Like the series characters Wen (a man trapped in a child’s body) and Mad Pierrot (the clownlike assassin), Volaju was an antagonist on a tragic tier: a guinea pig for wartime experimentation, forced through bodily abuse to mold him into a supersoldier. as Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, a side story set between episodes 22 and 23 before Spike’s fateful mission to obliterate the Syndicate. In the original anime canon, Volaju is the antagonist of 2001’s Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, or known in the U.S. Who is Volaju aka the Butterfly Man? Image: Sunrise In Ed’s big ending scene, they inform Spike - through hard-to-decipher glee - that the bounty is “Volaju,” known as the “Butterfly Man.” And so another Cowboy Bebop season 2 plot thread is spun. He wanted breathing space to establish the world with Spike, Jet, Faye, and Vicious before “dropp the atom bomb that is Ed into that world to create chaos.” “I wanted to make sure that we were giving enough dramatic real estate to the character of Ed, because Ed is the great disrupter,” says showrunner André Nemec. When Ed should enter the picture of the live-action series was a point of discussion, since they weren’t part of the anime’s original lineup either. (Netflix could not confirm to Polygon whether the character uses the same.) The character is not listed in the credits, but Netflix noted in a tweet that this Ed is played by newcomer Eden Perkins, who uses they/them pronouns. Image: NetflixĪfter a conspicuous absence in Netflix marketing and theories about the iconic kid hacker’s appearance, Ed, along with Ein, the corgi who was abandoned by the Bebop crew due to his hackable brain implants, pops up in the live-action show with their white crop top, black pants, green-tinted goggles, and red hair lifted from the anime. (Technically, they upload the AI’s original personality to safety elsewhere and gives the Bebop a copy of the AI.) Ed’s famous for her kiddish one-liners, a loopy lens on life, and cartoony mannerisms (based on the dancing movements of series’ composer Yoko Kanno). Having debuted in the original anime’s ninth episode, “Jamming with Edward,” Ed, short for Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, is a loopy 13-year-old hacker who joins the Bebop team in exchange for helping the crew attain a bounty that turns out to be an AI. Subtitles identify the person as “Ed” and viewers of the anime can identify the quirky figure as the one and only Radical Edward.
When Spike cracks open his eyes, he finds an oddball kid dispensing some gibberish about assigning Spike a possible bounty. Season 1 ends on Spike wandering drunkenly in an alley until he collapses to the pavement. But those who binge the series to the end may have questions after the flesh-and-blood iterations of Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, as played by John Cho and Mustafa Shakir respectively, part ways due to personal rifts. Based on reactions from fans of the OG 1998 neo-noir western anime directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop may be a worthy mixed bag or a forgettable cash-in.
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