Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop 	Cowboy Bebop
Genre 	Crime Fiction, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Noir, Space Western
Directed by 	
Shinichirō Watanabe
Produced by 	
Masahiko Minami
Demographic 	Seinen
Anime television series	Anime television series
Cowboy Bebop 	Cowboy Bebop
Original run 	October 24, 1998 - April 24, 1999
Episodes 	26
Cowboy Bebop 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 of the series are set in the year 2071. It follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of a bounty hunter crew travelling on the Bebop, their starship. Cowboy Bebop explores philosophical concepts including existentialism, existential ennui, loneliness, and the past's influence.
The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3 until June 26, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial adult-themed content. The entire twenty-six episodes of the series were later broadcast on WOWOW from October 24 until April 24, 1999. The anime was adapted into two manga series which were serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Fantasy DX. A film was later released to theaters worldwide.
The anime series was dubbed in the English language by Animaze and ZRO Limit Productions, and was licensed by Bandai Entertainment in North America and is now licensed by Funimation. For English releases in the United Kingdom, it was licensed by Beez Entertainment and is now licensed by Anime Limited. Madman Entertainment has licensed it for releases in Australia and New Zealand. In 2001, Cowboy Bebop became the first anime title to be broadcast on Adult Swim in the United States.
Cowboy Bebop became a critical and commercial success both in Japanese and international markets, most notably in the United States. The series garnered several major anime and science fiction awards from Japanese publications, and received universal praise for its style, characters, story, voice acting, animation and soundtrack. In the years since its release, critics and reviewers, from the United States in particular, have hailedCowboy Bebop as a masterpiece and frequently cite it as one of the greatest anime series of all time. Credited with helping introduce anime to a new wave of Western viewers in the early 2000s, Cowboy Bebop has also been labelled a gateway series for the medium as a whole.
==Anime==
# 	Title 	Original air date
1 	"Asteroid Blues" 	October 24, 1998
2 	"Stray Dog Strut" 	April 3, 1998
3 	"Honky Tonk Women" 	April 10, 1998
4 	"Gateway Shuffle" 	November 14, 1998
5 	"Ballad of Fallen Angels" 	November 21, 1998
6 	"Sympathy for the Devil" (A Song to Sympathize with the Devil)	November 28, 1998
7 	"Heavy Metal Queen" 	April 17, 1998
8 	"Waltz for Venus" 	April 24, 1998
9 	"Jamming with Edward" 	May 1, 1998
10	"Ganymede Elegy" 	May 8, 1998
11	"Toys in the Attic" (Heavy Rock in the Dark Night) 	May 15, 1998
12	"Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)" 	May 22, 1998
13	"Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)" 	May 29, 1998
14	"Bohemian Rhapsody" 	June 5, 1998
15	"My Funny Valentine" 	June 12, 1998
16	"Black Dog Serenade" 	February 13, 1999
17	"Mushroom Samba" 	February 20, 1999
18	"Speak Like a Child" 	June 19, 1998
19	"Wild Horses" 	March 6, 1999
20	"Pierrot le Fou" (Requiem for a Clown) 	March 13, 1999
21	"Boogie Woogie Feng Shui" 	March 20, 1999
22	"Cowboy Funk" 	March 27, 1999
23	"Brain Scratch" 	April 3, 1999
24	"Hard Luck Woman" 	April 10, 1999
25	"The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)" 	April 17, 1999
26	"The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)" 	April 24, 1999
===Special Episodes===
*Mish-Mash Blues
===Movies===
*Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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