to a halcyon time as a teenager where my friends and I gathered around the tiny tube TV in my dorm and tuned into Adult Swim so we could catch the latest episode together and scream like the little weeaboo babies we were.
The iconic bongo drums paired with the brassy sounds of horns, saxophones, and pure big band sound of “Tank!” can stop any Cowboy Bebop fan in their tracks. DUN DUN DUH DUN DUN DUH DUN DUNNNNNN! 3, 2, 1.
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