The English language version of the anime series was produced by Bandai Entertainment and ZRO Limit Productions. An edited version of the television series aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami from January 15, 2001 to February 16, 2001. Outlaw Star follows the outlaw Gene Starwind and his eleven year-old business associate, Jim Hawking. Together they run a small jack-of-all-trades business on the backwater planet Sentinel III. After the two take a job as bodyguards for a mysterious outlaw, they find themselves the owners of the XGP15A-II, a highly advanced prototype spacecraft, and the caretakers of a bio-android named Melfina. Through the course of the series, the crew grows to include the assassin "Twilight" Suzuka and Aisha Clan-Clan, a Ctarl-Ctarl and former Ambasador in the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire.