Cowboy Bebop is an anime television series and motion picture that follows a band of American-stylized bounty hunters thrown together by circumstance and necessity, but with passionately disparate private agendas. Each episode tells the story of how the group tracks down wanted criminals in a futuristic setting while dealing with personal issues that arise by location, people they meet, or misgivings about the morality of the subject of their bounty. While every episode and the movie stands on its own, the back-stories of the characters and their growing intimacy together make the whole much greater than the sum of its parts.