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Space Dandy 2nd Season
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Space Dandy 2nd Season

Space Dandy 2nd Season · 2014

A pompadoured bounty hunter, in space, baby.

StatusFinished Airing SeasonSummer 2014 StudioBones SourceOriginal
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Dandy hunts undiscovered alien species for registration bounties, accompanied by a vacuum-cleaner robot named QT and a cat-like alien called Meow, and he is spectacularly bad at his job. Every episode drops the trio into a completely different scenario, genre, and visual style, frequently ending in their deaths with no acknowledgment whatsoever the following week. Continuity is treated as optional, tone shifts wildly between slapstick and genuine melancholy, and the show remains committed to being whatever it feels like being on any given week. Nothing carries over, nothing matters, and that is precisely the entire point of the show.

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Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe with a rotating roster of guest directors and animators, Space Dandy was designed as a showcase for individual creative voices, with each episode handed to a different team and given near-total freedom. That structure produced enormous stylistic variation, ranging from broad comedy to genuinely experimental animation. Produced by Bones and simulcast in English before Japanese, an unusual move at the time, it earned critical acclaim for its ambition and remains a favorite among viewers who value animation as a creative medium rather than a delivery system.
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