Cowboy Bebop's One Banned Episode Was Almost So Much Weirder With One Strange Addition

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Cowboy Bebop has many classic episodes due to the series' overall quality, although one such episode was almost completely different in the original pitch. The final version of the episode,"Wild Horses," was actually banned for a brief time on Adult Swim, but it might not have been if the story had followed the first vision.

In fact, the episode as originally pitched would've introduced a bizarre new element to Cowboy Bebop fairly late in the game: Giant Mecha. While the term"mecha" is generally broader in Japan than it is in the Western anime fandom, including all kinds of machines and not just giant robots, Yamane's statement indicates that he was specifically asked to design a robot for the series. In the final version of the series, no giant robots ever appear, so suddenly introducing them in episode 19 of 26 would've been quite a surprise, to say the least.

It's surprising to learn just how close Cowboy Bebop got to featuring an episode built around Mecha, but the series is probably better off that this strange idea never came to fruition.

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