An original production animation cel from the very first episode of the beloved Cowboy Bebop
Watanabe, Shinichirō
Cowboy Bebop
Tokyo: Sunrise. 1998.
An original production cel from "Asteroid Blues", the very first episode of the wildly popular space western Cowboy Bebop. Debuting the series on October 24, 1998, "Asteroid Blues" set the stage for what would become one of the genre's most unanimously acclaimed series with a legacy that would span the globe.
After Spike bumps into her outside the convenience store, Katerina can be spotted retrieving her toppled groceries near the 12:37 timestamp before irritatingly noticing that he has stolen one of her sandwiches while helping her clean up. Hand-painted to a three-quarters figure, she measures 6.75" x 7.75" and is nicely centred on the 12-field cel, marked A13 in the top right, and has been paired with a print background for display purposes. With typical handling and edge wear, including slight linework fading with small areas of restoration and faint age-related paint discolouration to the light brown of the grocery sack.
The series, which ran for twenty-six episodes (dubbed "sessions"), is set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of a traveling bounty-hunting crew aboard a spaceship, the Bebop.
In his 2018 review of the series, Paste critic John Maher wrote, "It feels like a magnum opus produced at the pinnacle of a long career despite being, almost unbelievably, Watanabe's first series as a director. It is a masterwork that should justly rank among the best works of television of all time." It was also placed at #1 on the publication's list of the "50 Best Anime Series of All Time."
A visually appealing production cel from the very first episode of one of the most revered animated series of all time.
An original production animation cel from the very first episode of the beloved Cowboy Bebop
Watanabe, Shinichirō
Cowboy Bebop
Tokyo: Sunrise. 1998.
An original production cel from "Asteroid Blues", the very first episode of the wildly popular space western Cowboy Bebop. Debuting the series on October 24, 1998, "Asteroid Blues" set the stage for what would become one of the genre's most unanimously acclaimed series with a legacy that would span the globe.
After Spike bumps into her outside the convenience store, Katerina can be spotted retrieving her toppled groceries near the 12:37 timestamp before irritatingly noticing that he has stolen one of her sandwiches while helping her clean up. Hand-painted to a three-quarters figure, she measures 6.75" x 7.75" and is nicely centred on the 12-field cel, marked A13 in the top right, and has been paired with a print background for display purposes. With typical handling and edge wear, including slight linework fading with small areas of restoration and faint age-related paint discolouration to the light brown of the grocery sack.
The series, which ran for twenty-six episodes (dubbed "sessions"), is set in the year 2071, and follows the lives of a traveling bounty-hunting crew aboard a spaceship, the Bebop.
In his 2018 review of the series, Paste critic John Maher wrote, "It feels like a magnum opus produced at the pinnacle of a long career despite being, almost unbelievably, Watanabe's first series as a director. It is a masterwork that should justly rank among the best works of television of all time." It was also placed at #1 on the publication's list of the "50 Best Anime Series of All Time."
A visually appealing production cel from the very first episode of one of the most revered animated series of all time.
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