Cowboy Bebop (1998)
Synopsis
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
First Air Date: 1998-04-03
Last Air Date: 1999-04-24
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 26
Networks: TV Tokyo, WOWOW Prime
Top Cast
- Koichi Yamadera as Spike Spiegel / Ein (voice)
- Unsho Ishizuka as Jet Black (voice)
- Megumi Hayashibara as Faye Valentine (voice)
- Aoi Tada as Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV (voice)
- Isshin Chiba as Man 2 (voice)
- Hiroshi Naka as Jobim (voice)
- Tsutomu Tareki as Punch (voice)
- Miki Nagasawa as Judy (voice)
- Toshihiko Nakajima as Carlos (voice)
- Jin Hirao as Antonio (voice)
Seasons
Specials (1998)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Session XX; Mish-Mash Blues
Due to the violence portrayed in the series, and the violence occurring at the time in Japanese schools, the series was briefly canceled and “Mish-Mash Blues” was created. The characters provide a philosophical commentary and it ends with the words: “This is not the end. You will see the real ‘Cowboy Bebop’ someday!”
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Ep. 2: Session #0
This episode is a teaser for the release of the series to DVD. It contains interviews with the staff and cast, character info, a story digest of the episodes not broadcast on television (due to its depictions of gratuitous violence, only a handful of episodes were aired originally. The remaining episodes were not broadcast until 1999), the complete beginning/closing title sequences without the interference of credits or other text, and a couple of full length music videos featuring the theme track "Tank!" accompanied by the jaw-dropping animation found throughout the series.
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Ep. 3: Ein's Summer Vacation
Picture drama featuring Ein.
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