Cowboy Bebop Timeline Explained What Year Its Set In

Cowboy Bebop Timeline Explained: What Year It’s Set In

Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop remains fairly faithful to the original ’90s anime in terms of its worldbuilding. What year is the live-adaptation set in?

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Cowboy Bebop Timeline Explained What Year Its Set In

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop.

What year is Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop set in and how does its timeline play out? A dynamic, live-action adaptation of the eponymous, beloved ‘90’s anime series, Cowboy Bebop is a reinterpretative look into the lives of Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda), who embark on various adventures while navigating their own troubled pasts. Following a 10-episode structure for season 1, Cowboy Bebop premiered on Netflix on November 19, 2021.

The original Cowboy Bebop was a smorgasbord of thrilling genres, from sci-fi Western to action noir, set far into the future. The Cowboy Bebop anime took place in the year 2071, roughly fifty years after a disastrous accident with a hyperspace gateway that rendered the Earth almost inhabitable. As humanity colonized most of the planets and moons in the solar system, space travel and interplanetary laws are a part of humanity’s everyday reality, amid an increasing amount of crime.

However, Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop doesn’t stick to the original anime’s timeframe. In Cowboy Bebop season 1, episode 2, “Venus Pop,” Jet is seen reviewing footage of the bombings orchestrated by the Teddy Bombers, a reference to terrorist Ted Bowen in the anime. In several of the tapes of security camera footage, the year of the events of the new Cowboy Bebop show is shown as 2171, set roughly a hundred years after the events of the anime. It is unclear as to why this jump ahead has been made, or how it is relevant to the protagonists’ trajectories. It may be that as it’s only 50 years from now, 2071 doesn’t seem like a year far enough in the future to support the futuristic narrative of the series. While the time has shifted ahead by a century, however, much of the live-action show’s plot and worldbuilding closely follow that of the original.

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In terms of its worldbuilding details and aesthetics, Netflix’s adaptation conjures up a world that looks relatively convincing and real, from the grime-swaddled streets of New Tijuana to the seedy, metropolitan lull of Tharsis. The design of outer space vehicles are pretty close to the original, including the lived-in, beat-up appearance of the Bebop and the use of holographic communication during several sequences. Despite the 100-year time jump, the world of Cowboy Bebop is still rife with retro hardware, cyberpunk-inspired streets, and the nostalgia for a lost past that cannot be easily recovered.

However, the live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop does introduce certain new technologies, such as the face changer that allows Abdul Hakim to temporarily alter his appearance and the augmented reality device that allows Jet to project himself during his daughter Kimmie’s recital. In terms of socio-political aspects, the distribution of Cowboy Bebop’s drug, Red Eye, is rampant among criminal circles, and ecofascism is still on the rise, as seen in season 1, episode 4, “Callisto Soul.” Moreover, as the events of the second episode are set in February 2171, it makes logical sense for the rest of Cowboy Bebop to have unfolded within the span of that very year.

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