Cowboy Bebop
1998 · TV Series · TV-14 · 25 min · ★ 8.5
In a future where humanity has spread across the Solar System after Earth becomes nearly unlivable, crime surges and a legal bounty system takes hold. A small crew of bounty hunters takes on dangerous jobs from world to world, chasing fugitives for cash while trying to stay ahead of their own troubles.
Also known as Kaubôi bibappu
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Details
- Original title
- カウボーイビバップ
- Years
- 1998–1999
- Release date
- 1998-04-03
- Network
- TV Tokyo, WOWOW Prime
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 25 min
- TMDB rating
- 8.5/10 (1,941 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want stylish, episodic sci‑fi bounty-hunting with a mix of humor, action, and melancholy atmosphere, similar to Samurai Champloo; Not for you if you need a tightly serialized, consistently paced story.
Pros: iconic music and vibe; memorable characters; fun standalone adventures | Cons: uneven pacing; thin dialogue at times; overarching plot feels rushed
Themes
- philosophy
- bounty hunter
- jazz
- anti hero
- blues
- future
- space
- space western
- dark past
- crime syndicate
- neo-noir
- anime
- +4 more
Awards & recognition
- Animation Kobe Television Award · 1998
Cast & crew
Koichi Yamadera
as Spike Spiegel / Ein (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
as Jet Black (voice)
- TK
Tomie Kataoka
as V.T. (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
as Faye Valentine (voice)
Aoi Tada
as Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV (voice)
- TA
Takeshi Aono
as Doohan (voice)
- NW
Norio Wakamoto
as Vicious (voice)
- GT
Gara Takashima
as Julia (voice)
- RN
Rintaro Nishi
as Asimov Solensan (voice) (as Tarô Nishi)
- YH
Yurika Hino
as Katrina Solensan (voice)
Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, Ikuro Sato, Tetsuya Watanabe +3 more
Episodes1 season · 26 episodes
Season 126 episodes
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- S1E5Jamming with Edward25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6Ganymede Elegy25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E7Toys in the Attic25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E8Jupiter Jazz (1)25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E9Jupiter Jazz (2)25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E10Bohemian Rhapsody25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E11My Funny Valentine25mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E12Speak Like a Child25mAmazon Prime Video
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- S1E16Sympathy for the Devil25mAmazon Prime Video
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- S1E25The Real Folk Blues (1)25m
- S1E26The Real Folk Blues (2)25m