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The List - The Top 5 Shinichiro Watanabe Anime


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Lizuka



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:41 pm Reply with quote
Being completely honest the work from him I like the most is far and away Kids on the Slope.

Really never at all understood the appeal of Cowboy Bebop.
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MarshalBanana



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 3:33 am Reply with quote
Beltane70 wrote:
I hate to admit it, but I always forget that Watanabe was involved in Macross Plus! I always think that Kawamori was the sole director of it.
It actually seems to be the reverse of Carol & Tuesday and Space Dandy, where Watanabe was chief director and someone else was the regular director. On the same subject, Yoko Kanno composed the music and Keiko Nobumoto wrote the screenplay for macross Plus, so in some ways it was like a rough prototype for Cowboy bebop.
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Northlander



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 3:34 pm Reply with quote
yuna49 wrote:
Carole & Tuesday doesn't hold a candle to Sakamichi no Apollon. There's no scene in C&T that comes even close to this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRHJntLYMh0

I knew it! Before I even clicked, I could tell which scene that was.
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AholePony



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:09 pm Reply with quote
Carole and Tuesday are utterly forgettable main characters, they have "personality" I guess but near zero depth. I'm enjoying the series but I assure you no one will be talking about it 5 years from now like Sakamichi is getting mentioned here, especially since it's in Netflix hell.

When a half finished show is #2 on your list.... Either the list is severely flawed or the subject of the list is a hack. I'm not a big Watanabe fan but I think he's done more than 1 show better than C&T.
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Shwiggie



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:29 pm Reply with quote
For as long as I have loved Macross Plus and ranked it as one of my favorite anime I had no idea Not-Nabeshin was involved in it. Cool.
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luisedgarf



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 9:50 pm Reply with quote
maximilianjenus wrote:
Space dandy also was not that big on the west, just the usa because of adult swim timing and stuff, but it is smaller, than ,let's say , death note. just ask someone from latin america or europe, unless of course latin america and europe don't count as the west.


In the Anglosphere, many Americans consider their country as "The West", period. They're lucky if they consider Canada or even the U.K. as part of the western world.

But I agree with Space Dandy: The show is more popular in the States than outside of it, partly because the Japanese creators though the Americans would love this kind of show. We should thank (or blame) the East Asian "shigata nai" culture for that.
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Ryo Hazuki



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:31 am Reply with quote
luisedgarf wrote:

But I agree with Space Dandy: The show is more popular in the States than outside of it, partly because the Japanese creators though the Americans would love this kind of show. We should thank (or blame) the East Asian "shigata nai" culture for that.


Shinichiro Watanabe has stated Urusei Yatsura and Bakabon Tensai as the two biggest inspirations for Space Dandy, neither of which were that big in the U.S..
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nobahn
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I had no idea that what I saw on the old SciFi channel was, in fact, a film compilation! Shocked
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