As a pop cultural form, "anime" certainly casts a wide and quirky net. Case in point, Cowboy Bebop -- the movie version of a popular Japanese adult cartoon TV series.

For those who don't necessarily "get" anime, Cowboy Bebop is a curveball, something a little more realistic and adult than those big-eyed Dragonball Z cartoons. The style is sleek retro-realist, recalling some of the later work of Ralph Bakshi.
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