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7 unusual facts about Cowboy Bebop


Asahikawa Medical University

Keiko Nobumoto - scenario writer, responsible for the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Watanabe chose to use an "Arabesque" atmosphere, which was described by an interviewer as permeating "everywhere from the images to the music," saying that the Arab world was "alien" to him and that it "wasn't used much" in the television series.

Cowboy Bebop: Tsuioku no Serenade

Three new songs, performed by Italian vocalist Ilaria Graziano, were composed for the game and were released on the Tank! THE! BEST! album.

Ilaria Graziano

Graziano has also performed songs for the recent 2005 Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Tank! THE! BEST!.

Jerzy Knetig

Knetig also performed Ave Maria for the 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop.

Raj Ramayya

He is also featured on the critically acclaimed Anime series Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain, singing tracks on both of the internationally renowned soundtracks with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno.

Rudy Van Gelder

In the late 90's he worked as a recording engineer for some of the songs featured on the soundtrack to the TV Show Cowboy Bebop.


Anime composer

During the 1990s, Yoko Kanno garnered some interest with her soundtracks for Escaflowne and Macross Plus, but it was her soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop in 1998 that made her extremely popular among anime fans.

Bujingai

Taking two years to create, the development team included Taito veteran Hiroshi Aoki as director, Taito's in-house band Zuntata as music composers, and external talent in the form of Cowboy Bebop character designer Toshiro Kawamoto and Trigun scenario writer Yōsuke Kuroda in their respective roles.

CSC Media Group

AnimeCentral has been replaced with Showcase TV on August 27, 2008 which simlucasts of mixture of channels such as Pop Girl, Chart Show TV, True Movies 2 alongside with AnimeCentral programming block with repeats of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Floral Magician Mary Bell

The true identity of "Kōichirō" is unknown and people do not even know how to read his family name, but it is widely believed in Japan that "Kōichirō" is a pseudonym of Takeshi Ito, who later worked as assistant animation director on Cowboy Bebop: The Movie and Tactical Roar.

Gunfighter

Other western genre themed manga and anime includes Cowboy Bebop and Kino's Journey, both who incorporate knight-errant adventure themes.

Lisa Furukawa

Her performances often surprise audiences with intricate original arrangements of music from series such as Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, and Wolf's Rain.

Showcase TV

It showed a mixture of different content from other CSC Media Group channels such as Pop Girl, Chart Show TV, True Movies 2 and had retained some AnimeCentral programming, in its own block between 04:00 and 06:00 with repeats of Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.


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Raj Ramayya

He has featured as a guest singer/composer with artists ranging from Yoko Kanno (∀ Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain) Tatsuya Oe (Captain Funk, Hotei) Chris Mosdell (Eric Clapton, YMO) and songwriter Ron Sexsmith.