Cowboy Beepop isn't just some cartoon punching its way through a sci-fi plotline. It's an amazing blend of japanese and western pop culture, wrapped together in stunning animation & drop-dead-perfect editing and compositon, then turned upside down, shaken out for loose change, spanked soundly and sent on it's merry way..

It's the story of four people who all fall into the job of bounty hunters through mostly faults of their own. Each of them comes prepackaged with a host of their own life troubles, but in the end, they find it hard enough just to make it through each day ambling through their destiny looking for little more than some hot meals with a side of cold revenge.. In the meantime they find something akin to their own quirky little family.

The characters are all uniquely western in nature, compared to most anime, right down to the old west styled bounty hunter TV show they watch to get their new jobs from.

With plots and style reminiscent of Streets of SanFrancisco, Dirty Harry, and the Odd Couple, all set to jazz tracks and peppered with Kung Fu fighting and space battles, Cowboy Beepop is quite possibly the ultimate pop fusion TV series ever made, regardless of it's anime nature.

Cowboy Beepop is fun, cool, crazy, and poignant, all at the same time, and if you don't dig that, you might as well rent Nadja and smoke another pack of cloves and start snapping your fingers instead of clapping.