![]() ![]() chose Bebop as the first anime to air on the block the show debuted on the same night of the network's premiere in August 2001. The soundtrack exists not as a mere afterthought, but as the backbone to nearly everything else about the series numerous scenes eschew dialogue entirely and rely on music to carry the experience, and Kanno and her band even improvised some tracks to finished footage at the moment of recording. A primary aspect of the show's essence is its music, composed by Yoko Kanno and her backing band The Seatbelts, creating a soundtrack generally rooted in jazz but defying categorization in taking from many other genres. However, underneath the sci-fi and action flick surface lies an overall plotline influenced mainly by the Yakuza genre.įurther stylistic trademarks of Bebop include the thematic choice to give everything a rich backstory yet explain almost nothing in full, as the show's stories concern themselves mostly with the events of the present and, in many cases, only imply histories as a result. Lupin III also serves as a visible influence, as the main trio comes off like a futuristic version of Lupin, Jigen, and Fujiko. ![]() Searching for high payout bounties or stumbling across criminal conspiracies, their adventures span any given planet or moon and the culture that has developed from it.Īs the title suggests, Bebop frequently evokes both Westerns and Film Noir, though the single biggest influence on the look and feel of the series comes from '80s and early '90s Heroic Bloodshed action movies directed by John Woo (e.g. ![]() The Bebop's crew faces dangerous criminals, occasional starvation, their own Dark and Troubled Pasts, and a particularly disgusting refrigerator over the course of the series. The series focuses on the misadventures of a ragtag group of five struggling to make a living as bounty hunters in the space-age frontier: Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the spaceship Bebop his partner Spike Spiegel, a martial artist on the run from a bloody past Femme Fatale and Con Artist Faye Valentine, who is both more and somehow less than she appears teen genius hacker girl Edward Wong Hau Pepelu "Ed" Tivrusky IV and Ein, a genetically-engineered Welsh Corgi "data dog". To compensate for the increase in jurisdiction, The Space Police re-instate the bounty system of the Wild West: if a bounty hunter catches a bounty alive and delivers them to the cops, the cops pay out whatever the bounty is worth. In the Used Future of the 2070s, humanity has spread across the Solar System using " Hyperspace Gates" after a horrific accident devastated Earth - and wherever humanity goes, so goes its criminal element. The series was created and produced by Sunrise and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe. Immodestly billed as "the work which becomes new genre itself", Cowboy Bebop (originally broadcast between April 1998 and March 1999 in Japan) is a Space Western/ Film Noir anime series consisting of 26 episodes (and one movie). Opening line of "Tank!", the opening theme ![]()
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