Cowboy Bebop (1998) is Shinichiro Watanabe’s original Sunrise series about broke bounty hunters drifting through a colonized solar system in 2071. Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein chase jobs they rarely collect, while jazz, noir, and Western grit carry the mood. Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts make every session feel like a mini-movie. This review revisits why this 26-episode classic outclasses most space anime that followed.
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