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Cowboy Bebop (2021): Season 1  Books Included   Season 1, Ep 0

Full-season and cross-media discussion for the live-action Cowboy Bebop series from Netflix. "Books Included" standing in for spoilers for the anime series and movie.
posted by curious nu on Nov 23, 2021 - 39 comments

Cowboy Bebop: 20th Anniversary

CB was originally run in 1998 and it is 2018 and that seems like a good point for a rewatch! [more inside]
posted by curious nu on May 27, 2018 - 18 comments

Movie: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

There is a mysterious terrorist plot to destroy the human population on Mars using an unknown pathogen. The bounty hunter crew of the Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the source of the pathogen before the attack can take place. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 1, 2015 - 4 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Mish-Mash Blues  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 27

Due to the violence portrayed in the series, and the violence occurring at the time in Japan, the series was briefly canceled and "Mish-Mash Blues" (fansub transcript; part 1, part 2) was created. The characters provide a philosophical commentary, set to hip-hop loops and played over clips from the first 12 episodes, and it ends with the words: "This Is Not The End. You Will See The Real 'Cowboy Bebop' Someday!" [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Jan 25, 2015 - 13 comments

Cowboy Bebop: The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 26

Reunited, Spike and Julia pick up where they left off in their plans to escape Red Dragon, but it is soon foiled by Vicious. Spike returns to the Bebop for one last farewell, knowing that he will likely die before he can return, and then storms the Red Dragon's headquarters to confront Vicious for the last time.
posted by filthy light thief on Jan 19, 2015 - 4 comments

Cowboy Bebop: The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 25

Left alone by the rest of the crew, Spike and Jet are ambushed by members of the Red Dragon syndicate. They are saved by Lin's brother, Shin, who explains that Vicious has tried to seize control of the organization and was sentenced to death. He also states that all people connected to him are also being hunted down, and Spike rushes to find Julia.
posted by filthy light thief on Jan 11, 2015 - 1 comment

Cowboy Bebop: Hard Luck Woman  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 24

While heading to Mars, the Bebop is diverted to Earth, where Faye decides to investigate her past by traveling to the landmarks she sees in the video she recorded as a child, taking Ed along with her. Meanwhile, Jet and Spike go after what looks to be a lucrative bounty.
posted by filthy light thief on Jan 9, 2015 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Brain Scratch  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 23

There's a new popular religious cult, calling itself SCRATCH, which is based on the belief that an individual can achieve eternal life by digitizing the soul and uploading it into the Internet. Spike, Jet and Ed notice Faye in some news coverage of the cult, which has been tied to a number of missing people and suicides. When Spike and Jet see that the cult's leader, Dr. Londes, has a sizable bounty on his head, they get involved.
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 28, 2014 - 3 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Cowboy Funk  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 22

While Spike is after the Teddy Bomber, he comes across Cowboy Andy, the other bounty hunter that criminals fear. And he's a real cowboy fanatic, with the horse, the costume, an entrance song and he's a member of the YMCA (that is, Young Men's Cowboy Association). Well, he was, until he was kicked out for causing too much trouble. Can the Teddy Bomber finish his monologue without being interrupted, and will Andy and Spike find a way to co-exist in the small world of bounty hunting? [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 21, 2014 - 3 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Boogie Woogie Feng Shui  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 21

Jet receives a cryptic e-mail from his old friend, Pao, who is one of the top three feng shui masters on Mars. Or was, as Jet finds Pao's gravestone, where he meets Pao's daughter, Mefia, and some hitmen. Spike and Faye speculate about Jet's relationship to Mefia, which gets to Jet, but they all work together to solve the mystery of the sun stone. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 14, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Pierrot Le Fou  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 20

In the 20th session of Cowboy Bebop, Spike chances upon the brutal murder of a group of bodyguards and the man they are protecting. The killer is a comical figure, rotund with an exaggerated top hat, who seems to be able to repel bullets and literally fly around. Spike escapes his first encounter with Mad Pierrot, but is invited to Space Land to have a final showdown with Pierrot. Who is this magical maniac, and will Spike survive? [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 7, 2014 - 3 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Wild Horses  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 19

While Spike is having the Swordfish II repaired, Jet and Faye try to get a bounty on a group of pirates who use computer viruses to terrorize interplanetary shipping.
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 30, 2014 - 3 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Speak Like a Child  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 18

Faye gets a mysterious package with a lot of forwarding addresses, and she leaves instead of dealing with whatever is inside. Jet and Spike end up dealing with its contents, which includes a treasure hunt on Earth. Ed shows off a surprising amount of knowledge for ancient technology. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 23, 2014 - 4 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Mushroom Samba  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 17

The Bebop crashes onto the moon after being side-swiped in space. Ed and Ein venture out for food but are entangled in the operations of an outlaw smuggling psychedelic mushrooms.
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 16, 2014 - 4 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Black Dog Serenade  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 16

An ISSP prison ship has undergone a mechanical malfunction, and has been taken over by the prisoners it was transporting, led by Udai Taxim, the Syndicate assassin who took Jet's arm. Jet's former partner, Fad, enlists him for the retrieval operation, but Fad's motivations might not be as noble as they seem.
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 9, 2014 - 1 comment

Cowboy Bebop: My Funny Valentine  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 15

Session 15 follows Faye as she recounts to Einstein the data dog what her past or lack thereof has been like. There's flashbacks and future shocks, nostalgia and nobody wins in the end.
posted by filthy light thief on Nov 2, 2014 - 1 comment

Cowboy Bebop: Bohemian Rhapsody  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 14

The Gate Corporation have put out a 12 million Woolong bounty on capturing the mastermind behind a series of bold Astral Gate heists, which drained the savings from people as they check through a hijacked gate. Spike, Jet and Faye have each caught a number of perpetrators, but they're no closer to the mastermind, whose lone signature is a pawn device, loaded with a saved chess game.
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 26, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Jupiter Jazz (Part II)   Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 13

Faye is attacked and later helped by Gren, who holds a grudge against Vicious. After explaining his story to Faye, Gren chases after Vicious, and when he and Spike end up reaching him, a three-way battle takes place. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 19, 2014 - 3 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Jupiter Jazz (Part I)  Season 1, Ep 12

In the 12th session of Cowboy Bebop, Faye cleans out the crew's safe and leaves the Bebop, heading to frigid Jupter. While Jet chases after her, Spike decides to follow some references to a woman named Julia instead, which leads him to another confrontation with Vicious and his old comrade Lin. Meanwhile, Faye meets a sax player named Gren who also knows Julia. [WARNING: brief scenes animated female nudity]
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 12, 2014 - 1 comment

Cowboy Bebop: Toys in the Attic  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 11

There's something else on the Bebop, and it's no rat. Jet is the first one to get bitten, and before long, his injury becomes infected. The rest of the crew begins to fear for their safety, as the creature gets everyone except Spike, who must confront the creature or face possible death.
posted by filthy light thief on Oct 5, 2014 - 7 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Ganymede Elegy  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 10

Stripped to its basic pieces, the 10th session of Cowboy Bebop is a simple story: Jet returns to Ganymede for the first time in years, meets the woman who broke his heart, and finally lets her go. But it's never that simple.
posted by filthy light thief on Sep 28, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Jamming with Edward  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 9

In the 9th session, the crew go back to the ruins of earth to track down a hacker who is accessing satellites to carve giant drawings in South American deserts. While on Earth, everyone says they should talk to Radical Edward, a mysterious hacker whose description changes drastically from person to person. Ed is found, and the bounty is claimed, but the culprit is deemed not eligible for bounty collection.
posted by filthy light thief on Sep 21, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Waltz for Venus  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 8

While the crew hunts down a Venusian mobster, Spike meets Rocco Bonnaro, who is on the run from that same mobster the crew is tracking. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Sep 14, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Heavy Metal Queen  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 7

The seventh session of Cowboy Bebop features outer space freight hauling, a bunch of "back-stabbing," good-for-nothing bounty hunters after bounty with a dragon tattoo named "Decker," a Rumplestiltskin-like name guessing game, and a tight situation in an old abandoned mine.
posted by filthy light thief on Sep 7, 2014 - 3 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Sympathy for the Devil  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 6

Spike and Jet go after a three million Woolong bounty on Giraffe, a former member of the Self Defense Volunteer Squad. Appearances are deceiving, pulling Spike and Jet into a strange story of an unlikely survivor of a hyperspace gate explosion.
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 30, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Ballad of Fallen Angels  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 5

While pursuing the bounty on an executive of the Red Dragon Syndicate, Spike ends up confronting Vicious, an old enemy of his.
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 24, 2014 - 4 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Gateway Shuffle  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 4

This session opens with Faye floating aimlessly, as both she and her ship are empty, and she tries to hail passing craft to ask for assistance. She gets a response from the ruins of a ship, where a dying man gives her a suitcase to be delivered to the ISSP, but requests that she doesn't open the case. Meanwhile, in a restaurant on Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, Spike and Jet are scoping out their next bounty, only to be interrupted by an impromptu display by the Space Warriors, a group of environmental terrorists who are out to save the Ganymede sea rat from people. There's a messy bit of monkey business, but don't worry, next time we'll make money. (I should have seen that coming.)
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 18, 2014 - 2 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Honky Tonk Women  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 3

In the third session of Cowboy Bebop, Jet dreams of Charlie Parker quoting Goethe, Spike and Jet cross paths with a sneaky gambler who complicates things for the bounty hunters when they learns what she's after (and then who she really is), and there's shady deal done, stand-off style, in space suits. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 15, 2014 - 6 comments

Cowboy Bebop: Asteroid Blues  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, two down-on-their-luck bounty hunters, go to the Tijuana asteroid colony in pursuit of Asimov Solensan, a criminal who stole a cache of the dangerous drug Bloody-Eye from his former syndicate.
posted by Small Dollar on Jul 27, 2014 - 15 comments

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