Not a lot of art can stand the test of time, but Cowboy Bebop doesn't fall into that category. The seminal 1998 anime restructured the very fabric of the genre by blending it with all sorts of unrelated elements — jazz/blues music, Western themes, cyberpunk, and more.

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It's popularity, even though it ran through its story within one season, is such that Netflix has managed to get its hands on the live-action rights for the series. One of the core characters that is rarely given the importance it deserves is the spaceship that most of the events occur around: the Bebop. The list below explains a few of the ship's features that aren't really talked about during the story.

10 Original Purpose

The Bebop used to be a fishing trawler, explaining its amphibious capabilities (which are depicted in several episodes). It was initially employed by fisherfolk on the seas of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter, which is where it's owner, Jet Black, hails from.

After considering a number of potential ships to be used on his bounty hunting missions along with Spike, Jet finally decides to purchase the Bebop, mostly because it's within the range of their rather cheap budget. The pair outfit it with massive engines and an improved telecommunications system to ready it for spaceflight.

9 Dimensions & Designation

A surprisingly large vessel, the Bebop extends 142 meters from stern to prow, being around 70 meters in width and 46 meters in height (that's 466,230 and 150 feet for each dimension, respectively.) As expected, the ship weighs an enormous 1,567 tons or approximately 3 million pounds, and that's only the dry weight!

The Bebop is streamlined, given its previous role, with a V-profile extending along the hull. Interestingly, the official designation of the ship is STSSD-31 (61B), which sounds like random letters and numbers strung together — on the contrary, it is an obvious reference to STS-31, the Space Shuttle program responsible for the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990.

8 Artificial Gravity

The Bebop has the means for gravity generation, as evidenced by the fact that none of the characters float around their quarters like helium balloons. The system involved envelops the center of the vessel and is composed of an enormous cylinder that acts as the interior hull.

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The rotation of the hull apparently involves some sort of "centrifugal acceleration" that provides a semblance of stability for the people within. The workings of this system are visible in several scenes, especially when the crew walks up and down the rotating pathway in order to move from one location to another.

7 Living Spaces

The central area of the Bebop acts as a makeshift living room, which is where the characters interact with each other for the most part. Here, they have a sofa, chairs and a table, and there is even a ceiling fan. (To cool off. In the middle of space.)

The central area includes a slightly raised platform that can be accessed via a metal staircase. In addition, Faye's quarters are shown in the episode "Hard Luck Woman" and consist of a small industrial-style room with a single bed and a TV.

6 Cooking Space

Cowboy Bebop Kitchen Galley Spike Faye

The ship also has a kitchen area, known as the galley, which looks like something out of a dystopian novel, with cold metal pipes, blowtorch stoves, discordant seating arrangements, and a pair of spatulas hanging from above.

The only way to reach the kitchen is through the living room. Of course, Jet is the only one to actually do any cooking, where he makes his beloved "Bell Peppers and Beef," while Faye and Spike are content to just spend their time in there smoking.

5 Working Spaces

There exists a tiny little workshop aboard the Bebop, which is probably used by Jet, Faye and Ed for their own technological servicing needs (although the only character who is depicted in there is Spike, who uses it to work on his guns).

The main workspace, however, is the bridge, which is the location from which the ship is controlled. It contains comms stations, a grouping of touchscreen computers, a radar device, the pilot controls, and several other consoles meant for purposes that were never elaborated.

4 Ship Of Theseus

Like the mythological/philosophical Ship of Theseus — two ships, one of which has been built from the discarded fragments of the other — the Bebop has undergone so many changes it may as well not be the original anymore.

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This is largely due to the messes that the team gets into on their bounty hunting missions, which rarely go well because of Spike's and Faye's terrible senses of responsibility. Jet, on the other hand, adores the Bebop like his own child and is often seen performing various kinds of repair (either aesthetic or functional).

3 Captain's Quarters

Although the Bebop has no official captain, as Spike and Jet are equal partners on every mission, and therefore receive equal shares of the bounty, the ship still has a room dedicated to one. This is not exactly surprising, as it most certainly had a captain when it used to be a fishing trawler and it has a computer, a clock, and a two-way radio system.

Currently, the so-called Captain's Quarters is Jet Black's favorite zone on the ship, because this is where he comes to tend to his precious bonsai and get away from Spike, Faye, and their eternal screaming matches.

2 Jazzy Name

The story of the Bebop is a sad one, beginning with Jet's loss at both love and work (his lover disappears, and he quits his terrible job). The man is clearly so fed up with life that he chooses to take it in the opposite direction.

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This is why he names his ship the Bebop, referring to one of his favorite styles of Jazz music, which was originally developed in the 1940s. This choice reflects the improvisational quality of Bebop music as much as it signifies that Jet refuses to allow himself to be tied down by anything, or anyone, from that point onwards.

1 Various Repositories

The ship is so vast that neither Spike nor Jet can claim to have explored all of it, much less realize if there is a stowaway on board. In the Bebop's storage room (or one of them), the crew dumps a hoard of random cargo items that are not necessary for daily activities.

One of them is an ancient fridge, which contains food so rotten that it sprouts new life, as seen in the hilarious "Toys in the Attic." Further, the Swordfish II and the Red Tail, Spike and Faye's personal racer and zipcraft, respectively, are stored in the Bebop's hangar, which is found on the upper deck of the ship.

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