Cowboy Bebop (Season 1)

Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ, 1998) is a landmark anime series from Studio Sunrise, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, available to watch online on iFILM. 26 episodes set in 2071, across a Solar System colonized after Earth was wrecked by a hyperspace gate accident.

Bounty hunting is legal work. The crew of the ship Bebop is anything but ordinary: Spike Spiegel (Koichi Yamadera) is a former hitman still running from his past, Jet Black (Unsho Ishizuka) a gruff ex-cop with a mechanical arm, con artist Faye Valentine (Megumi Hayashibara) a woman with no memory of who she was, and teenage hacker Ed rounding out the oddest crew in the system. Each job chasing criminals turns into something no one on board bargained for.

Yoko Kanno's jazz-heavy score — recorded by a live ensemble called The Seatbelts — became as iconic as the show itself. Watanabe blended noir, space western, and action into a genre all its own. Stream all episodes of Cowboy Bebop online on iFILM.