The show will obviously have background music, which is composed by Yoko Kanno. The performances will all be existing music though, since the story isn't about people who are writing music, but rather people who love Jazz and want to perform it. It makes sense that in such a scenario, they would be performing existing songs which were popular in the 60s.
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New Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) TV anime on noitaminA: Sakamichi no Apollon
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The show will obviously have background music, which is composed by Yoko Kanno. The performances will all be existing music though, since the story isn't about people who are writing music, but rather people who love Jazz and want to perform it. It makes sense that in such a scenario, they would be performing existing songs which were popular in the 60s.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Typographenia
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Oh, thank goodness. We've needed more Watanabe. I'll definitely being keeping my eyes on this one.
Sort of surprised with the setting, but I know it will be great.
Sort of surprised with the setting, but I know it will be great.
Apollon is against the trends.
noitamina's recent trend:
[C]
Ano Hana
Usagi Drop
No.6
Un-Go
Guilty Crown
Black Rock Shooter TV
Don't get it. How does another show in a school setting save anime?
How good is Guilty Crown?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Very awful. At least it looks pretty.
The combo of Leiji Matsumo anime and Shinichiro Watanabe anime coming three months after Ikuhara's revival is what's saving anime.
hosannainexcelsis
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It's not.
There are only two noitamina shows from 2011 worth watching: Wandering Son and Usagi Drop.
For those interested, I searched on Youtube for existing performances from the two guys who will be performing the music in the show for the main characters:
Takashi Matsunaga (Piano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncxMpAzUKc8
Shun Ishikawa (Drums): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bZaRFpIpfU
Takashi Matsunaga (Piano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncxMpAzUKc8
Shun Ishikawa (Drums): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bZaRFpIpfU
Typographenia
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I take it you're not terribly familiar with Shinichiro Watanabe's past endeavors?
Hot Coldman
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Because Yoko Kanno
Usagi Drop stands out so much against the rest of that crap.
Hopefully there will be lots of it. I loved the soundtrack for Bebop and listen to pieces from it nigh weekly.
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Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Fuck Ano Hana. No show with a character named Anal deserves to be the top of anything.
Kanno's been around all this time and anime has still been dead. Watanabe is the savior.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Well I know what I'm watching tonight
OK because they combine together to make awesome
hosannainexcelsis
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Tag quote here.
Yeah, Kanno is a really good composer and music producer, but her output is still largely determined by what the director wants and how he uses it. Watanabe is someone who we know for a fact prioritizes the use of music in his works above most other elements, and he has a very good ear for sound. Their collaborations are always pretty amazing.
I wonder if they scream GATTAI whenever they start work on a new episode.
And then dock.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Actually they just do the fusion dance.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Uh oh, that looks like a CGI hand-rail thingy!
Go to the official website and try throwing your credit card at the screen.
Bel Marduk
Banned
I'm cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it's as good as Samurai Champloo and not Cowboy Bebop.
Have you watched noitaminA lately?
Is Ano Hana the most successful noitaminA show? Or was Honey and Clover more successful?
Oh wait I also forgot about Nodame Cantabile. That might have been more successful
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haha what? no.
Nope.
♪ ~you got a heartache?
Bel Marduk
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Didn't like Cowboy Bebop much :x Samurai Champloo was great though.
Samurai > Space Pirates
hosannainexcelsis
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We have to distinguish between ratings success and DVD/BD sales success here.
Then you need to know that for those of us who still watch the noitaminA slot, we have no expectations anymore. ANYTHING would be better than the last 2 seasons.
Jazz > hiphop
God damn
Do we have access to ratings numbers? I was just going by DVD/BD sales since that was the easiest numbers to find
Bel Marduk
Banned
HnC pulled in like 3% average overall.
AnoHana/C (fucking doubles) hit a high of like 3.9% . . . don't remember what the average was, I'll need to look for it.
e: welp, there's a pic above.
They'd better have some awesome original saxophone and piano tracks. I will be disappointed if there isn't something like this.
No.
They were Space Cowboys/girls what the fuck man. Samurais are great and all and Nujabes is glorious, but Jazz and space are better than old Japan and hip-hop.
InfiniDragon
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Oh wow, that looks amazing. Will watch anything by Watanabe, especially anything with the words "fights" and "jazz" in the descriptions.
That's all good, but I was addressing the dudes who don't seem to watch anime very regularly and are expecting the best show of the decade. Not saying that it can't be, but damn lower the bar a bit.
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