17 Facts About Cowboy Bebop

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Cowboy Bebop was a critical and commercial success both in Japanese and international markets, most notably in the United States.

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Cowboy Bebop was developed by animation studio Sunrise and created by Hajime Yatate, the well-known pseudonym for the collective contributions of Sunrise's animation staff.

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3.

Cowboy Bebop was Watanabe's first project as solo director, as he had been co-director in his previous works.

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4.

The atmospheres of the planets and the ethnic groups in Cowboy Bebop mostly originated from Watanabe's ideas, with some collaboration from set designers Isamu Imakake, Shoji Kawamori, and Dai Sato.

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5.

Cowboy Bebop debuted on TV Tokyo, one of the main broadcasters of anime in Japan, airing from April 3 until June 26,1998.

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6.

Cowboy Bebop was successful enough to be broadcast repeatedly for four years.

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7.

Cowboy Bebop has been released in four separate editions in North America.

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8.

Fourth release, Cowboy Bebop Remix, was distributed on 6 discs and included the original 26 uncut episodes, with sound remastered in Dolby Digital 5.

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Cowboy Bebop Remix was itself collected as the Cowboy Bebop Remix DVD Collection in 2008.

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10.

The first manga series, titled Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star and illustrated by Cain Kuga, was serialized from October issue 1997, before the anime series' release, to July issue 1998.

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The second manga series, simply titled Cowboy Bebop and illustrated by Yutaka Nanten, was serialized from November issue 1998 to March issue 2000.

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12.

Cowboy Bebop received unanimous acclaim, beginning at the time of its initial broadcast.

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13.

Carpenter went to say that Cowboy Bebop was a "must-have for any serious collector of Japanese animation".

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14.

Cowboy Bebop has been featured in several lists published by IGN.

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15.

In 2011, Cowboy Bebop was ranked 29th in the "Top 50 Sci-Fi TV Shows" list, being the second highest ranking anime on the list .

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16.

Certainly not as pristine a future we would see in other series or films, Cowboy Bebop decides to deliver a future that closely reflects that of our own time.

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17.

Okamura used his experience from Cowboy Bebop to write the screenplay of Darker than Black, leading to narratives composed of two episodes similar to Japanese dramas.

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