Netflix premiered Neon Genesis Evangelion. The new translation, coupled with music rights failures, means that Netflix fucked up a sure thing. No one is happy with it. The SJWs are mad at the change to Shinji's relationship to Kaworu. Fans are mad at the removal of "Fly Me To The Moon". Other translation changes, all going more literal and denotative, have ruined the experience for the target audience.
Meanwhile, folks observing Netflix' decline in competence over the last several years said "Told you so." as the shitshow unfolded. Now we're eyeing the upcoming adaptation of Cowboy Bebop with greater dread because--in addition to an utterly unnecessary medium shift from animation to live-action--we've got every reason to believe that it will turn out as well (badly) as the Death Note adaptation.
Missed that? You're lucky; don't seek it out. Watch the original anime, or read the manga, and instead see E;R's video on the incompetent execution of that abomination so as to spare yourself the pain.
There's more. If you want to see all of his video condemnation review, you can follow through on your own. It turns out that only Knights of Sidonia was any good, and that's increasingly obvious as a fluke or an artifact of a previous management regime. Either way, those of us who were skeptical of Netflix's handling of this series were proven correct and thanks to the Straw Hats the material remains accessible without the Netflix fuckups. Go watch their archives instead if you must watch it dubbed at all, learn Japanese so you can watch it raw, or learn to watch subtitled anime like reasonable men do.
In any event, cross Netflix off the list for the Star Knight anime adaptation.
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