It’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with automatic weapons. The show ultimately features so many cross-ranging influences and nods to other famous works it’s almost impossible to keep track. Everyone speaks like they’re background extras in Chinatown. The result is a galaxy of lawlessness, where crime lords rule and cops pay bounty hunters (often referred to as cowboys) to handle some of the grunt work. Set in 2071, Bebop imagines a dystopian future where earth has been irrevocably damaged due to the creation of a “stargate,” forcing humans to evacuate the planet and create colonies across the solar system.
(As Wayne famously said, “Talk low, talk slow, and … I’m not drunk you’re drunk Elmore why’s the room spinning?”) Dick came up with during a wild, all-night whiskey bender. On paper, Cowboy Bebop, the legendary cult anime series from Shinichirō Watanabe, reads like something John Wayne, Elmore Leonard, and Philip K.
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