The year is 2071. Humanity has spread across the solar system and the Space Police have reinstated the bounty system of the Old West: catch wanted fugitives alive, deliver them to the cops and get paid. chronicles the adventures (and misadventures) of a group of bounty hunters as they try to catch bad guys and make a living.
BACKGROUND
* Bebop was the very first anime to air on Adult Swim, starting on the very same night that the network itself premiered in August 2001.
The Bebop's crew faces dangerous criminals, occasional starvation, a particularly disgusting refrigerator, and their own dark pasts over the course of the 26-episode series. One of the defining thematic choices the show makes is that everything has a rich backstory, but almost nothing is explained in full; the stories are concerned with the problems in the present, so in many cases, only an implied history is given.
The other half of Cowboy Bebop is its sound. Bebop also thrives on its , composed by Yoko Kanno, which is almost entirely jazz music, with a few tracks even defying categorization -- and some of the music was actually improvised to finished footage at the moment it was recorded. The show's soundtrack is not an afterthought, it is central to the experience, and many scenes are related solely through visuals and music, eschewing dialogue entirely. THE EPISODES
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Movie: (Lands chronologically between Episodes 22 and 23. This is a playlist of multiple videos of the full, English-dubbed movie. However, the entire thing is backwards -- likely to avoid it being flagged by YouTube copyright protection. The movie has also been uploaded dubbed in , , and in the original .)
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THE MUSIC
BACKGROUND INTERVIEWS
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SAMURAI CHAMPLOO
Cowboy Bebop Director ShinichirWatanabe's next major project was Samurai Champloo, which also aired on Adult Swim. In this series, he shifted from . :
"...the show was set during a fictional version of Japan in the Edo period with an anachronistic, predominantly hip-hop, setting. It follows Mugen, an impudent and freedom-loving vagrant swordsman; Jin, a cool-headed and stoical ronin; and Fuu, a brave young girl who asks them to accompany her in her quest across Japan to find the 'samurai who smells of sunflowers'." The series is also available to view for free on YouTube to the US and Canada only, through Funimation's Channel. However, because it is violent, contains a few curses and shows a little nudity, login at YouTube is required. Also, Funimation began by uploading dubbed episodes, and then at episode 5 for some reason, they reverted to episodes with the original Japanese-language track, subtitled in English.
THE EPISODES
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All episodes are also available , subtitled.
THE MUSIC
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