10 Times Cowboy Bebop Left Anime Fans To Fill In The Blanks

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When Cowboy Bebop aired in 1998, the anime spent 26 episodes being ambiguous on purpose. The show drops its deeply troubled characters into a solar system, each of them with a tragic past, and then goes on to hold back every detail that would make their stories feel complete. Spike Spiegel’s history with the Syndicate, Julia and Vicious arrives in fragments throughout the anime’s run, and the pieces never quite add up to create a full picture.