:-(

I would have liked to have seen more.
I think the mistake people make is to expect anime adaptations to be like anime. Live-action can't be like animation; it's an uncanny valley situation. It has to be substantially different if it's going to be good. But some fans feel that makes it unfaithful.
The Cowboy Bebop adaptation wasn't much like the anime; it was more like Firefly, TBH. But people who were expecting to see the animated original Bebop recreated on screen didn't like that. Oh well.
In my opinion, instead of adapting anime, Netflix should focus on adapting story-heavy Japanese video games like Final Fantasy. Those won't fall into the uncanny valley; they'll be more like comic book adaptations, which we've finally figured out how to do well.

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But "unequal opportunity" doesn't mean "no opportunity", and in fact there is LOTS of opportunity still out there in this country, and it matters a lot.
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In other contexts, don't we call that a "racial slur"?

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