Character design & animation director: Toshihiro Kawamoto Music by: Yoko Kanno Producers: Masuo Ueda, Masahiko Minami and Minoru Takanashi Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. A tanker truck is blown up on Highway one, releasing a deedly virus that kills hundreds. A huge reward is offered for the arrest and capture of the person behind the destruction. On the space ship \"Bebop\" Spike and his crew of bounty hunters are bored and short on cash. But with the news of the reward, everything changes.