They’re just regular folks (sort of) trying to make a living. They are so easy to empathize with because they’re not heroes. Each of these characters is a product of the world they live in and part of what makes their issues compelling instead of contrived is because they are a natural consequence of the overall climate of the solar system of 2071. Each character has at least one major flaw that their story progression focuses on throughout the series, whether it be Spike’s lost love or his connection to the Red Dragon Syndicate Jet’s former career in the ISSP Faye’s issues with debt and her forgotten past or Edward’s issues with being an orphan and a social outcast. Part of Cowboy Bebop’s appeal is the anti-hero nature of the cast. If you add these elements up, you’ll definitely see where Cowboy Bebop gets its reputation for a Wild West feel and with each settlement the Bebop visits seeming like a Tombstone or a Dodge City, fraught with weirdness and danger. Their penchant for living at the edge and running headlong into danger certainly paints an image not unlike that of a cowboy of the American West. To enforce this feeling, our band of characters is composed of weirdos and loners, people who either don’t fit into society or don’t want to fit into society. The sparsely populated solar system gives a definite impression of a frontier-esque setting.
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It’s the main form of long-distance conveyance for our bounty hunters, and much of the series is spent on its various decks and in its various compartments. Their spaceship, the Bebop, is as much of a character of the show as the group that inhabits it. These bounty hunters live on the fringes of society, only emerging when they have to take down a bounty head for a needed injection of woolong, or the currency unit of the Cowboy Bebop universe.
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Though there is a solar system-wide law enforcement agency, ISSP (Inter-Solar System Police), it is spread thin and must be supplemented by groups of professional bounty hunters.Įnter our main characters: Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein. There are large settlements, such as Mars and Ganymede, that have the semblance of civilization, but the majority of smaller outposts dotted about the extent of the solar system are bound only by their own rules and traditions. Fifty years later, when the series starts, this has led to a decentralization of humanity and its governments.
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