The Cowboy Bebop movie is now free to watch and there’s no catch

Thanks to YouTube channel Throwback Toons, the Cowboy Bebop movie can now be watched anywhere without restriction.

The Cowboy Bebop movie on YouTube

I’m guessing some of you anime fans either don’t want to shell out cash to a streaming service or don’t have enough money to do so. Lucky for you folks, there’s a free anime movie you can watch with no strings attached.

The Cowboy Bebop movie is now available to watch on YouTube for no cost. That’s right. It’s 100% free. The whole movie.

The English dub was uploaded by the Throwback Toons channel on April 4, and the X (formerly Twitter) account @catsuka helped bring more attention to this freebie.

"Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" is available for free and legally on YouTube (English dub).
>> https://t.co/YcnuNpapI3 pic.twitter.com/wkclYZxEQn

— Catsuka (@catsuka) April 6, 2024

The movie is also available on sites like Tubi, but unless people start paying for good VPNs, not everyone can watch it because the content is unavailable in their country. The easiest way you can watch it now is through YouTube.

What is Throwback Toons?

Channels that upload full episodes to YouTube are very much present today, and Throwback Toons is one of them. Their whole shtick is uploading clips and episodes from cartoons that were airing from the mid-eighties to the mid-2000s.

So far, they’ve uploaded clips and episodes from various series, some of them being the Real Ghostbusters, Spectacular Spider-Man, the Men in Black Animated series, and the Jackie Chan Adventures. Their target audience seems to be anyone in the age range of 20-40 years old who doesn’t mind watching cartoons meant for literal kids.

What is Cowboy Bebop?

Ever wanted to be a space-faring bounty hunter who turned in criminals as a way of living? That’s what Cowboy Bebop is about but with a team dynamic instead of a single gun brooding all by himself. The crew consists of Spike, Faye, Jet Black, Ed, and Ein as they work together to hunt down the biggest bounties and walk away with equally big paychecks. There was also a movie that was released back in 2001 where they hunted down a terrorist hellbent on killing everyone on Mars by unleashing a lethal virus upon them. Fun times.

To be clear, we’re referring to the anime series from the late nineties, not the live-action adaptation made by Netflix. That one butchered everything from the original series. Don’t watch it unless you enjoy torturing yourself or you love bad shows (you nutcase).

Cowboy Bebop is available to stream on a few services. The easiest answer is Netflix, but it can also be streamed on Crunchyroll and Hulu.