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Cowboy Bebop

Mankind has colonised the stars, yet humanity remains the same desperate and power-hungry species in 2071. A ragtag duo of spacefaring bounty-hunters, Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, struggle to make ends meet living amongst the stars; and things are about to get a hell of a lot more complicated when they adopt the super-dog Ein, persuade the seductive femme-fatale known as Faye Valentine, and the teenage-hacker Edward. These five figures are about to come across things crazier than the crew of the Bebop itself. Use this page to compare tone, genre fit (Animation, Action, Adventure), first airing in 1998, and whether this series is worth starting now.

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Story of Cowboy Bebop

Mankind has colonised the stars, yet humanity remains the same desperate and power-hungry species in 2071. A ragtag duo of spacefaring bounty-hunters, Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, struggle to make ends meet living amongst the stars; and things are about to get a hell of a lot more complicated when they adopt the super-dog Ein, persuade the seductive femme-fatale known as Faye Valentine, and the teenage-hacker Edward. These five figures are about to come across things crazier than the crew of the Bebop itself.

Use this page to compare tone, genre fit (Animation, Action, Adventure), first airing in 1998, and whether this series is worth starting now.

Title facts

  • Type Series
  • Release year 1998
  • Released 02 Sep 2001
  • Runtime 24 minutes
  • Content rating TV-14
  • IMDb rating IMDb 8.9/10 from 166,096 votes
  • Genres Animation, Action, Adventure
  • Languages Japanese
  • Countries Japan
  • Seasons 1 season

Cast

Kôichi Yamadera, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara

Direction and writing

Written by: Shin'ichirô Watanabe

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