This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Cowboy Bebop TV anime, so there’s plenty of room for celebration. Funimation Films is getting in on the action next month with screenings of the anime film, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, which originally opened in …Read more »
As folks who read our Cowboy Bebop cafe piece (or, you know, those who can do basic math) know, the classic anime series turns 20 years old this year. If you couldn’t make it out to Japan for the Bebop cafe, good news: Bebop is …Read more »
There may be readers of Otaku USA younger than Cowboy Bebop, the 26-episode series that originally aired in 1998. Thankfully, there are multiple essays on this very site about the allure of Bebop, alleviating me of the burden of describing just what was so great about …Read more »
Fans of Cowboy Bebop may want to start planning a trip to Japan next month. Shinichiro Watanabe’s series is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and one of the attractions getting in on the action is a collaboration with the Goodsmile Animate Cafe. The Cowboy Bebop x …Read more »
While it won’t technically fall on Christmas, Toonami has special plans for ringing in the holidays this year. The anime block typically has a marathon around this time, and 2017 is no exception. This year is all about Spike Spiegel and the gang, because the …Read more »
SuperGroupies, the Japanese fashion brand known for its apparel based on anime, is at it again. This time, they’ve announced a suit based on the iconic hero of Cowboy Bebop, Spike Spiegel. This isn’t exactly cosplay: the suit is based less on Spike’s costume from …Read more »
Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe is getting in on the Blade Runner 2049 hype in an exciting way. With the sequel coming to theaters this fall, Watanabe has been put in charge of writing and directing a tie-in anime short called Blade Runner Blackout 2022. …Read more »
Talk about an adaptation of acclaimed anime series Cowboy Bebop is officially out in the open again, and this time Tomorrow Studios, Midnight Radio, and Sunrise are teaming up for a live-action TV series. In addition to the producers that have been announced—including Tomorrow Studios' …Read more »
This year, Megumi Hayashibara, the voice actress and singer behind some of anime’s most iconic roles (and theme songs), celebrates both her 50th birthday and her over 30 years in the business. Hayashibara, who debuted in 1986 on the series Maison Ikkoku , has starred …Read more »
Westworld : the HBO series about cowboys and robots is the biggest thing among TV geeks since, well, HBO’s last geek-centric series, Game of Thrones . And just like that series, the break between seasons already feels interminable. Enter our handy solution: a rundown of …Read more »
Hailed by its director Shinichiro Watanabe as a series that is a genre unto itself, Cowboy Bebop has enthralled millions of fans around the world. Debuting in 1997, the series rocked the world of anime with its impeccable pacing, imaginative and believable world, and well-defined …Read more »
Today Crunchyroll and Funimation announced a huge partnership that will ultimately give fans greater access to anime. It's the best of both their respective worlds as Crunchyroll members get access to subtitled versions of Funimation's summer simulcasts and, in the weeks to come, FunimationNow viewers …Read more »
The opening. A classic anime trope, and a way for a series to show its stuff in a one minute, thirty-second montage of greatness. With hundreds of openings created every year, picking the top 10 of all time is a formidable challenge indeed, but readers …Read more »
Shinichiro Watanabe (left) and Dai Sato (right). You would be hard-pressed to find an anime fan, casual or serious, who hasn’t come across at least one of the works of Shinichiro Watanabe. Whether it’s his benchmark sci-fi Cowboy Bebop , the hip-hop infused Samurai Champloo …Read more »
As soon as you see Canadian figure skater Kevin Reynolds skate onto the ice dressed as Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop , you know you're in for a treat. Sure enough, he busted out a performance at the 2016 National Figure Skating Championships appropriately set …Read more »
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