History Trivia / CowboyBebop

* GossipEvolution: Some fans claim that ShinichiroWatanabe enjoys the English dub of the series more than the original. This stems from a Q&A where he said of the dubbed movie, "My English isn't that good, but I thought it sounded very good."

** There was a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] game all sent to be released in Japan and the States... then for some reason Namco-Bandai cancelled the English version and it never saw the light of day in the US. Fans are still scratching their heads wondering what happened to prevent its release. The game itself is the source of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. There was another game for [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] as well, which played a lot like ''VideoGame/StarFox'' and was also only released in Japan.

* GossipEvolution: Some fans claim that ShinichiroWatanabe enjoys the English dub of the series more than the original. This stems from a Q&A where he said of the dubbed movie, "My English isn't that good, but I thought it sounded very good."

* WordOfGod: ShinichiroWatanabe himself has stated that he enjoys the English dub of the series more than the original. To be precise, he thinks the Japanese cast does a good job in their own right, but the English actors really add a lot of emotion and depth to the characters that just can't be matched.
** Music/YokoKanno herself was much more blunt. An extra on one of the DVD's quoted her thus: "Our Spike, good. Your Spike, sexy!"

* DeFictionalization: The tape' and player for it, (which arrives a day later) in ''Speak Like a Child'', are delivered by helicopter-like robots. Delivery robots showed up around 2011 or so (although only a few companies use drone deliveries).

* DeFictionalization: The tape in ''Speak Like a Child'', is delivered by a helicopter-like robot. Delivery robots showed up around 2011 or so (although only a few companies use drone deliveries).

** Another centers around getting a [=BetaMax=] cassette player for a tape containing [[spoiler: one of Faye's family's home movies]]-[=BetaMax=] players being completely subsumed by VCR's in the 90's; VCR's themselves taken down by DVD players, Blu-Ray's, Netflix, and video game consoles since around 2005. Of course, this is on a holo-screen 80+years removed from the format, and it's presented as a minor miracle they find one at all, on top of getting it to work.

* DeFictionalization: The tape in ''Speak Like a Child'', is delivered by a helicopter-like robot. These robots showed up around 2011 or so.

** Another centers around getting a [=BetaMax=] cassette player to work-[=BetaMax=]'s being completely subsumed by VCR's in the 90's; VCR's themselves taken down by DVD players, Blu-Ray's, Netflix, and video game consoles since around 2005. Of course, this is on a holo-screen 80+years removed from the format, and it's presented as a minor miracle they find one at all, on top of getting it to work.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: One episode hinges on Analouge TV's less-than-perfect signals. Faye gets Spike mixed up with her mob contact because all ahe can make out from the static is the guy's suit and 'do. Which Spike shares.

** Another centers around getting a BetaMax cassette player to work-[=BetaMax=]'s being completely subsumed by VCR's in the late 80's; VCR's themselves taken down by DVD players, Blu-Ray's, Netflix, and video game consoles since around 2005.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** In the English dub…
*** Creator/SteveBlum is Spike.
*** Faye is voiced by Creator/WendeeLee.
*** Creator/BeauBillingslea is Jet.
*** Creator/MelissaFahn is Ed.
*** Creator/SkipStellrecht is Vicious.
*** Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn is Julia.
*** Creator/KirkThornton is Mad Pierrot.
*** Creator/PaulStPeter is Punch.
*** Creator/DerekStephenPrince is Lin.
*** Creator/SteveStaley is Rhint.
*** Electra Ovilo in the English dub of TheMovie is voiced by Creator/JenniferHale (a rare anime role for her).
*** Also from TheMovie's English dub, Vincent Volaju is voiced by Creator/DaranNorris.
** In the Japanese dub…
*** Spike is Creator/KoichiYamadera, who was also [[Manga/GhostInTheShell Togusa]], [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ryoga]], and [[Manga/LupinIII the new Zenigata]].
*** Faye is voiced by Music/MegumiHayashibara, whose roles are far too numerous to mention.
*** Ed is [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Terriermon]].
*** And Vicious is voiced by none other than Creator/NorioWakamoto.
** In the Mexican Spanish dub:
*** Spike in the TV series is [[Disney/TheLionKing Rafiki]] and [[Anime/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]]'s first voice and in the movie he's [[Manga/SaintSeiya Leo Aioria]] and [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter]].
*** Jet is [[Manga/SaintSeiya Taurus Aldebaran]].
*** Faye is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rarity]], [[Manga/CaptainTsubasa young Tsubasa Ohzora and Sanae Nakazawa in the 80s series]] and WesternAnimation/PepperAnn.
*** Ed is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]], [[WesternAnimation/BenTen Ben Tennyson]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Mimi Tachikawa]]
*** Vicious and Ein are [[Manga/SaintSeiya Phoenix Ikki]].
*** Judy is [[Manga/CardCaptorSakura Tomoyo Daidouji]].
*** Punch was [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Touji Suzuhara]], [[Manga/CardCaptorSakura Fujitaka Kinomoto]] and [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Leonardo's first voice]].
*** Julia is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Tsunade]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Princess Fiona]].
*** Vincent is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Might Guy]], [[Anime/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]]'s second voice and [[Manga/DragonBall Frieza]].

** There was a PS2 game all sent to be released in Japan and the States... then for some reason Namco-Bandai cancelled the English version and it never saw the light of day in the US. Fans are still scratching their heads wondering what happened to prevent its release. The game itself is the source of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. There was another game for PS1 as well, which played a lot like ''VideoGame/StarFox'' and was also only released in Japan.

*** Faye is voiced by MegumiHayashibara, whose roles are far too numerous to mention

** CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: Via a really off-kilter print article about the series; see the page pic for more details.

** When [adult swim] Action was replaced with the revival of Toonami, ''Cowboy Bebop'' would be one of the shows carried over, and it continued to air until it was replaced by ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. Its absence would be brief though, since it was brought back and given encore airings when Toonami expanded to six hours. It went back to airing single episodes to make room for ''Anime/{{IGPX}}'', and was finally taken off for the second time when it, ''IGPX'', and fellow [adult swim]/Toonami show ''Anime/TheBigO'' all aired their finales on the same night. It has since been officially replaced by ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', but its general presence hasn't gone away, as the Toonami crew has teased at the return of ''Cowboy Bebop'', with the addition of HD Tapes. The last time the show aired was on the night that Toonami aired the movie ''[[{{Manga/Trigun}} Trigun: Badlands Rumble]]'', in which, after the movie was finished, the crew's favorite episodes were aired in a one-night marathon to prepare for ''Anime/SpaceDandy'', a show made by [[Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe the same creator]] behind ''Cowboy Bebop''.

* AlternateContinuity: ''Shooting Star'', the first manga SpinOff. When Cain Kuga was started the comic, only the first episode or two of the anime had been completed (but not aired yet), so that and the main character bios were all she had to go on. She ended up going in a completely different direction from the anime.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Oh boy... to say that AdultSwim and {{Toonami}} love this show would be an understatement. From the day it first aired on [adult swim] Action (September 2, 2001), ''Cowboy Bebop'' would be aired in reruns nonstop for several years, to the point where it holds the honor of being the most rerun show on [adult swim]. When [adult swim] Action was replaced with the revival of Toonami, ''Cowboy Bebop'' would be one of the [adult swim] Action shows carried over, and it continued to air until it was replaced by ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. Its absence would be brief though, since it was brought back and given encore airings when Toonami expanded to six hours. It went back to airing single episodes to make room for ''{{IGPX}}'', and was finally taken off for the second time when it, ''IGPX'', and fellow [adult swim]/Toonami show ''Anime/TheBigO'' all aired their finales on the same night. It has since been officially replaced by ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', but its general presence hasn't gone away, as the Toonami crew has teased at the return of ''Cowboy Bebop'', with the addition of HD Tapes. The last time the show aired was on the night that Toonami aired the movie ''[[{{Manga/Trigun}} Trigun: Badlands Rumble]]'', in which, after the movie was finished, the crew's favorite episodes were aired in a one-night marathon to prepare for ''Anime/SpaceDandy'', a show made by [[Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe the same creator]] behind ''Cowboy Bebop''.

* CrossDressingVoices: In the Hungarian dub, Ed is voiced by a boy after the translator mistook her name as male.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/SteveBlum is Spike.
** Faye is voiced by Creator/WendeeLee.
** In Japan, Faye is voiced by MegumiHayashibara.
** Creator/BeauBillingslea is Jet.
** Creator/MelissaFahn is Ed.
** In Japan, Ed is [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Terriermon]].
** Electra Ovilo in the English dub of TheMovie is voiced by Creator/JenniferHale.

** Creator/SkipStellrecht is Vicious.
** Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn is Julia.
** Creator/KirkThornton is Mad Pierrot.
** Creator/PaulStPeter is Punch.
** Creator/DerekStephenPrince is Lin.
** Creator/SteveStaley is Rhint.

* [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Keep Circulating The Tapes - Rescued]]: Being owned by Creator/BandaiEntertainment, the rights to the show were hanging in limbo... until Creator/{{Sunrise}} started auctioning their Bandai-licensed shows to other distributors. The lucky company who ended up with the rights to ''Cowboy Bebop''? Creator/{{Funimation}}.

** Whilst all disc forms and sets of the Anime are available in Japan, all English [=DVDs=] are only available in region-locked American/NTSC discs, whilst the [=BluRay=] boxset is currently limited to the UK. To reiterate: if you're an American wanting the [=BluRay=], a Brit wanting the [=DVDs=], or any other nationality wanting a legal/official boxset, ''you'd better be prepared to pay a fortune for a dub you may not want.''
** There was a PS2 game all sent to be released in Japan and the States...then for some reason Bandai Namco canceled the English version and it never saw the light of day in the U.S. Fans are still scratching their heads wondering what happened to prevent its release. The game itself is the source of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. There was another game for PS1 as well, which played a lot like ''VideoGame/StarFox'' and was also only released in Japan.

* TooSoon: "Sympathy For The Devil", "Waltz For Venus", and "Cowboy Funk" were removed from TV showings after 9/11, and "Wild Horses" was removed after the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' broke up in re-entry in 2003.

*** Spike in the TV series is [[Disney/TheLionKing Rafiki]] and [[Manga/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]]'s first voice and in the movie he's [[Manga/SaintSeiya Leo Aioria]] and [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter]].

*** Vincent is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Might Guy]], [[Manga/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]]'s second voice and [[Manga/DragonBall Frieza]].

** SkipStellrecht is Vicious.