Cowboy Bebop Opening Parodies

About

Cowboy Bebop Opening Parodies, refers to a series of series of parodies revolving around the anime Cowboy Bebop’s opening song, “Tank!”. The song has inspired many parodies on Youtube, pairing it with different anime among other things.

Origin

Cowboy Bebop^[1], is a Sci-Fi Action anime created by Sunrise^[2]. It detailed the lives of four bounty hunters, Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Edward, as well as their pet Corgi Ein. Throughout the series, each of the character’s dark pasts are slowly revealed, leading the characters to confront these problems. The series’ soundtrack was composed by the band Seatbelts^[3], a group who was brought together to perform the entire soundtrack. The opening theme song, Tank!^[4], is an instrumental piece with only one line of vocals. The song grew immense popularity, becoming a famous song among anime.

Spread

One of the first major notable parodies, titled Cosby Bebop^[5], was first submitted to YTMND on 11 May 2006, and later submitted to Youtube on June 5 2010. The video showed the song being sung by popular American Comedian Bill Cosby. The video grew in popularity, reaching over 1 million views on YTMND, and over 170,000 views on Youtube.

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