Cowboy Bebop (manga)
Cowboy Bebop (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu) is a Japanese neo-noir science fiction anime television series created and animated by Sunrise, led by a production team of director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno, who are collectively billed as Hajime Yatate. The series, which ran for twenty-six episodes (in six “sessions” of four to five episodes each), is set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of a traveling bounty-hunting crew aboard a spaceship, the Bebop. Although it incorporates a wide variety of genres, the series draws most heavily from science fiction, western, and noir films. Its most prominent themes are existential ennui, loneliness, and the inability to escape one’s past.
| Manga | |
| Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star | |
|---|---|
| Illustrated by | Cain Kuga |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Monthly Asuka Fantasy DX |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | September 18, 1997 – June 18, 1998 |
| Volumes | 2 |
A simple moment can change the entire life…
A pure friendship is being born…
