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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
8.5/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose this if you miss how one complete story can sit next to an episode that advances a much bigger case. Section 9 works both kinds of investigations, with a Yoko Kanno score that gives the futuristic city a sound of its own. Expect more police procedure and less cowboy swagger.
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The Big O (1999)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this for the episodes in which Bebop turns quiet, shadowy, and suspicious of its own past. Negotiator Roger Smith takes cases in a city whose inhabitants all lost their memories decades ago. You get a private-eye atmosphere and mysteries that can end in a fight between giant robots.
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Gun x Sword (2005)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Try this if Spike’s inability to leave old business alone is what keeps you watching. Van crosses a frontier planet searching for the man with a claw for a hand, and Wendy has a reason to follow the same trail. Each stop can be its own adventure, with giant machines standing in for guns at high noon.
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Wolf's Rain (2003)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose this for a group of strays whose destination starts to matter less than the company they keep. Wolves pass as people to survive while looking for a place called Paradise. Yoko Kanno’s music carries you through a much bleaker wilderness than the Bebop usually visits.
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Heat Guy J (2002)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose this for episodic cases in a futuristic city and partners who can read a situation differently. Daisuke works with J, an android, on special investigations in Judoh. The city’s criminal networks and the odd couple at the center give you another way into the urban side of Bebop.
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Gungrave (2003)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this for the noir beneath Spike’s old loyalties. Brandon Heat and his friend Harry enter organized crime together, and the story follows the friendship long enough for its fracture to matter. Gungrave spends more time on that past and builds toward a much more supernatural reckoning.
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Blood Blockade Battlefront (2015)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Try this if you enjoy when an episode makes the whole setting feel bigger and weirder than the job. An aspiring reporter joins a secret society in the city that used to be New York. The monsters, jazz, and loose rhythm make it a good choice when you want atmosphere and chaos in the same episode.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this for another story about making a living with a crew on the wrong side of the law. David finds freelance mercenary work in Night City, where upgrades to your own body can be the steepest cost of keeping up. You get a shorter, more direct descent than Bebop’s alternating jobs and detours.
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Akudama Drive (2020)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Try this for a single criminal assignment that throws together people who would never share a room by choice. A stranger gets caught up with fugitives recruited for a high-risk job in Kansai. If you like watching alliances shift under pressure, this keeps turning up the heat long after the team meets.
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Desert Punk (2004)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this for desert bounty hunting with a much cruder sense of humor. A mercenary survives by reputation and fieldcraft in the wasteland that used to be Japan. You get another outlaw who looks less heroic the longer you have to spend in his company.
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Gangsta. (2015)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Watch this for the feeling of taking work from people who are barely more trustworthy than the mark. Worick and Nicolas take dangerous jobs for both the police and the mob in Ergastulum. You get the closeness of partners who know each other’s habits, with very little optimism about the city around them.
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Jormungand (2012)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose this for a hired crew whose competence can’t make the work any cleaner. A young soldier who hates the arms trade guards Koko, a dealer who keeps the team on the move. You’ll spend more time on the cost of the job than on space travel or comic detours.
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Darker than Black (2007)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this if you want the quieter danger of a man who doesn’t tell his partners everything. Hei carries out covert assignments in a changed Tokyo where people called Contractors have powers tied to compulsory rituals. The missions give you room to notice the distances among the people doing the work.
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Noir (2001)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Try this if you’re drawn to the idea of two hired professionals slowly discovering how their histories connect. A Paris-based assassin joins forces with the amnesiac Kirika. A repeating musical clue and a string of assignments keep pulling you back to a past that neither partner can fully explain.
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Gunsmith Cats (1995)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Watch this three-episode series when you want the clean setup of a bounty-hunter job and the mess that follows it. Rally Vincent and Minnie May sell guns in Chicago and pick up work on the side. The cars, deadlines, and partnership give you a quick dose of grounded ’90s action.
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Appare-Ranman! (2020)
6.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Try this if you’re after Bebop’s bickering partners and Western set pieces more than the space setting. A Japanese engineer and a reluctant samurai enter a race across the United States. Each stop brings you another rival, obstacle, or reason for the partners to figure out how to get along.
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