Tag: Shinichiro Watanabe

December 9, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Kids on the Slope was the first collaboration between director Shinichiro Watanabe and composer Yoko Kanno following the iconic Cowboy Bebop. The new anime proved to be an enormously entertaining teen love-triangle drama, with a great central trio and some of the best music set-pieces ever created in anime.

October 24, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Mars: 2071. Spike Spiegel is a “cowboy” bounty hunter, loosely allied with cyborg ex-cop Jet, gambler Faye and female hacker Edward. Faye is tracking a criminal hacker called Lee when a tanker explodes on a highway, spreading an unknown virus that attacks the brain. With a record bounty on the perpetrators’ heads, […]

May 1, 2020 · 0 comments

When many people think of anime and people involved there are always some names that stick out and come to forefront first of all, one of those being Shinichiro Watanabe. The legendary director of Cowboy Bebop has seen his career take him on a unique path bringing us shows like Space Dandy and Kids on […]

January 1, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. “It’s the same as British weather, really,” Shinichiro Watanabe observes about the trials of life to a London audience at MCM Comic Con. Outside it’s winter and the island’s weather is at its dreariest. “We don’t have good weather here… but just by having that bad weather, one sunny day makes it […]

October 23, 2019 · 0 comments

This weekend like many of you will be we’ll be making our biannual pilgrimage to London for the MCM London Comic Con event taking place at Excel London! Today this post will inform you about our activity across the weekend, along with our good friends at Crunchyroll and of course MCM’s Anime Guests of Honour! […]