Bebop Adventures
21 eps
16 canon 5 good filler 📷 21
Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, two broke bounty hunters scraping by on the spaceship Bebop, track a smuggler dealing a dangerous combat drug called "Red Eye" on the Tijuana asteroid colony. A tragic romance unfolds as Spike confronts the desperate fugitive.
The crew chases a bounty on a seemingly normal Welsh Corgi named Ein, only to discover the dog is a highly valuable, genetically engineered data dog stolen from a research facility. Ein ends up joining the perpetually starving crew.
Spike and Jet cross paths with Faye Valentine, a deeply in-debt, smooth-talking gambler working at a space casino. After a chaotic hostage situation involving a casino chip embedded with a microchip, Faye forces her way onto the Bebop.
Faye is forced to work with the Bebop crew when an eco-terrorist group threatens to infect a heavily populated hyperspace gateway with a virus that turns humans into apes.
Spike encounters a seemingly immortal child prodigy playing the harmonica. The investigation reveals a tragic anomaly caused by the astral gate accident years ago, forcing Spike to hunt down a phantom who cannot age.
The crew tracks a bounty through a network of asteroid miners. They team up with VT, a tough-as-nails, heavy metal-loving space trucker who has a strict rule against associating with bounty hunters.
While hunting a bounty on Venus, Spike is approached by a young man named Roco who begs him for martial arts lessons. Roco is caught up in a syndicate war trying to secure a rare plant to cure his sister's blindness, leading to a heartbreaking shootout.
The crew travels to a ruined Earth to track down a legendary hacker known as "Radical Edward" who is supposedly causing orbital lasers to carve images into the planet's surface. They discover Ed is actually a wildly eccentric, barefoot teenage girl.
Jet returns to his home satellite of Ganymede and is forced to confront Alisa, the woman who left him years ago without a word. The tension spikes when Jet learns her new boyfriend is the exact bounty he is hunting.
A brilliant homage to *Alien*. A mysterious, highly venomous blob monster begins systematically hunting the crew through the dark corridors of the Bebop. The culprit turns out to be something Spike left in the fridge a year ago.
The crew hunts the mastermind behind a string of hyperspace gate toll robberies. The trail leads them to Chessmaster Hex, a brilliant but senile programmer who helped design the gate system decades ago.
Faye's mysterious past is partially revealed. She tells the story of how she woke up from cryogenic sleep with massive debt and severe amnesia, only to be manipulated by a con man who broke her heart and left her holding the bag.
Jet's past as an ISSP officer comes back to haunt him when a prison ship is hijacked by the man who cost Jet his left arm. He teams up with his old partner, Fad, to finish the job, but uncovers a deep betrayal.
With the rest of the crew incapacitated, it's up to Ed and Ein to track down a bounty hunter dealing highly hallucinogenic mushrooms on a desert planet. A wildly stylized, blaxploitation-inspired fever dream of an episode.
A mysterious, obsolete Betamax tape arrives addressed to Faye. Spike and Jet go on a massive, city-wide quest through the ruins of Earth to find a working VCR, ultimately revealing a heartbreaking message from Faye's teenage self.
Spike's Swordfish II breaks down, forcing him to visit his old mechanic, Doohan. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew tangles with a group of space pirates using computer viruses to disable ships, leaving Spike to attempt a reckless atmospheric reentry.
Spike inadvertently witnesses an assassination and becomes the target of Mad Pierrot, a genetically enhanced, heavily armed super-soldier whose mind has regressed to that of a homicidal child. A terrifying, masterfully animated horror episode.
Jet receives a cryptic message from an old friend, leading him to protect the man's teenage daughter, Meifa. They use a hyper-advanced form of Feng Shui to locate a mysterious artifact hidden within the solar system.
Spike's attempt to catch a bomber is repeatedly thwarted by "Cowboy Andy," an insanely wealthy, completely oblivious rival bounty hunter who rides a robot horse and acts exactly like Spike. Pure, comedic gold.
Faye goes undercover to infiltrate SCRATCH, a massive digital cult that encourages its members to abandon their physical bodies and upload their consciousness to the internet. The crew must pull her out before her mind is wiped.
Faye travels to Earth to find the ruins of her childhood home, while Ed reconnects with her absentee father, who is obsessed with mapping the meteor strikes. Realizing they need to find their own paths, Ed and Ein leave the Bebop for good.
Red Dragon Syndicate
5 eps
5 canon 📷 5
Spike's bloody, buried past catches up with him when a Red Dragon Syndicate boss is assassinated. Ignoring Jet's warnings, Spike walks into a deadly trap at an abandoned cathedral to face his former partner and bitter rival, Vicious.
Faye empties the ship's safe and flees to Callisto. Spike abandons the crew to follow a rumor that Julia-the woman from his past-has been spotted there. Meanwhile, Vicious conducts a massive drug deal on the freezing moon.
Spike clashes with Vicious in the snow. Gren, an ex-soldier betrayed by Vicious during the Titan War, seeks his own revenge, culminating in a tragic, three-way shootout set to a heartbreaking jazz soundtrack.
The Red Dragon Syndicate launches a massive purge, targeting former members-including Spike. Spike is finally reunited with Julia, the woman he has been searching for, but Vicious orchestrates a violent coup to take over the syndicate.
Following Julia's tragic death, Spike shares one last meal with Jet before heavily arming himself and storming the Red Dragon headquarters alone. He slaughters his way to the top floor for a final, legendary duel with Vicious. Bang.
