Y'all ever think about how Bandai originally commissioned Shinichiro Watanabe to make a show about spaceships so they could sell a line of tie-in models and he came back with Cowboy Bebop
Bandai: We are a toy company that sells toy spaceships, so we were hoping you could make an anime about how cool spaceships are
Watanabe: Cool cool cool. But here me out: what if we made a noir-esque drama inspired by Honk Kong action movies and American television from the seventies with an original jazz score that explores the nature of loneliness?
Bandai:
Watanabe: It's okay, the main character has a spaceship. There's still a lot of spaceships.
I'm not even joking
























