Japanese name:	Cowboy Bebop
Japanese name:	カウボーイビバップ
English name:	Cowboy Bebop
Dates:	April 3, 1998-June 26, 1998; October 23, 1998-April 23, 1999 September 2, 2001-November 25, 2001 (United States)
Broadcast time:	Friday, 18:00-18:30 (6:00-6:30 pm) (original TV Tokyo broadcast)
Number of episodes:	26
Animation Studio:	Sunrise
Production Company:
Broadcaster:	TV Tokyo (TX) (episodes 1-13), WOWOW (episodes 1-26) Adult Swim (United States)
Creator(s):	Hajime Yatate (various Sunrise staff members)
Series Director:	Shinichiro Watanabe
Episode Director(s):	Yoshiyuki Takei, Ikuo Sato, Kunihiro Mori
Producer(s):	Masahiko Minami, Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Planning:	Keiko Nobumoto (series composition)
Storyboard(s):	Shinichiro Watanabe, Michiko Yokote, Kazuhiki Akane
Layout:
Writer(s):	Keiko Nobumoto, Michiko Yokote, Ryota Yamaguchi
Art Director:	Junichi Higashi
Art Design:	Isamu Imakake (set), Shihoko Nakayama (color)
Character Designer(s):	Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kimitoshi Yamane (mecha)
Animator(s):	Toshihiro Kawamoto (director), Hiroshi Takeuchi (director), Hideyuki Motohashi (director), Hitoshi Sano (mecha director) Hiroki Kanno (director), Hiroshi Osaka (director), Takahiro Komori (director), Takuro Shinbo (director),
Backgrounds:
Music:	Yoko Kanno
Sound:	Katsuyoshi Kobayashi (director)
Voice Actors (regular characters):	Characters Japanese United States Spike Spiegel Kouichi Yamadera Steven Jay Blum Jet Black Unshou Ishizuka John Billingslea Faye Valentine Megumi Hayashibara Wendee Lee Ed (Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV) Aoi Tada Melissa Charles Julia Gara Takashima Melissa Williamson Vicious Norio Wakamoto George C. Cole
Genre(s):	adventure, science fiction, space travel, suspended animation/cryogenesis, computers, crime, bounty hunters
Home Video information:	United States: DVD (Bandai Entertainment, 1290-1295)
Note(s):	To see what other animated programs were out at the same time as Cowboy Bebop go to the Chronology of Animation.
Note on finding copies of programs:	Unfortunately I lack the time or resources to help people find copies of anime television programs. I have put together a web List of Online Video and Book Stores that will be useful to find copies in the United States, some other countries, and one Japanese store. There are other similar stores on the Internet around the world that might be able to supply the DVDs, LDs, VCDs, or video tapes that are desired. Check my Japanese Animation Information page for links to Internet resources that may have further information. I am not involved in trading materials from my own collection. I am still waiting to see most of the programs in this List of Anime Television Series and would be happy to find sources for many of them. Because of these circumstances I will not respond to requests for help to find these types of materials.

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