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These influences are evident from the very beginning the anime sets “Asteroid Blues” in a town on Mars realized with a spaghetti western flavor and styled after Mexico. The style of action, the character and mechanical design, the background art, and even the score shift with each episode.Ĭowboy Bebop’s first episode is called “Asteroid Blues.” Funimation The show-within-a-show “Big Shot” turns the symbols of the western into a capitalistic parody, embodying the humiliations of gig work.įor the most part, Cowboy Bebop doesn’t isolate its flirtations with these genres. “Toys in the Attic” is a goofy spin on Ridley Scott’s Alien and older, pulpier sci-fi horror. The episode "Mushroom Samba” pays homage to blaxploitation by introducing the awesome bounty hunter Coffee - styled after Pam Grier in Coffy. The anime does occasionally push specific inspirations to the foreground.
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All are spun into something that feels uniquely Cowboy Bebop. But the original also mixed in everything from the French New Wave’s detachment from Hollywood’s narrative conventions, the cool and enigmatic editing of Seijun Suzuki’s abstract yakuza flicks, the poetic gunfights of John Woo’s heroic bloodshed movies, and much more beyond that.
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Its approach to narrative is partly defined by its engagement and conscious repetition of classic genre tropes, depending on the audience’s understanding of such.įilm noir and the spaghetti western are the two most obvious and consistent reference points, which the new Netflix remake primarily focuses on. Ask the question, “What anime should I watch first?” and chances are Bebop will be the most frequently repeated, in part because it simultaneously feels familiar and thrillingly new. FunimationĬreated by director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno (collectively credited as “Hajime Yatate”), Cowboy Bebop is something of a starter anime for people in the west.
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In 1998, Cowboy Bebop premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo.