2020
13 eps
Production I.G / Crunchyroll
Action Supernatural Comedy
Rai, an ancient and impossibly powerful Noble, awakens after 820 years of slumber and enrolls in a South Korean high school run by his loyal servant. While trying to adapt to moder…
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Noblesse delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same cool and stylish energy throughout.
2020
47 eps
TBS / Crunchyroll
Action Supernatural Dark Fantasy
Yuji Itadori, an unnaturally strong high schooler, swallows a cursed finger belonging to the King of Curses and becomes a vessel for an ancient evil. Now enrolled in a school for s…
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Jujutsu Kaisen delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny energy throughout.
2021
20 eps
tvN
Crime Comedy Drama
A Korean-Italian mafia consigliere returns to Seoul to recover gold hidden beneath a building, teaming up with eccentric tenants.
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vincenzo delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same stylish energy throughout.
1999
1100 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Adventure Action Comedy
Monkey D. Luffy wants to become King of the Pirates. It sounds absurd — and it is, gloriously so. Across over a thousand episodes, One Piece builds a world of unmatched scope: isla…
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, One Piece delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same funny energy throughout.
2023
8 eps
Netflix
Adventure Action Comedy
Netflix's live-action adaptation of the world's best-selling manga. Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber-bodied optimist, assembles a pirate crew to find the legendary treasure One Piece. Wha…
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, One Piece (Live Action) delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same funny energy throughout.
2021
13 eps
TV Tokyo / Crunchyroll
Mystery Drama Comedy
Hiroshi Odokawa is a walrus who drives a taxi in a city populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals. He's antisocial, blunt, and an excellent conversationalist with customers he'…
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Odd Taxi delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — loneliness and identity — is the same. Same melancholic and funny energy throughout.
2016
138 eps
ytv / Crunchyroll
Action Superhero Drama
In a world where 80% of people have superpowers called Quirks, Izuku Midoriya is born without one — and still dreams of being a hero. When the greatest hero alive passes his power …
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, My Hero Academia delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny energy throughout.
2022
13 eps
ABC / Crunchyroll
Action Slice Of Life Comedy
Japan maintains the illusion of being the safest country on Earth by deploying teenage girls trained as assassins — the Lycoris. Chisato Nishikigi is the most talented Lycoris who …
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Lycoris Recoil delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same funny energy throughout.
2022
16 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Choi Sang-eun is a professional contract wife — she marries lonely men for exactly 3 days a week, providing warmth, companionship, and the appearance of a normal life, before retur…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: loneliness and found family. Same funny and bittersweet energy throughout.
2022
40 eps
Dragon TV / Tencent Video
Action Wuxia Drama
A young man with sealed powers and no memory of his past wanders the martial arts world and accidentally assembles a crew of equally impossible people — a cold assassin, an impulsi…
If you loved Cowboy Bebop's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, The Blood of Youth delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same funny energy throughout.