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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rbingham2000" data-source="post: 1487802" data-attributes="member: 12947">As mentioned above, Cowboy Bebop is one of the best anime shows on the planet. While "bounty hunters in space" is definitely a nutshell description of it, it doesn't really do the show justice.Spike, the main character of the show, spends most of the series as the essence of cool, though there are those moments when he loses it with comic effect (like when Ed is accepted on board the Bebop). His personal story involves a vicious interplanetary crime syndicate he was once a part of, a lost love that he's still trying to find, and a psychopath with a bird and a samurai sword who wants him dead, dead, dead.Jet is the captain of the Bebop, with a love for bonsai and cooking. Money in the Cowboy Bebop universe buys a lot less than our money today, and the property damage and personal injury costs that Spike racks up on the job often means they have to eat beef-with-bell-peppers without the beef, apart from pissing Jet off to no end. Jet was once a cop, a member of the ISSP, but he quit for reasons he will not discuss. He also won't discuss how he lost his left arm, which has been replaced with a cyberarm.Faye is the loose cannon of the crew. She's about as dishonest as gamblers come, and her habit of doing rash and impulsive things, like stealing the crew's money and spending it on herself, pisses off Spike and Jet to no end. She is very cool and sexy, but like Spike, she sometimes loses that cool with comic effect. Her personal story is kinda sad, and involves a search for memories that were lost with the "Gate Incident" that made Earth a hostile planet to live on.Ed...well, what can I say about her? Ed is Ed. She's this wacky kid hacker who's just totally insane. Her wild and crazy antics make for some of the funniest moments in the anime, though more serious-minded people (Spike, for instance) usually find her quite annoying.Ein is the illegally-developed "data dog" that Spike and Jet rescue in the second episode of the anime, which means that he's endowed with some serious brainpower that's not really apparent to the human members of the Bebop crew. Though Spike is not thrilled with the idea of keeping pets, Ed's the one who really takes a shine to the dog.Throw all five of these crazy characters together with an assortment of more crazy characters, exotic locales, space battles, and some kickass kung-fu and gun-fu action on the side and you have Cowboy Bebop.</blockquote>

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