Coyote Ragtime Show also has its share of villains, which include the Twelve Sisters, ruthless robotic girls named after the months of the year – for example, one’s named January, the other Feburary and so on. The Coyote crew does a great job at maintaining CRS’ easygoing mood, along with the investigators chasing Mister: private eye Angelica Burns (a lover of food and a certain criminal) and her apprentice Chelsea, an illiterate young woman blessed with perfect memory (Her voice is the same one later used for May Chang in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood). The members of Mister’s crew are Franca (the daughter of pirate legend Bruce with a voice (about 18 years old) older than her appearance (10-12 years) and an intriguing internal conflict about her self-worth), Katana (the light-hearted mechanic with a passion for food and a confidence that rivals Mister’s), my favorite character Bishop (the laid-back co-pilot that’s useless at pretty much everything and always finds an opportunity for a one-liner), and Swamp (a rare African-American character in anime, a chubby, mustached preacher who had a close friendship with Bruce and constantly bickers with Bishop). To me, Mister is a huge factor in making this anime into what it is.Įnveloped in Coyote Ragtime Show is a complex cast of characters. Mister is famous in the criminal underworld for wrecking havoc on various planets simply because he feels like it but, beneath the gruff exterior, Mister has a heart of gold. CRS’ premise was interesting by itself but how the narrator described this anime at the end of the trailer really grabbed my attention because it wasn’t any anime it was the “chilling, thrilling, killing, blood-spilling ride called Coyote Ragtime Show.” What action lover wouldn’t want to watch that?Īs one might’ve guessed in the previous paragraph, Mister is the main character of Coyote Ragtime Show, a cigar-chomping space pirate with an unforgettably raspy voice, a confident old man with razor-sharp wits and vivid storytelling, and the charming captain of the ship Coyote with strategies galore, tons of aliases, and a loyalty to the people he cares about. My introduction to Coyote Ragtime Show (CRS) was through a trailer, a passionately narrated 1-minute video that presented a very simple synopsis: an outlaw named Mister searches for money on a doomed planet while being hunted down by two women, both of them wanting him dead. There are a couple of ways that I discover new anime to watch: from reading the manga, from reviews, from word-of-mouth, or from reputation.

Coyote ragtime show review