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COWBOY BEBOP
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Why is Cowboy Bebop's music so important to the show?
Kanno wrote it before the pictures existed, and the film adapted itself to the music.
Why are Cowboy Bebop's episode titles all music references?
Three Stones songs, a Queen anthem, a Hancock album, and a genre for every other session: the full list.
Why did Cowboy Bebop only air 12 episodes at first?
A 6 PM slot and a standards panic at TV Tokyo. WOWOW aired the real series months later.
What inspired Cowboy Bebop?
A toy company's spaceship order, the first Lupin series, Kind of Blue, and 1970s American film.
Who is Shinichiro Watanabe?
The director who mixed jazz, film noir and space opera into Cowboy Bebop, then kept remixing genres with Champloo, Kids on the Slope and Carol and Tuesday.
Who is Yoko Kanno?
The composer behind the Seatbelts and Tank!: how Kanno wrote jazz, blues and big band for a space western and built one of anime's great discographies.
What are the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks on CD and vinyl?
Three core albums, a film score, remix and live discs, and modern vinyl: the Seatbelts discography as physical objects, Japanese pressings included.
What was the Cowboy Bebop Perfect Sessions box set?
Bandai's 2001 limited DVD box that defined the series in America: six discs, a clam shell case, a soundtrack CD and a run of collector headaches.
How is Cowboy Bebop collected on Blu-ray?
Japan's 2012 box, Funimation's sets and steelbooks, and what the HD transfer does to a show shot on film: the Blu-ray landscape in both regions.
What is Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door?
The 2001 film: a Halloween bio weapon plot on Mars, a Dylan title, Yoko Kanno in a Moroccan mood, and where it fits between sessions 22 and 23.
What is the Cowboy Bebop manga?
Two short manga series, neither by a single famous author: Yutaka Nanten's adaptation and Cain Kuga's alternate Shooting Star, both long out of print in English.
Was Cowboy Bebop a manga first?
No: Bebop is an anime original from Sunrise, and its credits hide that fact behind a pen name. How anime originals work and why the manga look secondary.
Who designed the characters for Cowboy Bebop?
Toshihiro Kawamoto drew Spike's silhouette and Faye's wardrobe; Kimitoshi Yamane built the ships. The design team behind anime's coolest looking cast.
Who voices Spike Spiegel in Japanese and English?
Koichi Yamadera's laconic cool and Steve Blum's career defining dub: the two Spikes, plus the full principal cast in both languages.
How many episodes of Cowboy Bebop are there?
26 sessions, one clip show special, a film and a pile of extras: the full count, the TV Tokyo gap, and what Session 0 actually is.
What order should you watch Cowboy Bebop in?
Almost entirely episodic, quietly serialized at the edges: the simple order, where the film slots in, and the five episodes that carry the main plot.
What is the Cowboy Bebop live action series?
Netflix's 2021 ten episode remake with John Cho: what it changed, why it split the fandom, and why it ended after one season.
What Cowboy Bebop video games are there?
Two Japanese only console games: a 1998 PlayStation flight shooter and a 2005 PlayStation 2 adventure. Why neither crossed the Pacific.
What are the Cowboy Bebop art and setting books?
Kawamoto's The Wind, setting material collections and film books: the printed design record of the series, and how to tell staff books from fan books.
How can you tell a first pressing of a Cowboy Bebop soundtrack?
Victor catalog numbers, obi strips and matrix details: verifying Japanese soundtrack CDs in a catalog plagued by bootlegs.
