[Mana]

One of my fave episodes of Bebop

*spoilers for the ones who haven't seen it yet*

is the one when Faye receives the VHS she recorded when she was young. She seems not interested, but in reality she's very moved looking at herself when she was only a young girl.
The saddest thing is that when looking at the images, she can't remember anything from her past and it's like the recognition she had a life before, but this life is lost and there's no possibility to get it back, because too many years have passed.

I think Faye story in Bebop is really delicate and extraordinary for this reason: it's not clear, we don't know who was Faye before and who were her friends. We only see the VHS and some other deatail of her life, like the ruins of her house. But the personality of this character is so deep and well developed also only through this little elements. And the surprise is that while at the beginning you don't know much about her and you think she's a very superficial and material woman, then you discover she acts like this because she has lost her past.

That's why I say there are many things you can learn from the fragmented story of each character, even if it's not clearly shown.