Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ) is a Japanese animated television series. Directed by Shinichirō Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto, Cowboy Bebop was produced by Sunrise. Consisting of 26 episodes, the series follows the adventures of a group of bounty hunters traveling on their spaceship, the Bebop, in the year 2071.
　The crew of the spaceship Bebop are a partnership of "cowboys" (originally Spike & Jet) who travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. The Bebop is made up of a bridge, general living quarters, storage for food and supplies, and a small hangar to allow docking of smaller one-man space vessels. Jet owns the Bebop itself, but has partnered with Spike for his diverse combat skills; he is a master of Jeet Kune Do, marksmanship, and space fighter combat. Though he is reluctant to admit it, Jet has also come to rely on Spike for companionship in the normally solitary field of bounty hunting. The entire system is open to them via the Gates, but they regularly spend much of their time on Mars, the new hub of human civilization.
【Quotation from Wikipedia 2009.01.30】

《星際牛仔》（カウボーイビバップ， Cowboy Bebop， 又譯《賞金獵人》）是由日本日升動畫公司和萬代影視製作的原創電視動畫。它最初是於東京電視臺從1998年4月到6月首播，但因電檢尺度問題並未完整播畢，後由衛星頻道WOWOW在同年10月至第二年4月播出了完整的26集。2001年推出一部電影版作品《星際牛仔：天國之門》（カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉））。相關漫畫版作品則由久雅カイン作畫，在1998年到2000年之間由角川書店發行。
　史派克（Spike）和傑特（Jet）是駕駛飛船Bebop號在宇宙中以捉拿逃犯獲取獎金為生的賞金獵人。兩人在星際間的旅程中，結識了身負巨債、嗜財如命的美女菲（Faye）和電腦神童艾德（Ed），並收養了擁有高智商的數據狗愛因（Ein）。從此，四人一狗遊蕩在廣闊之宇宙之中，在自己與他人的生活中經歷著種種悲歡離合，也尋找著各自的過去。
【从维基百科，自由的百科全书（Wikipedia）引用 2009.01.30】