Cowboy Bebop

Anime
Cowboy Bebop  (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu? )  is a 1998 Japanese  anime series developed by  Sunrise. It featured a production team led by director  Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter  Keiko Nobumoto, character designer  Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer  Kimitoshi Yamane and composer  Yoko Kanno. The twenty-six episodes ("sessions") of the series comprise a complete storyline set in the year 2071. It follows the adventures, misadventures and  tragedies of a  bounty hunter ("cowboy") crew travelling on the  Bebop, their starship.  In 2001,  Cowboy Bebop<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> became the first anime title to be broadcast on  Adult Swim<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> in the United States. Since then, the series has aired continuously in rotation due to its success. As of May 26, 2012 Cowboy Bebop has been airing on Toonami.

Plot
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">The 26-episode series revolves around the often violent adventures undertaken by the arguably mismatched crew of the  BeBop<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> spaceship. The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker. They are also accompanied by Ein, a hyper-intelligent, genetically-engineered stray  Corgi<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> dog.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">By a strange twist of their respective fates, this foursome ends up partnering together, using their unique talents to become a ragtag team of bounty hunters, although their fortunes as such are at best mixed.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Throughout the series, Bebop crew members' deal with unresolved issues from their pasts, and the show regularly utilizes flashbacks to illustrate the history of the main characters. The day-to-day life of the crew is also explored throughout the series. The series is set in the year 2071, when the entire   Solar System   has been made accessible through reliable hyperspace gates. In 2022, an explosion of an experimental hyperspace gateway severely damaged the   Moon, resulting in a debris ring and meteor bombardments that eradicated a large portion of the   Earth 's population. As a result, many survivors abandoned the barely habitable Earth to colonize the   inner planets, the   asteroid belt   and the   moons of Jupiter.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Mars has become the new central hub of human civilization, and interplanetary crime syndicates exert influence over the government and the Inter-Solar System Police (ISSP), limiting their effectiveness in dealing with crime. As a result, a bounty system similar to that in the Old West is established to deal with fugitives, terrorists, and other criminals; the bounty hunters involved are frequently termed "cowboys".The standard currency is the woolong, which is roughly equivalent to the present-day Japanese yen.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The technology in Cowboy Bebop's world is a mixture of the futuristic (cybernetics, jump gates, energy weapons) and the modern (wheeled cars, handguns, zippo-styled lighters), both of which are blended together. Yet, even "new" technology often looks a bit older and battered.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The three main classes of vehicles are ground vehicles, air vehicles, and space vehicles. Ground vehicles are the most mundane of the three, being wheeled automobiles not much different from modern automobiles. Aircraft are mostly jet-powered, although helicopters are not uncommon. Spaceships range in size from small one-man "fighters" to immense passenger liners and cargo ships.

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