Genius hacker, chaos incarnate, and the Bebop's most unpredictable crew member—Ed brings childlike wonder and terrifying technical skill to a ship full of broken adults.
Full Name: Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV
Hacker Alias: Radical Edward
Age: 13
Birthday: January 1st
Role: Hacker, Computer Specialist, Agent of Chaos
Home: Earth (abandoned at orphanage)
Partner in Crime: Ein
First Appears: Session 9: Jamming with Edward
Voice: Aoi Tada (Japanese)
Ed is a strange young girl with extraordinary intelligence. As the legendary hacker known as "Radical Edward," she joins the Bebop's crew after helping them capture a bounty—not entirely by their choice. Throughout the series, Ed handles much of the team's computer work, researching bounties and hacking into otherwise inaccessible information with an ease that borders on supernatural.
She occasionally pursues her own bounties, often teaming up with Ein the data dog. A remarkably random character, Ed wanders around doing inexplicable things, operating on a logic incomprehensible to the adults around her. Eventually, she leaves the Bebop when she simply wanders off with Ein in Session 24—departing as mysteriously as she arrived, never to be seen again.
Ed's technical abilities far exceed what should be possible for a 13-year-old. She treats the solar system's computer networks as her personal playground, cracking military-grade encryption while doing handstands and singing nonsense songs. Her methods appear chaotic but achieve results that leave more conventional hackers baffled.
Beneath Ed's eccentric behavior lies surprising emotional intelligence. She forms genuine connections with Ein, understands dynamics between the adult crew members better than they understand themselves, and occasionally displays wisdom beyond her years—usually delivered in the form of incomprehensible wordplay.
Unlike the other Bebop crew members, Ed doesn't carry trauma requiring resolution. She exists as counterpoint to their brokenness—a reminder that not everyone needs saving, and that sometimes chaos is its own form of wisdom. Her departure in Session 24 isn't tragic but necessary; she outgrows the Bebop's found family and moves forward without looking back.
Ed's character finds expression in the playful, almost manic elements of Yoko Kanno's score—the sudden shifts in tempo, the unexpected instrumentation, the moments where jazz gives way to pure experimentation. She's the series' wild card, musically and narratively.
"Radical Edward is one, two, Hacker of hackers, Edward the Goof!"