these be excellent series and not just animation series . cowboy bebop easily reach the pedestal of series such a the prisoner . cowboy bebop consist of story about an oddball group of bounty hunter in and get this and action or sci fi or western or detective or comedy genre . but the most amazing thing be that the creative team actually manage to balance all the genre well enough to avoid be absurd and in fact and well enough to be thoroughly enjoyable spectacle . the quality of each episode range from good to excellent . and even though the series borrow from easily identifiable source such a 2001 space oddessey and the good the bad and the ugly and it do it with enough finesse not to undermine itself . it really be ironic that the japanese animator manage to pull off american pop culture reference good than most american filmmaker can . but then again and good film making or animation transcend all culture . for those people who can not get pas disney mentality that animation can not be a vessel for grow up film making . all i can tell you represent it your loss .