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Mar 15, 2024 · Updated March 15, 2024119.2K views32 items. Ranked By. 9.8K votes. 3.0K voters. 1 reranks. For all the gunslingers out there, we're ranking the best western anime of all time, and we're letting you vote for your favorites. These include anime with cowboys, gun duels, and everything else you'd expect in a good western.
Anime film. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Live-action television series. Cowboy Bebop (2021) Anime and manga portal. Cowboy Bebop ( Japanese: カウボーイビバップ, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu) is a Japanese neo-noir space Western [12] anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999.
- 7 Queen Emeraldas
- 6 Outlaw Star
- 5 Space Adventure Cobra
- 4 Wild Arms: Twilight Venom
- 3 Samurai 7
- 2 Coyote Ragtime Show
- 1 Gun X Sword
Queen Emeraldas is a spin-off of the classic anime Arcadia of My Youth and Harlock Sagacreated by Leiji Matsumoto. The story follows a young scraper named Hiroshi, who has a big dream. Hiroshi finds himself on one of the legendary space pirate ships, the Queen Emeraldas, the series namesake and the name of its captain. Emeraldas is an elegant and w...
Outlaw Star over the years has gained a fair amount of popularity but over the years has not gotten the recognition deserved. Overshadowed by anime that premiered around the same era, such as Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star is one of the unique anime out there for fans of the space western genre with a story as exciting as its soundtrack. The story follo...
Space Adventure Cobra follows as a discontent salaryman wallowing in his lack of excitement and adventure. Then, a series of events leads him to hallucinate and recover some memories of a pirate king wielding a high-tech weapon on his arm. The memories would push him to find out more about what he saw, forcing an encounter with a rival pirate and t...
Wild Arms is based on a videogame of the same name,Wild Arms: Twilight Venomfollows the legendary gunslinger Sheyenne on a mission to recover his missing body after being placed in the form of a ten-year-old boy. On his quest, Sheyenne wields a powerful weapon called an ‘ARMS' weapon that many seek the power of; the arms weapon is a catastrophic we...
Samurai 7 is a short but sweet anime taking place in a futuristic war-torn world under an oppressive regime. The story follows several samurai for hire who are commissioned to protect a farming village from a gang of greedy soldiers. Samurai 7 is heavily based on the film Seven Samuraiby Akira Kurosawa; the tweak to this anime is the mecha and fant...
Coyote Ragtime Show is a wild and high-octane sci-fi western seriesfollowing a seasoned outlaw-made parent named "Mister". Mister was a rambunctious outlaw or ‘coyote' in several galaxies and was serving a prison sentence when he received word that his brother had died and left his daughter's care to him. Mister breaks out of jail and reunites with...
Gun x Swordfollows Van, a lone swordsman searching for the monster who killed his betrothed. While on his mission, he passes through a town being robbed by bandits and decides to ignore it. Circumstances would drag him into the encounter and force his hand to slay all the bandits; as it would turn out, the bandits had ties to the man who killed Van...
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- Planetes. MAL Rated 8.39, Ranked #166 | Aired: Fall 2003 | Produced by Sunrise. Makoto Yukimura’s excellent Planetes manga brought us a thought-provoking space tale.
- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (Legend of the Galactic Heroes) MAL Rated 9.11, Ranked #7 | Released: Jan 8, 1988 | Produced by Artland. Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu is a polarizing anime.
- Cowboy Bebop. MAL Rated 8.83, Ranked #22 | Aired: Spring 1998 | Produced by Sunrise. Shinichirou Watanabe’s brilliant Cowboy Bebop is the kind of anime that even normies can enjoy, and start developing a fondness for space anime.
- Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers) MAL Rated 8.59, Ranked #70 | Aired: Spring 2012 | Produced by A-1 Pictures. UFO sightings seem to be becoming common place, and a large chunk of the world population believes that we’re probably not the only intelligent lifeform in the universe.
- Cowboy Bebop. MAL Rated 8.83, Ranked #23 | Aired Spring 1998 | Produced by Sunrise. A primary reason that Cowboy Bebop works well with the space western theme is that the two main characters, Spike Spiegel and Jet Black are bounty hunters.
- Space Adventure Cobra. MAL Rated 7.23, Ranked #2474 | Premiered Jul 3, 1982 | Produced by TMS Entertainment. Buichi Terasawa's Space Adventure Cobra series epitomizes everything that is cool about 70's and 80's science-fiction.
- Seihou Bukyou Outlaw Star (Outlaw Star) MAL Rated 8.00, Ranked #516 | Aired Winter 1998 | Produced by Sunrise. At times, Outlaw Star feels like Cowboy Bebop 2.0, which isn't a bad thing.
- Trigun. MAL Rated 8.32, Ranked #196 | Aired Spring 1998 | Produced by Madhouse. I've got to admit, 1998 was a great year for the space western anime. Not only did Sunrise give us Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star, but Madhouse decided to get in on the action.
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