@Aramsolari, in his video he stated that Shinichirō Watanabe was a consultant, but he has stated in multiple interviews that they never communicated with him.
Hajime Yatate, the Sunrise animation staff that worked collectively to create the Cowboy Bebop anime, have stated they would like to write an episode for the Netflix Cowboy Bebop and were willing to consult, but also have stated they were never contacted and whenever they reached out themselves they were ignored.
So it came across a bit disingenuous to me for him to state otherwise right from the beginning of the video.
My overall thoughts on Netflix's Cowboy Bebop is the issue is with the Production Staff and Script Writers that Netflix chose, they clearly had no understanding of the source material, and worse, they didn't WANT to understand the source material. They wanted to make their own thing while using the names fans would recognize in the hopes of bilking them for money.
For an example of an adaption done correctly, I see Good Omens from Amazon Prime as a perfect example. While one of the original authors is dead the other is still alive, they actively involved him in decisions from casting to story, worked with him to give opportunities for script writers and actors to talk to him to understand the story and the characters, to bounce ideas off him and to find out if there were ideas discussed for the books that never made it in, and then asked him to do PR interviews to talk about his experience working on the show, the changes that were made, and why they were made. He did a great job of this so the show was well received, making enough money that the Season 2 has been green lit.
I see Netflix's Cowboy Bebop much more like BBC's The Watch, where the family and estate for the now deceased author have made statements across multiple interviews that the Production Staff and Script Writers for the show made it abundantly clear they only wanted the names from the books to be pasted onto the characters and locations on the story they want to tell to draw the eyes of views (money) but had no interest in the source material story or character development.
The Faye Valentine/Daniella Pineda drama is just a symptom of the bad decision making of the Production Staff. If the Production Staff felt she was a good choice THEY should've made a statement explaining why, which would've been far easier to do honestly if they had actually interacted with Hajime Yatate. Instead, they put her out there to make an idiotic attack on fans for asking, "Why her?" She's an actress, she was selected for a role, she never should've been the one put out there to defend that decision (just like a lower enlisted in the military should never be the one put out to explain the decisions of their commanding officers), instead she should've only been speaking on her experiences with the creation of the show (like what the rest of the core cast was doing.)
As for the Ed drama, the first time I heard of anyone attacking the person selected to play Ed was during that video. The only complaints I've seen up until then was that Ed and Ein are also central characters to the anime, that if I remember correctly were introduced in Episode 3, that contributed significantly to plot development as well as the character development of the rest of the central characters, so not introducing them until the last 40 seconds of the final episode AFTER Spike fought Vicious makes no sense beyond hoping that belated pandering would buy them a second season.
