Read more about The Bebop Crew at: Wikipedia Official Site: Bandai Entertainment, Inc. is an influential, critically-acclaimed, and award-winning 1998 Japanese anime series directed by ShinichirÅ Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. It is one of the most highly acclaimed and regarded as one of the greatest anime series ever created, it is the highest rated anime series on IMDB top anime. Its 26 episodes ("sessions") comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the misadventures and tragedies of a group of bounty hunter, or "cowboys", traveling on their spaceship, the Bebop. The series' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s-60s and the early rock era of the 1950s-70s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts recreates. Cowboy Bebop was a commercial success both in Japan and international markets, notably in the United States. After this reception, Sony Pictures released a feature film, Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001), to theaters worldwide and followed up with an international DVD release. Two manga adaptations were serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Fantasy DX. In 2022, the explosion of an experimental hyperspace gateway severely damaged the Moon which resulted in a debris ring that threatened the surface of Earth with meteor bombardments that decimated a large portion of the population. As a result, many survivors abandoned the barely-habitable Earth to colonize the inner planets, the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter.
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The Bebop Crew
