Cowboy Bebop
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Cowboy Bebop is a Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series that aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. Created and animated by Sunrise, it was led by a production team of direct
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Main cast from left to right: Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Edward, and Ein
Series director Shinichirō Watanabe at the 2009 Japan Expo
Yoko Kanno in 1999
Shinichirō Watanabe
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Shinichirō Watanabe is a Japanese anime television and film director, best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Samurai Cha
Cowboy Bebop
…anime television series that aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999. Created and animated by Sunrise, it was 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…
Watanabe at the 2009 Japan Expo
Watanabe at Japan Society in November 2025