#shinichiro wantanabe

[felacunti]

“There’s gotta be more to life than myself.” - Anderson Paak, Flying Lotus “More” 2019

#hip-hop #rap #rap music #music #ego #death #ayahuasca #drugs #trip #mood #vibe #flying lotus #flylo #more #flamagra #anderson paak #ventura #shinichiro wantanabe #cowboy bebop #space dandy #samurai champloo #anime #animated music video #skull #skeleton #aesthetic #smoking #artists on tumblr #poc artist #black artist

[thekidzcantfathom]

flying lotus feat. anderson .paak 『More』, FLAMAGRA.

music video directed by shinichiro watanabe.

#flying lotus #anderson .paak #anderson paak #more #shinichiro wantanabe #blade runner #black out #2020 #flamagra

[june2734]

Yoko Kanno: Musical Mastermind | Creator Spotlight

Marc takes a look at the life and career of Yoko Kanno, prolific anime music composer and performer.

#Yoko Kanno #Cowboy Bebop #The Vision of Escaflowne #Shinichiro Wantanabe #Macross Plus #Wolf's Rain #Jazz #music

[megankoumori]

#cowboy bebop #anime #youtube #soul #spike spiegel #Faye Valentine #jet black #radical edward #ein #shinichiro wantanabe #bandai #Cowboy Bebop Spoilers #But seriously it's been twenty years you guys #vicious #Julia #animation

[myalwayswonderanland]

List of things I’ll never get over

1. Cowboy Bebop

In particular: Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine.

Like..

c’mon Shinichiro, you sick bastard...

you’re breaking my heart with the damn what ifs and it’s 20 and fucking 18 fuck you

#cowboy bebop #spike spiegel #faye valentine #shinichiro wantanabe #fuck you #they love each other #convince me otherwise #i dare you #dont ever talk to me and my son again #still not over this #still not over it #never will be #thats fine #im fine #im not crying #youre crying

[cygnusred]

Cowboy Bebop. 1998.

#spike #cowboy bebop #bounty hunter #anime #anime gif #shinichiro wantanabe #cain kugo #keiko nobumoto #masahiko minami #manga #japanese animation

[eternaleepy]

I wanna watch every single one of Shinichirō Wantanabe’s works 😭

#anime #wantanabe #shinichiro watanabe

[jediofbooksandsnacks]

So I watched Terror In Resonance which came out in 2014, two years after Psycho-Pass aired. One of the main characters, Shibazaki, is voiced by Robert McCollum. So I was listening to him be all Robert McCollum-y, and there was this one part where he got put on administrative leave from the police force and, natch, he’s also a smoker. So he gives another guy who is also on leave some cash and tells him to go buy him some cigarettes, saying “There’s a brand I like to smoke to figure things out.”

I mean . . . was that a Spinels joke, director Shinichiro Watanabe?

He also had another line about how the other guy on leave was creeping out his wife, and it was said with a certain idk awareness? If that makes sense? 

I mean . . . I think . . . that Shinichiro Wantanabe is a Shinkane shipper. 

Anyway, Terror in Resonance is really good; it has an amazing voice cast, including Kent Williams (Talisman), Eric Vale (Mido from season 1), J. Michael Tatum (the psychologist / part of Kamui). There are some other famous people I’m blanking on; apologies! And the director digs into the characters and their motivations; it’s got a bittersweet ending, but unlike Psycho-Pass, deaths are few and far between. Plus, you can listen to Yoko Kanno’s fantastic music. If you have the time, I’d recommend it. 

#terror in resonance #shibazaki #robert mccollum #psycho pass #shinkane #shinichiro wantanabe also directed cowboy bebop and samurai champloo #and carole and tuesday

[aaronminier]

Just a sketch of the greatest anime character of all time.

#spike spiegel #cowboy bebop #anime #manga #shinichiro wantanabe #Illustration #fashion art

[natsubeatsrock]

10 Things I Enjoyed in 2020 that Aren’t Fairy Tail

Well... it’s almost over? With all the crazy stuff that’s happened this year, it’s hard to remember that there were some good things to come from this year. So instead of 7, here’s 10 things I enjoyed throughout this year.

#10. Sonic the Hedgehog

Not unlike many people, this would be the last film that came out this year I would see in theaters before everything shut down earlier this year. While I have gone out to watch movies throughout this year since, this happens to be the only movie I’ve been looking forward to that came out this year. Since the release of Detective Pikachu last year, the fraught history of video game movies has started to look a lot better. For all intents and purposes, I think this film is better than that one, and I’m a much bigger fan of Pokemon than Sonic. If certain spoilers are a sign of anything, a future sequel will be interesting to see and greatly anticipated.

#9. Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia

One of the blessings-in-disguise of being locked down with extra money is the ability to get and enjoy things you haven’t gotten the opportunity to before. In my case, I was able to play through some of the Pokemon games I’ve been waiting to play through. My favorite of the bunch has been the second installment of the Pokemon Ranger series. The Ranger games have been greatly underrated and overlooked by fans. I was reintroduced to the original last Christmas and believe it to be a solid game, but this easily blows it out of the water. While this year also marked the sad end of the 3DS cycle, I’m glad that this game came my way.

#8. 42

With the unfortunate passing of its lead actor, Chadwick Boseman, and the racial tensions which came to a head after the death of George Floyd, it makes sense theaters would reopen with this movie. Jackie Robinson’s story is one that’s interested me as the talks of integration and racism have gone on this year. He became the first African American MLB player because of both his talent on the field and his character off it. He wasn’t just skilled in stealing bases. He didn’t allow the anger he rightly felt towards racism control him.

#7. Bakuman

The famed writer and artist duo behind Death Note teamed up to deliver another smash hit manga for Weekly Shonen Jump. This time, about... a writer and artist duo who team up to make a name for themselves by delivering a smash hit manga to Weekly Shonen Jump. As I read Bakuman, I was struck with the genius of its construction. It’s one thing to read the information about Shueisha and WSJ this series shares in a book. It’s another for that information to be shared within the confines that the series itself describes. Special shout-outs go to Ayakashi Triangle and Phantom Seer which started in WSJ this year.

#6. Power Girl: Power Trip

Oh? Were you perhaps expecting to see some other female character owned by Detective Comics Comics who graced the silver screen take this spot? Well, maybe next year, depending on how things go. I love my comic book heroes with healthy doses of snark and existential crisis. While I might have gone in expecting the former, I wasn’t expecting the latter as much. If you know about Power Girl, you may know about her famous “boob window“, which is in lieu of a real symbol. It turns out that she was originally thought to be Superman’s cousin, but has recently been proven to be otherwise. I’m not so against DC that I’m unwilling to admit when they make books that I like.

#5. Carole and Tuesday

Carole and Tuesday holds a special spot as becoming the latest 10/10 anime I’ve seen. This is easily one of the most diverse anime that I’ve ever seen. It’s not just a matter of showing people of different walks of life, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. It’s also showing artists different music styles from folk to jazz to rap to electronic to new age to operatic rap. And none of it feels forced or unnatural, though some of it might come off as offensive. If you’re on as big a planet as Mars, you’ll expect to see all kinds of people and hear all kinds of music as long as you’re willing to listen. Shinichiro Wantanabe is one of anime’s best directors and this might be his best work yet.

#4. Lupin III: The First

If you told me a few years ago that one of the best anime movies would be a fully CGI film, I would have looked at you like you were insane. Nevertheless, this movie exists. I was skeptical about the idea of a fully CGI movie for a character like this. But when I saw a clip from the movie, I could tell they knew what they were doing. This movie is by no means anywhere as good looking as Spiderverse, but it looks amazing in its own right. Content wise, this serves as a great heist film for anyone regardless of proximity to the series. Arsene Lupin III makes  It makes a fine introduction to the world of one of anime’s most longstanding series, and a good launching point for his earlier antics. Props to Weathering to You for keeping this slot warm. (Ironic considering things...)

#3. John Byrne’s run on Sensational She-Hulk

So I wasn’t going to say this talking about Power Trip, but I need to say this here. American comics are at a weird spot. In attempts to reach a wider audience, they’re not doing a great job of keeping the fans they have. Or make actually new ones. The current run of Savage She-Hulk has been no exception to this. Though it wasn’t always like this and John Byrne’s runs on Sensational She-Hulk is proof positive. Byrne took Jennifer Walters with more fun than I’ve seen any author write any comic book with. This especially shows in one of the more notable abilities of She-Hulk, breaking the fourth wall. I was very worried when I heard Marvel Studios was going to do a series with Shulkie. But with this as inspiration, maybe there’s hope for this project after all. (Please be good!)

#2. Burn the Witch

Tite Kubo is back, baby! This spot doesn’t go to any of the sets of chapters to be published in Shonen Jump. Rather, his collaboration with Studio Colorido is my choice for anime of the year. Burn the Witch tells the story of a different Soul Society than Bleach fans may be familiar with. It’s almost cheating to compare this mid-length film to the other shows to come out this year, even if it was broken up into three episodes for streaming sites. However, film or otherwise, no other anime grabbed my attention as much as this did. This also marks the best anime from WSJ I’ve seen this year. Surely I’m not forgetting anything big to come out recently in saying this, especially from this year with everything that got delayed. Honorable mentions go to TONIKAWA: Under the Moon, Bofuri, BNA, Keep Your Hands off Eizouken!, and Misfit of Demon King Academy for nearly taking my spot.

#1. Skullgirls

This year has been a tough year for a lot of people, companies, and fandoms. Though, I’d be hard pressed to think of a fandom that has had a worse year than this indie fighter. One of its founders was revealed to be terrible, one of its parent companies went under, and a prime opportunity for the spotlight in EVO Online being cancelled, it wouldn’t be a mistake to say things aren’t going well. Thankfully, the fans and dev team have done everything they can to keep this game alive before and that didn’t stop this year. It feels somewhat on-brand for this series to have survived the kinds of situations that would normally kill a game off. This game would have made the top spot by virtue of being the most fun game I played this year. I’m proud to put it at this spot knowing everything that’s surrounded it this year.

For extra honorable mentions, Pokemon’s seventh generation of games, especially the Ultra versions, were fun to finally experience and they have the best stories of the 3DS era of Pokemon. Cobra Kai was a fun series and almost definitely would be here if I were more emotionally attached to the Karate Kid series. I rewatched Neon Genesis Evangelion and it’s better than I remembered originally. Finally, I’d move heaven and earth to add Oregairu or Hilda on this list, considering new seasons came out this year, but I know better.

As usual, check my list for EZ, which also has 10 things, and be glad we’re almost done with this year. See you!

[kirayaykimura]

Shinichiro Wantanabe really is at his best with broken characters.

#obviously i’m laying my life down for cowboy bebop #working through samurai champloo but it’s not really doing much for me #i am SO INTO terror in resonance #(though i’m not done and i’ve heard it’s one of those love or hate series so we’ll see) #carole and tuesday...remains to be seen but the pilot wasn’t much #i’ll probably get around to space dandy eventually but again...looks happy #stories no one asked for

[aprilfoolarchive]

1998 - Shinichiro Wantanabe

#anime

[june2734]

Cowboy Bebop Session XX - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

(Shakka Zombie - Sora Wo Tori Modoshita Hi / Recover The Sky Of Day)

#Cowboy Bebop #Shinichiro Wantanabe #spike spiegel #Jet Black #faye valentine

[megankoumori]

#cowboy bebop #Cowboy Bebop Spoilers #wisecrack #spike spiegel #Faye Valentine #jet black #radical edward #vicious #Julia #anime #animation #youtube #bandai #shinichiro wantanabe

[feedonplanets]

Dir. Shinichiro Wantanabe

#Shinichiro Watanabe

[petty-crush]

I’m still highly amused + flabbergasted that “Cowboy Bebop” director Shinichiro Watanabe called “Blade Runner” the biggest influence on him

I’m going to dive deeper in these waters

On the skin(job) level, there is the cheeky homage in session 7 “Heavy Metal Queen” where Spike and Fay chase a Woody Allen looking bounty (named “Decker”) which can be seen as the replicants now chasing the runner. Spike is Roy and Fay is Pris.

Of course “Bebop” has dozens if not hundred of playful homages in the series. “Runner” goes deeper, into the nuts and bolts(and gears) of the show in other ways

Both “Runner” and “Bebop” have a striking use of eyes and time. In “Runner” the replicants are scanned by their eyes, Roy follows the trail to hopefully gaining more life by checking out an eye laboratory, and he crushed his creator via his eyes. And of course the famous “tears in rain” speech about sights being lost.

In “Bebop” Spike has a artificial eye, one he claims “always looks in the past” while the other sees the present. A big part of “Bebop”, Spike in particular, is the tragedy of the past always weighing on people’s souls, and how they can or cannot move toward to the future. Seeing that past, via people or photographs or lost video tapes, has a powerful, jolting experience.

Skipping to a different organ for a second, the astounding audio sensory experience of Vangelis’ score for “Blade Runner” strikes me as another clear influence. How not only the music, but the natural sound, and the cadence of the voices add to the way the world works.

Of course both had further audio edits that enhanced the experience; for “Runner” the removal of the voice over in subsequent cuts, and for “Bebop” the inclusion of the superior English dub.

The music universe is “Bebop” is a feast of many plates, but all work to add another layer of sensuality to the universe.

Too many to list but-the song “green bird” in the famous Spike-Vicious fight in session 5, “chicken bone” when the crew all gets high in session 17, and that haunting “Free” at the end of the series.

Wantanabe gives composer Yoko Kanno great freedom in her work, similar to “Runner” director Ridley Scott gave to Vangelis. Both are first rate rate visualists, but understand how music affects your mood and eye (consider a radio on a car trip).

Essentially the listening of “Runner” and “Bebop” is its own reward

The Ganymede piece with its notable saxophone use in session 13 particularly sticks out.

In his video essay, creator Evan Puschak/“Nerdwriter” explains how, to him, the most striking element of “Blade Runner” is modernity, ie how the modern age compare to the past, particularly the existential experience of those in it.

That to me is what “Bebop” is all about; though this future series has space travel, dimensional gates, and other fascinating technology, the human behavior and experience still has the same questions of existence, boredom at certain levels of times, loneliness, and the way lives bump into each other and experiences shift or change.

Hell, a major component of the “Bebop” is that our bounty hunter team keep holding onto the past and their regrets, while making money off capturing people who are following (in whatever way) their passions in the present.

Deckard’s estranged way of living, trying to find meaning and purpose in coming back to a occupation that he resists now but had excitement for in the past is very apt for the “Bebop” crew trying to find happiness in theirs.

There is a lot of downtime in “Blade Runner”; there is always is in sci fi, we have to become familiar and “lived in” in this different world. But there is an additional feeling of sadness and being alone in observing Deckard. He is much more static than Roy. But by devoting time to him, we come to identify with him, and at times ourselves by watching him.

This is even more so in “Cowboy Bebop”, some of the very best moments in the series is when there is pause and silence, the emotions of the world winding up and decompressing.

Of course Watanabe steals and combines many ideas and influences under his point of view (so did Ridley Scott), but now I can quite see how “Runner” is the one he cannot live without, the one that dripped into all the ways he interacted with and digested other art.

I suspect we all have those works of art, those specific ones that transform how we think and dream.

“Cowboy Bebop” is one of those works for me, reverberating far beyond its initial encounter, and I am grateful every day Watanabe went to see “Blade Runner” and not only took in but put out his love for that art, that in turned moved me, in ways nether he or Scott every intended, but happen in accidental, beautiful harmony.

Who really lives is the question in both “Bebop” and “Runner”; and that might be it. Memories and transformation.

#shinichiro watanabe #blade runner #cowboy bebop #long reads #ridley scott #vangelis #yoko kanno #personal #film #anime #art