Cowboy Bebop

Series - 1998 - Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy

The story

In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.

Directed by

Hirokazu Yamada, Yoshiyuki Takei, Ikuro Sato, Tetsuya Watanabe, Kunihiro Mori

Starring

Koichi Yamadera, Unsho Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara, Aoi Tada, Jin Hirao, Toshihiko Nakajima

Where to watch

netflix

Ratings

IMDb 8.9 out of 10

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Series · 1998 · Action & Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Cowboy Bebop

81% match~25m / ep1 season · 26 episodesM
Netflix
Why TasteFeed picked this for you

Cowboy Bebop hits the cerebral and future thread running through your loves.

✦ Cerebral · Future✦ Critically loved
The story

In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.

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Ratings
IMDb
8.9 / 10
174k votes
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TMDB
8.5 / 10
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Details
TypeSeries
GenreAction & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Seasons1
Episodes26
Runtime~25m / ep
RatedM
Release1998-04-03
Where to watch
Netflix
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