I dunno, I really don't like it when anime adaptations try to go 1 to 1. That intro was a little too much for me. I hope the rest of the show isn't too cheesy.
One area in which I wish they would have followed the anime more closely is Faye's outfit. Post is kind of long because I'm sort of rearranging an argument I had with someone elsewhere.
Anyone who thinks it would be too much clearly hasn't paid attention to how women dress now. Many of them leave their legs, midriffs, shoulders and cleavage exposed. Not in Faye's particular combination, but showing skin is hardly uncommon, and often pretty stylish even. I know the colors (yellow, red, purple) are there in the Netflix version, but Faye's outfit isn't just the color palette. There is sexuality to it too. It's not a ridiculous or unbelievable kind of sexuality, unless you maybe pick out crappier examples of animation (like the picture below, which I'm posting for a different reason). But it's there. It plays some small part in her character.
As I warned, the animation in the screenshot is bad. I only posted it to demonstrate how she uses her sexuality. Her shorts normally came down more and her torso was normally better shaped. She is off model. Below, I use Jupiter Jazz (Part 1) as an example. It had some of the best animation in the series. The characters had more shape and nicer shades.
With little adjustments for reality (like suspender connectors that aren't so cartoonish and maybe a collar that isn't quite so 1970s), those would be fine.
Besides, people's standards of decency will probably be considered dated in ten to fifteen years. Or try fifty years. (Actually, I wonder if they will move the setting to the 2090s, since we didn't make as much progress in 23 years as the original creators perhaps expected.) It's not like she would be the first person to be dressed strangely in a wacky future sci-fi setting. Look at Ruby Rhod or Lulu (the orange outfit) in The Fifth Element.
She would be no more ridiculous than humans living on Venus or the Jovian moons or the much more distant moons of Saturn or a prison as far as Pluto in just fifty years. Or flyer's licenses for space fighters being common in 2071. Or an engineered dog playing shogi or pointing out bounties through monitors or following their smells through an entire city. Or everybody but the military using guns that are a hundred to 160 years old.
Even without the future setting, she would look almost acceptable even today if some good fashion designer/tailor found the right kind of loose, flowing shiny material and cut the outfit according to the episodes that aren't animated so badly, while making any tasteful adjustments to reality. Clothes are fashioned from sketched concepts anyway.
It feels like they shamed the original Faye, by covering up almost all her skin (legs, stomach, shoulders, arms, cleavage), while keeping everyone else much more the same. They wouldn't have covered up so much skin if they just thought it would look ridiculous in live action. It's obvious they did it more because of today's overly sensitive culture.
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