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Hey, Answerman! - Kids on the Slippery Slope

As for hype, there isn't a lot of it in anime. Mostly because you hardly ever see advertisements for it. Not in the same way Hollywood does it anyway.

animehermit wrote:

As for hype, there isn't a lot of it in anime. Mostly because you hardly ever see advertisements for it. Not in the same way Hollywood does it anyway.

Well, thats more for the American industry. Theres tons of hype in the culture in Japan for certain stuff and for movies... like the K-On movie recently had advertisements plastered over every anime related magainze and commercials during every anime TV block.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

Quote: And even if they have to spend a little extra money to license the show's many, many different jazz songs, it's *probably* worth it in the long run - this is a show that can legitimately state "FROM THE CREATORS OF COWBOY BEBOP." Tying yourself to one of anime's few mainstream hits has to be worth a few song licensing fees, don't you think? No, not really. When people think of Cowboy Bebop, they're thinking of the characters, setting and atmosphere, and even the music isn't just old jazz played by duo of teenagers. They thick action, explosions, cool guys smoking. Works for Samurai Champloo, but just carrying the music label over won't be enough.

Exactly. I didn't watch Cowboy Bebop just for the action. I watched it for those reasons. And a show about Jazz players in school can have just as good characters, setting, and atmosphere, even if it isn't the same genre.
I would never have checked out Sakamichi from the first episode's broadcasting without the Cowboy Bebop label. But that might just be me.

Anyway, I hope Kids on the Slope gets released, in tact, and does well. I think it's one of those cross over shows, that could appeal to a much wider audience, beyond otakudom. Thought-provoking, socially relevant, and well-written series like KOTS, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (just as Cowboy Bebop and Trigun did) could lead to a new anime explosion stateside, if given proper exposure.

It happened once, who's to say it can't again?

Nah, I don't think that's just you. I think I was coming from more or less the same perspective, though perhaps with not as much substance. Interestingly, I was probably basing my own interest in Sakamichi no Apollon more on Yoko Kanno than anything or anyone else. I actually somehow hadn't seen the majority (including the ending) of Cowboy Bebop when I first heard of the series-- a need that had finally become fulfilled just this past Thursday, thanks to the local library's remix collection-- and so Watanabe didn't have a terribly great stake in my decision to watch the series from the start. However, I've known Kanno a bunch from what I've heard in Wolf's Rain, GitS, and what I had already heard of CB. (Now that I've seen all of CB, though, I feel justified in having purchased its three OSTs off eBay.)

So, yeah-- Yoko Kanno's name really helped to propel me towards this series. Being brought in by that name, of course I'd be concerned about any possible changes to its on-disc domestic release. /original sender of the Answerman question

One of the many things that annoyed me about Viz's release of the Honey and Clover anime ... was the fact they totally excised "Moon River".
Now, they didn't use any existing recordings of "Moon River", especially not the recording from "Breakfast at Tiffany's". They didn't use the lyrics, only Sayaka Ohara humming the song quietly, and Mayama's ringtone.

But presumably it cost too much for just the few bars here and there.

But it's a plot point! It's part of the storyline!!

Yeah, Yoko Kanno is known for being able to switch between genres easily, but you obviously don't have the expectation that she has anything to do with the content or scriptwriting of the show, Macross Plus and Arjuna are two wholly different series, just like Escaflowne and KotS. But when you bring in "By the guy who did Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo", you have an entirely different set of wants. "From the director of good action anime comes an anime with none of that." Of course, that's to say that one doesn't think a director can be talented in multiple arenas of storytelling, but it's like billing Prometheus with "From the director of Matchstick Men", it just doesn't fit what they're known for.

so in the end it was hype that drove you to coming up with your won unique way of finding the next show, and at the same time you developed an attitude towards creating any type of hype, so thats why you don't tell people about the shows you discover. In the end hype is what we make of it. I personally think that both cowboy bebop and trigun deserve all the hype they received, and the fact that CN aired them was a huge help hype wise. I think that both watanabe and kanno have a good track record, so the quality control will definately be in place. At the very least we will get good music out of KOTS.