Outlaw Star
Seihō Bukyō Outlaw Star / 星方武侠アウトロースター
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Space Western
Details & Synopsis
Gene Starwind and Jim Hawking make a living taking whatever jobs will pay on the backwater planet Sentinel III. A routine bodyguard assignment destroys that routine when their client turns out to be the outlaw Hilda and the cargo she is protecting is a mysterious young woman named Melfina. Within days Gene has angry pirates chasing him, a cutting-edge starship in his possession and a destination he barely understands: the Galactic Leyline.
The ship becomes the Outlaw Star and the crew grows around it. Aisha Clanclan brings Ctarl-Ctarl strength and absolutely no volume control. Twilight Suzuka joins with a wooden sword and her own reasons for hunting the Kei Pirates. Melfina, created to interface with the ship, is both the key to reaching the Leyline and a person trying to understand why she exists. Gene keeps insisting he is in control while increasingly obvious evidence suggests otherwise.
Outlaw Star shares the late-1990s space-western moment with Cowboy Bebop, but its energy is different. It is louder, stranger and more openly adventurous, mixing gunfights, grappler-ship duels, Tao magic, bounty work and comedy without giving up the mystery driving Melfina and the Leyline.
For many Western fans the defining encounter came through Toonami in 2001. Cartoon Network edited the television version heavily enough that the hot-springs episode was skipped entirely, while Bandai's home-video releases offered the uncut series. That broadcast-versus-home-video split is exactly the kind of Western anime history AnimeHistory exists to preserve.
The ship becomes the Outlaw Star and the crew grows around it. Aisha Clanclan brings Ctarl-Ctarl strength and absolutely no volume control. Twilight Suzuka joins with a wooden sword and her own reasons for hunting the Kei Pirates. Melfina, created to interface with the ship, is both the key to reaching the Leyline and a person trying to understand why she exists. Gene keeps insisting he is in control while increasingly obvious evidence suggests otherwise.
Outlaw Star shares the late-1990s space-western moment with Cowboy Bebop, but its energy is different. It is louder, stranger and more openly adventurous, mixing gunfights, grappler-ship duels, Tao magic, bounty work and comedy without giving up the mystery driving Melfina and the Leyline.
For many Western fans the defining encounter came through Toonami in 2001. Cartoon Network edited the television version heavily enough that the hot-springs episode was skipped entirely, while Bandai's home-video releases offered the uncut series. That broadcast-versus-home-video split is exactly the kind of Western anime history AnimeHistory exists to preserve.
Alt Title
Seihō Bukyō Outlaw Star / 星方武侠アウトロースター
Studio
Sunrise
Network
TV Tokyo
Aired
1998
Episodes
26
Genre
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Space Western
Status
Completed
Guides and reference pages for this series. More coming.
