Cowboy Aliens 2011' title='Cowboy Aliens 2011' />11Cowboy Bebop Wikipedia. Cowboy Bebop,Kaubi Bibappu is a 1. Sunrise featuring a production team led by director Shinichir Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno. The twenty six episodes sessions of the series are set in the year 2. Bebop. Cowboy Bebop explores philosophical concepts including existentialism, existential ennui, and loneliness. The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3 until June 2. The entire twenty six episodes of the series were later broadcast on WOWOW from October 2. April 2. 4, 1. 99. The anime was adapted into two manga series which were serialized in Kadokawa Shotens Asuka Fantasy DX. Cowboy Aliens 2011' title='Cowboy Aliens 2011' />A film was later released to theaters worldwide. The anime series was dubbed in the English language by Animaze and ZRO Limit Productions, and was licensed by Bandai Entertainment in North America and is now licensed by Funimation. In Britain, it was licensed by Beez Entertainment and is now licensed by Anime Limited. Madman Entertainment has licensed it for releases in Australia and New Zealand. In 2. 00. 1, Cowboy Bebop became the first anime title to be broadcast on Adult Swim in the United States. Cowboy Bebop became a critical and commercial success both in Japanese and international markets most notably in the United States, garnered several major anime and science fiction awards upon its release, and received universal praise for its style, characters, story, voice acting, animation, and soundtrack. In the years since its release, critics and reviewers, from the United States in particular, have hailed Cowboy Bebop as a masterpiece and frequently cite it as one of the greatest anime titles of all time. Credited with helping to introduce anime to a new wave of Western viewers in the early 2. Cowboy Bebop has also been labelled a gateway series for the medium as a whole. Cast and crew links, synopsis, and reviews. Images and sounds of the characters Steve Blum has played in voice over roles in cartoons, TV, movies, video games and more. My name is Kevin Weatherby and I am the founder of Campfire Cowboy Ministries. It is the 1 online source for Christian Cowboys and Cowgirls. This blog strives to. Cowboy Aliens 2011' title='Cowboy Aliens 2011' />Cowboys Aliens is a 2011 American science fiction Western film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde. Cowboy Bebop, Kaubi Bibappu is a 1998 anime television series animated by Sunrise featuring a production team led by director. Cowboys Aliens summary of box office results, charts and release information and related links. A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. Sideshow celebrity, The Space Cowboy is a truly unique artist from Byron Bay Australia. A natural performer, he started presenting his unusual skills at the local. In 2. 07. 1, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police ISSP set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters also referred to as Cowboys chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward. The series protagonists are bounty hunters working from the spaceship Bebop. The original crew are Spike Spiegel, an exiled former hitman of the criminal Red Dragon Syndicate, and his partner Jet Black, a former ISSP officer. They are later joined by Faye Valentine, an amnesiac con artist Edward Wong, an eccentric girl skilled in hacking and Ein, a genetically engineered. Pembroke Welsh Corgi with human like intelligence. Over the course of the series, the team get involved in disastrous mishaps leaving them out of pocket, while often confronting faces and events from their past 1. Jets reasons for leaving the ISSP, and Fayes past as a young woman from Earth injured in an accident and cryogenically frozen to save her life. The main story arc focuses on Spike and his deadly rivalry with Vicious, an enforcer for the Red Dragon Syndicate. Spike and Vicious were once partners and friends, but when Spike began an affair with Viciouss girlfriend Julia and resolved to leave the Syndicate with her, Vicious attempted to have Julia kill Spike. Julia goes into hiding to protect herself and Spike, while Spike fakes his death to escape the Syndicate. Serial Iranian. In the present, Julia comes out of hiding and reunites with Spike, intending to complete their plan. Vicious, having staged a coup dtat and taken over the Syndicate, sends hitmen after the pair. Julia is killed, leaving Spike alone. His heartbreak feeds his desire to kill Vicious once and for all. Spike leaves the Bebop after saying a final goodbye to Faye and Jet. Upon infiltrating the syndicate, he finds Vicious on the top floor of the building. In a final battle, Vicious is killed and Spike severely wounded. The series ends as Spike descends the main staircase of the building into the rising sun. He falls to the ground, leaving his ultimate fate ambiguous. Genre and themeseditWatanabe created a special tagline for the series to promote it during its original presentation, calling it a new genre unto itself. The line was inserted before and after commercial breaks during its Japanese and US broadcasts. Later, Watanabe called the phrase an exaggeration. The show is a hybrid of multiple genres, including comedy, the detective caper, action fiction and thrillers, and film noir. The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles. Multiple philosophical themes are explored using the characters, including existentialism, existentialennui, loneliness, and the effect of the past on the protagonists. It draws extensively from multiple Western genres, including the Western and pulp fiction. The series also makes specific references to or pastiches multiple films, including the works of John Woo and Bruce Lee, Midnight Run, 2. A Space Odyssey, and Alien. The series also includes extensive references and elements from science fiction, bearing strong similarities to the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson. Several planets and space stations in the series are made in Earths image. The streets of celestial objects such as Ganymede resemble a modern port city, while Mars features shopping malls, theme parks, casinos and cities. Cowboy Bebops universe is filled with video players and hyperspace gates, eco politics and fairgrounds, spaceships and Native Americanshamans. This setting has been described as one part Chinese diaspora and two parts wild west. Charactersedit. The main cast from left to right Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Edward, and Ein. The characters were created by Watanabe and character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto. Watanabe envisioned each character as an extension of his own personality, or as an opposite person to himself. Each character, from the main cast to supporting characters, were designed to be outlaws unable to fit into society. Kawamoto designed the characters so they were easily distinguished from one another. All the main cast are characterized by a deep sense of loneliness or resignation to their fate and past. From the perspective of Brian Camp and Julie Davis, the main characters resemble the main characters of the anime series Lupin III, if only superficially, given their more troubled pasts and more complex personalities. With the exception of Edward,who none of the main characters had models in real life. The show focuses on the character of Spike Spiegel, with the overall theme of the series being Spikes past and its karmic effect on him. Spike was portrayed as someone who had lost his expectations for the future, having lost the woman he loved, and so was in a near constant lethargy. Spikes artificial eye was included as Watanabe wanted his characters to have flaws. He was originally going to give Spike an eye patch, but the producers vetoed it. Jet is shown as someone who lost confidence in his former life and has become cynical about the state of society. Spike and Jet were designed to be opposites, with Spike being thin and wearing smart attire, while Jet was bulky and wore more casual clothing. The clothing, which was dark in color, also reflected their states of mind.