Cowboy Bebop: the main characters

ANIME CRUSH / CLASSICS1998 · NOIR

Cowboy Bebop

Film-noir lighting, painted backgrounds, and character animation that still feels composed rather than generated.

1998 · 26 episodes · Sunrise

Where to watch CrunchyrollUnited States
02  —  The world

The world

A jazz record that happens to be television

Twenty-six episodes from Sunrise in 1998, built like a series of short films. Each session picks a genre, commits to it for twenty minutes and leaves. What holds it together is not a plot but a tone: hard light, long pauses, and four people avoiding the same conversation.

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Year
1998
Format
26 episodes
Episodes
26
Studio
Sunrise
Where to watch
CrunchyrollUnited States
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