Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Cowboy Bebop - The Perfect Sessions

This is the full 26 episodes that make up the complete series of Adult Swim cult anime hit "Cowboy Bebop" by Shinichirō Watanabe.
It's 2072.  Humanity is spread out throughout the solar system and traverse the great distances of space via hyperspace gates.  Criminals are on the make but hot on their tails are "cowboys" - slang term for the future day bounty hunters.

Living from bounty to bounty, the crew of the "Bebop", a converted fishing starship, sail the dark reaches of space on the make and running from their dark pasts.  The crew is lead by Jet Black a former interplanetary police officer who partners with Spike Speigel (a former member of a Yakazu-like space mob), and Faye Valentine (a former card shark and gambling addict).  They are also accompanied by Radical Ed, a child prodigy net-hacker and Ein, a Welsh-Corgi who escaped from an illegal animal testing program.  This motley crew of unlikely heroes take on the worst space criminals hoping to bring them back alive for the prize bounty on their heads.  As the series progresses we learn the bits of the Bebop crew's past that have brought them together and eventually see each of our heroes make peace with their troubled lives.

The story of Cowboy Bebop is told in a mix of genres that pay homage to westerns, classic pulp fiction detective stories, and samurai films all to the key of blues skillfully performed by the Japanese group, The Seatbelts.  Fans of Josh Whedon's short lived cult television show, Firefly, will probably see the speculated influences Cowboy Bebop has on their beloved show.  Later space cowboy.

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