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Cowboy Bebop

★ 8.9 175K votes 1998–1999 1 season · 26 episodes Ended TV Tokyo
Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.This show: 10/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10Deadpan coolDetached, understated and effortlessly stylish.This show: 9/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 9/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 8/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 8/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 8/10Found familyUnrelated people slowly becoming each other's family.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Koichi YamaderaUnsho IshizukaMegumi HayashibaraIsshin ChibaAoi TadaHiroshi Naka
Starring
Koichi YamaderaUnsho IshizukaMegumi HayashibaraIsshin ChibaAoi TadaHiroshi Naka
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Space noir with a jazz soundtrack and soul"

Set in a scrappy future where humanity has spread across the solar system, this anime follows a crew of bounty hunters aboard the ship Bebop, drifting between jobs and their own buried pasts. Each episode swings between hardboiled noir, slapstick comedy, and quiet melancholy, held together by a jazz-and-blues score that gives every fight and lull real mood. It's episodic more than serialized, so the pleasure comes from tone, style, and character rather than plot momentum. Cool, lonely, and stylish, it feels like a genre mixtape that somehow never loses its own voice.

Watch it for

the genre-blending style, jazz-drenched score, and lived-in, world-weary crew you grow to love.

Maybe skip if

you want a tightly serialized plot instead of loosely connected, mood-driven episodes.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 11998
8.3127K2610h 50m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Asteroid Blues8.2
7K25 min
▶2Stray Dog Strut7.4
5K25 min
▶3Honky Tonk Women7.8
5K25 min
▶4Gateway Shuffle7.5
5K25 min
▶5Ballad of Fallen Angels9.2
7K25 min
▶6Sympathy for the Devil8.1
5K25 min
▶7Heavy Metal Queen7.6
5K25 min
▶8Waltz for Venus8.6
5K25 min
▶9Jamming with Edward7.6
4K25 min
▶10Ganymede Elegy8.3
5K25 min
▶11Toys in the Attic8.3
5K25 min
▶12Jupiter Jazz: Part 18.7
5K25 min
▶13Jupiter Jazz: Part 28.9
5K25 min
▶14Bohemian Rhapsody7.7
4K25 min
▶15My Funny Valentine7.9
4K25 min
▶16Black Dog Serenade7.9
4K25 min
▶17Mushroom Samba8.4
4K25 min
▶18Speak Like a Child8.7
5K25 min
▶19Wild Horses7.3
4K25 min
▶20Pierrot le Fou9.0
5K25 min
▶21Boogie Woogie Feng Shui7.1
4K25 min
▶22Cowboy Funk8.2
4K25 min
▶23Brain Scratch8.4
4K25 min
▶24Hard Luck Woman9.0
5K25 min
▶25The Real Folk Blues: Part 19.1
5K25 min
▶26The Real Folk Blues: Part 29.5
8K25 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Koichi Yamadera Spike Spiegel
Unsho Ishizuka Jet Black
Megumi Hayashibara Faye Valentine
Isshin Chiba Man 2, Police, Associate
Aoi Tada Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV
Hiroshi Naka Jobim, Man, Old Man
Tsutomu Tareki Punch
Miki Nagasawa Judy, Child
Toshihiko Nakajima Carlos, Hoodlum A, Louie
Jin Hirao Antonio, Old Man, Priest

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