Cowboy Bebop
1998-1999 | Animation | Japan | Created by Shinichiro Watanabe
Overview
Bounty hunters in 2071 with a jazz score: Watanabe blended noir, western, and kung fu under the Yoko Kanno soundtrack. Twenty six episodes, each session titled like a record. The show crossed to the West on Adult Swim and anchored the anime boom. Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein the dog. See you space cowboy. The gateway anime for a generation.
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