By JASON BEAM
Anyway, I haven’t been doing much else besides watching an anime called Cowboy Bebop which is not just one of my favorite anime series of all time but one of my all-time favorite series in general. It’s an utterly flawless show from its writing to its animation to the voice acting. The best part, though, is the characters—but then, that’s what makes any story entertaining, right? The premise of the series is that it’s the year 2071 and the inner planets of the Solar System are colonized after Earth is left near uninhabitable after a hyperspace gate accident caused meteors to blitz the planet. So now with people living on planets like Mars, Venus and the moons of Jupiter, there are lots of places for criminal activity so a bounty system has been set up so hunters can bring the bad guys to justice (except in Bebop’s case, the bad guys aren’t always that bad, just flawed). And bounty hunters are called “cowboys”, true to the space western vibe the show has…
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