When I first began watching anime decades ago, I avoided Cowboy Bebop like the plague because of my overall disinterest in science-fiction anime. I already wasn’t a fan of anime with mechas, which are clearly science-fiction. The only positive thing I saw about mechas was the fact that there were giant robots, and since there obviously weren’t going to be any in Cowboy Bebop, I came to the natural conclusion that Cowboy Bebop would be much worse. The fact that Cowboy Bebop was influenced by Westerns as well didn’t matter either, since I also didn’t like Westerns.
