By Rafael Motamayor Shinichiro Watanabe’s first anime, “Cowboy Bebop,” was quite an opening act. A story of space bounty hunters trying to scrape by, its genre mash-up of westerns ...

The rest of the shows on the mature animation block were comedies while “Cowboy Bebop” was anime, although unlike nearly anything else the genre’s American aficionados were accustomed to.

After creator Shinichiro Watanabe said that both Cowboy Bebop and Lazarus take place in the same universe, anime fans are excited about the possibility of the Bebop crew appearing in the new anime ...