Cowboy Bebop: The Complete Series features all 26 episodes across four discs. This remastered edition retains the original 4:3 aspect ratio, but with a high-definition resolution bump. It contains English voiceover dubs as well as the original Japanese audio track with subtitles. Along with all of the episodes, you’ll get a bunch of bonus features, including five audio commentaries, various featurettes, multiple interviews, and more.
Amazon’s deal on Funimation’s 2014 release, which drops the price to $18, is the best we’ve seen this year.
Amazon also has the 25th Anniversary Special Edition on sale for $27.49 (was $50). Released by Crunchyroll last year, this edition is largely the same as the $18 version, except it comes with a fifth disc containing a 25-year retrospective and an interview with Koichi Yamadera (voice actor of Spike) recorded for the series 20th anniversary.
Cowboy Bebop takes place five decades after Earth became uninhabitable. In 2071, many humans live on moons and other planets in the galaxy. Just like the main character in Intergalactic, Cowboy Bebop follows a bounty hunter. Spike Spiegel is the leader of a group of bounty hunters (cowboys) who travel the galaxy on a interplanetary fishing trawler (the Bebop) picking up contracts for bounties on criminals.
Though it deals with some serious topics, Cowboy Bebop is also often funny and heartfelt. The ragtag group of bounty hunters who join the Bebop are well-developed characters that you really feel for throughout the show’s 26 episodes. Plus, Cowboy Bebop has a very good and extremely intelligent pup named Ein (a space corgi).