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I’ve decided to start a new feature for this blog: the recommended series. I’ve been writing reviews of individual manga volumes and plan to do some of individual anime DVDs, but sometimes it makes more sense to write a post on a series as a whole. To start things off, here’s a look at one of my favorite anime series, Cowboy Bebop. It wasn’t the first series that I watched and liked (Fullmetal Alchemist takes that honor), but it was the first series that I watched in its entirety.

Cowboy Bebop is set just a few decades in the future, in the year 2071. Interplanetary travel is now a reality, due to a network of hyperspace gateways set up throughout the solar system. But the gates come with a price: an industrial accident involving one gate has sent debris from the Moon raining down on Earth, destroying much of the world’s surface. As a result, most people have left Earth to find a better life in the colonies on colonies on the other planets, and those who remain on earth live underground.
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