High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The following is a list of major and minor characters, with biographical information, from the anime and manga series Cowboy Bebop, directed by Shinichir Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto. The series' 26 episodes are often character driven; current events are often the consequence of life changing occurrences shown in flashbacks. Cowboys is the series' name for the bounty hunters who pursue wanted criminals across the breadth of the solar system. The bounty hunters, lead by the martial artist and Mars native Spike Spiegel, travel in a converted fishing trawler, the spaceship Bebop, owned and maintained by the former policeman from Ganymede Jet Black. The intelligent Corgi Ein and hustler Faye Valentine join the crew early in the series; barefoot free spirit Edward is encountered and comes aboard in a later episode.