OK, 3-2-1, let’s jam. In 2001, Shinichirō Watanabe brought back his free-jazz anime riff to cinemas with
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (better known internationally as
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie). For fans, it was a hidden episode 22 1/2, but for new audiences it was a wild ride into his cool space-noir packed with bounty hunters, existential doubt, gunplay, and the cutest Pembroke Welsh Corgi in the solar system. See you, space cowboy. –
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