#18Number of Seasons: 1
Years Active: 1998 - 1999
Network: Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) (?)
This remains the only anime that I've ever watched and enjoyed (I tried to watch a movie that came highly recommended, but the English dub was awful). Cowboy Bebop follows the lives of three bounty hunters, a hacker and their dog. Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed and Ein live on a starship and travel the solar system tracking down bounties in order to make their living. Often barely scraping by, they live in a world where the middle class has been nearly eradicated. It is 2071, and the rich have gotten richer, while the poor barely survive.
The show is a clever mix of episodic and serialized storytelling; most episodes are fairly stand-alone, with the main plot focusing on the bounty head of the week. But underneath the surface run long plotlines about the various characters' origins. No one on the Bebop is who they say they are, and slowly, over the course of the series, the truth behind each of them is revealed.
Cowboy Bebop features excellent stories, but that is not all it has going for it. Music plays a large role in the show (many fight scenes are choreographed to music), and the animation is top-notch. Also, I can't make any judgments on this myself, since this is the only anime I've ever truly watched, but from what I'm told, this is one of the few (if not only) animes with a good English dub. I've never listened to the Japanese track, and it's probably really good, but the English track is really good.
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